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Post by hengest on Jan 17, 2022 15:42:28 GMT -5
What have you done, enjoyed, or would you like to do with lost worlds?
In a way, every Moria-like dungeon is a "lost world." It was a whole place full of life (maybe) and now it's a horrible, decaying, possibly evil pit.
But I mean something more like Doyle's Lost World. An inset and fairly isolated world with relics—dinosaurs, pre-human intelligent races (a kind of Rivendell, maybe), or anything else of the kind. Not so much the contents of the lost world that are important, more than the idea is they were once everywhere and now remain only here.
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Post by hengest on Jun 11, 2022 21:36:08 GMT -5
What have you done, enjoyed, or would you like to do with lost worlds? In a way, every Moria-like dungeon is a "lost world." It was a whole place full of life (maybe) and now it's a horrible, decaying, possibly evil pit. But I mean something more like Doyle's Lost World. An inset and fairly isolated world with relics—dinosaurs, pre-human intelligent races (a kind of Rivendell, maybe), or anything else of the kind. Not so much the contents of the lost world that are important, more than the idea is they were once everywhere and now remain only here. I like this idea, the "relic" world. I think that's a beautiful idea: you're travelling in space, but in effect, you're also travelling in time. Pretty strange. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 11, 2022 23:17:21 GMT -5
What have you done, enjoyed, or would you like to do with lost worlds? In a way, every Moria-like dungeon is a "lost world." It was a whole place full of life (maybe) and now it's a horrible, decaying, possibly evil pit. But I mean something more like Doyle's Lost World. An inset and fairly isolated world with relics—dinosaurs, pre-human intelligent races (a kind of Rivendell, maybe), or anything else of the kind. Not so much the contents of the lost world that are important, more than the idea is they were once everywhere and now remain only here. I like this idea, the "relic" world. I think that's a beautiful idea: you're travelling in space, but in effect, you're also travelling in time. Pretty strange. Not explicitly as a "lost world" but my many of my worlds tend to have low populations with an after the apocalypse vibe. I may just switch the pbp to something like that when I restart it. |
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Post by mao on Jun 12, 2022 5:36:58 GMT -5
Love this topic! Ive got a lot to say.
for starters .The origanal book"The Lost World"
cant quite remember who wrote it
it was eithe sir arther conan doyale or H Rider Hazard(lening toward haggard)
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Post by mao on Jun 12, 2022 6:13:32 GMT -5
above post interupted by family crisis LOL, seriously thou)
It is from the year 1900 or so.
Ok I lill admit it is very dated, but it is ( I believe to be the modern birth of the genra)
Keeping in mind when it was written, It is a rousing adventure tail. Way better than any of the many movies it has spawned.Top 20 or so for me in books
teasers
Mysantia has a lost world in it that I added in 1980ish
You guys know the Tarzan connection?
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Post by mao on Jun 12, 2022 20:20:16 GMT -5
Edger Rice Burroughs wrote 20 ish books of Tarzan. The first few are more or less the char you see on the silver Screen.In book2(?)The lost city of Opar was found by him. They were the descendant of Atlantis.This is where he made his fortune Not sure when the lost worlds took off here. It has been said that you could walk on lost citys Tarzan Had found w/o touching Africa.
Often they were rivals you could recognize, Rome and Carthage etc. so they were coning at 2 ish per book
To the best of my knowlage they are not worth reading.
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Post by mao on Jun 12, 2022 20:35:34 GMT -5
I almost never owned or used moduals, never needed to. One of a handful of ones I own was The Isle of Dread by Tom Molvey(more on him in another thread) I met him at a con and ded to Mysantia very early, a coule of years afe The Isle had ben published.once again gushed over somebody. He was very flattered.It is very loosly based on King Kong movie and Skull Island.
