Hey all. So I'm writing a google + mixtape post commemorating some of the great, long-running campaign on G+. Hill Cantons is at the top of my list. I'm collecting reflections and reminiscences from folks, game ephemera, session write ups and the like. I've followed Chris' blog from the beginning, and played with y'all in a late Hill Cantons phase for about 6 months, and read the Hydra Cooperative products. So I know a lot. But I still need your help to do this right. This is kind of hard one, because I know how much this game means to everyone who plays in, and how long it's been going. But I'm going to ask you try to say something about what this game has meant to you. Chris Kutalik here are some questions for you as the DM, feel free to answer none, some, or all, or totally different questions that you think of: (1) What were you trying to do with the campaign when you started it? What were your aspirations? (2) It's been running so incredibly long (1...
Where does the Thousand-Seeded Pomegranate come down on industrial necromancy (if one is able to pin said belief system down on such a thing)?
ReplyDeleteHumza K while the doctrine itself is inscrutable and obscure on the subject, support for the sect is strong among the Bazaar owners and their class interest runs pretty strong against the necromantic plantation economy—so basically opposed.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of an ancient empire in one of my games named Turalia, built on the concept of body taxes and labor paid back by the dead. Turalians lived lives of relative leisure and ease, with their fields worked by the headless reanimated
ReplyDeletezombies and skeletons of their lower classes.
The tax haven was eventually destroyed in the Goldenmouth Uprising of the caste-loving Adamites.
Luka Rejec a whole new meaning to trans-humanism!
ReplyDeleteChris Kutalik ahh! And I saw on the blog I maed the same comment four years ago!
ReplyDeleteTime is a flat circle.
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