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Quote from: The_Weave05That actually sounds very interesting. Could this not result in there being thousands of Perspectives, though? I'd be interested to hear more about it.

Indeed, that's something that could -theoretically- happen. It is known by those with the "Look" as the Shattering (the time when everyone becomes isolated in their own void) and many groups are trying to somehow prevent it.

I said theoretically, because it's quite difficult to dissapear -for example- an entire kingdom or race; the effects of a conflict are proportional to its magnitude. So you need lots of people wholeheartedly believing that something it's true (or not) in order to see such a massive effect.

At least in Messalan, most of the effects are much subtler -but not less insidious-: a scent is lost, certain plants cease to exist, some clever idea never manifests...stuff like that. Nevertheless, it is not rare to find cities who don't believe (eg) in Mandtyrs (Bull-men), so when one of them runs into such cities, he finds himself turned into a Gergasi (a giant human) or worst, simply dissapears from the Universe into the Limb -at least until people starts believing again in Mandtyr or move away from that spot-.

In short, the formula would be something like: Effect = believers * rooting of belief * time the belief has been around.

Hi there Weave, welcome to CBG.

I'll tell you how my setting works, which coincidentally has some sort of Jungian influence; perhaps you can extract something useful for yours.

In Messalan, Reality is composed by abstract concepts known as Patterns and Colors, as though it were a caleidoscope.

The combination of different Patterns and Colors create different Perspectives, which in turn model what you see, hear, etc. in your reality.

So, whenever there's a conflict between to opposite beliefs (e.g: "Magic exists" vs "Magic is a fairytale"), Reality splits in two different Perspectives. Those who believe in one Perspective will be oblivious to the other; is not that their living in a separate world, but rather perceive it differently. This is akin to Ulan Dohr's tale in Dying Earth (from Jack Vance), where people wearing green clothes (sect of Cazdal) would walk right in front of a Panziu's worshiper (who wore red) and not notice them.

The above is a simplified version of what happens, but it might help you in how you resolve conflicts in your world.

As LordVreeg posted, I don't think is such a good idea to make everyone know that they can shape their Universe at will, perhaps would be better if there was some kind of Awakening or the like.

Quote from: KindlingAhhh, I see... I never went to school, so, that'll be why I didn't get it :P

Hat's off, Kindling. You write much more eloquently than many scholars I've met...unless you meant ironically, in which case I'm just playing the dumb role :)

Congrats V! Norman James Morrison V...that's quite an aristocratic name :D

Glossolalia...glose derives from the greek "glossa" (tongue), and the suffix lalia (from greek as well) means "to speak"...yeah, I know, useless ethymology, but I didn't know what else to contribute with.

You do like TV Tropes, don't you Ghostman? :D

Nice ideas EE. I'm just wandering, ¿how could they colonize Venus and Mercury? They seem too hostile for human beings and not prone to terraforming.

The one thing I don't like (or at least don't see it as plausible) is The Western Alliance; Northern and Southern Americans are REALLY REALLY DIFFERENT, from culture to language, so I see it hard them joining under one flag. At most, I guess that North and Central America forming one nation, and South America another.
Keep up with the excellent work!

As a rule of thumb, you should avoid real-world references when describing things to your players (if you're in the middle of a game, otherwise, there's no problem, like you said).
However, if you are talking about describing your campaign, Stargate's approach seems quite fit.

Hubert...Reeves? The canadian guy?

I) Divide your expenses in categories (Food, Rent, Electricity, Leisure,etc, no more than 5-7) and calculate how much are you probably -and reasonably- going to spend in each one. Then buy one envelope for each category and put your money there.

II) Use the money in each envelope JUST FOR THAT expenditure and nothing else. That way, you'll be more aware of how much money you have and can spend (trust me, when you have all your bucks in one place, money seems endless until it's gone).

III) Give yourself a month or so to tweak your initial estimations.
It can be cumbersome from time to time, but it worked for me at least :D

IV) Save the remnants in each category at the end of the month, creating a "buffer" to deal with unexpected expenses.

All other advices about cooking, lot of veggies, batch-cooking, etc are completely true.

Pretty good work, Leetz! Am I detecting Herbert's influence over here? :)

Quote from: KindlingI have absolutely 0 experience with 4E so far, so I can't really comment on the rules side of things, but I have to say this seems to me to just be a moneymaking scheme.

I haven't played it either, but for the reviews I've read I think that you're probably right.

Quote from: KindlingThey may have a fair point about the game being hard to pick up for new players[...]. If they really wanted a newbie-friendly game they would publish something very rules-lite[...]

Completely agree. I think that a FUDGE-like system would be nice as an introduction, encouraging roleplaying rather than (stats) power-gaming...on a second thought, that's probably what they want, because the latter is probably more appealing to those with a trading card background.

Quote from: KindlingSo, I think the main objective with this move is probably "hey, we can sell ten core books instead of 3" but that may just be my cynicism talking...

In that case there's another cynic seconding your thoughts :D.

Quote from: Rorschach FritosMost people are right-handed, but there's still a decent percentage of left-handed people out there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handedness

Me! me! I'm left-handed!!

The second picture reminds me the "look and feel" of Curse of Monkey Island (perhaps for the twirls in the column?). Really liked it.
BTW, I don't know if it was intended or not, but the leftmost side of the picture is out of focus; perhaps if you could do that to the whole background, it would enhance the character.

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Quote from: limetomJust... no.

That guy is a complete tool.  The entire thesis of almost every "criticism" this guy writes is just "Waaah, waaah, I don't like math humor, and anyone that uses math humor thinks they're better than everyone else."

He couldn't come up with something moderately funny, so he just picked-up something to complain about. Besides, it's not meant to be taken seriously, I don't get why is he making so much fuzz...