Design and Development: Cosmology

[Rechan]

Ectoplasm and crystals are sci-fi?

Yes.

 

[Atlatl Jones]

I love the ideas, but the names leave me cold. Feywild? Bleagh. I'll take Faerie please. Shadowfell? Bleagh. The Shadow World, or even the Shadow are a thousand times better. The Astral Sea is decent though, though the traditional (and mythological) Astral Plane would be just as good.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I see the Astral Sea as killing the Great Wheel and the Phlogiston and taking its things. (You got your Planescape in my Spelljammer. You got your Spelljammer in my Planescape).

Also, I could see the Far Realm keeping its name, if not getting a rename to the Far Shore (eh, maybe not).

It's an Astral "Sea", correct, so maybe it is insanity inducing just to contemplate that there is something on the other side of the "sea"? Aberrations are often described as being either timelessly ancient (aboleths), or from the far depths of space and time (mind flayers). Mind flayers could get a new start as what happened when a forgotten and ancient tribe/group of humans travelled to the far side of the Astral Sea . . . and came back. *shrug*

 

[Vradna]

Like TwinBahaumt, this sounds a lot like my homebrewed cosmology.

Very, very, VERY cool stuff. Shadowfell sounds an awful lot like Ravenloft.

I think you are right in this assumption.

 

[BryonD]

Until you say "I cast Deceleration."

Do your wizards actually say "I cast fireball?" shudder

Parapsychology coined the phrase.

yeah, stuff of fantasy....

And it must suck to get hung up on such trivial things.

New Age post 70's witchcraft maybe.

Your point being?


Are you honestly challenging the statement that "I think" of these things in fantasy terms? REALLY?

If you step back and look at it you will discover that all you are saying is that you yourself have a personal hang up that is creating a limitation.

 

[BryonD]

Ectoplasm and crystals are sci-fi?

They can be. They can also be fantasy.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I see the Astral Sea as killing the Great Wheel and the Phlogiston and taking its things. (You got your Planescape in my Spelljammer. You got your Spelljammer in my Planescape).

Also, I could see the Far Realm keeping its name, if not getting a rename to the Far Shore (eh, maybe not).

It's an Astral "Sea", correct, so maybe it is insanity inducing just to contemplate that there is something on the other side of the "sea"? Aberrations are often described as being either timelessly ancient (aboleths), or from the far depths of space and time (mind flayers). Mind flayers could get a new start as what happened when a forgotten and ancient tribe/group of humans travelled to the far side of the Astral Sea . . . and came back. *shrug*

Other than it having a name similar to what was once the worst of the Earthsea books, before LeGuin apparently had to start paying off the mortgage on a vacation home, I really like the Far Shore.

Very evocative, and it helps cement my desire to force people to actually sail through the Astral Sea. This is fantasy, damn it, not a Dr. Strange comic!

 

[grimslade]

Other than it having a name similar to what was once the worst of the Earthsea books, before LeEngle apparently had to start paying off the mortgage on a vacation home, I really like the Far Shore. Very evocative, and it helps cement my desire to force people to actually sail through the Astral Sea. This is fantasy, damn it, not a Dr. Strange comic!

LeGuin not LeEngle. Get that Unicorn-man out of my archipelago.

 

[Reaper Steve]

Earthsea books...LeEngle

You mean LeGuin? Ursula K. Le Guin.

Loved the books when I was young. Not so much for the Sci Fi series.

 

[Rechan]

Do your wizards actually say "I cast fireball?"

Um, so what do your players say then when they cast a spell? I normally don't say "So what is the DC to your mystically summoned explosion of eldrich fire, Bill?" "17. My burning maelstrom of destruction does 20 points of damage, unless they made their save for half."

yeah, stuff of fantasy....

And it must suck to get hung up on such trivial things.

I'm sorry, but EMF readers and Cerebral Anoxia aren't "Fantasy".

It must suck to completely disregard your source material.

Your point being?

That it has no basis in mythology aside from some hippies in the 70s?

Are you honestly challenging the statement that "I think" of these things in fantasy terms? REALLY?

Are you saying that "I can't think" of these things as wholly not fantasy? REALLY?

You can define fantasy any way you feel like it, man, and throw space-fairing vessels into your game (Spelljammer), but I don't have to agree that it's Fantasy.

If you step back and look at it you will discover that all you are saying is that you yourself have a personal hang up that is creating a limitation.

I could equally accuse you of just liking crystals and thus your personal tastes are clouding your opinion. I don't think that's fair however.