Re: Re: Gloranthan West

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 00:24:06 -0400

See, I think that would fall well into my YGMV zone. I don't think I'd ever let the lines be that bright and clear in any normal situation. I'd blur it up a fair amount. I'd only allow it as below if the players were going to encounter both and see that they were mirrors. In fact, I'd probably only allow that if the Ban was still up, and I threw the players into it to hit these in rapid succession. But that's a personal taste thing.

LC

On 17 May 2004 at 19:03, Guy Hoyle wrote:

> The Loskalmi are the middle ages seen as the Good Old Days, with kindly
> eccentric old wizards dressed in white robes, brave handsome knights in
> shiny silver armor, and benign kings wisely ruling from their thrones.
> Beautiful white palace spires gleam against the sky. Happy clean-limbed
> peasants sing as they work and stand up to cheer their lord as he rides
> past waving merrily and throwing out gold coins. Princesses are always
> beautiful and are as likely to wed a noble farm boy as as a handsome
> prince. Wicked dragons always get slain by true-hearted knights errant -
> or even get tamed and run the village mill. It's a land of fairy tales &
> Camelot ...
>
> The Jonatings are the flip side. Brutal knights with scarred faces and
> dark, spiky armor oppress the peasantry, working for cruel tyrants wearing
> iron crowns. Every dark and sinister castle has a torture chamber, plus at
> least one insane sorcerer in black or red robes helping his foul king on
> to new infamies. The peasants labor under burdensome taxes and harsh
> religious strictures. They hide their children when the king's men ride
> by, seeking to steal buxom wenches and youths for the king's loathsome
> depravities. Beautiful princesses are locked in lonely towers by evil
> witches. Dragons feast on the blood of the innocent, and nothing is done.
> Darkness, despair, blood, and barbarism are the way of the world. This,
> too, is a land of fairy tales, but they are not the kind with a happy
> ending ...
>
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