[freeroleplay] Re: orcs 0.01 - was Re: Vanilla Fantasy Worlds
- From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 16:11:29 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, James Jensen wrote:
> Thanks! This is some pretty good stuff.
>
> I've stitched together the introduction and society segments (with some
> minor editing) to make a Monster Manual-style entry, which will be
> included in what I call the "CoreDocs" package.
>
> How much more detailed do you intend on making this? It looks like it
> could make a good book (or part of one), although definitely not one for
> audiences of all ages.
You can assume I'll continue work on it. Especially, I'll review and
incorporate good patches, ideas, etc. from other people. The amount of
detail I put in will probably correlate with the amount of feedback it
sees.
I'm also considering 'templatifying' it, using Template-Toolkit, so that
someone wishing to incorporate it into a particular game world can do
some automatic tweaking. Namely:
* Replace placenames with ones appropriate to the world
* Override tribe names
* Censor out raunchier bits
* etc.
This would be done via a simple top level config file.
> In a few days, I should have an alpha version of the CoreDocs package
> for my setting (which I'm currently calling the World of Zaenar) out.
>
> BTW, who did the orc warrior picture? Two names are credited in the
> package for all pictures, but it doesn't name who did which pictures.
That's Tom Austin's work.
Bryce
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