Guild Wars 2

I love the Asura, but I find it hard to roleplay as one. Just because I’m not very good at techno-babble. I thought I should maybe ask you guys, and see if there’s any good advice/guidelines. Do’s and Don’ts.

I sometimes worry that I might try and come up with something, that’s already been done, or might sound too real/redundant.

Just go all Star Trek on it, but remember that Asura technology is based on magic, so spiff it up with magic-sounding words.

Funny you should mention this, I was going to make a technobabble generator based on the rules/conventions of asuran technobabble in Guild Wars canon. If there’s actually some demand for it, I might end up making it after all.

In the meantime, here is a list of the major inventions/innovations of the colleges. You can look to these as examples and maybe even refer to them specifically.

Creations of the College of Statics: positional relays, quasi-enchantment aligners, theosophy scopes, metasurvey incantations, cross-incantation braces, levitation buttresses.

Creations of the College of Dynamics: canoptic enhancers, lunographic fasteners, torque abjurers, enigmaticons, karmic pressure gauges, kinetic spellchurns, magiphysical armatures.

Creations of the College of Synergetics: quantagrams, di-polar spell matrices, conjuration vertices, prestimystic readouts, mojonic control rods, self-restricting enchant loops.

The formula is usually (prefix) (article).

Exactly. See what they did there with the magical terms such as enchantment and incantations.

Thanks! I’ll try to come up with some things later based on your advice.

Oglaf.1074:

Exactly. See what they did there with the magical terms such as enchantment and incantations.

Yeah man, that’s why it’s been a bit difficult putting together the generator.

Here’s a prototype I threw together. Hopefully it will go toward inclusion in a big lore-manual/roleplay guide type thing I’d like to work on.

Right click > View source to see the current wordlists. If you have a moderate number of terms to add to either/both of the wordlists, I will put you in the credits as a contributor.

I warn you that the web host is kittenty and if it doesn’t work for you right away, check back a little later.

I came up some words for list 1.

Bi-polerized, metachemical, ethreal,

some for list 2

battery, conductor, golem, bank(like to store data,chemical ect), Transfuser.

If I come up with more I will add them

Clockworkfiction.4872:

I came up some words for list 1.

Bi-polerized, metachemical, ethreal,

some for list 2

battery, conductor, golem, bank(like to store data,chemical ect), Transfuser.

If I come up with more I will add them

1) Bi-Polairzed, Metachemical, Ethereal
2) Golem, Bank, Transfuser, Conductor (don’t know how I forgot that one).
(Mental note to myself to add the above.)

The more the better. I’ll add you to the contributors once it’s updated.