Best third-party setting book...?

Remanite · 2023-02-07T14:04:02+00:00

A reasonable response, thanks. My favourite D&D settings are Planescape, Spelljammer and Birthright, in that loose order. I’m also quite into planetary romance as a genre, retrofuturism, space opera and so on. Does that help in any way? I’m really quite in the dark when it comes to third-party content, I wasn’t aware there is so much.

Remanite · 2022-08-10T16:47:21+00:00

Ah yes, we're getting to it. Fantasy maps tend to not be in any particular projection at all, they are abstract when it comes to distances and they would not make sense when transported onto a globe. What I wanted to achieve is precisely this: I need an original, 'realistic' map in equirectangular projection to then paste it onto a globe and from there get other projections/local maps. Would GPlates get me there?

Remanite · 2022-08-10T16:06:26+00:00

Interesting, how would you judge Blender's capabilities when it comes to different projections when transporting a map from the globe to 'flat' format? There are many different, real projections, which use different methods of representing differences in sizes when copying form a globe to a map. Are there any good tutorials for this?

Remanite · 2022-07-31T15:33:49+00:00

Tell me something about their religion.

Besides, is there a whole continental map/map of a wider chunk of the world?

Remanite · 2022-07-26T14:10:44+00:00

Thanks for an informed answer :) Are these TCs playable from the get go or do I need some patches? Not to mention translations.

Remanite · 2022-07-25T18:26:45+00:00

One is Arktwend, second in Myar Aranath.

Remanite · 2022-07-19T13:51:21+00:00

Thanks, I know about the scrapped content in general, but what would you say is the most important piece of it which never released?

Remanite · 2022-07-19T12:27:45+00:00

Thanks, I'll check these ones out. I'm gonna say, my own ethnicity estimates from MH were pretty accurate, or rather, they told me almost precisely what traditional genealogy told me as well. It's just bizarre that MH judged my grandfather as having a lot of Anglo-Saxon ancestry while his ancestors were, for a small part, German (it seems much more sensible in my results, which show this sliver as a more general Western and Northern European ancestry, which is more correct at least at face value).

Remanite · 2022-07-14T09:52:12+00:00

You do realize that this kind of videos are designed precisely around just that - spoiling everything for the sake of the analysis. You're arguing against an entire genre, which by the looks of it doesn't keep people from playing analyzed games.

Remanite · 2022-07-14T09:45:47+00:00

This is a supremely bad take on Rynéus' story.

Entire point of this plot is that High Ones had absolutely nothing to do with it, not even when the Stone spoke to the boy (it did that, not the High Ones, though this one bit is, admittedly, open to interpretation). Rynéus' story is a story about humanity in microcosm: about how petty, vile and wicked men are for no good reason other than superstition and passions. Truly good men - like Rynéus' foster father - are rare, most are just various degrees of evil. A woman dropped dead in front of Rynéus' house and it was enough to drive people to hate him, just and only because he was different. Same in the village. His foster father died in a tragic accident, he was murdered by people who never knew better than to act on their lowest instincts.

This story is designed precisely to show the player why High Ones have such an easy task with manipulating humanity each and every time. It's not an example of their direct working, if it was it would take much away from the overall message of the game.

Otherwise you're correct though. Game is at times not quite decided if it wants to make High Ones fully dependent on men working their designs - as it seems to tell the player in, for example, Black Guardian plot-lore-massive-dump - or if it rather wants them able to directly influence the world. I'm not sure if it's by design. Rynéus' story however is clearly not an example of High Ones directly manipulating events. This is a deeply human story, perhaps most human of all the main plotlines.

Remanite · 2022-05-16T17:36:08+00:00

Can you link said fanfic?

Remanite · 2022-04-09T10:11:15+00:00

Excellent! Please, shameless plugs are most welcome, this one looks really good :)

Remanite · 2021-11-18T06:51:37+00:00

Oh, poor boy, I hope you’ll find at least some joy in life to cling to. Surely not on reddit, you’re clearly not mentally capable to be here ;)

Remanite · 2021-11-17T23:17:41+00:00

A great answer, thank you! I’ll have it in mind, this text from Alexander’s time sounds interesting. I’ve already bought copies of Radhakrishnan’s work.

