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The thing with GURPS is that I think I like it for its versatility and flexibility and diversity
and the way there's a rule for just about everything
and then when I sit down and decide what things to actually use
I simplify.
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When inventing religion for the new fantasy world I... first decided that world without Jews would put me in bad company and so clearly Jews got Banestormed there, and then I read a lot of fics about Captain Cold, and then I ended up with a corner of plot about Cold as jew in a fantasy world, but I have absolutely no idea how to write it without just copying that one fic I rad, I don't even know enough to start learning more.
This is how I end up writing nothing, my failure to be omniscient enough to be a narrator.
But.
Fantasy world religion, based on the months of the year, so there's twelve different gods. Except secretly there is a thirteenth, who is god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings, and intercalary days, because I always incite Janus. But if they had Gate magic my plots would work out very different. So.
Twelve gods who grant their priests twelve spells each, except there's secretly thirteen and so each priesthood has a secret spell.
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Okay, I didn't get as far as trying to figure out spell sets, and this computer needs recharging. I'll post this and come back to it later.
Pantheons are hard though, you really need to go back and forth with your plot and figure out who you need, and twelve seems too many and too few.
Four are for living things, four for crafts, and four for ways of organising humans. That could work.
Ugh, power plug.
and the way there's a rule for just about everything
and then when I sit down and decide what things to actually use
I simplify.
( Read more... )
When inventing religion for the new fantasy world I... first decided that world without Jews would put me in bad company and so clearly Jews got Banestormed there, and then I read a lot of fics about Captain Cold, and then I ended up with a corner of plot about Cold as jew in a fantasy world, but I have absolutely no idea how to write it without just copying that one fic I rad, I don't even know enough to start learning more.
This is how I end up writing nothing, my failure to be omniscient enough to be a narrator.
But.
Fantasy world religion, based on the months of the year, so there's twelve different gods. Except secretly there is a thirteenth, who is god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings, and intercalary days, because I always incite Janus. But if they had Gate magic my plots would work out very different. So.
Twelve gods who grant their priests twelve spells each, except there's secretly thirteen and so each priesthood has a secret spell.
( Read more... )
Okay, I didn't get as far as trying to figure out spell sets, and this computer needs recharging. I'll post this and come back to it later.
Pantheons are hard though, you really need to go back and forth with your plot and figure out who you need, and twelve seems too many and too few.
Four are for living things, four for crafts, and four for ways of organising humans. That could work.
Ugh, power plug.