Edena_of_Neith
First Post
There is real potential here
I see a great deal of potential here, which has never been explored in D&D.
Look at the world of men, for a minute, as it exists in modern times.
There is the joy and wonder of boyhood, which has been explored in many books, films, and children's stories. It is not a simple subject, easy to explain or even describe in few words - the world of boy children is so complicated that great works have been published on small parts of that world.
Then there is teenagehood. A million books, and ten thousand films, have been made on the subject for males. It is a turbulent time, a painful time, a time of rapidly expanding horizons and understandings, of new comprehensions and new needs.
Young adulthood means departure from the family, and marriage perhaps, and maybe children. Certainly, there are many themes here that have been explored in books and films, by scientists and psychologists, by sociologists and in literature.
Middle Age? Another topic of immense discussion.
Old Age? Certainly a topic of immense discussion and writing.
Venerable Age? Many books and films that are the stuff of legend exist concerning men in venerable agehood.
Now, I am not a woman, so I cannot speak for women, but they have a world just as big as men, and just as complicated and deep.
It is also a world that seems to be poorly understood by men, and perhaps the world of men is poorly understood by women ... the interaction between men and women is, once more, the stuff of literature, and films, and music, and just about everything in popular culture.
The point being, is that there are specific facets, or themes, that exist here.
Boyhood. Girlhood. Or maybe I should simply say Childhood.
Adolescence. Coming of Age. New Understandings. Awakenings. Interactions (with family, with friends, with the opposite sexs.)
Adulthood. Maturity. Lack of maturity. A need to break away from the family. A need to stay with the family. Creating a new family. Building a new world.
Finding a mate. Building that new world with one's mate.
Learning wisdom. Being respected for that wisdom. Councilling the young. Guiding the young. Raising a family. Living in harmony with one's mate. Coping with aging.
There is a medieval, or fantasy, equivalent to all of the above.
There could be specific spell templates (what they now call Domains) for the themes above.
There could be specific magic related to the above themes, which can only be activated if it relates to those themes, and perhaps this magic is enormously powerful, enormously beneficial if used wisely, and enormously destructive if things go wrong.
For example, perhaps the happiness of a loving couple brings it's own blissful magic to all around, bringing health and well-being, staving off disease, aiding in raising the crops, bringing fertility to the soil, enriching the very air.
Perhaps the normal pains of a normal relationship have magical effects, and these effects can hit people around the couple, or affect the local landscape, or perhaps affect magic in a large way (look at the story Beauty and the Beast!)
In other words, here is a whole new facet of magic, unexplored by TSR, which is just waiting for someone with insight and imagination to delve into.
That is my opinion.
Edena_of_Neith
I see a great deal of potential here, which has never been explored in D&D.
Look at the world of men, for a minute, as it exists in modern times.
There is the joy and wonder of boyhood, which has been explored in many books, films, and children's stories. It is not a simple subject, easy to explain or even describe in few words - the world of boy children is so complicated that great works have been published on small parts of that world.
Then there is teenagehood. A million books, and ten thousand films, have been made on the subject for males. It is a turbulent time, a painful time, a time of rapidly expanding horizons and understandings, of new comprehensions and new needs.
Young adulthood means departure from the family, and marriage perhaps, and maybe children. Certainly, there are many themes here that have been explored in books and films, by scientists and psychologists, by sociologists and in literature.
Middle Age? Another topic of immense discussion.
Old Age? Certainly a topic of immense discussion and writing.
Venerable Age? Many books and films that are the stuff of legend exist concerning men in venerable agehood.
Now, I am not a woman, so I cannot speak for women, but they have a world just as big as men, and just as complicated and deep.
It is also a world that seems to be poorly understood by men, and perhaps the world of men is poorly understood by women ... the interaction between men and women is, once more, the stuff of literature, and films, and music, and just about everything in popular culture.
The point being, is that there are specific facets, or themes, that exist here.
Boyhood. Girlhood. Or maybe I should simply say Childhood.
Adolescence. Coming of Age. New Understandings. Awakenings. Interactions (with family, with friends, with the opposite sexs.)
Adulthood. Maturity. Lack of maturity. A need to break away from the family. A need to stay with the family. Creating a new family. Building a new world.
Finding a mate. Building that new world with one's mate.
Learning wisdom. Being respected for that wisdom. Councilling the young. Guiding the young. Raising a family. Living in harmony with one's mate. Coping with aging.
There is a medieval, or fantasy, equivalent to all of the above.
There could be specific spell templates (what they now call Domains) for the themes above.
There could be specific magic related to the above themes, which can only be activated if it relates to those themes, and perhaps this magic is enormously powerful, enormously beneficial if used wisely, and enormously destructive if things go wrong.
For example, perhaps the happiness of a loving couple brings it's own blissful magic to all around, bringing health and well-being, staving off disease, aiding in raising the crops, bringing fertility to the soil, enriching the very air.
Perhaps the normal pains of a normal relationship have magical effects, and these effects can hit people around the couple, or affect the local landscape, or perhaps affect magic in a large way (look at the story Beauty and the Beast!)
In other words, here is a whole new facet of magic, unexplored by TSR, which is just waiting for someone with insight and imagination to delve into.
That is my opinion.
Edena_of_Neith
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