Catching up on New Worlds
May. 22nd, 2017 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerI’ve been very remiss in linking to my New Worlds posts over on the Book View Cafe blog (brought to you by my lovely Patreon backers). Here’s the full lineup to date:
- The Shape of the World
- Natural Disasters
- Four Seasons, or Two, or . . . ?
- Measuring Time
- Phonology the Easy Way
- What’s in a Name?
- Names and Their Meaning
- The Etiquette of Names
- Your Money’s Worth
- Follow the Money
- All That Glitters Is Not Gold
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And, for a bonus: I’ve been neglecting the Dice Tales community on Imzy, but I put up a new post today ranting about how combat-oriented rules can screw over plot.
Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.
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Date: 2017-05-22 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-05-22 11:57 pm (UTC)I'm also the world's worst roleplayer, but that's an orthogonal issue--Pathfinder Society is great if you want to get together and have a one-shot, but terrible for anything larger than that.
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Date: 2017-05-23 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-06-24 04:49 am (UTC)Not a disaster, but much more prominent: the permanent overcast of the Empire, often referred to, rarely explained, but apparently the result of magical pollution over, ahem, 250,000 years... Doylistically it may serve to provide "faerie twilight" but Watsonianly, it's smog.
I've thought about throwing random weather at the PCs if I ever GMed. (I did start GMing... a desert based dungeoncrawl. Oh well.)
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Date: 2017-06-24 05:05 am (UTC)_God Stalk_ spanned a year but I don't remember seasons featuring, though festivals did. OTOH, the later books do feature harvest and migrations. Hmm, God Stalk did have seasons affecting whether the mountain passes were open (mostly not), but I don't recall much city weather... well, there was the long drought. I guess it was there, just muted by being in a giant city.
Years: you're probably familiar with Exalted having a 455 day year or something, from its 3x5 months and 5 intercalary days. Funky seasons too, though I always thought I would go more conventional if I ever ran it.