You are all GODS!!

[Roman]

As it is for me at the moment, I am debating between whether to go with a more 'feral' battle kind (barbarians, totems, bestial veneration) or more of a Spartan/Roman fighting for the greater glory of the cause.

Up to you, of course, but we are somewhat lacking on the noble/good godlings, so perhaps the Spartan/Roman glory would be nice!

 

[Voda Vosa]

Hmm, more interesting stuff. What did spiders and other arachnids evolve from?

Yes I'm a biologist indeed.
Well thats a simple and complicated question at the same time. Note that I could go on several lines discussing this, you have been warned:
I think most people knows what a trilobite is? Those crab like creatures from the cambrian, that crawled the oceans in ages past.
Well those little fellows produced several lines of evolution, most died out, but one still remains, the chelicerata, a taxonomic group that gathers spiders, scorpions, acari, horseshoe crabs, and other creepy things that lurk in the dark Even little whale "crabs" (in the nasty private zones vermin sense)
Horseshoe crabs are like a walking fossil. They are supposed to be very similar to those first ancestors. From that line evolved crustaceans and arachnids. Arachnids have diversificated a lot since their arrival to the earth, you have things like a scorpion, a web spider, a tarantula the size of a dinner dish that eats birds, and acari that can make galleries and tunnels into your skin. A wonderful group of animals.

 

[Frozen Messiah]

I thought that I heard that we were thinking about making a world without an ocean, take this advice from a guy who tried to make an D20 apocalypse game where all of the seas evaporated and seas of salt were left in place, that is not a good idea. You would not have wind or weather if there was no ocean and it would also keep all settlements in the middle of continents and would make trade between the continents impossible.

Although if we were going to add magical weather than that is a different story and we were just going to have earth in those gaps that could work too.

Just saying it's more a headache than an actual benfit to play

 

[Voda Vosa]

They could be lakes of great magnitude. The one and the Many can control lakes.

 

[Roman]

Yes I'm a biologist indeed.
Well thats a simple and complicated question at the same time. Note that I could go on several lines discussing this, you have been warned:
I think most people knows what a trilobite is? Those crab like creatures from the cambrian, that crawled the oceans in ages past.
Well those little fellows produced several lines of evolution, most died out, but one still remains, the chelicerata, a taxonomic group that gathers spiders, scorpions, acari, horseshoe crabs, and other creepy things that lurk in the dark Even little whale "crabs" (in the nasty private zones vermin sense)

Horseshoe crabs are like a walking fossil. They are supposed to be very similar to those first ancestors. From that line evolved crustaceans and arachnids. Arachnids have diversificated a lot since their arrival to the earth, you have things like a scorpion, a web spider, a tarantula the size of a dinner dish that eats birds, and acari that can make galleries and tunnels into your skin. A wonderful group of animals.

That's awesome! Thanks for the exposition on the topic. The evolutionary relationships between various creatures are a fascinating subject and we rarely hear anything about it for arachnids, crustaceans, insects and so on - mostly media concentrate on human evolution only.

I thought that I heard that we were thinking about making a world without an ocean, take this advice from a guy who tried to make an D20 apocalypse game where all of the seas evaporated and seas of salt were left in place, that is not a good idea. You would not have wind or weather if there was no ocean and it would also keep all settlements in the middle of continents and would make trade between the continents impossible.

Although if we were going to add magical weather than that is a different story and we were just going to have earth in those gaps that could work too.

Just saying it's more a headache than an actual benfit to play

Well the world won't necessarily be without oceans... it just could be. There are other ways to have a water cycle operate. Imagine for example, the Earth's crust being dotted with deep cracks and crevaces. Great rivers would flow into those instead of emptying into oceans. Lavaria would then evaporate them as they fell into her realm and the steam would rise out of these crevaces to seed clouds and begin the water cycle anew. This would also generate winds. Furthermore, different areas of the Earth, can also heat and cool at different rates, which too would create winds and contribute to weather.

Trade could be done along rivers, but ships would have to disembark their goods and passengers before the rivers fell deep into the Earth's interior... so trade would look different.

I am not saying we have to go that way, but it could be interesting to do so. After all, we are not playing in the world as normal characters, but as beings that contribute to creation, so perhaps eliminating some aspects of normal worlds could be part of the fun. Than again, it might not - we will see how it develops through the RP.

 

[Voda Vosa]

I ha the doubt about changing water to weather. Not sure about weather domain, not seen it in the sdr.

 

[GlassEye]

I find it interesting that by standard Deities and Demigods rules we wouldn't be able to create mortal creatures until Divine Rank 16 (and then only with a specific SDA). That would make us pretty poor creator deities; but then again we do have to have some overdeity create the world for us. Makes me wonder, though, how we are going to be able to affect the development of the world if we can't really create anything. I look forward to seeing how HM handles this.

 

[Myth and Legend]

We can have oceans without an ocean god, in DD it says that it's not necessary for every aspect of life to be included in some deity's portfolio. I just thought that it'd be a nice thing to add that's all. We definitely need large masses of water to have an earth-like world.

 

[Voda Vosa]

I think he can rule that we can create life, or at least transport it from our home worlds-planes.

 

[GlassEye]

I think he can rule that we can create life, or at least transport it from our home worlds-planes.

Oh, I certainly agree. And I hope the first rather than the second. That way there will be something new created. Ubariya is not so much interested in transplanting from her own realm so much as creating something and seeing how it interacts with everything else in the world. And getting to play with something that she didn't herself create.