So, what kind of research are you doing for your your setting?

[Hibou]

Most of the research I do ties in very closely with what I am looking at doing as a career, in the realms of science and engineering. I'm doing a lot of what Humabout has mentioned he does, but am also putting time into tech trends and extrapolation as to where things might be in 1000 years (for Fractal Galaxy). I do almost no research for Haveneast, although technically my exposure to games like Dark Souls (check it out if you can) has provided new material for me to shamelessly rip.

[Lmns Crn]

Dark Souls is rocking my world, lately. Do enough people around here play that we merit a thread on it?

[LordVreeg]

Dark Souls is rocking my world, lately. Do enough people around here play that we merit a thread on it?

i'm interested in your thoughts on it.  go crazy.

[Hibou]

I'd love to talk about it, especially since I can no longer play it (left 360 copy at dad's; have migrated to Linux on PC where it does not have a port :(). Forum thread or real-time chat would be awesome!

[LordVreeg]

Am re reading some of the Vedas, as the older eastern cradle countries ( devil kin Orbi, Sembina, post-breakp Vicoria) are a lot more into a fate driven, karma driven, reincarnation version of the basic cosmology. 
Did a whole adventure group based on the exiles of Old, Devilkin Orbi when the Arcanic Table took over, and that religious accent is still all over Orbi and parts of the Grey March as well.

[HippopotamusDundee]

I'm researching geology and the terminology used to describe various kinds of mountains and valleys because I'm writing the mountainous region of Mu for an upcoming campaign.

[Seraph]

I am playing with mixing and matching other cultural information with my Celtic baseline for Cad Goleor so I can extrapolate the difference between regional groups.

[sparkletwist]

Vedic religion, the workings of coilguns, 1980s fashion, and yakisoba recipes.

The fun of having a kitchen sink setting... :grin:

[Lmns Crn]

Vedic religion, the workings of coilguns, 1980s fashion, and yakisoba recipes.

The '80s: Truly the most Vedic decade.

[sparkletwist]

The '80s: Truly the most Vedic decade.

The 60s may beg to differ.

[Lmns Crn]

Yeah, likely. I'm just talking nonsense because I really love the four-way juxtaposition in your earlier post!

[Matt Larkin (author)]

Vedic religion, the workings of coilguns, 1980s fashion, and yakisoba recipes.

The fun of having a kitchen sink setting... :grin:

Okay, I've done the first two (for Eschaton and Sins of Angels, respectively). The third, not so much. And the last just made me hungry.

[khyron1144]

I mentioned that I'm trying to learn more about the Dark Age of comic books for Blood of Tyrants.


I just read or reread the first issue of Deathblow, and boy does it check all the Dark Age boxes:

Death in the title.
Published by Image.
Morally ambiguous to outright evil protagonist.
Bonus points for being a sort of split feature/flip format thing with Cybernary, which added Cyborgs, skimpily clothed bad girls, and copious gore to the mix.

[khyron1144]

Let's see, I finished up The Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley and started in on I, Claudius by Robert Graves.  Both of these have given me some ideas to work with for the Terran Empire, seeing as to how the Terran Empire is a bit of an Ancient Grome setting area and these novels have some interesting ideas.


It's a stretch but Grendel Omnibus Volume 1: Hunter Rose might be considered Dark Age research, while the Rom back issue that I'm reading could be Bronze Age research for Blood of Tyrants.