Feeling uninspired. I'm struggling to come up with an interesting backstory that explains the Curseknight, and at the same time I'm having a hard time worldbuilding.
Feeling uninspired. I'm struggling to come up with an interesting backstory that explains the Curseknight, and at the same time I'm having a hard time worldbuilding.
Oh no, I could try helping with both of those things if you want.
Feeling uninspired. I'm struggling to come up with an interesting backstory that explains the Curseknight, and at the same time I'm having a hard time worldbuilding.
Oh no, I could try helping with both of those things if you want.
That would be nice. Everything I came up with for the Curseknight has been basically discarded except for the stuff we discussed together, so there's nothing new here. I had the idea that he was born into knighthood though, since it is a form of nobility.
My worldbuilding project is a sort of whimsical dark fantasy with steampunk elements, but using combustion in place of steam. Imagine the world as ancient, but the ancient tech is not that different from modern advancements. So, you might dig a hole in your backyard and find a train station populated by shadows. I've been trying to come up with a magic system, and one idea I had was based on the mystical art of Libation, where you sacrifice food to deities, spirits, the dead, etc. and I was thinking that mages would collect sort of "spirit addresses," allowing them to contact different ghosts/outsiders/whatever, but they still need a proper offering for the patron they choose to call up. Say you want the power of an angel you know, and that angel likes spicy food. So sacrificing spicy food would bring you stronger effects than sacrificing, say, ice cream.
Feeling uninspired. I'm struggling to come up with an interesting backstory that explains the Curseknight, and at the same time I'm having a hard time worldbuilding.
Oh no, I could try helping with both of those things if you want.
That would be nice. Everything I came up with for the Curseknight has been basically discarded except for the stuff we discussed together, so there's nothing new here. I had the idea that he was born into knighthood though, since it is a form of nobility.
My worldbuilding project is a sort of whimsical dark fantasy with steampunk elements, but using combustion in place of steam. Imagine the world as ancient, but the ancient tech is not that different from modern advancements. So, you might dig a hole in your backyard and find a train station populated by shadows. I've been trying to come up with a magic system, and one idea I had was based on the mystical art of Libation, where you sacrifice food to deities, spirits, the dead, etc. and I was thinking that mages would collect sort of "spirit addresses," allowing them to contact different ghosts/outsiders/whatever, but they still need a proper offering for the patron they choose to call up. Say you want the power of an angel you know, and that angel likes spicy food. So sacrificing spicy food would bring you stronger effects than sacrificing, say, ice cream.
Maybe the curse knight was either born into the order of knights and then left to the Ebon Tides, or maybe when they were a normal knight maybe in the material plane, something like an angel or a god sent them on a quest related to the shadowfell paladins (I just forgot what they were called) or something.
i think that’s pretty cool! I imagine that maybe also said outsiders as a rule in the world can’t usually interact with the world (usually) unless they are summoned by a food offering? Like a ghost is just a dead person until you give it some food, then it starts haunting your worst enemy. Fun!
That would be nice. Everything I came up with for the Curseknight has been basically discarded except for the stuff we discussed together, so there's nothing new here. I had the idea that he was born into knighthood though, since it is a form of nobility.
My worldbuilding project is a sort of whimsical dark fantasy with steampunk elements, but using combustion in place of steam. Imagine the world as ancient, but the ancient tech is not that different from modern advancements. So, you might dig a hole in your backyard and find a train station populated by shadows. I've been trying to come up with a magic system, and one idea I had was based on the mystical art of Libation, where you sacrifice food to deities, spirits, the dead, etc. and I was thinking that mages would collect sort of "spirit addresses," allowing them to contact different ghosts/outsiders/whatever, but they still need a proper offering for the patron they choose to call up. Say you want the power of an angel you know, and that angel likes spicy food. So sacrificing spicy food would bring you stronger effects than sacrificing, say, ice cream.
Maybe the curse knight was either born into the order of knights and then left to the Ebon Tides, or maybe when they were a normal knight maybe in the material plane, something like an angel or a god sent them on a quest related to the shadowfell paladins (I just forgot what they were called) or something.
i think that’s pretty cool! I imagine that maybe also said outsiders as a rule in the world can’t usually interact with the world (usually) unless they are summoned by a food offering? Like a ghost is just a dead person until you give it some food, then it starts haunting your worst enemy. Fun!
I wanna start at the beginning. Where was he born? Who raised him? That sort of stuff.
