Posted in Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing, World-building on Nov 19th, 2008 Edit | 1 Comment »
Yet more for RPG Blog Carnival .
Fantasy worlds and gods seem to go hand in hand; having or hinting at at least one seems to be practically the price of admission.
Now, this is fine. Except for the fact that there’s a lot more variety in the divine than most people give credit for, let […]
Posted in Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing, World-building on Oct 31st, 2008 Edit | No Comments »
Why are the undead written so similar to the living?
Their death changes nothing. They still see the same colors, feel the same walls, smell the same scents—okay, maybe the blood smells stronger, but honestly, that’s cliché. They can’t always go out in the sunlight, sure, but that’s barely a change. Hearts which […]
Posted in Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing, World-building on Oct 30th, 2008 Edit | 4 Comments »
“So there I am—visible, mind you—and up comes Kaz. And he walks right through me! Like I’m not even there! So I turn around to give him a piece of my mind, and he just laughs it off—and you know he knows better, he’d never do that to Nita—and says he’d been […]
Posted in Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing, World-building on Oct 29th, 2008 Edit | 1 Comment »
So yesterday, we were talking about blood and social ritual from the perspective of the vampire and the willing blood donor. It’s not the only way these things can go, of course.
For one thing, not everything that drinks blood has fangs. Most of them, sure, but every so often there are counterexamples: […]
Posted in Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing, World-building on Oct 28th, 2008 Edit | 4 Comments »
Consider the vampire. More importantly, consider the vampire’s diet. Vamps just gotta drink blood.
I’ve seen a lot of substitutions and workarounds been used—medical blood, animal blood, stuff-that-isn’t-necessarily-blood-but-carries-life-energy. That’s one way to go about it.
But if it must be fresh, and must be human, at some point it’s probably going to get to […]
Posted in Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing, World-building on Oct 27th, 2008 Edit | 5 Comments »
While brainstorming today’s post, I realized that I was approaching a rather interesting conjunction of events—I’d committed to having my birthday during Undead Week. Potentially contradictory, isn’t it? Being an opportunist when it comes to topics, I decided to run with it. Which gave me today’s question: what events do the […]
Posted in Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing, World-building on Oct 26th, 2008 Edit | 4 Comments »
Welcome to Undead Week at the Exchange of Realities!
Since my posting week (not counting Impractical Applications) ends with Halloween, I figured I’d celebrate. And what better way to hit up the spookiest time of the year than by taking a closer look at the undead?
Undeath is an interesting sort of state. Originally, it […]
Posted in Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing, World-building on Sep 12th, 2008 Edit | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, I talked homebrew astrology. But what’s the fun in astrology if you don’t have someone to use it?
Inextricably intertwined with my homebrew variant on Exalted astrology are the Arthchwyl, a race of polar bear savants who boast a near-unparalleled gift for divination and understanding of the future.
They began with an image, which rapidly […]
Posted in Character building, Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing on Sep 10th, 2008 Edit | 5 Comments »
The familiar/companion is enough of a fantasy staple that many games incorporate it into the mechanics on principle, but it can still be very difficult to do so right. Limyaael’s covered a lot of the problems with familiars hereabouts, mostly concerning herself with the clichés that take away the individuality of the familiar like […]
Posted in Nonhuman characters, On gaming, On writing, World-building on Aug 14th, 2008 Edit | 4 Comments »
Continuing yesterday’s topic: the dwarven Apology to the Abandoned Picks, an example of ways to do New and Interesting Ceremonies for an invented culture. Enjoy!
The first ones into the Meeting Hall are, of course, the musicians. Barefoot and in pairs, they carry in the instruments from their respective access tunnels: bronze-keyed marvels, each […]
