Re: OT: RPGs (was Re: Conlangs in RPGs...)

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:02:29 -0500 Herman Miller <hmiller@...> writes:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:35:44 -0000, Eruanno none <eruanno@...>
> wrote:
> >What would be the chances of all of us CONLANGers getting together
> and
> >forming an RPG, with little pieces of everybody's land in them...
> That could be interesting. Somewhere around I probably still have
> the old
> GURPS and Champions stats for various non-human species (or "races"
> in the
> RPG jargon) including the Mizarian rat-people and the Zirien
> (formerly
> spelled "Zireen"), who have fairly well-developed languages. I never
> got a
> chance to try them out in an actual game setting, though.
>
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> hmiller (Herman Miller)   "If all Printers were determin'd not to
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But imagine the inequalities that'd come up, with the different kinds of
concultures and conlang speakers we have... Some guys'd be far-future
tech, other people would be magical, and some people would just be still
in the stone age.
Although the mixtures would be cool.... someone hands a Rokbeigalmkidh a
flamethrower.  "hawa dhaz sudrouwi sudpyet uz?" (what's this shiny
rock-like thing?) *click* "oooh...."


-Stephen (Steg)
 "for you i will also give... a ferret."
     ~ *not* Eyal Golan, "Yafa Sheli"