hello thom. appologies for the late reply here, with my auditions for the production I'm doing on thursday, i've either been incredibly busy, or incredibly lethargic in recovery phase.
well, having first been introduced to stories like theseus and the Minotaur, and perseus and the gorgon's head at the age of about 4 or 5 (not to mention of course, the two absolutely fantastic and very humerous retellings of the oddicy by thoney robbinson), it's a very interesting period with lots of things to be done in it, and deffinately very rich material for the writing and game setting. One of my first thoughts though, is that you mention having the player as a young male or female character being half human half God. Not wishing to bbe sexist here, but given the time period and thoughts of the people involved, it strikes me that a male and female characters would have very different roles in a story, ---- particularly in the combat sense. Look at the siege of Troi, and the differences betwene what male and female characters do there. Also, among the olympions, it does strike me that being a daughter of Hera, for example, would have very different consequences from being a son of Zeus or aeres. True there are two greek Goddesses that spring to mind as being slightly more warlike and thus fitting for a fantasy Rpg involving combat, ---- dianna and Minerva, but I'm stil not certain how you could fix the balance, ---- particularly as the reactions of npcs to a lady walking around in armour with a sword might be very different to their response to a male character. then, there's the hole geography thing. would you set the game in something comparatively similar to historical griece, or wwould you invent your own islands. My only other concern is the question of game updates and content. As far as I know, the Sryth gm works on the game fairly full time, and even so there are occasionally periods without updates. appologies if this sounds devicive, but the updates would have to be relatively frequent for me to considder paying for the game. I know for a fact you have several other very worthwhile projects to work on, so how possible would the updates be? Or would you considder using player contributions, or volunteer writers to create more content? I will admit this is something I'm highly interested in. I worked out a full game system in schematics myself, involving highly strategical combats, complete choice over character skills, and a very immersive game interface. If I ever get a free couple of years to studdy programming, I might considder working on this sort of project myself. Good luck with the greek Rpg. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