When I put it in Mysantia , I also called it Skull Island. I used almost every single word in it and then added a ton.It is the me of my version of kong, he is called the Puja which in the native languge means"Evil" He was a Kong sized mandril and he was one of a very small bunch of stuff my PCs were afraid of.My son is running Mysantia his way. He used SkullIsland all the time.He liked my velocerraptors. They were horrible, dinos and ice ge mamels abound. I could go on and on. Ad
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Post by hengest on Jun 12, 2022 20:55:42 GMT -5
My son is running Mysantia his way. He used SkullIsland all the time.He liked my velocerraptors. They were horrible, dinos and ice ge mamels abound. I could go on and on. Ad Your son refs? |
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Post by mao on Jun 12, 2022 21:00:09 GMT -5
Yea he's my name sake, Bob Jr. We are very close. he is taking and running Mysantia(his version) It's his now. I always wanted Mysantia to out live me
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Post by hengest on Jun 12, 2022 21:10:00 GMT -5
Yea he's my name sake, Bob Jr. We are very close. he is taking and running Mysantia(his version) It's his now. I always wanted Mysantia to out live me That's awesome, man. Congrats. If I knew that I managed to forget. |
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Post by mao on Jun 12, 2022 21:14:23 GMT -5
all my childrenar gamers of variuos kinds, never encouraged any of them infact I tryed to keep them away, this only made them want more
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Post by mao on Jun 12, 2022 21:15:22 GMT -5
all werer tought galactic empires, the girls love it
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 13, 2022 18:00:13 GMT -5
Edger Rice Burroughs wrote 20 ish books of Tarzan. The first few are more or less the char you see on the silver Screen.In book2(?)The lost city of Opar was found by him. They were the descendant of Atlantis.This is where he made his fortune Not sure when the lost worlds took off here. It has been said that you could walk on lost citys Tarzan Had found w/o touching Africa. Often they were rivals you could recognize, Rome and Carthage etc. so they were coning at 2 ish per book To the best of my knowlage they are not worth reading. There are 24 books that were written solely by ERB. I love them and think they are awesome. His world building is incredible. Especially when you throw in Pellucidar, Barsoom and Amtor. Plus the other worlds he built besides these. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 13, 2022 18:15:18 GMT -5
I almost never owned or used moduals, never needed to. One of a handful of ones I own was The Isle of Dread by Tom Molvey(more on him in another thread) I met him at a con and ded to Mysantia very early, a coule of years afe The Isle had ben published.once again gushed over somebody. He was very flattered.It is very loosly based on King Kong movie and Skull Island. When I put it in Mysantia , I also called it Skull Island. I used almost every single word in it and then added a ton.It is the me of my version of kong, he is called the Puja which in the native languge means"Evil" He was a Kong sized mandril and he was one of a very small bunch of stuff my PCs were afraid of.My son is running Mysantia his way. He used SkullIsland all the time.He liked my velocerraptors. They were horrible, dinos and ice ge mamels abound. I could go on and on. Ad I only have a few modules and that was to see what they looked like. |
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Post by hengest on Jun 13, 2022 19:29:12 GMT -5
Edger Rice Burroughs wrote 20 ish books of Tarzan. The first few are more or less the char you see on the silver Screen.In book2(?)The lost city of Opar was found by him. They were the descendant of Atlantis.This is where he made his fortune Not sure when the lost worlds took off here. It has been said that you could walk on lost citys Tarzan Had found w/o touching Africa. Often they were rivals you could recognize, Rome and Carthage etc. so they were coning at 2 ish per book To the best of my knowlage they are not worth reading. There are 24 books that were written solely by ERB. I love them and think they are awesome. His world building is incredible. Especially when you throw in Pellucidar, Barsoom and Amtor. Plus the other worlds he built besides these. Have never read any of these, not a bit, but I have read three of the Tarzan books and I can believe it. Very striking imagination, it has been twenty years and I still think about some of those scenes. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 13, 2022 20:33:13 GMT -5
There are 24 books that were written solely by ERB. I love them and think they are awesome. His world building is incredible. Especially when you throw in Pellucidar, Barsoom and Amtor. Plus the other worlds he built besides these. Have never read any of these, not a bit, but I have read three of the Tarzan books and I can believe it. Very striking imagination, it has been twenty years and I still think about some of those scenes. The worst thing ERB did as a writer was how many times Tarzan was hit on the head and had amnesia. But I loved the lost civilizations and lost races that he came up with. |
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Post by mao on Jun 14, 2022 5:13:26 GMT -5
I am going to start an ERB thread.
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Post by mao on Jun 14, 2022 9:57:26 GMT -5
I am actually a huge fan despite the above I just hate Tarzan and have only read book 2
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 14, 2022 10:03:01 GMT -5
I am actually a huge fan despite the above I just hate Tarzan and have only read book 2 If you have only read book 2 then you are all wet regarding Tarzan. You should read book 1 and then one of the later books with some of the lost worlds in it. |
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Post by mao on Jun 14, 2022 10:27:23 GMT -5
I am actually a huge fan despite the above I just hate Tarzan and have only read book 2 If you have only read book 2 then you are all wet regarding Tarzan. You should read book 1 and then one of the later books with some of the lost worlds in it. For some reason, Tarzan does not give me the suspension of disbelief. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 14, 2022 15:11:31 GMT -5
If you have only read book 2 then you are all wet regarding Tarzan. You should read book 1 and then one of the later books with some of the lost worlds in it. For some reason, Tarzan does not give me the suspension of disbelief.  I on the other hand just accepted Tarzan as factual history and I wanted to be him.  |
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Post by mao on Jun 14, 2022 16:01:34 GMT -5
I dunno. He also is kinda cool ...in a concept sort of way. Maybe.
