Comments | stryck: Busiest port in the Dwarven homelands

stryck

Busiest port in the Dwarven homelands

Feb 10, 2009 19:08

While sitting at work today, waiting for our network to have its outages resolved, I had a thought struck me. I mentioned it on Twitter so I wouldn't forget it, but couldn't go into specifics there because of the 140 character limit ( Read more... )

role-playing!, world-building

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tuftears February 11 2009, 01:30:31 UTC

Huh, I never knew that about dwarven ships in Spelljammer. };) That sounds like it'd be fun to see in a computer RPG sometimes.

stryck February 11 2009, 01:56:08 UTC

Spelljammer is full of cool things like that. Elven ships are big, butterfly-shaped things that grow and have to be trimmed and groomed frequently to keep them (literally) ship-shape.

And beholder ships are just scary. O.O

I think a good computer RPG in a Spelljammer setting would end up focusing on the various ports and ships and discoveries, with the space travel part a question of having food and air enough to survive the time and any chance encounters.

tuftears February 11 2009, 02:00:38 UTC

I want the people who did Planescape Torment to do that! Planescape: Torment was one of the great CRPGs. ^_^

tuftears February 11 2009, 02:03:57 UTC

Addenda: evidently Black Isles Studio got closed down by Interplay. Some of the people left to Troika Studios, others went to Obsidian Entertainment.

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aefenglommung February 11 2009, 04:46:15 UTC

Here's to amber waves of grain

xaq February 11 2009, 06:41:41 UTC

"Okay, so at the start of the adventure, the party meets in a bar."

"That's no bar...that's a space station!"