From: apm272v@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc
Subject: Re: shadow world 2nd ed.
Date: 7 Jan 93 09:57:47 +1100
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Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <1if9gbINNke0@tamsun.tamu.edu>, apj6796@tamsun.tamu.edu (Albert Paul Jimenez III) writes:
> ICE recent came out with the 2nd Ed. of the Shaow World Master Atlas.
> I have questions:
   
	sorry, can't answer your questions on the 2nd ed, as i've only seen
the book once ... i agree with the implied sentiment that it's a lot to pay
if there's not much new stuff (they say 80 pages new, i think), and an
upgrade would be neat (i wondered if the new stuff could be from the atlas
addendum in the emer set ... )

> Also, info for those of you who own Emer: the Vorloi race is detailed in the 
> race index and given a small description; however the Isle of jade, their
> homeland, is not detailed at all in the supplement; it *is* however detailed 
> very well in White Wolf Magazine #25..
	thanks, i'll pick it up sometime ...
> More Q's:
>    How many people out there run Shadow world? 
	i use shadow world stuff (master atlas, eidolon, some of the other
books, but mostly the old vog mur/ironwind/tanara stuff.  i got the old
stuff when it came out, and still think it's some of the best material
around) but there's enough of the background that i find irritating that
my latest campaign is mostly another setting with the bits of SW that i liked
patched in.  have you ever noticed how most of the powerful races have
excessive average heights?  "tall figure watches from across tavern" ...
"how tall?" ... "about 6'8''" ... "big deal, gaunt's 6'9'', and he's the
smallest in the party" ... got really sick of that after a while.
i also don't think the new supplements give enough thought to interactions
between races with radically different lifespans (in eidolon, some of the
merchant families are run by immortal elves ... shouldn't this change things
quite a bit?)
>    If you do run it, what do you have on the othere hemisphere?
	i did partially detail a screaming waste of sand and old melted rock
like the planet got hit by some sort of mega-weapon, and that was the
hemisphere facing ... another idea i've seen tried is to _almost_ duplicate
the given hemishere (you meet your twin, discover alternate histories etc ...
no wonder Andraax went mad.)

>    How compatible is the Vog Mur/Iron Wind/Cloudlords of Tanara stuff with

>      the 'modern' Kulthea?
	fairly, but the problem to me was that ironwind (for example) gives
masses of detail, but it's 3000 years (i think) out of date, which means most
of it will have changed ... thought about a time travel campaign once.

>    There's obviously lots of intrigue about the Eye of Agoth... what gives?
	don't know ... but perhaps it's to do with the grand campaign trilogy
that we're yet to see ...

>    Anyone have a date system for Kulthea? I know there's 350 days/year, but
>      how many months/year? days/month or /week? Surely the traders of Sel-kai
>      and Kataine have come up with *some* way to schedule things...
	350 days per year, 5 months, each of 70 days (comes from phases of
Orhan) and 7 weeks in each month, from the 10 day cycle of one of the other
moons ... i'm surprised, i thought this stuff was in heaps of the books (i'm
sure it's in the atlas and the eidolon book.

>    Anyone know the complete history of the oft-mentioned _Elor Once Dark_?
	no ... but RMCVI has a bit on him (the guy who wrote that is a friend
of a friend ... not that australia's small or anything :-) ... and i keep
meaning to relay some questions to him ... mostly about ol Elor, but also
because i reckon his alternative rationale for the unlife is one of the best
things that's been done to SW in ages ...)

>    Anyone have details on more orders/religions based on the Lords of Orhan?
>    What *did* happen to the Kuluku?
>    Does an Essence flow map of Emer exist? if so, where? of all of Kulthea?
> 
	hmmm ... hope that helps

> 
> Until Andraax meets Schrek...
> 
> --Paul
> 
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