Let’s talk about anthropomorphic animal combat. Societies tend to place a pretty strong emphasis on preventing people from murdering each other, or doing other things that strike at the very social cohesion that keeps a city working. We have, of course, created lots of ways to bypass this as a species, and just as many […]
Tag: roleplay
Faenya Lore start
Just a quick blurb about Faenya in my “Wings and Prayers” setting. Writing it down here to build off of later. Faenya is NOT a primary mover and shaker in the greyhawk theme, she’s a elven god of avariel in core canon. And given the Thorsari OBVIOUSLY got suboptimal land placement, here’s my pitch. THe […]
In gods we trust, all others pay cash.
Something I’ve been working on in my revamps is trade. In Three Pantheons, it largely revolves around WHAT is being traded. For Three Pantheons, the divine realms generally are in a bit of a Cold War standoff with the technological areas. And one thing I’ve decided to do is to play with transmutation. At the […]
The future of “Three Pantheons”
So Sundered Shroud is finally in a good place where I’m comfortable. But as that’s largely a setting I run for RP, that’s going to probably move to the back burner for a while now. So I’m turning my attention elsewhere. For the setting of another character. And while eventually they’re all going to get […]
Three Pantheons Workshop: Divine Marks (Part 1)
So this is going to be part of a new thing I do. As I work on revamping the original Three Pantheons setting for my own use, I think it will be important to examine some of the initial concepts used in the setting and analyze them. See what they were doing narratively, the problem […]
Sundered Shroud overview
In the distant past of Earth, there were great wars which no one remembers. Where the inhabitants of the material, normal world fought against those of an alternate magical world, for who would have influence. Going on for years, eventually a sect of gnostics called “Druids”, seeking to stop the constant struggle, enacted a powerful […]
More Bird Rites
After the last post, my friend ircnetsplit (go check out his books!) mentioned a potential myth for Thordani feather imping. “I’m seeing a (possibly embelished, possibly not) story of a group that got mauled pretty badly by something (combat, accidents, etc) and they pool their feathers to one person who goes for help or to […]
Characterization
I’m a tactical RPG fiend. I originally started playing Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis in 2002 based on articles in Nintendo Power. Later I got into Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, and a few years after that, XCOM: UFO Defense. A big part of my enjoyment of these games is the puzzle […]