I like that, but the whole problem with the system is that I'm planning on running it in Fate, and the magic system seems pretty restrictive. How would I actually do it? I want it to be free-form enough that players can be creative with it, but not so free-form that I can't give them more powers as they progress. Because of the system at play, giving the spirits favorite flavors might make magic too easy. Perhaps they cycle through different flavors that they want, and the players need to obtain ingredients to succeed at casting the spell?
That would be nice. Everything I came up with for the Curseknight has been basically discarded except for the stuff we discussed together, so there's nothing new here. I had the idea that he was born into knighthood though, since it is a form of nobility.
My worldbuilding project is a sort of whimsical dark fantasy with steampunk elements, but using combustion in place of steam. Imagine the world as ancient, but the ancient tech is not that different from modern advancements. So, you might dig a hole in your backyard and find a train station populated by shadows. I've been trying to come up with a magic system, and one idea I had was based on the mystical art of Libation, where you sacrifice food to deities, spirits, the dead, etc. and I was thinking that mages would collect sort of "spirit addresses," allowing them to contact different ghosts/outsiders/whatever, but they still need a proper offering for the patron they choose to call up. Say you want the power of an angel you know, and that angel likes spicy food. So sacrificing spicy food would bring you stronger effects than sacrificing, say, ice cream.
Maybe the curse knight was either born into the order of knights and then left to the Ebon Tides, or maybe when they were a normal knight maybe in the material plane, something like an angel or a god sent them on a quest related to the shadowfell paladins (I just forgot what they were called) or something.
i think that’s pretty cool! I imagine that maybe also said outsiders as a rule in the world can’t usually interact with the world (usually) unless they are summoned by a food offering? Like a ghost is just a dead person until you give it some food, then it starts haunting your worst enemy. Fun!
I wanna start at the beginning. Where was he born? Who raised him? That sort of stuff.
I like that, but the whole problem with the system is that I'm planning on running it in Fate, and the magic system seems pretty restrictive. How would I actually do it? I want it to be free-form enough that players can be creative with it, but not so free-form that I can't give them more powers as they progress. Because of the system at play, giving the spirits favorite flavors might make magic too easy. Perhaps they cycle through different flavors that they want, and the players need to obtain ingredients to succeed at casting the spell?
There isn’t really any specific stuff about the material plane in the Ebon Tides setting, because it’s supposed to be compatible with everything, and the source book that it sorta relates to is one I don’t have. So we can just make our own stuff. If we go with the nobility idea, maybe they were born in some big city, and were they a paladin before they went to the shadowfell, or only after? Also are we keeping all the stuff about the Ebon tides with the moonlit king and mistress of Midnight teeth?
that could work, i don’t think this would work but it kinda made me think, what if their favorite foods depended on certain circumstances like the weather or phase of the moon, or what you wanted them to do?
I actually bought an adventure a while ago from Kobold Press that deals with the Moonlit King. Courts of the Shadow Fey. It was pretty good. I’m pretty sure it came out before the Book of Ebon Tides though.
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I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
I actually bought an adventure a while ago from Kobold Press that deals with the Moonlit King. Courts of the Shadow Fey. It was pretty good. I’m pretty sure it came out before the Book of Ebon Tides though.
Cool, i think I heard about it. All the fey nobles from kobold press are really cool, and I’m planning on using a lot of them in the Ebon tides campaign, including the moonlit king.
There isn’t really any specific stuff about the material plane in the Ebon Tides setting, because it’s supposed to be compatible with everything, and the source book that it sorta relates to is one I don’t have. So we can just make our own stuff. If we go with the nobility idea, maybe they were born in some big city, and were they a paladin before they went to the shadowfell, or only after? Also are we keeping all the stuff about the Ebon tides with the moonlit king and mistress of Midnight teeth?
that could work, i don’t think this would work but it kinda made me think, what if their favorite foods depended on certain circumstances like the weather or phase of the moon, or what you wanted them to do?
I like to think that he was born in the Shadowfell, and yes, I really want to keep that stuff.
So I just had a fairly long discussion with my sister, and we came up with an idea: pokemon + cooking. In place of spirits, you have pet monsters that are usually in a weak, soft pet form, but when fed magical food they become big scary beasts of incredible power, and the higher the value of your cooking, the more Gourmet Points they have when they enter this state. They can expend Gourmet Points to use special abilities (I won't bore you with the actual mechanics, but they all have a +0 to everything unless they spend Gourmet Points to boost their rolls). The Gourmet Points also function as HP.
There isn’t really any specific stuff about the material plane in the Ebon Tides setting, because it’s supposed to be compatible with everything, and the source book that it sorta relates to is one I don’t have. So we can just make our own stuff. If we go with the nobility idea, maybe they were born in some big city, and were they a paladin before they went to the shadowfell, or only after? Also are we keeping all the stuff about the Ebon tides with the moonlit king and mistress of Midnight teeth?
that could work, i don’t think this would work but it kinda made me think, what if their favorite foods depended on certain circumstances like the weather or phase of the moon, or what you wanted them to do?
