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<blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 173646" data-attributes="member: 41"><p>Thanks, folks. I appreciate the comments and encouragement!</p><p></p><p>I like the juxtoposition of Epic plots and meta-plotting with gritty low-fantasy detail at the session-to-session level. It's just cool to me when Taran wakes up with a hangover or sore sword-arm in the dungeon where he's trying to return the very constellation of his Goddess back to the heavens.</p><p></p><p>So the story is epic, but the characters haven't figured out how important they really are yet. They don't know they are (insert fanfare) capital-H heroes.</p><p></p><p><em>Except for Indy.</em> </p><p></p><p>There is always a fanfare playing for Indy in his own mind. His romantic worldview is comedic relief, and makes him a clown, but in the end-- he'll be right! His worldview will be the one with the most truth to it, because it will stand the test of time!</p><p></p><p>Thelbar is kind of inscrutable, but I believe that he is primarily a problem-solver and really quite humble. He understands that his life is not like the lives of others, and his reluctance to form emotional bonds with non-adventurers stems from his past-life memories (our 2nd edition campaign, to be specific), rather than (as it would appear) elitism.</p><p></p><p>Taran, on the other hand, is <em>extremely</em> self-entitled (or sword-entitled!) and violent. He's a man that would be in prison in our real world, but in a world with four-armed giant carnivorous apes and even worse monsters, he's your favorite guy to have around. ("Hey, welcome to Sherrybrook. Glad you're here and please don't kill anybody!") But Taran's nature is present-focused. His emotional and mental scope does not really reach beyond the moment, which makes him a deadly combatant, and a lousy king. (Again-- that is a remnant of these character's 2e past-lives emerging.)</p><p></p><p>Kyreel is a holy woman, and well-suited for an epic story, but she subsumes herself within her faith and devotion. Kyreel doesn't realize that <em>it really is about her</em>.</p><p></p><p>Indy is the only one who gets that fundamental truth, despite the fact (or maybe because!) he is the clown.</p><p></p><p>Play on, playa.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(contact), post: 173646, member: 41"] Thanks, folks. I appreciate the comments and encouragement! I like the juxtoposition of Epic plots and meta-plotting with gritty low-fantasy detail at the session-to-session level. It's just cool to me when Taran wakes up with a hangover or sore sword-arm in the dungeon where he's trying to return the very constellation of his Goddess back to the heavens. So the story is epic, but the characters haven't figured out how important they really are yet. They don't know they are (insert fanfare) capital-H heroes. [i]Except for Indy.[/i] There is always a fanfare playing for Indy in his own mind. His romantic worldview is comedic relief, and makes him a clown, but in the end-- he'll be right! His worldview will be the one with the most truth to it, because it will stand the test of time! Thelbar is kind of inscrutable, but I believe that he is primarily a problem-solver and really quite humble. He understands that his life is not like the lives of others, and his reluctance to form emotional bonds with non-adventurers stems from his past-life memories (our 2nd edition campaign, to be specific), rather than (as it would appear) elitism. Taran, on the other hand, is [i]extremely[/i] self-entitled (or sword-entitled!) and violent. He's a man that would be in prison in our real world, but in a world with four-armed giant carnivorous apes and even worse monsters, he's your favorite guy to have around. ("Hey, welcome to Sherrybrook. Glad you're here and please don't kill anybody!") But Taran's nature is present-focused. His emotional and mental scope does not really reach beyond the moment, which makes him a deadly combatant, and a lousy king. (Again-- that is a remnant of these character's 2e past-lives emerging.) Kyreel is a holy woman, and well-suited for an epic story, but she subsumes herself within her faith and devotion. Kyreel doesn't realize that [i]it really is about her[/i]. Indy is the only one who gets that fundamental truth, despite the fact (or maybe because!) he is the clown. Play on, playa. [/QUOTE]
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