Re: Family Project votes

Aidan Grey wrote:

> I figure we should name the
> new list for the planet. Any ideas?
>
>    I thought we could call it Arda, to honor Tolkien,
> who got many of us into this hobby.
>
That sounds fine.  Are we going to decide on the geography of the planet
early on to place the beginings of the human race, if so there is a
program
called Fractal Terrains available from ProFantasy, it creates planets.
Whoever is starting this can download a demo version at
http://www.profantasy.com/index.html  and create the planet.  after
which we
can choose areas where we our cultures will develop.  If nothing else it
will give us a nice map to play with.  I was planing on purchasing this
if
you'd like to wait, and I could design it.

>
>    I've got more questions, but they can wait for the
> list, except for one.
>
>    I've got a gentleman who emailed me privately. He
> doesn't really want to participate in the language
> family thing, per se, but would like to place his
> conlang there as sort of a later addition (new
> colonists from the Federation, or something of the
> sort). He thought he'd borrow a lot from our langs,
> and that we might borrow from his as well. I don't
> know much about what he plans or has in mind (I plan
> to ask him) beyond he wants his own government. Are
> the participants (and our observers Iain, Roger, and
> David P.) okay with this, or would you all prefer to
> keep the planet just to us?
>
>    Aidan
>
I think this type of connection to an established universe could cause
some
of the problems we are trying to avoid by not placing this on our Earth.
Also how realistic do we want it,  is it going to be just like earth,
with
just different languages and countries or is Magic going to be real, is
there going to be a non-human intelligent race co-existing., etc.  If we
are
going to allow for some fantastical things then sure, if not, then no.

I am leaving for 5 days(GenCon) and will be back on Monday so don't
forget
that I'm  in on this. :)

Later
Mario

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