Re: Forwarded from Eric Mona

In our last episode, woodelf said:
>>         SJ has no vilains or heroes.
>
>um...Beholders, Neogi, Illithid?  Elven Navy?  etc.

        They're villian races, not villians.  We don't have many
Bob the beholder and Norton the neogi types.

>>Our only major NPC is Andru.
>>We have no "surface of the world" to speak of.  (Well, maybe Bral.)
>
>i wonder if they'd have a problem with completely abandoning all
>significant ties to the published groundling worlds (FR, Greyhawk,
>DL)?

        I'm not planning on abandoning all the groundling worlds, so
the question is irrelavent for the moment.

>>And I really doubt we could damage the product line without removing
>>wooden ships crewed by swashbucklers flying through space.  The
>>upcoming d20 SJ article will be getting rid of SJ's "wonky" physics,
>>so I guess that's not something we can destroy.
>
>i'd argue the other way: that, more than any other single thing, is
>what makes SJ different from other fantasy space settings.
>especially if you include "magic works, science is unreliable" as
>part of the "physics".

        Okay, repeat after me:  "This is not replacing existing rules,
this is only supplemental material".  Things that make SJ what is differ
between people.  They're all valid, in as much as any of them are.

>i assume there's still room for expansions of the setting, or
>effectively-alternate (by being significantly removed from the Big
>Three) settings?  what about non-D&D rules?

        Of course there's room for expansions!

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