Research

Today I’ve been researching a little about fantasy ages as well as medieval times. How they dressed, how they behaved and how things worked generally. I’m still trying to improve my world and for the moment Katia/Lanticka is my major working area. I still think that the epics of Nianze need a little more turning down to mystify and enhance the rest of the world.

The things that are bother me the most is the society and the politics. I still can’t get everything to fit together according to my own vision and somehow I think I’ll need more conflicts, more division amongst the races and a clearer distinction on the society. I’m currently watching and re-watching about three series in this subject along with some Discovery and BBC stuff to se different imitations and try to understand how it will be possible to create this.

As many of you might have noticed I’ve now pretty much de-integrated the multi-racial society except for in Meno, Lanticka and The Eye. Most races keep to themselves or at least they are in groups clearly divided from others. This will continue to be, and most likely the race you’ll see most of is the Dwarfs and the Orcs… and most probably the Littlemen, but you won’t know it since they’ve become even more cautious than before when most people really are trying to kill them. Even in Sancho you can’t see many races on the same place. Elfs are enslaved there, mutants are used and not allowed to do anything and the abominations are trying to keep hidden.

Even so when it comes to laws and justice I’ve decided that the only country with something similar to a justice as we know it will be Meno. They have some kind of bureaucracy with a king or high counsellor that almost will resemble a democracy in some ways. In Aguin the law is absolute and almost nobody breaks it or get away with anything. But then Aguin is the holy country and is worshipped and respected throughout the world in all epochs except for the Dark Age when they are the biggest enemy of the world… which just happens to be controlled and lead by Necromancers, but anyway…

Something that I’ve somewhat had a problem with is creating something different yet non-epic stuff that actually is characteristic for the countries. Though it’s very hard to actually implement anything in the third epoch when this is the epoch closets to the worlds actual uniting. After the last war the world will change to better place but still have its issues that they need to work out before the Apocalypse. So to make it work or to even make changes I need to work my way backwards, from the start of the apocalyptic ages and set a status quo. Then from there I can create the rest until the very end.

Something else I’ve been thinking about is travelling. It’s too easy to travel right now I think, even though I’ve added seasons and midseason which is noticeable I still think that it’s too easy to travel far distances. During medieval ages they didn’t travel that much, a selected few did and their travel wasn’t easy either. I think I’ll need to modify a little around that to make it as I want but still something is not right there.

I’ve highly increased the amount of monsters and natural occurring phenomena in the world to which makes it hard to travel too. The idea is that every country shall have its own set of monsters that appear here and there during different seasons and also different kinds of phenomena. Of course some monsters and phenomena will exist in many countries and places but the idea is just to have more dangers which will make it more logical to not travel without adequate company or protection. The only country without monsters will be Aguin but the phenomena will still occur there even though it will probably be the safest country in the world.

Well, depending on the outcome of the next sessions I might put everyone on pause and try to play some scenarios here and there to increase your understanding of the world as well as try my own capabilities in game mastering something more complex.

As for the joint, I’m not sure yet if the kids will continue it’s been a great while since they last played. Most likely due to that Rasmsus been gone for a while, but well… maybe they have a break or something. Otherwise I might get started on the campaign I had for a joint too to play during Saturdays when PB isn’t working.

Best regards,
Herid Fel