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Re: OT: Cultures as characters, was OT: RPGs (was Re: Conlangs in RPGs...)

From:Eruanno the Linguist <eruanno@...>
Date:Thursday, January 25, 2001, 15:53
>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... > >I'm curious if anybody ever thought of an RPG-like thing with main >characters (roles, units, or whatever) being (con)cultures (and >conlangs) rather than individual people. > >What do the RPG experts on this list think? Can a set of rules be >developed to make the game worth trying? > >(I think the aims should be a bit special: just having fun while >developing a few elaborated conlangs/concultures interacting over >many centures or millennia, rather than conquering anything/reaching >anywhere etc.)
Kinda like making a story somewhat like JRR Tolkien's Noldor ^_^ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com