Anger of Angels by Sean Reynolds

[Gez]

Yep, it's Sean being cool.

About crippled OGC, anyone else have noticed that Monte got confused between the CCs and the ToH in the Diamond Throne? He put a notice saying that monster names from the Tome of Horrors are not OGC and are used with special permission (which is false, ToH names are OGC and don't require any permission), but he didn't for the Creature Collections (where there it would require that notice -- I know he has the permission anyway, but he's supposed to put the disclaimer).

Morality: Closing generic names is just the open door to headache, confusion, and insanity (maybe random action too). Please PI only unique names, thanks -- or at least, provide PI names. So that, I don't know, an Albadian Battle Dog could get a li'l asterisc saying that it has the OGC name of Frost Hound, or something like that...

Don't use the letter to exploit loopholes against the spirit!

What about a designation of open content like "Each and any word beginning by a X is added to open content. All others are PI." ? Would you find that cool? Easy to re-use? Not hypocritical?

 

[philreed]

What about a designation of open content like "Each and any word beginning by a X is added to open content. All others are PI." ? Would you find that cool? Easy to re-use? Not hypocritical?

You wouldn't like the OGC declaration in the Munchkin D20 books. An example:


"This entire chapter is closed content, except for words beginning with the letter 'P.'"

 

[Nellisir]

You wouldn't like the OGC declaration in the Munchkin D20 books. An example:

"This entire chapter is closed content, except for words beginning with the letter 'P.'"

Probably pretty petty, perhaps possibly phabulous.

 

[Desdichado]

Sounds like it dovetails (in theory) with Legions of Hell etc. and Book of the Righteous. This true?

 

[Psion]

Sounds like it dovetails (in theory) with Legions of Hell etc. and Book of the Righteous. This true?

I think I'd be hesitant to say that. Not bad, but not perfectly.

On the upside, much like LoH's take on angels and fallen angels, there is a stong descendence from Judeo-Christian images of angels and their organization. If all you had was LoH in front of you, you could tinker them together pretty easy.

The stumbling block, of course, it the Avatar's handbook, which is pretty much the definitive word on celestials in the Green Ronin / BotR cosmology, which is written towards the BotR cosmology and doesn't mesh well with AoA (er, I guess I should clarify Anger of Angels, as I guess that AoA could also be used to stand for Armies of the Abyss...).

 

[Cergorach]

I think I'd be hesitant to say that. Not bad, but not perfectly.

On the upside, much like LoH's take on angels and fallen angels, there is a stong descendence from Judeo-Christian images of angels and their organization. If all you had was LoH in front of you, you could tinker them together pretty easy.

The stumbling block, of course, it the Avatar's handbook, which is pretty much the definitive word on celestials in the Green Ronin / BotR cosmology, which is written towards the BotR cosmology and doesn't mesh well with AoA (er, I guess I should clarify Anger of Angels, as I guess that AoA could also be used to stand for Armies of the Abyss...).

I haven't read it completely yet, more like browsed it (had to watch "Dead Like Me" ;-). What exactly doesn't mesh well? Can it be modified with a little work? Because BotR is da stuff!

 

[Psion]

Well as you may know, BotR, while it does draw from some Judeo-Christian tropes, is more a careful crafted synthesis of many real world religious concepts, and some of the creatures in avatar's handbook sort of play of those larger tropes, like the idea of Aeons, celestials that predated the rest of the celestial heirarchy.

 

[der_kluge]

Well, I can see that it's off to rpgnow.com for me. The baby's formula will have to wait*. "It was on sale, honey!"


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