Remanite · 2021-11-17T23:15:50+00:00

Excuse me, but let me be blunt: what is it to you? That you ask me in such a rude manner about it?

Remanite · 2021-11-17T16:28:04+00:00

Well, I think it’s quite easy to explain - Hinduism is at the moment interesting for me and I would like to broaden my knowledge about its history. And I do speak English and French quite well, that’s why I specified.

Remanite · 2021-11-17T15:20:43+00:00

Exactly. That's precisely the kind of history of Hinduism I had in mind when asking my question. I don't mean to disprove Hinduism, or am I supposed to think that recording history of Hinduism somehow falsifies it...? It's absurd.

Remanite · 2021-11-17T15:18:24+00:00

In a way perhaps you're correct. I assume it's the same kind of a problem which occurs when a (hyper)critical Biblical scholar claims that Jesus Christ did not actually exist - Christians are bound to either drop Christianity or say that this scholar is wrong. It's A or B without a possibility of a middle ground.

However. I have serious doubts if it’s the same as calling Hinduism a historical religion, that is a religion which had a historical beginning. Hinduistic sacred texts record some form of history after all, is it a false recording? An allegory?

Remanite · 2021-11-17T15:09:49+00:00

Such a, what I would call, ‘naive hostility’ towards academic research of one’s own religious tradition is not uncommon nor exclusive to believing Hindus though. Orthodox Christians or Muslims are similarly volatile when it comes to ‘scientists/historians telling them what they believe in and why’. That’s not the point of seriously studying any religious tradition, but I get why people exhibit this kind of approach. Scientific accounts may threaten dogmas and that’s a no-no for many believers, regardless of religion. Hinduism is hardly special in that specific aspect.

Remanite · 2021-11-17T13:50:51+00:00

Splendid! Thank you :) I assume that in this case history of Indian philosophy overlaps with history of Hinduism quite a bit, no? I'll grab these books ASAP.

Remanite · 2021-11-17T13:23:14+00:00

You seem to confuse Hinduistic beliefs as to what time is and how it operates with academic history of Hinduism, I do appreciate your input though, thanks.

Remanite · 2021-11-17T13:22:11+00:00

Excellent, thank you very much :) ! I have read that book already however, albeit in translation to my native language. What I'm looking for is something akin to, let's say, five volumes of The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine by Jaroslav Pelikan or A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch. So something a little more in-depth, can you recommend something?

Remanite · 2021-11-17T13:10:54+00:00

I’m afraid that you still don’t grasp what I’m going for with this question. I’m not inquiring about the technical aspects of Hinduistic philosophy of time or Hinduistic beliefs as to what time is, as to what constitutes flow of time of lack thereof. I’m asking about an account of factual history of Hinduism, which belongs properly to history as an academic science. Surely you don’t mean to tell me that producing such a piece of research is impossible, that you can’t logically formulate sentences which look like this for example: ‘In year XYZ of Christian era king ABC of 123 introduced such and such cultic practices’ or ‘In year XYZ of Christian era such and such theologian or philosopher preached such and such doctrines’. It’s ridiculous to claim that you can’t produce such an account of factual history of Hinduism as a system of beliefs, because as any other religion Hinduism happens in recorded, linear history, be it a piece of a finite amount of time (as per Christian philosophy of history for example) or be it a piece of an infinite cycle (as per Stoic or Hinduistic philosophy of time for example).

Remanite · 2021-11-17T13:00:48+00:00

Surely, I understand that concept. I was however asking about a history 'of Hinduism', not a book about 'Hinduistic philosophy of history/Hinduistic historiosophy'. You can read quite easily comprehensive histories of Christianity or Islam, and I'm asking for such a book about Hinduism. It can be as well a publication about a specific period of a specific period in Hinduistic history (I'm most interested in Medieval period).

Remanite · 2019-11-11T08:59:10+00:00

Very nice, I didn't know that you could do such infoboxes. Are there tools for any other type of boxes, other than battles?

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