User:Crazydanny1



Crazydanny1, aka Horsemanwar101, that's me! I am the co-creator of the Star Wars Bloodlines story and current RPG campaign reboot.

We've borrowed bits and pieces of things for our Star Wars RPG campaigns and the people in it from sources such as Dune, The Wheel of Time series, Farscape, A Song of Ice and Fire series, and Mass Effect, to name a few. World of Warcraft has even inspired a few things that I've slipped in. I don't claim any copywrite on blatantly used terms that are taken from other sources, but I do claim the original stuff.

A Little History
The original RPG group started out back in what I would call the College Days. We started out with 4 to 5 of us that got together on a fairly regular basis to play Star Wars RPG, the old West End Games D6 version. It was my first table-top RPG experience and I fell in love with it. Being a Star Wars fan for as long as I could remember, I rekindled my love for Star Wars through the game. The Expanded Universe books and re-release of the original trilogy as Special Editions really drove our group, and myself in our gameplay.

Our gaming was pretty much straight-forward. We didn't get into cosplay or LARP. It was all storytelling with dice rolling and writing everything down on paper. There was a lot of humor and being an all male group, a lot of babes were brought in to satisfy our young minds and hormones. We had the instances of "Power-gaming", getting the biggest guns and blowing everything up, but there were also a lot of times when we came away from an adventure that really had a Star Wars feel, staying true to the rules and doing things in character for the sake of a really great story.

I, personally, was the GM for our power-gaming needs. I ran a pure Darkside campaign and allowed the players to trash and thrash the galaxy, just for fun. The Dark Jedi of this campaign were the scourge of the galaxy. I also delved into other genres, especially our Star Trek: Guardian campaign.

AD&D, Alternity, Star Trek, and Star Wars were most of the systems that I've played. No matter the game system, I always enjoyed the D6 version for Star Wars the best, though.

Currently, I've rebooted the campaign, helming the campaign as the GM. I've returned a lot of our favorite characters in spirit, although there are some changes that have occurred.

Bloodlines
The whole concept of the Bloodlines Anthology began well over ten years ago when I wrote a couple pieces of fan fiction centered around the SW RPG campaign we were playing at that time. The ideas of the plight of the Strykia family were just beginning to be flushed out and the background for all the events started to form.

The basis of the whole story has always been constant: Graydon Strykia is a Force-sensitive that was destined to become a Jedi when the Great Jedi Purge happened. He was placed into hiding and would emerge during the time of the original trilogy to begin his path to becoming a Jedi. Graydon has always been the adoptive father figure for Anna Verkaik, a child born during the age of the Empire, with great potential in the Force. Together, these two would go on to liberate the Antrixian Commonwealth while facing the minions of the Galactic Empire.

The final story has come about that spans three generations of the Noble House Strykia. It is a tale of good and evil, laced with temptation and sorrow. But there are bright moments, showing how the heroes of the story continue to live their lives in normal ways while they face incredible odds and terrible evil. A lot of the inspiration for Bloodlines comes from George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire," along with Frank Herbert's "Dune." The myriad of characters created for Bloodlines is staggering and the scope of the setting and story is by far the largest my friend or I have ever created.

I'm along for the ride as much as any readers that stumble across this. Some of the story is still a "work in progress," but for the most part, the start, middle, and end are all there.

My favorite pages

 * Graydon Strykia - My primary character and the pivotal protagonist of the storyline in Bloodlines. Graydon is my Luke Skywalker, Obi-wan Kenobi, and Anakin Skywalker all rolled into one.
 * CJ Morgan - My secondary/primary character in the Bloodlines story. She's my Han Solo and Princess Leia.
 * Selene S'tal - While she's more of a flavor extra, Selene has started to become a flushed out character that has more depth than most. She's kind of a tragic hero and anti-hero rolled into one. There are definitely more plans for Selene to grow as her story goes on!