tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post1005789920111536468..comments2024-03-28T08:17:07.009-05:00Comments on The Other Side blog: How much Fantasy in your FRPGs?Timothy S. Brannanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-52606483459893674072010-12-29T22:34:48.040-06:002010-12-29T22:34:48.040-06:00On my world, The sky is the inside of a shell. The...On my world, The sky is the inside of a shell. The sun is a phoenix and the moon a great worm. This can be seen by the naked eye (but don't look directly at the Phoenix, you'll ruin your eyes).Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10254609348013694357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-18732747088738377942010-12-28T03:18:51.129-06:002010-12-28T03:18:51.129-06:00I like my games to be realistic with just a season...I like my games to be realistic with just a seasoning of magic. Magic is very mysterious and uncommon but with potential for great power. If magic is too common then it can effect life on a daily basis. Boil the tea water, etc. It would essentially replace technology as a way to get things done. Then you lose the Medieval flavor or whichever era you are playing in.Narmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08635665594860371230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-81038455755936246992010-12-27T17:02:39.634-06:002010-12-27T17:02:39.634-06:00My game world is highly scientific just with adde...My game world is highly scientific just with added magic from extradimensional sources with different natural laws <br /><br />I do tend to ignore the HP issue a bit in pathfinder/D&D/Etc but thats par for the course with that type of rules set.5stonegameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10694550968360550229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-34125424776622982922010-12-27T16:58:59.536-06:002010-12-27T16:58:59.536-06:00I tend to go very very ignorant in my games. Peopl...I tend to go very very ignorant in my games. People don't know the cosmology and don't know where to start looking for answers most of the time. They just accept the answers provided by religious figures.<br /><br />One day though, I am going to have the party reach the literal end of the earth. Where the water flows off the table and into the void. Oh, it will be a glorious day when I get to see those faces.Pontifexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761338487255048337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-68994104487260012662010-12-27T15:37:47.946-06:002010-12-27T15:37:47.946-06:00Uhmm... Didn't you know we currently live INSI...Uhmm... Didn't you know we currently live INSIDE a hollow earth?<br /><br />http://www.think-aboutit.com/hollow/he_hollow_earth.htmwoðborahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18063323987268849437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-13587097758080600902010-12-27T13:05:21.714-06:002010-12-27T13:05:21.714-06:00My world has two suns, a large reddish-orange one ...My world has two suns, a large reddish-orange one and a smaller blue one. I also have three moons. I wanted my world to look fantastic, but still be somewhat grounded in reality.<br /><br />Alternately my larger sun has been a red-giant and the castle of the sun god.Timothy S. Brannanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02923526503305233715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-66250115125879165342010-12-27T13:00:58.036-06:002010-12-27T13:00:58.036-06:00In my current fantasy campaign, the Sea of Stars, ...In my current fantasy campaign, the Sea of Stars, which is self-consciously high magic the sun really is The Sun. As in the <i>God of the Sun</i>, who is let out of his divine jail cell every morning and marched across the sky (which make sunrise and sunset look like eclipses as the jail door is opened or closed).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-27467374343513070352010-12-27T11:43:00.583-06:002010-12-27T11:43:00.583-06:00That parallel cosmologies idea is a concept and a ...That parallel cosmologies idea is a concept and a half.<br /><br />I'm happy with anything that has at least internal consistency. The burning mountain flat earth approach is fine if the lead is being taken from somewhere, and it can be spun out further.Porkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604351052444947490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7913319789564397699.post-47865309858699372212010-12-27T10:55:50.824-06:002010-12-27T10:55:50.824-06:00I've done the gamut, I think. Historically I&...I've done the gamut, I think. Historically I've preferred "realistic but for magic" worlds inspired by the likes of pulp "forgotten prehistory" worlds like those of REH and CAS. As I get older, I've lightened up a bit, and utilized more mythological or fantastic cosmoses (cosmi?) inspired by Glorantha and Exalted's Creation. I've also sort of employed the idea your talking about--wherein all the physics work as if the world is like ours, but player's glimpsing it by magical means would see something altogether different.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.com