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General Discussion / Re: Rough couple of weeks
« Last post by Dimirag on May 19, 2024, 02:07:24 PM »Sorry to hear about her, good to know she's better now.
Thanks for the pointer!
And speaking of Cyradon, I guess there are some conceptual parallels ... Anwyn is a little more "anything goes", right? The core story of Cyradon is pretty nailed down (you arrive and have to carve out a place for yourself), while in Anwyn, that part has already happened, and I guess now you're looking around to see what else is there to find.
Reading FX, I have a few questions about Anwyn:
The gods brought the 9 playable Kin to Anwyn - but what about the peoples from the bestiary like giants, goblins, redcaps, ogres and similar intelligent creatures? Have they been brought along? Or are they native to Anwyn (or have been brought there previously)?
It's the year 130 CE - does that mean that all the playable kin have been brought to Anwyn only 130 years ago? Or is the calendar based on some other event? 130 years seems really short, there shout be a lot of the long-living kins who lived the greater part of their lifes on the old world. Maybe something like 300 years would be better, also to have more "past" for the playable kin to explore? (I know that there's the past of other kin, but the characters are pretty much by definition disconnected from it.)
How Kitchen Sink is the cosmology? The gods aren't named, and there's talk of demons and devils (who seem to be separate categories of demons) - is it "all in", or is there a bigger picture about what, e.g., demons and devils actually are and how they relate (or not) to the gods?
By the way, the cosmology of the drifting continent that is linked to other worlds through portals that actually stabilize its protection bubble is kind of cool - it's very easy to picture and yet something I haven't seen done before quite like this.
Ohhhh.. or what if I left gender out completely? Rework the descriptions to be neutral (i.e. not he and not she), then the player of just a Pregen fills in the gender themselves?
Like so...
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Okay, I'll be "that guy" and ask a quick question about the quickstart: I've only given it a cursory read as of now, but I took a closer look at the pregens, and ... why are all of them male? I mean, it's probably clear to that you can always change a character's sex, anyway, but why do the descriptions explicitly state the character being male in every single case?