I like to think that he was born in the Shadowfell, and yes, I really want to keep that stuff.
So I just had a fairly long discussion with my sister, and we came up with an idea: pokemon + cooking. In place of spirits, you have pet monsters that are usually in a weak, soft pet form, but when fed magical food they become big scary beasts of incredible power, and the higher the value of your cooking, the more Gourmet Points they have when they enter this state. They can expend Gourmet Points to use special abilities (I won't bore you with the actual mechanics, but they all have a +0 to everything unless they spend Gourmet Points to boost their rolls). The Gourmet Points also function as HP.
Ah, alright.
beautiful, I love it. So the better the food, the better the monster?
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Noam Chomsky's sentence 'Colourless green ideas sleep furiously' really just defeats his stated purpose for it, as it was created to be a grammatically correct sentence without meaning, and it very clearly means that some green coloured ideas of the colourless variety (which is possible if you consider that that type of idea could usually be green except those ones which have got some problems but which are still recognisable as green ideas) are in a state considered by humans to be asleep, and are in a very deep sleep (furiously being used here as a synonym for 'very much/hard')
This of course relies on anthropomorphising thoughts and associating colours with them, an abstract concept, but then again plenty of books anthropomorphise abstract concepts and no-one'd call them meaningless. And if you think the 'colourless green' part is a bit iffy, then take the example of tortoiseshell cats- tortoiseshell cats are well known for supposedly exclusively female, yet there are (very rarely) male tortoiseshell cats, just with an extra X chromosome that allows them the mutation. Yet they are still tortoiseshell cats. Therefore a group of thoughts traditionally associated with the colour green (perhaps jealous thoughts) that due to unknown circumstances are colourless (perhaps a metaphor for thinking thoughts that should be associated with a colour but aren't, maybe someone who is only a little bit jealous when by all rights they should be very jealous) are still fundamentally green.
Therefore I would say the sentence is proof that the person whose thoughts are being discussed is a fundamentally nice person, as the jealous thoughts they are trying very hard to repress ('sleeping furiously') actually aren't as awful as they think and have no real malice behind them ('colourless') when by all rights they should be sick with envy 24/7 ('green thoughts').
If anything, this sentence certainly does have a meaning and in the right context would be a lovely metaphor, in my opinion, and honestly seems like what a wizard would say after drinking one too many 'potions'.
I has awakened
Yee!
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
How are you doing my friend?
Feeling uninspired. I'm struggling to come up with an interesting backstory that explains the Curseknight, and at the same time I'm having a hard time worldbuilding.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
Oh no, I could try helping with both of those things if you want.
That would be nice. Everything I came up with for the Curseknight has been basically discarded except for the stuff we discussed together, so there's nothing new here. I had the idea that he was born into knighthood though, since it is a form of nobility.
My worldbuilding project is a sort of whimsical dark fantasy with steampunk elements, but using combustion in place of steam. Imagine the world as ancient, but the ancient tech is not that different from modern advancements. So, you might dig a hole in your backyard and find a train station populated by shadows.
I've been trying to come up with a magic system, and one idea I had was based on the mystical art of Libation, where you sacrifice food to deities, spirits, the dead, etc. and I was thinking that mages would collect sort of "spirit addresses," allowing them to contact different ghosts/outsiders/whatever, but they still need a proper offering for the patron they choose to call up. Say you want the power of an angel you know, and that angel likes spicy food. So sacrificing spicy food would bring you stronger effects than sacrificing, say, ice cream.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
Maybe the curse knight was either born into the order of knights and then left to the Ebon Tides, or maybe when they were a normal knight maybe in the material plane, something like an angel or a god sent them on a quest related to the shadowfell paladins (I just forgot what they were called) or something.
i think that’s pretty cool! I imagine that maybe also said outsiders as a rule in the world can’t usually interact with the world (usually) unless they are summoned by a food offering? Like a ghost is just a dead person until you give it some food, then it starts haunting your worst enemy. Fun!
I wanna start at the beginning. Where was he born? Who raised him? That sort of stuff.
I like that, but the whole problem with the system is that I'm planning on running it in Fate, and the magic system seems pretty restrictive. How would I actually do it? I want it to be free-form enough that players can be creative with it, but not so free-form that I can't give them more powers as they progress. Because of the system at play, giving the spirits favorite flavors might make magic too easy. Perhaps they cycle through different flavors that they want, and the players need to obtain ingredients to succeed at casting the spell?
