Subject: Re: The Answer!!!?
From: McDuff (kenroberts@totalise.co.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 27 1999 - 23:31:38 EET
>- What is the cataclysms nature? Remarkably this has not been mentioned >in any of the descs proposed. All I've seen is a map made by McDuff. > I did desc the catalysm's nature as well. It would be an explosive shockwave, equivalent to a thermonuclear blast in our world, but with different effects. If you try and imagine what the hiroshima explosion would have been like if it had been syrup, and designed by ILM, and more controllable, then you'll have the general idea. >- How do we destroy civilizations without effecting nature? We need >natural resources so the players can rebuild. You use the epicentres. >- Why do players not remember anything? As Beregar has pointed out PCs >will not, in a very real sense, know anything when they start the game. Very true >- How will the current descs we have made be effected? This is still not >known because the nature of the cataclysm has still not been described. It's amazing - posts are posted to this list called things like "it is decided" and "the answer," and they cause even more debate. Wierd. Can't we agree on anything? >- If we use the McDuff map for the cataclysm then all species are >effected not just PC races. So this means now I have to make a whole new >desc for goblins to go along with the old one. And any new monster races >we make have to be in two parts pre cataclysm monsters and post >cataclysm monsters. Yeah? Work-shy Yankee! c'mon, I'll take you on now! >This is why I have proposed the "Answer!!?" to the cataclysm. It does >not cause the specific problems listed above and solves the general >ones. Perhaps it does cause problems that i do not see. It would be nice >if someone commented on it instead of shrugging it off like Yorkaturr >has. I think that Hook's answer would be the easiest to implement. I think it needs work and polish, but the points he has raised are valid and need to be considered. A war between Gods is too far fetched under our system of deities, and wizards etc etc yadda yadda, I'm sure people know the objections by now. Why hasn't this idea been given more consideration? McDuff
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