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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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TalonofAnathrax said:
I read the AoS discussions, and was struck by the "where are the fanfics" question (IIRC @Codex mentioned it? I forget).
I have been thinking about it. My guess ?
The problem is the setting.

All "dimensional pockets", "world blown up", "infinite pocket dimensions" or "endless flying islands" settings tend to have tiny fanfic communities. Causes :
- There is such a thing as too much freedom stifling creativity and motivation
- It makes places feel irrelevant, making things character-focused and not setting-focused
- How can you rely on shared place knowledge when each individual story syarts with "the GM makes stuff up" and "you cannot think of smart geopolitics and wider scale stuff, it's all made up ad hoc or character-dependant
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While these arguments do sound compelling, it does raise the question of how 40k gets its fanfics given that it'd suffer from the same problems.
 
Andres said:
While these arguments do sound compelling, it does raise the question of how 40k gets its fanfics given that it'd suffer from the same problems.
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40k has the Empire. It's not one location, but it is one rather monolithic culture with specific cultural referents that allow it to be thought of as one setting in the same way a specific nation can. You start talking about how the Administratum is on a specific planet, or refer to a planet as a Hive World, and, while they may not have heard of the planet, 40k people know what you're talking about immediately and can start thinking through the implications of those facts.

I can't speak to if AoS has the same thing (as I'm not wildly familiar), but its equivalents sound a lot less setting-dominating and thus less of a default with easily understood referents.

40k is also more popular, so the same amount of fanfic per capita would still be a lot more fanfic.
 
Boney said:
Everything but Hysh. Azyr is drawn to the desire to reach that which is out of reach, which is something mice can feel.
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I can't wait for the groundbreaking research group to release the data they've been working on for decades, of having monowinded stagnant areas in each wind and only have the Hysh ones curdle, thereby revealing an inherent link between Hysh and Dhar, and casting suspicion on all Hysh Wizards as being secretly corrupted - all because they had a vermin problem they didn't control for.
 
@Boney I have noticed that we don't have Panoramia's stats on the Dramatis Personae page. Why is that? I assume we have a very good familiarity with her; Is there some other prerequisite we need?
 
Tobtorp said:
Well we don't really go out adventuring with her much...
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I assume our knowledge of our allies stats is based more of what we know. For example, We only know Wilhelmina's stewardship because thats all we've seen of her. I assume we'd know enough about Panoramia to have a general idea of all her stats except maybe martial.
 
F4OAXB said:
I assume our knowledge of our allies stats is based more of what we know. For example, We only know Wilhelmina's stewardship because thats all we've seen of her. I assume we'd know enough about Panoramia to have a general idea of all her stats except maybe martial.
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We have worked with Wilhelmina extensively in the field of stewardship. We really haven't done much with panoramia professionally.
 
F4OAXB said:
I have noticed that we don't have Panoramia's stats on the Dramatis Personae page. Why is that? I assume we have a very good familiarity with her; Is there some other prerequisite we need?
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Boney doesn't update the Dramatis Personae page often. He's expressed that he doesn't like to do so and prefers to spend the energy writing updates instead. I think Horstmann only got his stats because he had to think about them for an Update where his rolls were crucial.
 
Tobtorp said:
We have worked with Wilhelmina extensively in the field of stewardship. We really haven't done much with panoramia professionally.
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That kinda makes sense. I think you would still know plenty about her capabilities. Especially in magic/learning.
Codex said:
Boney doesn't update the Dramatis Personae page often. He's expressed that he doesn't like to do so and prefers to spend the energy writing updates instead. I think Horstmann only got his stats because he had to think about them for an Update where his rolls were crucial.
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That makes sense. I imagine there would be no reason to until she use needs to use her stats in a scene.
 
F4OAXB said:
@Boney I have noticed that we don't have Panoramia's stats on the Dramatis Personae page. Why is that? I assume we have a very good familiarity with her; Is there some other prerequisite we need?
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Mathilde hasn't really seen her in action in a context Mathilde understands well enough to gauge her abilities. And fully summarizing and enumerating someone's abilities and affinities and life experiences is possibly the least efficient conversion of effort into content I've encountered, and given the choice between one more person on Dramatis Personae or about half an update being written, I've been choosing the update whenever practical.
 
Boney said:
Mathilde hasn't really seen her in action in a context Mathilde understands well enough to gauge her abilities. And fully summarizing and enumerating someone's abilities and affinities and life experiences is possibly the least efficient conversion of effort into content I've encountered, and given the choice between one more person on Dramatis Personae or about half an update being written, I've been choosing the update whenever practical.
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Thanks for the reply. I forgot how inefficient details like that would be in terms of content. If you can't tell, I'd probably make the worst qm or dm in the universe because I'd be so neurotic about details like that.
 
Parabola said:

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Rodents are apparently capable of learning to do complicated things purely for recreation. There's a reason they're one of the most common test animals.
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"Drive Car-Car, yes-yes! Will be GREASTEST addition to Clan force and me-me be greatest warplock engineer in history, yes-yes"
-Squeel Feratti about 5 seconds before dieing in a horrible accident involving his new invention, believed to be an vaper engine-propelled machine designed for high speeds. No evidence that his assistant Labratiguini sabotaged it. However, he is quoted as saying Feratti's contraption was loud, annoying, and not fit for service.
 
Daedwartin said:
"Drive Car-Car, yes-yes! Will be GREASTEST addition to Clan force and me-me be greatest warplock engineer in history, yes-yes"
-Squeel Feratti about 5 seconds before dieing in a horrible accident involving his new invention, believed to be an vaper engine-propelled machine designed for high speeds. No evidence that his assistant Labratiguini sabotaged it. However, he is quoted as saying Feratti's contraption was loud, annoying, and not fit for service.
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I mean. Yeah. The moment ANYONE figures out cars in Warhammer Fantasy, the Skaven are going to go full Fury Road on that shit.
 
Hats Max: Furry Road

[x] Wissenland
[x] Sylvania

These seem more time sensitive to me than this specific point in the years-to-decade of Silverspear preparations.
 
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