tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post9137271108186428469..comments2024-03-28T18:55:38.829+11:00Comments on Middenmurk: earth devours manTom Fitzgeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-10889755878557966622013-03-25T16:31:04.643+11:002013-03-25T16:31:04.643+11:00I can imagine you'd have a particularly rich u...I can imagine you'd have a particularly rich understanding of the subject given your profession. <br /><br />I also think that one of the really nice things about what the OSR has produced is that it is not burdened by the obligation to adhere to a bowdlerised version of the source material. Fantasy should be a little bit trippy and this community has worn that particular heart on it sleeve. Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-29260016792055848322013-03-25T16:16:46.883+11:002013-03-25T16:16:46.883+11:00But such rich and fascinating nonsense. I imagine ...But such rich and fascinating nonsense. I imagine John of Patmos might have felt similarly after looking back on Revelations, and various '70s prog-rockers too. I think there is place for that kind of fierce purity of imaginative outpouring but that place may be as compost to fertilise something that comes later on.Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-13260060409206653322013-03-25T03:32:59.678+11:002013-03-25T03:32:59.678+11:00I recently created a D&D/Myth setting the morn... I recently created a D&D/Myth setting the morning after taking shrooms. It was mostly nonsense but the crux of the idea was to take the Browning Dark Tower's Roland and the hermaphrodite Orlando and reconcile them into a cohesive myth cycle grounded in a Gene Wolfe style/ Frank Herbert clone based human lifecycle, which I think is meant to render human cycles of oppression and inevitable rebellion as part of a mythic understanding of humanity as a whole as a hermaphrodite cycle, wherein empire, subjugation, and rebellion are the changing genders roles of a greater whole.<br /> In short, a Dark Tower is ruled by Orlando, in the center of an Edenic wombland, running off of the lifeforce of a concentric circle of subjugated cities, until it can no longer maintain control, at which point a number of heroes who are always Roland will emerge and destroy the Orchard, and the surmounting hero will become Orlando.<br /> Having written it, I can see that it is a deeply flawed and nonsensical idea, but at the same time, I have never felt such a strong sense of mythic resonance. After years of playing, I never felt any need to establish any sort of cosmological grounding for a game, and I feel I have gained a first hand understanding of the way myth functions to provide a microcosm of larger history.<br /> Jesus, what nonsense.Ottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-6719302699092638832013-03-25T01:23:53.016+11:002013-03-25T01:23:53.016+11:00I've always felt that altered states of consci...I've always felt that altered states of consciousness were an underdeveloped aspect of most rpg settings. From historical Mystery Cults, to <i>Dune</i>, to <i>The Matrix</i>, experiences that sort play an important roll in the source material. I don't know or how much these things should be integrated into a the game at the table, but I do think they should play an important roll in the fictional worlds. In my description of various exotic and eldritch drugs in Weird Adventures or elsewhere, I've tried to be much more detailed and "realistic" about their effects and uses.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-61566216789456396432013-03-24T23:08:01.502+11:002013-03-24T23:08:01.502+11:00I only wish I was as skilled as you, Jason :)I only wish I was as skilled as you, Jason :)Tom Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14893168729760333884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6231530392754888127.post-59701856380859235582013-03-24T23:02:04.241+11:002013-03-24T23:02:04.241+11:00Your blog is full of awesomis majoris. Your blog is full of awesomis majoris. Jason Jutahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07109751465009519029noreply@blogger.com