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- Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:47 pm
- Forum: Rules and Trouble Shooting
- Topic: Can we have a "fanon" tag or protocol?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15415
Re: Can we have a "fanon" tag or protocol?
I had what alcoholics call a "moment of clarity". I've been asking questions that focus on world-building, abstract, trope-independent, experimental aspects of RPGs. The problem is, I've been asking them on a DnD setting-specific forum. And then I've been wondering why there's a disconnect...
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:43 pm
- Forum: Rules and Trouble Shooting
- Topic: Can we have a "fanon" tag or protocol?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15415
Re: Can we have a "fanon" tag or protocol?
Sure thing, thanks for the clarification!
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 5:56 pm
- Forum: Rules and Trouble Shooting
- Topic: Can we have a "fanon" tag or protocol?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15415
Can we have a "fanon" tag or protocol?
TL;DR - in threads where OPs are intentionally disregarding canon to achieve a specific effect, folks are posting canon, often completely ignoring the OP's initial stated innovative intent. Can we have a tag that identifies "fanon threads" as such and perhaps obviate some of these posts? S...
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:01 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Stupid Names and Renaming Places and Characters
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4001
Re: Stupid Names and Renaming Places and Characters
No problem. I'll see if I can outline a few points in the Rules forum, then.
- Sat Sep 13, 2014 8:06 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Personal Canon
- Replies: 192
- Views: 59400
Re: Personal Canon
I'm sure I wrote this earlier, but cannot find it: I don't have a really good renaming for Invidia, although the provisional name is Întradevăr (similar to "In truth" in Romanian). Its backstory has been extensively rewritten to examine a specific political hypothesis. The idea is that the...
- Sat Sep 13, 2014 12:43 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Personal Canon
- Replies: 192
- Views: 59400
Re: Personal Canon
Ah, Serene Dion. Oh, crap, I meant to say "Celine Dion" but I lapsed into momentary Cantonese and my Ls and Rs got mixed up. :( In my campaign, Vigo is fairly active and is trying to devour the demon essences of all the other children of the Interloper. One of my PCS is his (quasi?) siste...
- Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:22 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Personal Canon
- Replies: 192
- Views: 59400
Re: Personal Canon
Ah, Serene Dion... Beneath his calm exterior lurks a madness that will track you down and find you: near, far, wherever you are. In my campaign, Vigo is fairly active and is trying to devour the demon essences of all the other children of the Interloper. One of my PCS is his (quasi?) sister and ther...
- Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:34 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Stupid Names and Renaming Places and Characters
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4001
Re: Stupid Names and Renaming Places and Characters
The silliness was intentional. Ravenloft has a history of puns going all the way back to the first edition module. The majority of the crypt puns were removed in the Return to Castle Ravenloft adventure for 3rd ed., probably for stylistic reasons. I don't have much use for the 1st Ed puns, whether ...
- Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:00 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Stupid Names and Renaming Places and Characters
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4001
Re: Stupid Names and Renaming Places and Characters
I posted this awhile back. Here's a summary: Lamordia: Nortenmark (pseudo-Germanic "northern reach", hinting at a Falkovnian-invasion history) Mordent: Cosabel (pseudo-French "côte sable" - black coasts) Dementlieu: Maresotes (marées hautes - high tides, in honor of the many lake...
- Mon Sep 08, 2014 1:36 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Mordenheim and Markov.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1905
Re: Mordenheim and Markov.
This is a very interesting idea, and one that I'm going to stea, er, adapt for my campaign.
Will post more as I think of it, but a Darwin-esque voyage with one doctor seeking out the other sounds very cool. I'm a fan of portraying darklords as more dynamic than a badguy in a lair.
Will post more as I think of it, but a Darwin-esque voyage with one doctor seeking out the other sounds very cool. I'm a fan of portraying darklords as more dynamic than a badguy in a lair.
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 12:43 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Campaigns with Undead PCs, Low magic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4403
Re: Campaigns with Undead PCs, Low magic
Alhoon: fair points on the canon issue. As my starting point assumes that canon has failed me and I want to change canon, there's not much else to say in response to the various citations of canon. One issue was regarding the assassins with magical daggers -are you referring to the Ebon Fold? They w...
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 2:31 pm
- Forum: The Dark Beyond
- Topic: Farewell Robin Williams!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5026
Re: Farewell Robin Williams!
Robin Williams also brought light and laughter to suffering folks - he visited Christopher Reeve in hospital in the guise of a bumbling Russian proctologist to make him laugh.
"And now I will examine your Volvo..." Robin Williams, as Dr. Kosevich, Nine Months.
"And now I will examine your Volvo..." Robin Williams, as Dr. Kosevich, Nine Months.
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:16 pm
- Forum: The Dark Beyond
- Topic: Farewell Robin Williams!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5026
Re: Farewell Robin Williams!
There was an episode of Louie, where Louis C K was at the poorly-attended funeral of a not-very-well-liked fellow comedian. While there, he met an old man, played by Robin Williams, who tried his best to remember nice things about the deceased. After several valiant failures, they both gave up and j...
- Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:05 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Campaigns with Undead PCs, Low magic
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4403
Re: Campaigns with Undead PCs, Low magic
Yeah, the Ravenloft materials were inconsistent about how universal the availability of magic was. If magic doesn't work in a nation, then skepticism is a rational response. If magic does exist in a domain, them skepticism is a dogmatic denial. In my GURPS campaign I use the mechanic of mana levels....
- Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:22 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Personal Canon
- Replies: 192
- Views: 59400
Re: Personal Canon
Decades ago, when war with Falkovnia loomed once more, the Darkonian people were terrified of the Creeping Death rising once again. A lay minstrel, famed for his beautiful hymns to the Eternal Order, offered himself in sacrifice to make peace with the dead. He was duly inhumed and given a Heroes' Wa...