I've been following this thread and just wanted to add my support to it and Ian; sometimes my lurking is all very well but it doesn't add any of the needed enthusiasm or encouragement.
Personally, I'm glad for the choice of setting so it's easy for me but could all those interesting in the thread's purpose show their support too? All I'm saying is that if one of us is doing some work for the good of all, I think it'd be good to have a show of support? (Just a 'go Ian!' or somesuch)
I like what you have so far, Ian. It's interesting how your simple linked-list approach leads where you want to go. I also like the snow-madness concept and the method used to make things more immediate.
On another note, I've done loads of research about bears, bear cults/ worship and have been working on a mythology for something we have going in Balazar. One of the things my research has shown (on a similar tack to Joerg's comments) is that it's not too helpful to construct societal parallels in bear hsunchen that mimic the life of bears. As Joerg points out, it doesn't really work for the humans.
On a positive note, and sort of countering what I've just said, I think that it is helpful to look at the symbols present in the natural history of the animals and use them as the reasons behind 'what grandmother grunted'.
I hope that helps, even a little. If I can provide any further info, let me know!
(Go Ian!)
btw good to be 'back'. :D
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Ian Cooper
Sent: 23 October 2007 20:38
To: HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com
Subject: Let's show rather than tell (was Re: Preparing for
play, how I do it)
OK so it looks like the Rathori have won out.
I'll go away and knock up the setting material I would put together for this. I have a HQ voices, which is a great start: http://www.btinternet.com/~nick_brooke/voices/hqv_rathori.pdf and I'll put together a homeland keyword too. That should be pretty trivial with the HQ Voices entry.
Then I'll sketch out some ideas for conflict and narrator characters and some additional setting notes if needed.
I'll see if I can tempt my players to creating characters and then playing out what we work on so that we can do this 'for real'.
It will take me a over a week to get to this point, I've a wedding to attend etc. I'm hopeful you can hold out that long. This thread will be episodic in that way as I produce new waypoints in the process.
As a teaser in the meantime I'm tempted by the following for a conflict idea:
Winter is Coming
How did I get here. Just thinking like this: Rathori->Harrek->White
Bear->Spirit of Winter Survival->Warriors who survive the winter->
(Driven mad by the winter - a post by someone on this list I liked->
All dead(maybe ;-))->Harrek killed White Bear->No winter guardians
I then set the time to autumn because this forces action - something must be done now. It also gives us the Salmon Run, which gives us the opportunity for social gathering, npcs etc. which provide for a good vein of sides to the conflict.
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