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<blockquote data-quote="Wincenworks" data-source="post: 9305293" data-attributes="member: 7038835"><p>I was tapping out at 4,000 words going over the basics... and also it's difficult to say how helpful the information is.</p><p></p><p><strong>Species</strong></p><p>Anakim (1) - No variants, kind of like half-Giants from Dark Sun but unclear</p><p>Andro (5) - Five variants on them with no clear information other than 4 of them get extra bonuses and one (the "flesh" robots) do not.</p><p>Ion (1) - No variants and like... they're alien energy people who are vaguely defined</p><p>Manquatti (1) - Maybe rip off of some things in Star Wars</p><p>Morph (2) - Bird people and cat people, too generic to call</p><p>Nephilim - Humans but also giants, otherwise poorly defined</p><p>Sapiens - They're humans... but not, but yes.</p><p></p><p>So all up there's 12 species but some of them are overlap, some are weird (playing a Flesh andro is being a Sapien that can never die, and doesn't need to sleep) in that respect and none of them are well defined enough to say if they're a copy-paste etc. </p><p></p><p>Each one only gets about three paragraphs at most to sum them up, and often a lot of that is squandered explaining they can be <em>x</em> or they can be the opposite of <em>x</em>, or citing lore that is not present in the book.</p><p></p><p>Further complicated by the fact that the actual play with Jim seemed to go against a lot of player's understanding of the material.</p><p></p><p><strong>Monsters</strong></p><p>Monsters is where <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YgF_Dx3vey_JCVG8Af_7eKwFWQIveu3k0yaJ6YfiR_8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">the real hinky-copy pasting happens</a>.</p><p></p><p>Looking at the monsters, the fantasy ones because he has a tendency to grab from random cultures and either file the serial numbers off or use an alternative spelling etc.</p><p></p><p>For example the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81tahsaia" target="_blank">Atahsaia </a>are in there... but the write up for them is so brief it's not clear if this was what they decided to whittle them down to in order for space considerations, or if Jim started hearing about them and just went "Yeah, those sound like ogres...."</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]355317[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>It's extra complicated because even the ones that are referencing unique Native American mythology.... are doing it, very poorly.</p><p></p><p><strong>Edit:</strong> Realized I addressed the wrong thing in the initial post, also thank you for your feedback.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wincenworks, post: 9305293, member: 7038835"] I was tapping out at 4,000 words going over the basics... and also it's difficult to say how helpful the information is. [B]Species[/B] Anakim (1) - No variants, kind of like half-Giants from Dark Sun but unclear Andro (5) - Five variants on them with no clear information other than 4 of them get extra bonuses and one (the "flesh" robots) do not. Ion (1) - No variants and like... they're alien energy people who are vaguely defined Manquatti (1) - Maybe rip off of some things in Star Wars Morph (2) - Bird people and cat people, too generic to call Nephilim - Humans but also giants, otherwise poorly defined Sapiens - They're humans... but not, but yes. So all up there's 12 species but some of them are overlap, some are weird (playing a Flesh andro is being a Sapien that can never die, and doesn't need to sleep) in that respect and none of them are well defined enough to say if they're a copy-paste etc. Each one only gets about three paragraphs at most to sum them up, and often a lot of that is squandered explaining they can be [I]x[/I] or they can be the opposite of [I]x[/I], or citing lore that is not present in the book. Further complicated by the fact that the actual play with Jim seemed to go against a lot of player's understanding of the material. [B]Monsters[/B] Monsters is where [URL='https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YgF_Dx3vey_JCVG8Af_7eKwFWQIveu3k0yaJ6YfiR_8/edit?usp=sharing']the real hinky-copy pasting happens[/URL]. Looking at the monsters, the fantasy ones because he has a tendency to grab from random cultures and either file the serial numbers off or use an alternative spelling etc. For example the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81tahsaia']Atahsaia [/URL]are in there... but the write up for them is so brief it's not clear if this was what they decided to whittle them down to in order for space considerations, or if Jim started hearing about them and just went "Yeah, those sound like ogres...." [ATTACH type="full" alt="1711921624250.png"]355317[/ATTACH] It's extra complicated because even the ones that are referencing unique Native American mythology.... are doing it, very poorly. [B]Edit:[/B] Realized I addressed the wrong thing in the initial post, also thank you for your feedback. [/QUOTE]
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