tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post913969342556487868..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: Building a Realitypjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-75013481688471511302020-08-01T17:49:01.870-07:002020-08-01T17:49:01.870-07:00Lucas said that in making A New Hope he wanted to ...Lucas said that in making A New Hope he wanted to pass on the experience of the sci fi serials he loved as a kid, their values and aesthetics, which hadn't survived into the period in which Star Wars was made; it seems like his early work on the film was much closer to the serials than the "lived-in" thing that developed over time. While I mentioned beauty, mercy and love as avenues of deep meaning, I forgot valor, glory, exploration and achievement, which are more integral to things like Flash Gordon, Spacehawk and Star Wars; equally palliative although experienced less commonly in the day-to-day. Two sets of avenues, perhaps characterizable as lunar and solar/Apollonian.Her Christmas Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09445850026904816000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-41849048521220017882020-08-01T01:18:29.462-07:002020-08-01T01:18:29.462-07:00I do really like the aestehtic of those early comi...I do really like the aestehtic of those early comics. Just re-watched 'Flash Gordon' at the movies and damn that is pretty film.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-11378929110926090082020-08-01T01:00:27.091-07:002020-08-01T01:00:27.091-07:00Partly yes. Its hard to access. Its strands are al...Partly yes. Its hard to access. Its strands are always shifting an changing. The logic of its internal reality is different, time there is driven more explicitly by the experience of time by self-aware beings, rather than them living in time that already exists, so entropy is less powerful there. Whole thing is probably born from the slow disintegration of the various planes of the Udd-verse, as different levels or layers of reality slowly pull away from each other, Margenalia iniltrates the space betwen, like a weed. <br /><br />Even so there are still "tube-wars" in margenalai when Yggsrathaal manages to hold down an entry point and get her forces inside. Some of these have been going on for a while.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-40208940723960531482020-07-31T22:09:51.892-07:002020-07-31T22:09:51.892-07:00Perhaps the most surprising thing here is that thi...Perhaps the most surprising thing here is that this is not the approach taken by the industry at large. It's really the most common sense framework and RPG line could have.TPmanWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08415910295872695542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-73569736528852822802020-07-31T21:28:51.552-07:002020-07-31T21:28:51.552-07:00I read your Spacehawk series recently and it was v...I read your Spacehawk series recently and it was very interesting; when you were describing Esh I was picturing something like Spacehawk, Optimates like him maintaining the homeostasis of their home clusters, and because the world-between-worlds has parallels with Spelljammer, I saw the phlogiston take on the stained glass, shadowless color scheme of Spacehawk; the scheme seemed to fit the mood. Of course, that was then; I visualize the realms of Uud as stark shards of pale light clashing together in a black void, at least on the material level. <br /><br />An interesting aside could be sketching persistent border zones between mismatched realms linked by physical proximity or esoteric conduits, the way you did in http://falsemachine.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-great-fold.html?m=1<br /><br />I like how you are approaching this from the perspective that Uud is a dark place, but could be made better. The proper place of the good is in the shadow of the bad and vice versa; the proper place of beauty is in the same world as hideousness and horror. This is not so that they can subvert one another, but because these things really do live in the same world, with us; they complete one another within us. You understand the sublime when it suddenly justifies (makes worth it) all the horror and suffering you‘ve known; an experience of true beauty, mercy, love can throw all the darkness of life into sheol like the harrowing of hell and leave you with nothing but a tear-stained reverence for existence, despite its burden. And then you have to go back out into the cold and do your duty until next time. But that’s the contrast.<br />Beauty and terror don’t have to always be within the same vision, but they should be within the same work, unless it’s truly trying to just do one thing.<br /><br />I think the idea that the world is a harsh place but you could make it better is part of what’s tantalizing about beginning a campaign in a dystopia; the players can kind of have their cake and eat it too, doing whatever they feel they need to and being ruthless while the world remains by-and-large nothing but struggling power blocs, but later in their superhero phase should they wish to try and bring about a new order, they will have license to do so, and it will probably be an improvement over the old one. I don’t think that the dystopian beginning is necessary superior, but I think that’s part of its allure for a GM. I usually find players are more inclined to nobly protect organizations they build and people they meet over elements of their backstory and the world’s holdovers from before their story began, important as they are for other reasons.Her Christmas Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09445850026904816000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-34800462387372127912020-07-31T13:42:30.773-07:002020-07-31T13:42:30.773-07:00I like no-canon-all-canon thing existing in-univer...I like no-canon-all-canon thing existing in-universe and I especially like Marginalia. But how is Marginalia isn't destroyed by Yggsrathaal? Is it, being Marginalia, in some state of not-fully-being, so Yggsrathaal cannot fully grasp and destroy it?<br />Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.com