[Once development] Greetings...

[Brian S. O'k. <ran...@ya...>]

Hello everyone...
I just recently joined the group while searching for an Open Source MMORPG. I wanted to find a game that would be open to new ideas. 
As is customary, I should throw in a little about myself.
I am 32 yrs old, have RPG'd in one fashion or another for the last 20 years. I have designed more worlds, characters, npc's and storylines than I thought I could. I am currently married to gamer, she and I both do RPG"s, mainly PnP (pen and paper). I have been programming in VB for several years now, mainly sticking to Office Application VBA for work purposes. I have also been designing databases for just about as long. Currently I am working on a data-application for a client, a roofing management data-app and an engineering project management data-app for my current job where I ONLY get paid as an Office Admin since I don't have the college for anything else (I went Marines instead of school).
In RPG's, my favorite system is GURPS... second to that is White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade ('cause the wife loves it soooo much).
I am currently playing Neverwinter Nights because it allows me to learn C (to some degree) and create very rich scenes and layouts and environments. I am also working with a Neverwinter Nights Guild - The Memetic AI, which is working on a replacement AI for the NPC's, since Neverwinter has an average AI as it stands. The memetic system is amazing and I think could even be put into place for ONCE with minor revisions and the permission of the designer... You can find it at: http://www.memeticai.org
I am currently working on the documentation for their project, a game of my own for Neverwinter, and hoping to start coding some memes for my npc's...
What I am hoping to find:
For anyone who ever played Ultima Online, you can understand, the wide variety of skills that are available makes the game very rich.
GURPS carries the same setup. The game is MADE for detail... Your character has 4 basic stats, ST / DX / IQ / HT and everything is based off of those. Everything is modular... If you want magic, then spells are nothing more than skills... some spells require an advantage referred to as Magery... Psionics, same thing... Super Hero Powers, same thing... The game is made to create a character and then be able to port him into ANY style of world. Create a cowboy, drop him in medieval England... create a Superhero, drop him in ancient Rome... create a Spy and drop him in a fairy world... That is the rush for me, that is what I want to find... a game system similar to Morrowind and Neverwinter where you can step into a character fairly well despite using a keyboard / mouse interface and you can interact with MANY things...
So, while I understand that ONCE is NOT GURPS for me, I am hoping to find that in ONCE, the mechanics that just don't work in other games aren't there... And IF they are, that your project is doing it one way because they hadn't thought to go another route... In all the other Open Source projects I have watched to grow, the one thing I have noticed is a true desire to make it right... even it means doing it again, and again, and AGAIN... So, here I am... Hoping to check out your system, if it 'sparks' for me I would love be able to beta-test and/or throw suggestions at ya all.
I don't have that much time right now, as I am working on some big projects that need completion, but I hope to pop in and check around everyonce in awhile and once I get some time, I would love to learn more about your system and try it out...
Thanks for making membership open... I will try not to annoy...



Brian Scott O'keefe
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