tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post8550039981306684455..comments2024-03-28T18:55:38.829+11:00Comments on Middenmurk: Fallen ElvesTom Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-63245250217271442942013-11-23T10:53:00.063+11:002013-11-23T10:53:00.063+11:00Thank you, Ed! I'd love for more folks to get ...Thank you, Ed! I'd love for more folks to get a chance to learn some of those obsolete words.Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-88435973590717977422013-11-20T14:04:57.340+11:002013-11-20T14:04:57.340+11:00Thanks, your elves piece is great and Wright's...Thanks, your elves piece is great and Wright's dictionary is fascinating.Ed Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09627812364407769994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-29618521245719967752013-05-01T01:07:22.433+10:002013-05-01T01:07:22.433+10:00I'll have to check it out, I ended up flicking...I'll have to check it out, I ended up flicking through The Hobbit for additional terms. I was inordinately pleased with attercap being a combination of attercop and redcap.James Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728054107958411289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-3063407770082008692013-04-30T20:47:07.256+10:002013-04-30T20:47:07.256+10:00Your enthusiasm is awesome. May I suggest, if you ...Your enthusiasm is awesome. May I suggest, if you are interested in old words and want to expand your Thesaurus-capacity tenfold, check out Joseph Wright's Dialect Dictionary of English (or some shit like that)it is six volumes and five thousand pages with gameable stuff on every page. You can't access a hardcopy for love or money but you can download the individual parts. It's byous as a catthern-pear.<br /><br />Being werewolfy is a good thing. I'm very much of the opinion that we take tropes for granted in a way that eventually robs them of their grandeur and magic. Fuck with that shit and it shall reward ye, I say.<br /><br />It's very flattering and somewhat peculiar to see my gibberish-style emulated thus. I'll give a more thorough assessment shortly but it looks good to me.Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-5109071080411791712013-04-30T16:57:59.923+10:002013-04-30T16:57:59.923+10:00But wow yea, perhaps each level the spells they ge...But wow yea, perhaps each level the spells they get influences what they become somehow? Like they don't need spellbooks and can't change their spells per day because their spells are part of their being?<br /><br />I'm working through the idea that the more alien they seem, the more powerful intrinsic abilities they have. Cast the spells and you lose the creepiness, but you also lose the abilities.<br /><br />Like a Light-spell elf would have infravision, and their eyes would gleam dully in the darkness.<br />Cast your spells and you lose the infravision, but you also lose the eye-gleam and so you seem more human.<br /><br />Elves don't need to sleep, but the touch of moonlight regenerates their spells and sends them cavorting and gallivanting to do mysterious elf things in their disconcerting elf-forms for an hour per level.<br />That should possibly be an hour per level of the highest spell they can cast. I can't decide yet!<br /><br />It makes them fairly werewolfy in execution, perhaps they can resist the urge depending on how close it is to the night of the new moon.<br /><br />I really haven't been this enthused about something in quite some time. God forbid I take a crack at your dwarves.James Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728054107958411289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-48624673339855462512013-04-30T10:39:59.011+10:002013-04-30T10:39:59.011+10:00I humbly submit the following -
http://tenfootpole...I humbly submit the following -<br />http://tenfootpolemic.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/fallen-elves-for-lotfp.html<br /><br />The names aren't quite as evocative unfortunately, but I like old words and have a thesaurus!James Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728054107958411289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-61610488536623243812013-04-29T16:42:12.621+10:002013-04-29T16:42:12.621+10:00Fantastic! I like the ideas you are working with v...Fantastic! I like the ideas you are working with very much and I appreciate the fact you're using my stuff. It gives me great satisfaction.<br /><br />I had the idea that certain elfin entities of myth and legend might be higher-level elves. Practically all the abilities ascribed to mythic creatures could be modelled with the spell list. e.g. Leshies are 3rd level with Ventriloquism, Charm Person and Invisibility and look like bright green version of Eugene Hutz with backwards feet.Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-3432419693385233222013-04-29T16:02:25.031+10:002013-04-29T16:02:25.031+10:00I'm voraciously cannibalising this for my home...I'm voraciously cannibalising this for my home game, thank you.<br />Some spells differ between this and LotFP, so I hope I can write well enough to make the other elves nearly as evocative.<br /><br />I'm playing with the idea that all elves start at level 1 with a spell in their heart, yet they look like humans. With each spell they memorise they look more and more like these weird fallen elves.<br />A level 1 elf with a single spell would have pointy ears (of course), and then they'd get stranger from there. Casting the spells would reverse the transformation and make them look more human.<br /><br />They'd get all their spells back at moonrise and thus transform into their most elfy forms... which makes me think I should bring the phases of the moon into the thing somehow.<br /><br />So much to think about, very very good.James Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728054107958411289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-50186828997926547442013-04-16T21:48:55.994+10:002013-04-16T21:48:55.994+10:00Oh man there is something like this about orcs? A...Oh man there is something like this about orcs? Aw eff yeah.mordicaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05713766652793265867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-59321640393896588242013-04-14T09:13:37.967+10:002013-04-14T09:13:37.967+10:00Man, if you ever give dwarves the same treatment a...Man, if you ever give dwarves the same treatment as you've given elves and orcs I might have a hype explosion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-53546582339217702252013-04-13T22:49:51.773+10:002013-04-13T22:49:51.773+10:00I am just happy to be able to participate. You hav...I am just happy to be able to participate. You have been very influential on me so I would just like to take the opportunity to say thank you :)Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-15309946002721621302013-04-13T20:38:46.797+10:002013-04-13T20:38:46.797+10:00Wow... yeah just fucking wow. I have wanted to com...Wow... yeah just fucking wow. I have wanted to comment something hooting my appreciation for the last 4 or 5 posts but was too slack jawed to have anything more than ..wow scrap princesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01278801560026111482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-38538940742887996572013-04-13T11:01:44.867+10:002013-04-13T11:01:44.867+10:00beautifulbeautifulZak Sabbathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812410680077034917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-829827413975135582013-04-13T05:51:33.636+10:002013-04-13T05:51:33.636+10:00I actually try very hard to ration my use of three...I actually try very hard to ration my use of three-syllable words. I know how satisfying they can be and cut out every second one that comes to me but still; habberjock, hollowback, brackenfrau, middenmurk - it's an affliction without a name.<br />Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-80402374694231524092013-04-13T05:40:51.190+10:002013-04-13T05:40:51.190+10:00I like the evils and the idiosyncratic/antiquated ...I like the evils and the idiosyncratic/antiquated language. In fact, I like the term Misergiest more than I can readily explain. Rolls off the tongue well.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.com