10-02-2010, 06:45 AM
Rafael Wrote:Yeah, I mean, we have Star Frontiers and P&P, both written by some of of Mr Arneson's principal players, and yet, noone is really taking it into consideration.
I wouldn't say noone... I consuluted P&P fairly heavily when working on the DaD rules, when tracing out certain threads of development, particularly magic and combat. But in setting terms you are quite right, we don't draw from it much. I think part of that is that Richard deliberately distanced the setting from Blackmoor. He made it clear the Perilous Lands were not related to Blackmoor (at least in his mind) so I'm not sure how appropriate it would be to draw on that cosmology. I am planning to run his Tower of the Dead as an adventure for my group but I haven't mmade the stat conversions yet.
Rafael Wrote:Also, if there was really a female player for Toska Russa (I forgot where I read this around here), isn't the most logical assumption that SHE made those people up, based on whatever she wanted.
Yep, Deborah Nafziger (sp?), according to Jeff Berry, and but its likely she and Dave concieved the idea together. As an EPT player she likely proposed a EPT like character she was familiar with (priestess) and she and Dave crafted an EPT like background for the character. I'm not suggesting there was a real one to one correlation or that they were consciously thinking of the Nom when making the Afridhi, just that its a nice fit. What I like about the Nom/ZugZul/Vimulha idea I proposed is that it takes a bit of real Twin cities gaming history (EPT player creeating a character for Blackmoor) and turns it into a bit of ingame history.
As I see it Afridhi have some Spartan like elements in their fanatical discipline and superiority complex. I can see their society as being on a constant war footing, with everyone focused on growing the nation. The women, perhaps, take multiple husbands and being rewarded for producing (but not raising) as many children as possible.
Rafael Wrote:ALSO, sorry to rain your parade, but degenerated humans that have a matriarchy and worship a burning eye?
We have seen this before.
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Black_N% ... C3%B3reans
Numenoreans are cool but I'm not seeing much similarity there. Very different mythologies.