Subject: Re: history etc. (was: radical departure)
From: Sinister Serpent (sinister.serpent@sci.fi)
Date: Tue Nov 16 1999 - 14:53:34 EET
Tommi Leino wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Pekka Toppi wrote: > > > Okay, so there is a problem, but IMO the solution is not starting with an > > empty world. > > In my vision it would work if there have been a cataclysm, a great war or > something like that which destroyed _almost_ everything. Temples, truename > shrines (or whatever), ancient artifacts, magical lands such as the Osthel > and the general description of the regions are saved. For example, in the > Swamp of Enmity would still be all those undeads, soul-eater worms in the > Ghalimcar etc., and the region names are still there so you can say that > "I'll go to Dethzael". That was my point when I didn't want the regions > described in detail when I made the TODOs for the worldbook, instead I > wanted the pantheon, general descriptions of the world etc. ready. Not > really an empty world, just empty of all the PCs and their cities in the > beginning and only in the beginning. > > I actually imagined that we would just continue to design our world and > press a book out of it. It could be then used for pen & paper RPGs etc. > While the regions have been described in detail in the book the world > would have got a shape. Then we would have just decided that we are going > to start in a different time. Make a cataclysm and begin in year 10000 or > something, then it would be possible to explore the ruins of Sol'daran or > even reconstruct it. How much people is supposed to be alive when the game "starts"? Is the world empty of living beings, save the few random animals and monsters, or has the "Age of Recovery" already began? Are there just ruins and small villages or are there any real cities and towns, too? What kind of cataclysm that would be you mentioned? A war perhaps, which lead a world-scale disaster and finally some kind of armageddon or what? Maybe forces of evil consumed the world or maybe total darkness fell or maybe the Wrath of the Gods descended on earth and killed most of the people/creatures/animals and thus left the world rather empty? "...and there were only a few people who survived The Great Holocaust - the terrible disaster brought upon the whole world by gods." - Chapter II, the Arkaanan Book of Time -- | ~ Sinister / Serpent of Nightside ~ | | <sinister.serpent@sci.fi> http://i.am/sinister.serpent/ | --o -- Nightside homepage: http://www.netti.fi/~halsa/ --o-- | Nightside e-mail: <nightside@hotmail.com> |
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