A Magical Society: Beast Builder
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MaxKaladin
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I'm SHOCKED! Shocked, I tell you!jgbrowning said:
Actually the silk road one sounds interesting.
I'm nuts for anything Roman and I'd really like to see a Rome "Magical Society" book. It wouldn't really be very similar to the MMS book. Roman population dynamics were different as they were more urban, their social, legal and political systems were also pretty different not to mention their construction. Roman concrete alone would have a significant effect on the way the building system in MMS works.
SILK ROAD! I want now!jgbrowning said:
jgbrowning
Hero
BOZ said:what, you didn't do all of your research while you were there?
Nope. I'll have to go back.
Rome is very daunting, but I imagine we'll eventually get to it-although it'll probably be like 2008 or such. I'm probably going to update MMS:WE with a war section before I start on something romanesque.
joe b.
I still only have Western Europe. I've been meaning to pick up Ecology and Culture. XP puts out some really amazing products, especially for the aspiring world developer.
I've been working on a home brew which calls for a mostly new cast of animals and monsters alike. It sounds like Beast Builder might be a good place to start developing such critters so that they are well balanced and make sense within the ecology of my setting.
Another book I simply must have.
I've been working on a home brew which calls for a mostly new cast of animals and monsters alike. It sounds like Beast Builder might be a good place to start developing such critters so that they are well balanced and make sense within the ecology of my setting.
Another book I simply must have.
Hand of Evil said:
To cast aside all modesty, Silk Road is going to kick butt. I first got the spark of an idea a month or two after Ecology and Culture came out, but we were wiped out after convention season, and we wanted to get Monster Geographica and 1 on 1 rolling.
I've finished the bulk of research and will start writing in the beginning of April (after I finish some development in the Monster Geographica Line and the SSP....).
Magical Society Books are big, both conceptually and physically. I wish I could clone myself and Joe and write more of them. Or at least have the clone do things like laundry and the dishes.
-Suzi
suzi yee said:To cast aside all modesty, Silk Road is going to kick butt. I first got the spark of an idea a month or two after Ecology and Culture came out, but we were wiped out after convention season, and we wanted to get Monster Geographica and 1 on 1 rolling.
I've finished the bulk of research and will start writing in the beginning of April (after I finish some development in the Monster Geographica Line and the SSP....).
Magical Society Books are big, both conceptually and physically. I wish I could clone myself and Joe and write more of them. Or at least have the clone do things like laundry and the dishes.
-Suzi
Definitely sounds like a great project. I've heard nothing but good things about the Magical Society books. I've been trying to expand my gaming collection recently and these books are definitely near the top of the list.
Maybe Silk Road will be something that can get my non-gaming Chinese wife into gaming, as I'm assuming it will have at least some Chinese-related material in there. (OK, it's a pipedream to get her interested... but, I can dream)
Knight Otu
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As one of the content readers, I'm propably biased, but I have to repeat what I said in the other thread: Beast Builder is very throughout. Joe did a very good job with it.
JoeGKushner
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Hand of Evil said:
Let me add in the dreaded, "Me Too!" style post.
This is something that Oriental Adventurers didn't cover very well and while I like Rogukan, having something like Silk Road sounds like it'll allow me as the GM to customize things while keeping in the vein of the Eastern approach to things so to speak.
