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In this particular case though, I don't even think any handwaving is necessary. The first part of that sentence gives us the ticket to escape it. They originated from the north, but then it says "In the far south most bird-folk still live in nomadic tribes in the Desert of Seven Eyes", meaning that the rest of the post only speaks of the bird folk of the desert. Edit: I think we need an OOC thread to keep the game from gumming up Last edited by GabeTheKid; Oct 4th, 2020 at 07:48 PM. |
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Yeah, I hadn't re-read that post for a while until just now. Your interpretation works. But I agree with you in that it's best to stick to established rules/precedents (not that there are too many here to begin with) but workarounds are a better option than treating them as obstacles.
I honestly wasn't sure how active this thread would be when I made it, so I hadn't considered management or the need for discussion threads. I'd say we're not quite there yet, but ... (That said, I'm way behind on taking stock of many details that haven't led directly to map updates. Gonna have to make time for that soon.)
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I did sort of imagine the desert being massive, but to be fair I did pull those figures out my ass figuring it would be a decent place to start, so definately wiggle as needed!
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Ok, thought I would throw together a quick table to share a little of the organisation responsibility. Its a WIP i'll come back later. I'll likely edit it down into separate tables for separate categories later- settlements, landmarks etc, wiht hyperlinks for related topics
Some things that looked like they needed some expanding at a glance- The Ogliarchi of Boros Major Humanoid populations- basic data bloc of political powers, races: (humans, harpies, half-lings, gnomes, Triton, dwarves, elves) significant sites, religions, Weyerdvuud forest (https://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthre...95#post8912895)
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Ha, this looks fun!
The Frayed Ones - A group of people who travel the world individually, but always recognise each other on sight. Not that they have any organisation to speak of, or some insignia, they just seem to know when they see another of their ilk. They all are called the frayed ones because they all speak of The Frayers, some encroaching menace that left their minds and souls torn. None of them can be called sane, at least not very much, but several warden organisations started to take interes in them, as their stories seem consistent enough to be worrying, to indicate there's a sinister threat looming on the horizon. |
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I am still around, just working through a to-do list. At the moment my priority (aside from GM posts) needs to be working on Explosive Runes. I'm nearly done with most of that content, and tending to this thread is next. Quote:
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I have quite a few strings that I'd like to continue weaving in this world, but I agree that the north was very intriguing to say the least. Also we got a new political region established as well. These are not your typical tribal orcs. But what this republic is called, someone else can decide! Last edited by Mindsiege; Nov 3rd, 2020 at 08:24 PM. |
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@Wishkamon:
I hope it was all right, that I took it upon myself to expand on your table. I enjoy that stuff and I think it will be very practical moving forward. I suggest maybe we add a new rule that new entries come with complementary expansion of the table, but if that's something HotsuSama would rather do himself, that would be fine too. Or just let me do it, so long as I am active in RPGX I'll be sticking around I think. There are a lot more loose ends than I had anticipated. Also, after I did, I think it was stupid to reference Boros Major quite as much. The next person after me may feel free to clean that up, I just wanted consistancy in the moment of compilation. Also I have gone very light on cross references. If nobody else does it, I will have to update the reference column of the older tables with references to relevant newer ones. Last edited by Mindsiege; Nov 10th, 2020 at 08:30 PM. |
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That's bloomin' awesome, huge improvement, thank you!!
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As added information, I was trying to compile the reference columns with all important world building hooks that a game master would not want to forget to look up, for when they are trying to conceptualize a game inside the setting.
@PS to my previous post: Aside from incomplete cross-referencing inside the older posts, I am still unhappy with two of the entries I made in the table. For one The Pompatus of Love and the other The Silver City of Brightenai. The first one left me a little stumped about the usage of the terminology of the Ethereal Lands or the Ethereal Plane. If this was the Forgotten Realms I would have understood it, I think. Also it's the only post which has mechanical restrictions towards a particular game system, but I guess that is allowed by the rules and unimportant for the overview compilation. The second one, I just wasn't sure how to do references for. If I were to do it how I did it for all the other posts, then it would have ended in a huge pile of information in the overview table, if I wanted to address all the possible world building hooks among the amounts of detail inside that post. I was thinking about treating it as multiple posts, possibly separating it in each of the different districts, but then I would have moved away from the standard I am trying to establish, so for now I left it with very few references, which don't do the post justice. Anyways, I'm not happy with that, but for now I don't know any better solution. Last edited by Mindsiege; Nov 4th, 2020 at 10:49 AM. |
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Another thing I just thought about, now with this overview table we wouldn't have to worry anymore about cluttering the thread with OOC talk. If we keep it updated, it would be possible to navigate to all the relevant posts from the first page.
Added to that, I was thinking that the table ended up being too huge for everybody to drag around. I would suggest to leave it on the main entry and to formalize a shared format on how to request changes to the table with every new worldbuilding post; similar to how it's done in the solo bazaar, regarding which I know that at least a few of you will get that reference. Deciding how to request a new entry should be fairly simple, the only real work for HotsuSama could result if he had to figure out which of the new world facts he should cross reference into the older posts. I'd like to offload that work on the poster as well, somehow, but for now I haven't come up with a good format. Also making everybody follow such a format would probably only work partially as well, so I don't know where we would end up following that idea. Thoughts? @edit: Should we maybe add an author column in the overview table? It could be used for credit, but also to remember who the last person was if we decide to write a lot of OOC. In that vene, please inform me if I'm doing too many of these at the moment. Last edited by Mindsiege; Nov 4th, 2020 at 11:20 AM. |
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(Just came across this website and saw this thread! Looks really interesting. I'll need to bring myself up to date on all the lore that has happened before, but do let me know if there are any problems with what i've written, for it's my first time posting on these kind of forums!) |
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Firstly, welcome Mugyuu!
Secondly, and mostly to @Wishkamon and @Mindsiege: I've been reviewing the WIP tables and chat on updating the way this thread is organised. I've been sitting on half-typed responses here and generally overthinking things way too much, so a quicker response is currently better than an potentially overdone/convoluted one. That big table with the references is great, and nominally I agree that a summary/link system will be useful. Although I share Mindsiege's concern that it's going to grow with every post and become harder to swim through. My original plan was loose geographical and political grouping (so all the info for Boros Major itself in one table, everything for Shellengeist in another table or array, etc.) with links, very quick 10-word summaries for context, and anything else that seemed important. It'll require occasional reshuffling but it seems a decent solution for quickly showing broad relationships between posts of various content. Some region blocs may be tricky to define but the majority should be fairly straightforward. I hadn't been considering reference tags as I thought they'd get ungainly and difficult to keep consistent as the world becomes more detailed, but I'm not against them so we can see how it goes to start off with. As far as addressing possible inconsistencies or posts that struggle to gel with the rest of the array, I've kept my approach laissez faire for the most part but there's perhaps room for a little more persistent organisation. Above all else, I want this to be an open and inviting activity; the deeper the world's lore and detail gets, the harder it's going to be for newcomers to convince themselves to add something to the mix, and I don't want to risk turning away potential content by being too fixated on policing post consistency and 'fact-checking'. My angle is that I'll accept some superficial inconsistencies if it means getting a healthy mix of people happy to participate. But yes, there's going to be points where the provided information is optional or taken as 'advisory' rather than ironclad. That Pompatus of Love post is a good example, as it obviously has information that won't be relevant if I ran Ethereal Lands as a setting in a system not compatible with its mechanical notes.
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