tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post5402182702870130270..comments2024-03-27T23:28:19.341-07:00Comments on Telecanter's Receding Rules: Sandbox Wonders 6Telecanterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-91901337178326066822014-02-15T23:20:03.231-08:002014-02-15T23:20:03.231-08:00I wouldn't identify the "completely rando...I wouldn't identify the "completely random stuff" altar with the swords & sorcery genre broadly, but more with a particular flavor of Old School D&D or T&T from the late '70s -- the real heyday of random tables and head-trippy <i>Heavy Metal</i> magazine-inspired WTF-ness.<br /><br />I think you're on the right track with fairy tale logic possessing a certain consistency -- Basic principles from hermetic and folk traditions like "As Above, So Below" and "Like Begets Like". It also encompasses simple, perhaps childlike, inversions of the familiar, like your Root Forest -- Things that arise readily from idle wonder, and thus have a touch of familiarity seasoning their wondrousness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-25425595626137635482014-02-15T10:15:56.133-08:002014-02-15T10:15:56.133-08:00Thanks to both of you. I know I probably self-ana...Thanks to both of you. I know I probably self-analyze a bit much for some people's taste, but that's how I am able to make the things that I do :)<br /><br />Now I'm wondering about what "fairy tale logic" means. Because I agree with you, umbrielx, that it applies here and I've heard the term used before, but I never examined the phrase before. I wonder if it just means there is a surprising but consistent logic to something. So the opposite might be a swords and sorcery type altar that does completely random stuff to you.Telecanterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238356788092725244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-19250247660506237222014-02-14T09:54:06.847-08:002014-02-14T09:54:06.847-08:00This, very much this.
While reading OSR blogs c...This, very much this. <br /><br />While reading OSR blogs can be fun in its own right, at the end of the day I'm looking for usable stuff for my own games, and as I only have a certain amount of time to read and search, blogs that don't have useful content get culled from my reading list. I keep coming back here though, because the content you produce is wonderfully usable. As many posts about sandbox wonders as you'd like to make, I'm up for reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446461178381374626.post-70855883517490809132014-02-13T23:32:38.186-08:002014-02-13T23:32:38.186-08:00I'm much enjoying all of these. I agree with y...I'm much enjoying all of these. I agree with your observation about the difference between "Wonder" and "WTF", but beyond just starting from a point of familiarity, I think the best Wonders have a sense of "fairy tale logic" about them, and most of yours seem to embody that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com