11-04-2019, 02:05 AM | #31 |
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Re: Nordlond Sagas: Three new books for the DFRPG
Good names are so hard to come up with, I have not found a generator I really like.
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11-04-2019, 04:24 AM | #32 |
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Re: Nordlond Sagas: Three new books for the DFRPG
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11-04-2019, 09:34 AM | #33 |
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Re: Nordlond Sagas: Three new books for the DFRPG
Why would anyone want their PC in a Viking inspired game world to be a cleric of Thor when they can be a cleric of the god of thunder? God of thunder sounds more generic which is always better. And if Thor was named out right then there is no possible way to rename him to fit into another campaign world. A god of thunder is easily able to be renamed though. If you want all the gods in your Nordland game world to be Balinese instead of Norse you can do that if the gods are generic.
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11-04-2019, 02:12 PM | #34 |
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Re: Nordlond Sagas: Three new books for the DFRPG
I have a question as to why the book is called Hand of Asgard. Wouldn’t that evoke the impression that Thor and Odin might be the gods in there? Wouldn’t it be better to have the book named Hand of a Generic Realm of the gods that may or may not loosely resemble the Norse deities?
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11-04-2019, 02:22 PM | #35 | |
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That's not to say that it has to be that way for any given campaign; we've deliberately avoided being overly prescriptive so that the book remains useful to a broad range of campaigns both in and out of the Dungeon Fantasy RPG. This is just 'how it is in our lore' for tracking internal consistency with later supplements. *"Isn't the Allfather married to the Queen of the World? Well, yes - but none of the Aesir are particularly good at fidelity, and Tyr and Odin were vacationing somewhere sunny, and they needed an explanation to give to that priest who walked in on them, and -- look, mortal understanding of the affairs (ha) of the gods is sometimes just a little off, okay?
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"“You think that’s bad ? Zeus used to seduce mom’s friends by turning into a swan. A swan. True story.”
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11-04-2019, 03:50 PM | #38 |
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Oh yeah, Zeus was way over on the slash fic side of the line a lot of the time.
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11-04-2019, 07:21 PM | #39 | |
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11-04-2019, 07:21 PM | #40 |
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Re: Nordlond Sagas: Three new books for the DFRPG
So all the different gods around the world just have different avatars in this world? Zeus is just another aspect of Odin? If this true do the people of the world know this and are they tolerant? Like a world of hippie dungeon delvers? If they don’t know this won’t there be sectarian warfare, ethnic cleansing and genocides by people who worship the same god through different avatars?
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