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
There isn’t really any specific stuff about the material plane in the Ebon Tides setting, because it’s supposed to be compatible with everything, and the source book that it sorta relates to is one I don’t have. So we can just make our own stuff. If we go with the nobility idea, maybe they were born in some big city, and were they a paladin before they went to the shadowfell, or only after? Also are we keeping all the stuff about the Ebon tides with the moonlit king and mistress of Midnight teeth?
that could work, i don’t think this would work but it kinda made me think, what if their favorite foods depended on certain circumstances like the weather or phase of the moon, or what you wanted them to do?
I actually bought an adventure a while ago from Kobold Press that deals with the Moonlit King. Courts of the Shadow Fey. It was pretty good. I’m pretty sure it came out before the Book of Ebon Tides though.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Cool, i think I heard about it. All the fey nobles from kobold press are really cool, and I’m planning on using a lot of them in the Ebon tides campaign, including the moonlit king.
That sounds great! Good luck with your campaign.
I really like D&D, especially Ravenloft, Exandria and the Upside Down from Stranger Things. My pronouns are she/they (genderfae).
Thanks, hopefully it’ll be really fun.
I like to think that he was born in the Shadowfell, and yes, I really want to keep that stuff.
So I just had a fairly long discussion with my sister, and we came up with an idea: pokemon + cooking. In place of spirits, you have pet monsters that are usually in a weak, soft pet form, but when fed magical food they become big scary beasts of incredible power, and the higher the value of your cooking, the more Gourmet Points they have when they enter this state. They can expend Gourmet Points to use special abilities (I won't bore you with the actual mechanics, but they all have a +0 to everything unless they spend Gourmet Points to boost their rolls). The Gourmet Points also function as HP.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
Ah, alright.
beautiful, I love it. So the better the food, the better the monster?
Yup. I'm working on the ruleset right now.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
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I'm Fry, a doodler, writer, aspiring singer/songwriter, and sort-of youtuber (check me out!) goofin' around on the interwebs
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I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, dumpster fire, and somewhat of a clown, but I do my best :3
Crafter of Constellations, vocaloid enjoyer, waluigi’s #1 fan, space alien, undead cutie pie, danganer of ronpas, and certified silly goose
Internet big sib to aspeninthetrees, TheGatoLover, (and hopefully more)
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I'm Fry, a doodler, writer, aspiring singer/songwriter, and sort-of youtuber (check me out!) goofin' around on the interwebs
Soli Deo Gloria(Sed servus eius crustulum vult)
I'm a disabled, neurodivergent, dumpster fire, and somewhat of a clown, but I do my best :3
Crafter of Constellations, vocaloid enjoyer, waluigi’s #1 fan, space alien, undead cutie pie, danganer of ronpas, and certified silly goose
Internet big sib to aspeninthetrees, TheGatoLover, (and hopefully more)
Noam Chomsky's sentence 'Colourless green ideas sleep furiously' really just defeats his stated purpose for it, as it was created to be a grammatically correct sentence without meaning, and it very clearly means that some green coloured ideas of the colourless variety (which is possible if you consider that that type of idea could usually be green except those ones which have got some problems but which are still recognisable as green ideas) are in a state considered by humans to be asleep, and are in a very deep sleep (furiously being used here as a synonym for 'very much/hard')
This of course relies on anthropomorphising thoughts and associating colours with them, an abstract concept, but then again plenty of books anthropomorphise abstract concepts and no-one'd call them meaningless. And if you think the 'colourless green' part is a bit iffy, then take the example of tortoiseshell cats- tortoiseshell cats are well known for supposedly exclusively female, yet there are (very rarely) male tortoiseshell cats, just with an extra X chromosome that allows them the mutation. Yet they are still tortoiseshell cats. Therefore a group of thoughts traditionally associated with the colour green (perhaps jealous thoughts) that due to unknown circumstances are colourless (perhaps a metaphor for thinking thoughts that should be associated with a colour but aren't, maybe someone who is only a little bit jealous when by all rights they should be very jealous) are still fundamentally green.
Therefore I would say the sentence is proof that the person whose thoughts are being discussed is a fundamentally nice person, as the jealous thoughts they are trying very hard to repress ('sleeping furiously') actually aren't as awful as they think and have no real malice behind them ('colourless') when by all rights they should be sick with envy 24/7 ('green thoughts').
If anything, this sentence certainly does have a meaning and in the right context would be a lovely metaphor, in my opinion, and honestly seems like what a wizard would say after drinking one too many 'potions'.
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett