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Post by ripx187 on Oct 18, 2019 14:00:58 GMT -5
 On MeWe, I like to post pictures of doors, they are useful for inspiration and for taking us to different directions of thought. What could be behind the door? Who built it? I remember riding in the car and looking out the window at the Iowa plains. You'd see all of these abandoned buildings and farmhouses all over the place, and I would tell myself stories about them. Who lived there? Why don't they anymore? Why are these spooky places shunned? What lives there now? As an adult, since I'm the one driving I can't do this anymore, but I do like to look for them, and these days you've really got to look because you rarely find them as much anymore . . . or perhaps I just no longer see them? Anyway. So, I post pictures of doors and I like to write something. Just anything really. Maybe these doors inspire different things in you, maybe you'd like to latch onto the thread of thought and create a discussion? It is up to you. |
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Post by hengest on Oct 18, 2019 16:09:07 GMT -5
Door are among the most entrancing human artifacts.
Riding in the car on the highway is a special feeling.
For this one, I think it suggests an abandoned chapel. And who knows what's attached to one of those?
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Post by ripx187 on Oct 19, 2019 11:52:30 GMT -5
 I don't like using the Christian religion in my games for many reasons, but the biggest one is that I don't want to offend anyone or use the game as a soapbox, which I guess still happens. Religion in my games can be very ugly, there is inner-corruption and a lot of violence against innocent people. I don't want to give this stuff a name that is used today. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Oct 22, 2019 2:36:26 GMT -5
Great thread ripx187, have an Exalt! I love this, I also love seeing old abandoned buildings, especially really old odd looking ones that really make you wonder what they were used for. |
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Post by mao on Oct 22, 2019 5:15:39 GMT -5
Great pics!!!
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Post by hengest on Oct 23, 2019 20:27:43 GMT -5
There is a "sculpture garden" called Pacem in Terris in Warwick, New York. Link linkIt is obviously a "work of art" and not exactly an abandoned building. But it was 50 times better than I thought it could be. Anyone who is in the area and is into this kind of mood, I recommend you go and hang out for an hour, maybe read the handwritten (copied) pamphlet that is available there. It has a very DIY vibe and almost feels like a campaign setting in itself. |
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Post by ripx187 on Oct 26, 2019 13:49:18 GMT -5
 I like the idea of Druids, but the rules pigeon hole them. I also like the idea of keeping your class a secret. Perhaps it is all of the Hammer films that I've watched? The elite of the world practices this old faith while the lower-class gets fed something else entirely. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Oct 28, 2019 3:30:55 GMT -5
You like Druids, forget the rules, run them like you like them. I do not really care of the rules on some classes and druids are one of them. Change it up however you like.
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Post by mao on Oct 29, 2019 6:49:35 GMT -5
Druids, glad the Romans got rid of them  |
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Post by ripx187 on Nov 1, 2019 13:49:10 GMT -5
 I was thinking about what monsters do with their gold, and I figure that they gift it to something which they worship as a god. This seems to be pretty primitive behavior, but thinking more deeply, we do the same thing. Other than gifting to something so powerful that it must be a god, what would monsters keep gold for? Do they have their own economy? |
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Post by hengest on Nov 1, 2019 14:24:54 GMT -5
I was thinking about what monsters do with their gold, and I figure that they gift it to something which they worship as a god. This seems to be pretty primitive behavior, but thinking more deeply, we do the same thing. Other than gifting to something so powerful that it must be a god, what would monsters keep gold for? Do they have their own economy? Some can easily be thought to have their own religious and / or economic purposes. But maybe there can be another reason. Maybe the lower animals are just very attracted to gold and compelled to keep it. Wasn't there something like this in Fraggle Rock? The doozers are compelled to build and the Fraggles eat their structures? |
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Nov 1, 2019 23:20:31 GMT -5
I like the idea of Druids, but the rules pigeon hole them. I also like the idea of keeping your class a secret. Perhaps it is all of the Hammer films that I've watched? The elite of the world practices this old faith while the lower-class gets fed something else entirely. I like Druids but I hate that they were relegated to priests of nature and neutrality. Druids of old were agents of order and tribal society. In my new setting they are Lawful but have a different focus than Clerics. |
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Post by ripx187 on Nov 4, 2019 14:09:51 GMT -5
 Studying the old adventure maps, I would have to say that as far as architecture and the layout of the design goes, D&D is more Asian than Medieval. |
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Post by mao on Nov 7, 2019 7:26:58 GMT -5
These pics are so awesome!
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Post by ripx187 on Nov 7, 2019 12:06:20 GMT -5
![]()  Do you ever make props or handouts for your players? |
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Nov 8, 2019 1:40:47 GMT -5
No, but I plan to once I find a new group.
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