I guess we could, or continue on about their foibles and hoisted petards and whatnot. But I'd kinda wish we kept on the quality of his content and its kickass potential. I sorta want a reason to incorporate a "buffalo hide TV" now in my game, especially since I just found that Maztica has a spell equivalent in the spell Scrollsee. Something about the North American continent makes TVs a natural fit.

Quote from: Opaopajr;840725I sorta want a reason to incorporate a "buffalo hide TV" now in my game, especially since I just found that Maztica has a spell equivalent in the spell Scrollsee. Something about the North American continent makes TVs a natural fit.

Teepee or lodge poles as antennas. Or maybe a pole with feathers and buffalo horns and stuff helps extend the range or accuracy of the "buffalo hide TV." The idea that people would be fiddling with their 'antennas' like in the 1950s and 1960s seems kind of quirky and interesting.

Well that would be a cool idea: totem poles, tikis, statues, standing stones all over the world being supernatural conduits or antennae...

I'm sure that "Ancient Aliens" goofball has already tapped that, though.

The Georgio Tsoukalos recursion is one I'd like to play in. It'd be like the Torg Space Gods cosm turned to 11.

Quote from: Necrozius;840778Well that would be a cool idea: totem poles, tikis, statues, standing stones all over the world being supernatural conduits or antennae...

I'm sure that "Ancient Aliens" goofball has already tapped that, though.

Yeah, I was going to mention that show. Its great for mining kooky setting ideas.

Quote from: Paraguybrarian;840779The Georgio Tsoukalos recursion is one I'd like to play in. It'd be like the Torg Space Gods cosm turned to 11.

That could be pretty cool...

Quote from: Bren;840741Teepee or lodge poles as antennas. Or maybe a pole with feathers and buffalo horns and stuff helps extend the range or accuracy of the "buffalo hide TV." The idea that people would be fiddling with their 'antennas' like in the 1950s and 1960s seems kind of quirky and interesting.

Make sure the guy doing the actual fiddling is a hapless, bemused nephew instead of the real player in the situation. The last time I visited a traditional religious specialist, he legit made me mount his giant new tv on the wall & then set it up while we talked. Or maybe make the PCs do it, being shouted minor adjustments & criticisms all the while.

Quote from: antion;840808Make sure the guy doing the actual fiddling is a hapless, bemused nephew instead of the real player in the situation. The last time I visited a traditional religious specialist, he legit made me mount his giant new tv on the wall & then set it up while we talked. Or maybe make the PCs do it, being shouted minor adjustments & criticisms all the while.

Bonus if the guy shouting the instructions is warm and dry inside while the PCs are out in the wind and rain making the adjustments that they can barely hear over the storm... and the wind keeps messing with their adjustment.

Ahhh....reminds me of the 1960s.

Quote from: Paraguybrarian;840720Now that there's a thread over there, we can gauge the real reaction or lack.

Well, it's been an entire day, and the thread you mentioned has received a shocking 1 response. It is now approaching the bottom of the RPGnet forum front page and will soon disappear from general view.

So at this time it appears that Zak S will likely be proven correct.

Link for those who are curious:
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760710-The-Strange-Ohunkakan-Thunder-Plains-replacement

Hehe, just noticed the thread on Dark Albion over there is on the front page and has 57 posts, about a fifth of which argue about the 'problematicity' of the RPGPundit.

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;840824Hehe, just noticed the thread on Dark Albion over there is on the front page and has 57 posts, about a fifth of which argue about the 'problematicity' of the RPGPundit.

Dagnabit, don't pique my curiosity.  I'm trying to avoid that site but juicy stuff like this makes me want to look.

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;840822Well, it's been an entire day, and the thread you mentioned has received a shocking 1 response. It is now approaching the bottom of the RPGnet forum front page and will soon disappear from general view.

So at this time it appears that Zak S will likely be proven correct.

Link for those who are curious:
http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?760710-The-Strange-Ohunkakan-Thunder-Plains-replacement

Yeah, I know. Some asshole who may or may not be a paraprofessional library worker posted that thread. I wish I could say I am surprised by the (lack of) response.

Quote from: Bren;840741Teepee or lodge poles as antennas. Or maybe a pole with feathers and buffalo horns and stuff helps extend the range or accuracy of the "buffalo hide TV." The idea that people would be fiddling with their 'antennas' like in the 1950s and 1960s seems kind of quirky and interesting.

Quote from: Necrozius;840778Well that would be a cool idea: totem poles, tikis, statues, standing stones all over the world being supernatural conduits or antennae...

I'm sure that "Ancient Aliens" goofball has already tapped that, though.

Quote from: antion;840808Make sure the guy doing the actual fiddling is a hapless, bemused nephew instead of the real player in the situation. The last time I visited a traditional religious specialist, he legit made me mount his giant new tv on the wall & then set it up while we talked. Or maybe make the PCs do it, being shouted minor adjustments & criticisms all the while.

See, that's the stuff I dig. This is flavorful tidbits, like "attuning" to the spirit world is the norm, but the religious leader expects a little hands on help while setting up "the equipment." Very in tune with the atmosphere of the cosmology as well, where finding your path through dreams and visions expects a little effort and cooperation on the seeker's part.

I now have a scene brewing in my head of a medicine man's teepee with his TV-hide on the fritz. Whacks the hide frame a bit, asks a local kid to adjust a hard-to-reach sacred feather, then shrugs and calls a camp meeting. "Well, the spirits are fighting again, ruining spirit world reception, so a storm's a'brewin'. Time to move, only got a few days."

Similar to some of the stuff suggested in Andersons "Operation Chaos" novel. Just do the same for spirit magic and extrapolate it to modern times. Probably end up with something like an NA version of the Flintstones. Just not as extensive.

I always thought Shadowrun should have played with these sorts of consepts more.

Quote from: Paraguybrarian;840835Yeah, I know. Some asshole who may or may not be a paraprofessional library worker posted that thread. I wish I could say I am surprised by the (lack of) response.

And after two piffling posts it's gone from the front page as of now.

Congratulations outrage brigade, you never fail to disappoint!

Dunno what people were expecting. Flag-waving and high-fives?

That went out the window for the usual suspects once Monte didn't make a grovelling apology and called some of them out on their antics. It's not enough to admit fault, you have to eat shit whilst doing it for some of these fucks. Monte was never gonna get any kudos from that kind of person - the ones that shout loudest and 'lobby' hardest (i say lobby, i mean more like organised harassing, but that's another story).

The people who were able to get this changed because of reasoned argument, rather than the outrage brigade, are the ones celebrating and they're too polite to do it in public.

So you're left with largely silence. Critics of the original write-up who wanted blood and instead got called out on yet more shitty behavior towards designers aren't saying 'well done' because they didn't get Monte to grovel to them and the people who actually got it changed are too busy playing to post about it.