[Torg] Conversions (Magic Axiom, 5 of 9)

[Chad Dickhaut]

--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Jones Jasyn <jasynj at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think my response above was kind of luke-warm. 

Don't get me wrong, I didn't take your reply in a bad way.  I just wanted to explain where I was coming from in my original assertion. :o)

> What I
> really mean, and what I'm thinking is:
> 
> "That sounds really cool. It's definitely a colorful and
> interesting twist on the Living Land. Damn, if I weren't
> already rewriting the cosm around totally different
> concepts, I'd use that in my next campaign."
> 
> "In fact, that's so good that I'll borrow it for the
> Conversions notes (giving Chad full credit, of course.)"
> 
> If that's okay with you.

Sure, have at it.  That's what the discussion list is for, IMHO. :o)

> 
> I still think the Akashans have to be 0, however. This
> isn't bad, as it gives them another reason to favor the
> Living Land (as they did in the official campaign).

It makes sense in a lot of ways, especially since you took Kadandra in a different direction than I did.  I made Kadandra the "classic sci fi meets cyberpunk" cosm: much of society is a rationalist technocracy, but there is a relatively seamy underbelly populated with those who don't, can't, or won't fit in with the rest of society.  Whether you're a researcher in the employ of the Global Council or a "Jaz-slinger" in the downunders, though, Science is the answer to most problems on Kadandra.  Given that I had made them the scientific hyper-rationalists of the cosmverse, I placed the Akashans and their client races within the pulpier genre of space opera.  Lensman was a big inspiration for my Star Sphere rewrite, especially in regard to the roving warrior-psi-priests who help to keep order among the star lanes; I even call them Lensbearers (though yes, the Jedi and Green Lantern Corps also were inspirations for them).

Similarly to you toward mine, I like your "re-imagining" of the cosms in question, but I've already put a lot of pixels to .doc in pursuit of my own versions.  I guess one of these days I should bring some of them up to presentable form and post them to the list.  I've been saying that for years now, so I guess I should get cracking on it, right? :o)

Chad