tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post3103915724327705348..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: Seven Experimental Cavespjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-5727203478548734492013-02-17T01:27:04.895-08:002013-02-17T01:27:04.895-08:00OK, I understand. I've been looking at the Sub...OK, I understand. I've been looking at the Subterranean design blog to better picture this stuff. Your descriptive writing is easily good enough to evoke the strangeness of these kinds of spaces. I find it is very easy to fall into the trap of thinking of the cave in terms of human architecture when it is actually just weird and funky and utterly inhuman. <br /><br />Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-1387536722252642982013-02-17T00:27:12.611-08:002013-02-17T00:27:12.611-08:00Thanks Tom. I ahve not idea if I will be doing ill...Thanks Tom. I ahve not idea if I will be doing illustrations at all. I can't draw to save my life. My original plan was to make the thing so that it could stand without any pictures at all, then, if anyone wants to do some then we can just go for quality and a powerful imagnative charge rather than having lots of less interesting pictures.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-37332766337439693182013-02-17T00:24:36.817-08:002013-02-17T00:24:36.817-08:00Other senses are really important underground as i...Other senses are really important underground as if, and when, the lights go out, they will be all the players have to go on.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-63336073288467125562013-02-16T23:22:48.033-08:002013-02-16T23:22:48.033-08:00Excellent introductory shorthand passages. I assum...Excellent introductory shorthand passages. I assume the finished product will have plenty of visual material to back up these descriptions because my immediate reaction is to want to see these things. I am getting the sense of the absolute hostility and unfamiliarity in the environment. It's claustrophobic and vertiginous and fraught with hidden dangers. <br /><br />I can imagine the chaos and trauma of a party encountering one of your abominable things in some of these environments - of fleeing pyroclastic ghouls down flowstone cascades. This setting should be able to to evoke some fairly primitive fear.Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-43496914388310180932013-02-16T14:54:37.472-08:002013-02-16T14:54:37.472-08:00Very evocative, and quite a few fresh ideas for ca...Very evocative, and quite a few fresh ideas for caverns. The research is really showing. The mention of sound and the sense of water pressing are useful too, in that senses other than the visual are easily overlooked, especially when there's a lot going on. It could be good for immersion if more descriptions reminded the GM of opportunities to bring other senses in, but lightly, as you've done here.Porkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604351052444947490noreply@blogger.com