So I've started in on FMA d20, a fairly large project which I'm aiming to complete for Otakon 2006. I want to make an RPG setting (with variant rules) for the anime/manga Full Metal Alchemist. Everyone that I've mentioned this to so far thinks it's a neat project, and I am currently not DMing, so the energy has to go somewhere.

I've set up a wiki for the project in the hopes that I will find people who want to contribute to the project and that we could use that space to collaborate. I'd love help either from the game-building (mechanics) side or with the content side assembling info about the story and world and plugging it into the setting guidebook. It could be a lot of fun. I've started re-watching the anime to gather notes, and I've been tossing ideas for the basic mechanics around in my head. I'm excited about trying to get something self-consistent together, about trying something essentially fannish with some scope (since nothing like that has appealed before), about then playtesting the hell out of whatever results. The goal is a self-published 'book' detailing the setting which I could sell-to-recoup-publishing at Otakon and similar events. Failing that (no idea about copyright etc. yet), I'd just put it out there for folks to enjoy. It would be lovely to have it actually published, but the one company I asked wasn't interested.

I think the project and the wiki are ready for other people to see, and I'm at the point where I need to bounce ideas off of people. The next steps are all to make basic decisions about the mechanics, and it'll be tough to change these fundamentals much later on, so I'd love feedback... and if anyone wants to collaborate, well, now is a great time to start.

I gathered my nebulous ideas together a few nights ago, and present them here in the first of a series of RFCs. Yay, cut tag! Also, yay for the FMA icon I got from digitized_

( I want d20 to form the underpinnings of the system. It's a blend of fantasy and modern, and then there's a completely new magic system laid on top of it.... )