05-04-2021, 08:48 PM | #31 | |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
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If the rider sits astride the dino (even on the neck) the hadrosaur probably needs to be smaller than the fossil version. If the "riders" are sitting on top of the back (possibly in a "hadrosaur howdah") you need the posture that gives you a level back. I'd vote for a dino of c. horse size that just happens to have a duck bill (and maybe a hollow crest for hooting).
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05-05-2021, 04:42 AM | #32 |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
Almost sure I've seen an illustration where he's riding astride the neck at about the shoulders and the beast is in a bipedal crouch in one of the books.
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07-21-2021, 06:38 PM | #33 |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
For Cyrano, what do you think societal mores are like?
I've little idea what general societal and sexual mores were, and were like, in the period Cyrano's timeline diverges from. All I remember is that the Victorians were far more prudish compared to earlier eras like the Early Modern era this setting diverged in. Last edited by warellis; 07-21-2021 at 07:12 PM. |
07-21-2021, 08:52 PM | #34 |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
Musketeer France of course. Gurps Swashbucklers covers this.
At least among the Francophone culture. The Jade Emperor alone know how the Han do things.
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You know it's weird, it seems like Europe in Cyrano stopped any interaction with the Islamic world after the psi-tech was created. Makes me wonder how the Islamic world was reacting to both Europe & China there. |
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I mean, wouldn't the entry have mentioned the steppe invasions having damaged the Islamic world more heavily here then? |
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07-22-2021, 01:52 AM | #38 | |
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That’s in high society, anyway. What happens in the Low Taverns where the Dashing Hero and his companions go Roistering… Isn’t for the delicate ears of wives, servants, or purse-lipped divines. Though if a GM wants to work a twist on this, they could always have things go all Les Liaisons Dangereuses. After all, we know that there is corruption eating away at the heart of the Empire; it’s a fair bet that some arrogant aristos behave as cynically in their private lives as in their politics.
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07-22-2021, 02:32 AM | #39 |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
Most heroes in swashbuckling stuff aren't exactly low-born, are they?
I amways got the feeling they were more like minor nobles. Granted, I wonder if that is technically "middle-class" or "upper middle-class" in a setting like Cyrano. |
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Re: [IW] What does the world of Cyrano look like?
Those heroes tend to be at least middle class - of a level to acquire formal training in fencing and enter the army as officers - and there's a tendency to validate the delusion that breeding ensures superiority in all things. But very posh aristos tend to come across as snobbish and obstructive, I think. (D'Artagnan was relatively impoverished gentry.) And one may be able to find relatively low-born heroes in pirate stories (though pirate heroes are often concealing a secret high-born background).
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