(you should move the thread posts to one ERB one)
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 14, 2022 17:28:07 GMT -5
I dunno. He also is kinda cool ...in a concept sort of way. Maybe. (you should move the thread posts to one ERB one) When you create the ERB thread S, then we can start posting there. |
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Post by mao on Jun 14, 2022 18:33:46 GMT -5
yup tonight for sure, I actually have a lot to say (btw really enjoying the "Argument"?(LOLkidding) on the other thread tonight. I love stuff like
this. I almost switched my major to Philosophy senior year but....18 credit my very last semester or 9 in history.)
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 14, 2022 18:55:31 GMT -5
yup tonight for sure, I actually have a lot to say(btw really enjoying the "Argument"?(LOLkidding) on the other thread tonighT. I love crap like this. I almost swithed my major to Philosophy senior year but....18 credit my very last simester or 9 in history.) I took Philosophy (Logic) 301 in college and it has forever eliminated any respect I might once have had for Philosophers. Too much of the stuff they were teaching was just out and out lies with a really twisted illogic. I argued with the professor all quarter long in class. I got an A on the final and he asked me how that was possible. I told him that it was his test and since the class had established that Philosophy and "Logic" were not concerned with Truth, I just gave him the answers that he wanted. |
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Post by hengest on Jun 14, 2022 20:21:37 GMT -5
yup tonight for sure, I actually have a lot to say(btw really enjoying the "Argument"?(LOLkidding) on the other thread tonighT. I love crap like this. I almost swithed my major to Philosophy senior year but....18 credit my very last simester or 9 in history.) I took Philosophy (Logic) 301 in college and it has forever eliminated any respect I might once have had for Philosophers. Too much of the stuff they were teaching was just out and out lies with a really twisted illogic. I argued with the professor all quarter long in class. I got an A on the final and he asked me how that was possible. I told him that it was his test and since the class had established that Philosophy and "Logic" were not concerned with Truth, I just gave him the answers that he wanted. I took one philosophy class in college and had no idea what was going on. I'm not going to blame the professor and it was not logic. There was some kind of generational gap or something but I could not get hooked into the whole thing. The professor got very frustrated with us and it was not a good scene. I think I should have done better but I don't know how. I think if I had taken Logic, I would have had a similar experience. |
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Post by mao on Jun 14, 2022 21:08:36 GMT -5
I took Philosophy (Logic) 301 in college and it has forever eliminated any respect I might once have had for Philosophers. Too much of the stuff they were teaching was just out and out lies with a really twisted illogic. I argued with the professor all quarter long in class. I got an A on the final and he asked me how that was possible. I told him that it was his test and since the class had established that Philosophy and "Logic" were not concerned with Truth, I just gave him the answers that he wanted. I took one philosophy class in college and had no idea what was going on. I'm not going to blame the professor and it was not logic. There was some kind of generational gap or something but I could not get hooked into the whole thing. The professor got very frustrated with us and it was not a good scene. I think I should have done better but I don't know how. I think if I had taken Logic, I would have had a similar experience. I just loved it |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 14, 2022 22:42:17 GMT -5
I took one philosophy class in college and had no idea what was going on. I'm not going to blame the professor and it was not logic. There was some kind of generational gap or something but I could not get hooked into the whole thing. The professor got very frustrated with us and it was not a good scene. I think I should have done better but I don't know how. I think if I had taken Logic, I would have had a similar experience. I just loved it Why do I find that so very odd! |
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Post by mao on Jun 15, 2022 4:46:16 GMT -5
Man, We can derail!
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Post by mao on Jun 15, 2022 5:02:57 GMT -5
I am trying to remember the name of the movie I saw reciently, that made me switch favs in lost worlds. It is in the exact same class as I put "The Undead" which is to say That the concept is amazing, needs to be made again.
It is raw .
Has lots of SFX that need to be seen to be believed
Oh and did I mention: dino's
I saw it on Svengoiie a few months ago, not the one w the meteor,that was so bad(Off on a Comet")
note to self: The Mask
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I on the other hand just accepted Tarzan as factual history and I wanted to be him. 