[Discuss] New realm in Atarama?

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 12/30/06, LilWolf <bmdiscuss at lilwolf.biz> wrote:
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> Anthony Cerqueira wrote:
> >
> > My characters are /regularly/ fighting a genocide war against walking
> > corpses. If that's not 'fantasy' to you then I never want to visit
> > your city!
>
> As far as I can tell, BM is supposed to be a very low fantasy game and
> strives instead to be modeled greatly(but not solely) after middle-age
> Europe. I'm sure middle-age Europe is rife with tales of risen undead
> and all sorts of monsters, so it makes sense that the peasants claim
> such things are rummaging about the countryside.  In reality, they could
> just as easily be a bunch of robbers dressed in disguise(I know I've RPd
> monsters as being savage humans dressed in animal skins etc.).


Did the middle-ages have roaming groups of badgers attacking people?
> Probably not since badgers do not act like that!
> Did they have "killer bunnies" living in the mountains? Only in a Monty
> Python movie that was made much later.


Bah southlanders. They live in their cities, clothed in silks, playing their
games of love and war for lands and gold. What do they know of the dark
heart of the woods, the hidden valleys of the mountains and the things that
move there in? If they cannot see it with their own two eyes or find it in
their books it is but rumour and superstition to be ignored. They call us
fools, we call them blind. When the darkness comes for them they will
squeeze their eyes tighter still, but our axes are sharp, our eyes open, and
we will stop them.

And that is a good example of how the opposite side of the spectrum might
think of your character's unwavering belief that some things are
'impossible'. Divisions like this are fairly standard, it doesn't make one
side or the other more correct, it just makes them different.

> more importantly, everyone can have fun doing it.
> >
>
>
> The thing is, not everyone can. Read Timothy Colletts message in this
> thread. I doubt he was having fun reading the whole badger RP and the
> congratulation messages about great RP and he's not the only one.


I said /can/ have fun, not that they will; the choice is ultimately theirs.
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