Well, it’s been a while since the last post.<\/p>\n
In that time I haven’t been wrestling with magic, no no. Instead I have been wrestling with societal organisation in post-Roman Britain.<\/p>\n
C&S is a game where hierarchy and influence matter, so you need some way of comparing, and the family you are raised with affaects the chances you had in life.<\/p>\n
However the society of the time is not as neatly stratified as we would like for a games system, so I distilled what I could, and in the end eliminated a whole layer that would be useful to me for the game, but I couldn’t justify or, more importantly, find terms for.<\/p>\n
That was salutary. I held onto it longer than I should have, but in the end, doing so simplified things for me. Very strange. Maybe I can learn from that.<\/p>\n
Another writing session will finish this. It would have been finished already save for the vagaries of Dropbox, which meant I had to recreate work. This will mean human character generation is done. I am not sure I wish to do non-human characters, the world is human, the world of Faerie is the adversary in many ways, but players are players.<\/p>\n
Once that is done then the next major tasks are <\/p>\n
Ach well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, it’s been a while since the last post. In that time I haven’t been wrestling with magic, no no. Instead I have been wrestling with societal organisation in post-Roman Britain. C&S is a game where hierarchy and influence matter, … Continue reading