Messages

16

Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: December 17, 2011, 02:38:29 PM »

How does one outwit the Devil?

Attempting to find loopholes in his methods, attempting to trick him...These are all aspects that are part of his domain. You will never win that way, will you?

Actually, literature is replete with tales of men tricking the devil, particularly through the use of quibbles.

17

Dwilight / Re: What little things that people commonly do, do you consider non-SMA? And why?

« on: December 17, 2011, 02:36:43 PM »

Oh, really? Really? Okay.

Only courtiers should be literate. Noblemen in the Middle Ages were rarely literate -- in fact, Henry I of England was nicknamed "Beauclerc" because, unusually for an English king, he could read. Adventurers shouldn't be literate at all.

Where's the cannons? The English deployed cannons on the field as early as 1346 at the Battle of Crécy. I suppose we could say this is what special forces are.

Nearly 50% of the region names on Dwilight are non-SMA, and I hate them with a passion.

1. Tavern- Depends on how your noble enters. If he just hits up the tavern for drinks and tall tales... you're obviously playing a D&D character...

Or Sir John Falstaff.

18

Development / Re: Bring back old dynamic map

« on: December 17, 2011, 02:17:19 PM »

I agree, bring back the old dynamic map.

19

Development / Re: Large Update Bugs and Breaks

« on: December 17, 2011, 02:13:44 PM »

I got this region report today for Storms Keep on Dwilight:

Regional Report for Storms Keep   (7 hours, 51 minutes ago)
90 people are leaving the overpopulated region and moving to Storms End.
The "Archers of the Storm" archers recruitment center has the maximum amount of recruits ready and waiting (50 men).
The Scouts Guild has to shut down for today because of bad administration.

Both Storms Keep and Storms End had maxed out their population already.
I don't understand what "bad administration" is. Are our buildings just going to randomly stop working now?

20

Beluaterra / Re: Let the Cheese melt: Dawnbreak, Daylight, Sunset

« on: December 15, 2011, 03:52:40 AM »

whatever comes after Midnight

The small hours, or third watch and fourth watch, if you're Jewish.

Or we could call it the dead of night.

21

Dwilight / Re: Kabrinskia

« on: December 14, 2011, 05:39:43 PM »

Aww, I feel left out, I wanna declare my own place now. RYANLANDIA. 

22

Beluaterra / Re: Fifth Invasion

« on: December 12, 2011, 09:31:38 PM »

If Overlord wipes out BT, hasn't he indicated he might make a move on the other islands?

Now that you've mentioned this, it makes me wonder if they would come to Dwilight. My personal theory is that if they did, the Daimons on Dwilight would fight them -- if sufficiently motivated.

23

Dwilight / Re: The Zuma

« on: December 09, 2011, 05:25:00 PM »

But it's the kind of thing that follows logically from the way the publicized mechanics worked—if you started thinking in IC terms, and not game terms.

You seem to have a hard time putting yourself in the shoes of someone who doesn't have your knowledge.

24

Dwilight / Re: The Zuma

« on: December 06, 2011, 03:39:31 PM »

It makes no sense to assume that they are different from the Daimons on Beluaterra.

 Then... why hasn't there been an invasion? If your character knows how Daimons act on Beluaterra, then -- simply by virtue of Dwilight's long history of Daimons not acting like the Daimons on Beluaterra -- he ought to know that the Daimons on Dwilight are different.

Look, it's very simple: How many invasions has Dwilight had? How many invasions has Beluaterra had? Therefore, Daimons on Dwilight must be different. Your characters can know this even without ever having set foot in a Zuma land or swung a sword at a Moot-member.

Even if your character knows absolutely nothing about the Daimons on Dwilight, he can look at a map of Dwilight or open a history book and know that the Daimons have not managed to take over the continent nor have they done so in the entire known history of Dwilight, and therefore if your character also has knowledge of the invasions on Beluaterra (and has a shred of honesty and intelligence) he ought to be capable of admitting that so far the Daimons on Beluaterra have displayed a markedly different type of behavior from the Daimons on Dwilight -- EVEN WITHOUT EVER HAVING VISITED THEM. Your characters can still rightfully hold erroneous beliefs, be suspicious, prejuduced, ignorant, idiotic fanatics, generally poor at logic, what-have-you and so on and so forth. But this:

tMP believes what it believes based not on the Zuma, but on the BT invasions. What they believe is both rationally arrived at and cannot be proven wrong.

This is wrong. You cannot claim to have knowledge about the Daimons from Belutaterra while simultaneously claiming that the Daimons on Dwilight are exactly the same and have come to this conclusion rationally.


Moderator note: Sorry Vaylon, I hit the wrong button when trying to replay to your post, and edited it by accident. I think I have restored it to your original text.   --Indirik

25

Dwilight / Re: The Zuma

« on: December 06, 2011, 04:39:29 AM »

It makes no sense to assume that the beings on Dwilight are the same as the beings on Beluaterra. That they both may or may not fit in the caegory of "Massively powerful inhumans ruling over humans" is irrelevant given that their behavior is radically different; even characters in Luria would be aware of this fact. Here is how:

Luria, even as far away as it is from the Zuma, would have long ago heard news if the beings on Dwilight were as inclined to same level of destruction as those on BT. Therefore, the absence of such reports is by itself enough to throw suspicion on the assumption that the two groups are the same -- particularly so, if you are comparing past invasions of BT to Dwilight.

26

Dwilight / Re: The Zuma

« on: December 06, 2011, 03:53:28 AM »

That may be so, but that's meaningless in context. tMP believes what it believes based not on the Zuma, but on the BT invasions. What they believe is both rationally arrived at and cannot be proven wrong. Just because it doesn't fit the Zuma very well outwardly doesn't mean that it isn't a valid response to their existence.

It seems like a logical leap to assume that the information from BT invasions is applicable to a group on Dwilight if their behaviors are radically different. How do your characters know in-character that the two groups are even comparable, especially in light of the dissimilarity between the two groups?

27

Dwilight / Re: The Zuma

« on: December 05, 2011, 06:36:04 PM »

In all fairness, the word "daimon" carries a lot of baggage.

28

Dwilight / Re: The Zuma

« on: December 05, 2011, 06:26:38 PM »

I'm not sure I understand your comment. :-/  If it's human, it's okay.  If it ain't human, it ain't okay.  If it ain't human AND it trucks with abominations, it should be ignored or destroyed,  depending upon the severity of the threat.

This is far too simplistic a philosophy to use in dealing with the beings that live in the West.

29

Dwilight / Re: GDP Per Capita

« on: December 04, 2011, 01:57:23 AM »

Perhaps the bigger a city is, the more trade lost is through corruption. More minor nobles means more hands in the pie. In contrast, in smaller cities, corruption is easier to catch. It worked that way in Civ II, anyway.

30

Dwilight / Re: The Zuma

« on: December 03, 2011, 08:20:12 AM »

It's funny that all this stuff happens regarding the Zuma at the same time some other stuff happens, and the Moot will probably never learn about it because my character has never even heard of the Moot. I'm dying to talk about stuff. I guess he'll just write a book about it afterwards, if there is an afterwards.