but not of the barony. Or the kingdom. A (very) small part. About 3 days across. It would have been nice if someone had offered me even that at the time.
Again, of a very small part of the barony. Local history only, with no major events beyond, 'A hundred years ago, the kingdom of exiles...' It would have been nice if someone had offered me even that at the time as well.
I never cared who wrote the NPC backgrounds. I was asked to, so I did. Had someone else been asked to, they'd still have been there. The point I was making about "writing it themselves" is the timeline and the map. The first beef people had with it is the loss of flexibility - something I refer to as vagueness. The second was that people wouldn't have enough time to maintain them. Now it's suggested that everyone writes something about them and people are happy with it. What happened to "not enough time to maintain them?", let alone the loss of flexibility? What if I wanted my character to come from the exact area that is being mapped, but have the homeland with different geography to what is being frameworked? Simple - get over it and fit it into the framework provided, which I can't help feeling was suggested beforehand and summarily refused.
No thanks. I can experience walking stats with a table and dice. If next years campaign shows signs of growing beyond that, I'll get in touch with you.
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Re: points addressed
Date: 2006-05-16 03:55 pm (UTC)It would have been nice if someone had offered me even that at the time.
Again, of a very small part of the barony. Local history only, with no major events beyond, 'A hundred years ago, the kingdom of exiles...'
It would have been nice if someone had offered me even that at the time as well.
I never cared who wrote the NPC backgrounds. I was asked to, so I did. Had someone else been asked to, they'd still have been there.
The point I was making about "writing it themselves" is the timeline and the map. The first beef people had with it is the loss of flexibility - something I refer to as vagueness. The second was that people wouldn't have enough time to maintain them. Now it's suggested that everyone writes something about them and people are happy with it. What happened to "not enough time to maintain them?", let alone the loss of flexibility?
What if I wanted my character to come from the exact area that is being mapped, but have the homeland with different geography to what is being frameworked? Simple - get over it and fit it into the framework provided, which I can't help feeling was suggested beforehand and summarily refused.
No thanks. I can experience walking stats with a table and dice. If next years campaign shows signs of growing beyond that, I'll get in touch with you.