03-10-2018, 07:51 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Yrth 2018
Are there any updates on events on Yrth 2006-2018?
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04-30-2018, 10:34 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: God's Own Country
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Re: Yrth 2018
None official, yet. Me, I got around that problem by having a demon war and a 200 year gap. :)
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04-30-2018, 10:47 PM | #3 |
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Re: Yrth 2018
Ooh, sounds interesting. Tell us about the Demon War?
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05-01-2018, 05:33 AM | #4 |
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Re: Yrth 2018
Nothing yet.
(I keep hoping.) It's been a dozen years and it was fifteen between 3rd Ed FANTASY and 4th Ed BANESTORM. An update would need to account for the fate of the Emperor and the outcome of the Caithness Civil War and perhaps for another Holy War between the Empire and Al-Wazif. There's the Black Woods too... Where would Maximum Game Fun lie in an updated Yrth? What sort of fantasy adventures should it support? Are there trends in these things?
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05-01-2018, 06:39 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Yrth 2018
I'd love to see Yrth adapted into a Dungeon Fantasy-style setting, with modified templates to account for the lack of divine magic. Turn the Cleric into a Priest-Wizard, etc.
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05-01-2018, 09:08 AM | #6 | |
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: St-Basile-Le-Grand, Qc
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Re: Yrth 2018
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I would LOVE to see a officiel Yrth setting for DF. |
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05-01-2018, 11:12 AM | #7 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ronkonkoma, NY
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Re: Yrth 2018
When you picked up the book in 2005, you could just take it go. When you pick up the book in 2018, you either have to invent thirteen years' worth of interesting history and abandon many of the plots that were brewing at the time, or else you have to pad the timeline out an extra thirteen years, rewriting the timeline and possibly inserting extra events and people to explain the discrepancy. Either way is a lot of work. Maximum Game Fun lies in not having to do that work.
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05-01-2018, 11:53 AM | #8 | |
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Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Yrth 2018
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If you don't need those, life's a great deal simpler. If Yrth is being used in the Infinite Worlds setting, having the date set back a few years also avoids the problem of it potentially being a world where a parachronic projector would work.
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05-01-2018, 06:29 PM | #9 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: God's Own Country
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Re: Yrth 2018
Oh, just a little simple invasion from a demon king from a different demonic world than the one associated with Yrth, a world response to that invasion that had mullahs standing shoulder to shoulder with priests and priestesses, the exposure on use of MoS's stocks of tech devices, and the twisting of the world to remove/change the transistor effect so the weapon being used on the demon king would stop working--but that happened too slowly to stop him being pushed out with his minions. Some of the minions managed to stay behind, though. :) So anyone trying to develop tech much beyond steam has a serious uphill road ahead. But now, because the MoS and friends couldn't put all the genies back in their boxes, there's steam engines (with mages and alchemists involved), black powder firearms (with mages and alchemists involved), and a couple of other things that give TL4 (and some early TL5) in cities and advanced towns. The feudal system is still in place, the Underground Engineers are still underground, and cities still have MoS or similar offices. And Missile Shield amulets are ubiquitous for those that can afford them.
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05-02-2018, 11:42 AM | #10 | |
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Location: Canada
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