Dragongirl
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jgbrowning said:ps.. so far i have managed to keep my wife from posing on our covers ala Avalance Press, but she's pretty persistant..
ahhh huhhh, put that with your bridge for sale sign.
What kind of Earth society/culture would you like written up?
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ahhh huhhh, put that with your bridge for sale sign.
jgbrowning
Hero
Dragongirl said:
hehe... we're actually planning to go to india again and get all the artwork from indian artists. think it would be a very interesting departure from the art typical in DnD books.
joe b.
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Simulacrum
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As I said in a previous thread, I'd like to see a well done Sumerian/Babylonian/Asyrian Middle East book.
There is no way something could be more interesting than that.
There is no way something could be more interesting than that.
Dragongirl
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jgbrowning said:
That could be very interesting. Just stay clear of the images in the Kama Sutra.
shilsen
Adventurer
jgbrowning said:
If you're seriously planning to do a supplement on Indian material, drop me an email here. Besides the fact that I'm Indian, I'm a walking encyclopedia on Indian myth, history and culture, and I'd be glad to help. I've thought about a similar project, but while teaching and working on a Ph.D. (which will include some work on both Mahabharata and Ramayana), I don't have the time to do it on my own.
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jgbrowning
Hero
shilsen said:
well, what i and my wife have been discussing would probably be closer to fantasy of india than to a GURPS version of india, or to india as she presents herself in myth.
Not to ditch on GURPS, but so many of their products could be replaced by a good general history text. this is my opinion so dont flame me for it..
Now im currently working on something for the traditional medieval setting, and im using a lot of history books as guidelines and i plan to do the same for the india book. but the india book would be more of an attempt to replicate the, to most western mindsets, the "alieness" of indian culture. Ive been there and its awesome, i also consider myself hindu although i am cacasian and know that "real" hindus wouldnt consider me as hindu as them, hindu being a cultural as well as religious idea.. like judeaism if im thinking properly. I've also read some of the historial/mythical works and, instead of disigning a book around a historial/mythical REAL india, it would be a fantasy world (like greyhawk i suppose) that is to india as greyhawk is to europe.
saying this, it is NOT a campaign setting. it would be a book helping DMs and Players play in an "indian" style of world. one of my beefs with OA is its binding to Rokugan. (i hate rokugan, but like japan, china, SE asia as setting ideas). again this is my opinion, so please dont flame me
We (my wife and I) have been discussing some of the "core" concepts in DnD and how they wouldn't necessisarily be appropriate for an indian setting. there would be changes to many things to make the system more appropriate to our visulisation.
Currently im hoping for a April release of my first product to be followed by the second and then the indian one wouldn't appear until late 2003/early 2004. And as everyone who's ever read some guy saying he's going to put out stuff knows, take what i say with a grain of salt. lottsa people talk, few actually do it. im trying like hell though...
We plan on going back to india to collect reference works, (much cheaper there and i'd rather see the stuff published through indian publishers than through western) and to collect art. we want to commision artists to do paintings in a tradional style, both of traditional subjects as well as non-tradtional subjects.
We'd particullary focus on the multiplicity of well-defined cultures in a limited geographical area. We'd travel to various parts of india to get a "feeling" and to read texts, see handicrafts, get art etc.... An idea that i really love, although i dont think i'll be able to do it, would be to include a painted silk map of india as we describe it in the book... ah well.. it'd be beatiful..
Also the first book would gear players to a more "realistic" indian setting as opposed to the "mythic" indian setting. If the first sold enough we'd like to make another allowing PC to play around with the gods. That would be nice in my opinion, and i have several ideas about that level of play. I dont own the ELH and im not planning on getting it, but id have to decide then if the ELH is SRD'ed to go with the ELH or to make something else up.
And finally (thanks for reading all this) everything we put out is going to be OGL. We're just going to trust that people won't just photocopy our stuff and give it away. I'm not to the stage of marketing our first product or the second one yet. Once we are, ill post on these boards and let people know what were doing. Hopefully things will go well and people will buy enough so we can do the india book because it would be a lot of fun.
joe b.
Virginia Wilde
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I see a lot of call for India and similar here. What's interesting is that I've been hard at work on an Indian setting for the past few months (for submission to publishers). I started it because I noticed it hadn't been done, but now I fear I may have to find something else.
Jeremy Ackerman-Yost
Explorer
Why? We may be a small sample, but it seems likely there's a market for it.Virginia Wilde said:
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