Yeah, this one is awesome. As i read this, every time i started thinking, "ok, but what about...?" you seem to answer the question in the next few lines. Very well written, perfectly complete and usable, even covering thoughts for lazy/frustrated gm's and/or annoyed players/characters.
Naturally, the tables, matrixes, and diagrams rock and bring this to life!!
I second Dossta's comment on the visual description. Great write-up! The popping bubble beneath reality's fabric makes a complicated concept easy to understand.
Ive read a few similar ideas over the years, but this one is so simple and perfectly rendered for use. Also love the examples you provided of the effects!
This can be automatically dropped into ANY game world, and makes for an instant nightly campaign!! I WILL use this somehow! Go to Comment
Nice. You should make a whole codex of these! Crawling Mountains?! Must know more! Makes me wonder if they actually have crawling mountains, or if this is an embellished, re-interpretation written by someone who has never seen or met one of these desert dwarves. So again, i get that medieval (clueless but evocative) guide to the world's hidden corners vibe. Go to Comment
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I'm picturing huge, gray-brown, nomadic tents that look "rocky", embellished a thousand-fold by some Marco Polo type, who never quite made it to this part of the Burning Lands, but was close, and wrote down legends he heard, from those that have seen the "crawling mountains". :) Go to Comment
This is a bit different. I like it because it reminds me of those bizarre, medieval guides on the exotic creatures and inhabitants of the world's unknown corners. Like the dog-headed people, or the folk with heads in their torsos, bees being born in ox carcasses, antelopes identified as unicorns, and all that. The drinking their own urine part did it. Go to Comment
Yeah, but already mentioned them in a text last night :) The lady-bits are exotic and out there! And of course cry-out for further explanation. Go to Comment
This is probably the best described and presented wealth-religion idea I've ever seen. From the Divine Broker to the Ordinance to the High Exchange in Qurai to the Bursar's Houses, and everything in between. Splendid, rich, evocative! Go to Comment
I would use this in a heartbeat too! And inject it with more daoisms.
Its got everything I love in an adventure...monasteries, under-water treasure, monks, chains, bloated corpses :D
But seriously, a nice tight little plot!
Great work, Myst! Go to Comment
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