Sir Ofeelya

Re: Rarity of Magic?

The difficulties of making up a setting with magic is common have already been described: to make an analogy' date=' I am running my current game on an island group in which there are no large flightless mammals. There are only birds, including large flightless birds, that serve as mounts and resources.cheers, Mark[/quote']

 

 

Hi Mark

 

I was wondering why, in your GE setting, no one has brought riding beasts to the Archipelego? Is it just cultural or something else. I would have thought a Desterier would kick a Phorusrhacoid's flightless ass when it came to being a war mount.

 

Cheers

Bri

Re: What are _____ like in your game?

I like, and use, the Harn idea that they (dwarves and elves) came from Midgaard. Let Tolkein worry about their origins.

Re: Elves

It was actually dwarves that tipped me off to the fact that I didn't need non-human races in my game at all. I had one player (actually a good player) who played a grumpy' date=' greedy dwarf - very characterful, if a bit stereotypic.cheers, Mark[/quote']

 

 

For some reason Thorin Oakenshaft and Nobby Woodcock spring to mind.

Re: Elves

Wow' date=' that's just stupid. On their part, I mean.[/quote']

 

Thinking back, I also got caned by the moderators because I posted a picture (in a thread about Wood Elves) that I had adulterated to show a wood elf mage crucified. They decided that I was insulting Christians. I could only think that exposure to roleplaying and fantasy wargaming had so warped their brains that they could no longer differentiate between reality and fantasy. To save them I converted to another major world religion and blew them up.

Re: Elves

I got banned from a Warhammer site once because my bile spitting towards Wood Elves (forest rats) was deemed rascist by the moderators. I kid you not.

Re: Elves

In my world i try to make elf like tolkien did .............it a perfect and angelic race better and more powerfull then human but rare in number..........

This sounds like you have modelled your Elves on me.

Re: Elves

Elves are just what humans call the pretty versions of the faerie folk.

 

But they are all basically just faeries.

Ain't that the truth.

Re: And off we go!

As a bit of backup, I am also going to bait some of the characters - they will be offered a magic gift by a dying man. Knowing players, few will be able to turn down a neato-kewl magic power for free. Of course, once accepted, they will also get a geas

cheers, Mark

You always were a bastard for that sort of thing!

Re: Recommend a fantasy world map?

You could try Harn and Harnworld from Columbia games. They sell four large poster sized maps of a region of the main continent.

http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/cfg/allharnitems.cfg