Legate of Mineta Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Free; 1) Real weather...of course, that doesn't mean *someone* doesn't get involved...;) 2) Yes, it's possible. 3) They could go from life-saving to doing nothing...depending on Duration. 4) Much older. 5) They claim a share of anything sold. 6) I'll have to ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 for 3 I was thinking more along the lines of side effects. But that raises an interesting point. If I created a 10 year supply of food with magic, that had a 10 year duration. If I ate only that food for 10 years, after the duration was up, would I disappear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Free; No- once the food (or water) is digested, it appears to not vanish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 11 hours ago, Legate of Mineta said: Rhialto; No, it would be similar to Renaissance Italian and Sicilian, perhaps. So maybe more like Latin and Faliscan perhaps? Faliscan was a form of communication similar to Latin that scholars apparently cannot agree whether to call a dialect or a language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadorbg Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 If I am not mistaken the Elumnian referred here is the modern one which is basically Renaglian (aka Italian) not Old Elumnnian.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 @Legate of Mineta: I was assuming that Eluminian corresponds to Latin and Renaglian to some Italian Romance dialect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted October 18, 2018 Report Share Posted October 18, 2018 Rhi; That's correct- I was trying to give a size of the difference. The dialect is considerably different, but shares the same roots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted October 19, 2018 Report Share Posted October 19, 2018 @Legate of Mineta: Are Castellans often powerful in the Empire of Man, or this the Castellan of Plessent particularly powerful? If so, is it related to Plessant or to his position as Minister of the Garden in Mineta? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted October 19, 2018 Report Share Posted October 19, 2018 Rhi; They are not particularly powerful, but the Castellan of Plessent is. It's related to the historical office and the end of the line of Merilien Kings. You'll have to look in the Lores for more about that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted October 19, 2018 Report Share Posted October 19, 2018 1) Is it planed that Glory at some point get split in 2 values one fore someone famed because of evil deeds and one for people famed because of good deeds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted October 19, 2018 Report Share Posted October 19, 2018 S; It's not planned, but there does need to be a certain 'infamy' quality to it, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 1) Will player who get their money into the negative get a loan offered in year 2 or do all event and adventure still have to check that this don't happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 S; It's possible to get a loan, if you arrange it. But it's not likely to be offered unless the player applies...because of the conditions...;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 @Legate of Mineta: Will the money that PCs earn during Y1 be carried over to the Y2 school year, barring the player's losing it through some optional spending or optional mishap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 Yes, it is ported over just as you left it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 Does the draconic language have a real world analogue, and if so, how long will it take you to press Enter and then type [redacted] what is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 @Metis: I hope that no answer is given. Associating evil reptilian enslavers of humanity with a real language could be accused of playing into negative stereotypes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted October 20, 2018 Report Share Posted October 20, 2018 ...Accused by who? Vikings? Mongolians? Like, seriously, what group with a common language could make such a claim with any sort of straight face? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadorbg Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Germans ? Ok my bad. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 @Metis: There is to this day anti-Mongolian, anti-Chinese, anti-Japanese, etc., sentiment. To give a simple demonstration, if BCS were to claim that the Draconic language was based upon Hebrew, the game could be accused of being anti-Semitic. For these reasons, BCS would be better, I think, to leave the dragons' language undefined. If nothing else, this would enhance the dragons' alienness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Fortunately for all of us, it has no real-world analogue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Really, I believe that dragons did exist in real life.* *Non sapient lizards of various types that were hunted to extinction in antiquity due to how dangerous they were. So technically Dragons in setting are just embellished, slightly anthropomorphized versions of a certain type of real life dragon. And made evil. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 3 minutes ago, freespace2dotcom said: So technically Dragons in setting are just embellished, slightly anthropomorphized versions of a certain type of real life dragon. And made evil. @freespace2dotcom: If you were to replace "a certain type of real life dragon" with "a certain type of real life serpent/lizard", you would have something close to my view. But the idea of having any evil species clearly patterned off of a real life ethnicity/culture/language could easily offend people for various reasons, such as their being part of such an ethnicity/culture/language. Thus, I am glad that BCS has not patterned dragons after any real ethnicity/culture/language. I personally would be offended, for example, if the Dragons were to be patterned off the Tanguts. @Legate of Mineta: 1. Is there any propaganda accusing any culture or state known to the Empire of Man of being not merely controlled by/allied with dragons but actually influenced by dragons in terms of vernacular vocabulary and/or social organization? 2. is the study of draconic language as carefully controlled as the study of reptiles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Rhi; 1) No- such a thing would be fairly obvious were it to happen, and there is no Godwin's Law yet. 2) More so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted October 21, 2018 Report Share Posted October 21, 2018 Alas, I do believe that some of them were actually called dragons. The name had to come from somewhere. But if you like, you're free to add quotation marks to my original statement in order to add more clarification that that is what they were called, rather than an affirmative that it is what they were. Anyway... Legate. What is recognized as the most dangerous creature that was ever created with Gates magic? And did it meet it's end, and if so how? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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