Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being). The Hill Cantons cosmology inspiration mix Jack Vance novels (absurdist satire of religious mores) Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and Three Hearts, Bachman's Dragon article (the Weird and its cosmic juxtaposition to human civilization, the waxing/waning of gods being tied to the amount of human worship and the reduction of “Faerie”) Leiber's Lankhmar stories (more satire, petty gods and apotheosis) Early Renaissance Catholicism, Mediterranean hero-cults, Hellenistic and Roman sun-cults, Theosophy, Jewish neoplatinism and mystical traditions, Piper's Lord Kalvan, Early Christian theological disputes (Sun Lord) Hussites, Mormon feminism, William Blake's poetic mythology around the Triple Goddess (Celestial Lady) Slavic pagan mythology (Pahr Old Gods and a number of godlings) Hindu and Native American creation myths (World Turtle) M.A.R Barker's Creat...
I think we're holding the Hydra retreat Thursday evening, so skipping out on games then. (Also, arriving too late to join your Warband! game, but will totally swing by and say hello right off the bat.)
ReplyDeleteFriday I'm interested in hopping into either Merle Rasmussen's or Jennell Jaquays's games, and Saturday I'm thinking of trey causey 's game (unless I start editing Mortzengersturm by that time, in which case I'll hold off). I also want to see how folks fare in MIE, so I might try to peek at that.
Love to have you, Humza.
ReplyDeletethats kinda what i was seeing also. if yall are doing hydra stuff i will try to get in a grid game then on thursday. i think my game i really want to play in will be sat morning perrin game old school sci fi d and d
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