Re: Living sphere project & RPGA

Abbadon the Dark Angel of Morning wrote:
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> Greets all,
>
> Hope you all had a splendid All Hallow's Eve. :)
>
        And a fine evening to you:)

> Since it seems we need to have RPGA members for this project, and I'm
> interested in contributing, even a little bit, I've joined as well as a
> Fellow [or whatever the freebie membership is called] and my ID is 829567.
>
        Added you to the list.

> I intend to join as a Guild-level thingie once, or even if, it becomes clear
> to me that WotC will, in fact, begin featuring Living Spelljammer as a new
> setting. We all may recall what a hack I am when it comes to big business
> and The Man screwing up all that's good about the world, so they won't be
> getting any cash from me until it becomes clear that our heartfelt efforts
> will be endorsed. *wink*
>
        Well, this is RPGA and not WotC.  And I hope to get this project off
the ground (hehehe, David has mentioned a couple of times that we're
well ahead of the curb:)

> Also wanted to put in my vote for multiple, differently-genre'd spheres, at
> a greater distance from each other than the old books state.

        How great of distance?  I think a good 50 days to/from Frontier is good
and maybe 40 days between Imperial & Bral (note: names are only
placeholders until we get better names & concrete concepts:)

> The ones offered so far seem great... maybe the thrid sphere, which seems to
> be having the most time finding it's concept, can be the one where all the
> freaky races from SJ came from?
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        I don't know if we need to hammer down homeworlds for the freaky races
in one sphere, but an idea might be to have colonies to those freaky
races located there.  Thus they're fairly 'new' to the area but give
such races a fair-sized population base and 'home ports'.

> Otherwise, IIRC from the threads, it seems unsure whether the "frontier
> sphere" and the "ruins of the ancient civilization" sphere are seperate or
> one and the same. What was the decision? I also wanted to pipe up that the
> whole Unhuman War is just too neat of an idea to let die; can not the
> "ancient ruins" sphere have something to do with that? Maybe a great Mythal
> ceremony closed it [the sphere] long ago so the elves could concentrate on
> eradicating the goblinoids [which of course, they failed at, heheh], after
> it became clear to the elves that outside influences were either assisting
> the gobbies, or diluting their racialy-pure military and prolonging the
> conflict? Someting of this sort... I guess the poor Vodoni are gonna be
> written out, though, or at least it seems so to me. Drat.
>
        Nothing wrong with loading Frontier up with lots of ancient ruins from
past wars.  Nothing wrong with adding in alien cultures and empires:)
--
Adam Miller