Creative Exercise -- NOW LAUNCHED, but moved to rpg.net. URL Inside.

[Rystil Arden]

Post a Razina statement and all will be forgiven.

Sure, I always have random weird ideas to go around.

The Graazi are a renegade group of air-pirates who prey upon other humans from their strange flying ships. Hushed whispers of awe among the common folk have circulated the belief that these ships may be held up by air magic, but lacking an established group of arcane magical experts, no one in Razina is really sure.

 

[JimAde]

Ha ha! Even Joshua can't kill his own thread. Take that!

The Graazi are hunted by an elite corps of Royal Lancers who ride mighty beasts of the air into battle. Though few in number, the Lancers are both highly skilled and reputed to be incorruptible.

 

[Desdichado]

D'oh! I'll cut and paste these replies over there; that'll be the master list.

 

[Rhialto]

You know, Aleasana needs some ideas too...

 

[Desdichado]

Hey, I was the first poster there. I can't post again until you get four more replies!

 

[Rhialto]

I was really hoping to attract the attention of this thread's later posters...

 

[JimAde]

I posted

Joshua, how about a link to the rpg.net thread. Then we can close this one and avoid double-posting, etc.

EDIT: D'oh! Didn't see the title change or edit to first post. Never mind.

 

[Arkhandus]

I'll contribute to Razina and Aleasana a bit.

To note though, I'm not familiar with Wheel of Time. I avoid big novels and big novel lines (except Lord of the Rings), so I never got into the WoT books, nor did I ever buy the d20 Wheel of Time book. So I dunno what's different about that, and will just ignore it. :^D I assume though that when you say 'magicians' are more rare than in D&D, you're including divinely-inspired/powered magic-users as well in that statement? I know it's a D&D-ism to separate divine and arcane magic, so I won't bother differentiating, but I am curious.

 

[Sarellion]

Doug: No one has seen dragons recently. But they have had a serious and profound effect on the world and its beliefs.

I'll give you an example of what's wrong with that with an actual post we had to edit. After creating plenty of interesting religions (one worships sacred lizards, one worships the Flame, one worships the Dawn and the Twilight, etc, they aren't so different from the god-botherers, but at the same time they have more of a feeling of human empowerment by the world around them, and less of a, one person made a post that everyone knew that there was actually a big, omnipotent creator god who created all of Eyros and lent His power to the other beings which why they could be worshipped and people could cast arcane magic. With or without the negative post, this didn't fit with the flavour of the setting so far. !

Thanks a lot, you haven´t even got what I wanted to say.

 

[Arkhandus]

Sarellion, you just need to better describe the approach you're coming from. You haven't really described your angle for some things, so it comes off to outsiders as seeming like your 'butting in' and forcing something upon the group exercise that's contradictory or confrontational to what they'd already done. You just didn't explain the angle when you posted stuff like that, so it makes it seem like you're being rude or pushy, because you just haven't explained the reason or possibilities with it. Instead you've presented it as 'this is how it is, so there, go away if you don't like it'. I don't know what your intentions are with such posts, but I do know that this is how a few of your contributions have appeared to be, even if that's not the kind of message you were trying to get across.

And Rystil, you too come off as defensive and stubborn, y'know. And you drag things out. Try to realize that to Sarellion you're coming off as just as pushy as he may seem to be in your eyes. Just sayin'. See through the other man's eyes and you'll see a more complete picture.

/me shuts up before he sounds like some peace-lovin' brotherly-love-advocatin' hippy. But this is getting out of hand.