[dungeoncrawl] Re: Suggestion for New World
- From: Johnathan Detrick <jdetrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dungeoncrawl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 12:59:41 -0500
Oh, I see. What we have is the bare bones, and you want more meat
on them? That's cool with me. Man, we could write all kinds of cool
stuff on this. What might be really cool, and would make the mythology
more interesting, is if we actually wrote some stories of events that
happened during the rebuilding process. I can see a few Riders helping
to rebuild a village, while one of the evil gods tries to stop them.
There's a wealth of untapped potential here that could be developed. Of
course, the stories need to be mythic in scope, and would have to reveal
an important facet between characters, as well as treating the
characters as if they were gods (which they were).
jimkaren@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Right, but should we flesh it out a bit
> more? I don't want to write our own
> version of the greek myths, but is
> there anything from our characters'
> histories that could be transposed into
> a mythological epic tale?
>
> For example, Baish once gave up
> godhood, and Magnus & Celane have a
> relationship - can we make "spun"
> versions of these histories that would
> translate into myths?
>
> >
> > I thought we had discussed this.
> I thought that 500 years ago a
> > great cataclysm rocked the globe,
> killing a large portion of the
> > population and destroying many cities
> and landmarks. The old gods
> > seemed to disappear, and for some
> time, despair reigned. Then, from the
> > heavens, came a coalition of beings,
> glowing with power. These beings
> > helped to rebuild this world, and
> began to restore some hope to a
> > forlorn people. When there work was
> done, they ascended to sit on high,
> > and the people came to worship them.
> > Wasn't that the deal?
> >
> > jimkaren@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Guys,
> > >
> > > I've been thinking about how to go
> > > about creating this pantheon. We've
> > > discussed taking the time to write
> up
> > > gods, and that's important, but
> maybe
> > > we'd be better off sketching out the
> > > overall mythology of the world.
> > >
> > > In other words, what line of BS are
> the
> > > gods going to give mortals that
> > > explains why things are as they are?
> > > With that broad framework in place,
> > > writing up gods will be that much
> > > easier
> > > -
> >
> >
> >
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