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Re: A General Question About Castle World
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Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:01:26 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Andrew Krug writes:
> Shiri, binky, and Craig
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> Well first off let me thank you all for your deep insights and thoughts on my
> questions. I appreciate you each taking the time (ecspecially Shiri and binky)
> to give me thoughtful and detailed answers. I have a much better
> understanding now of what CW is all about. I particullary like binky's
> comparison to comic book cross-overs (being that I'm a HUGE Captain America
> fan).
i'm more of a wolverine fan, esp. after seeing the movie!
It seems that short term storyline cross-overs may be the best way to
> achieve good storylines and still maintain a good degree of individual control
> over your story and characters.
>
> I guess I was moving down the trail toward the idea of someone (or group of
> someones) becoming the dark overlord (or queen as the case may be) for Castle
> World
eh, i don't think any fig can ever claim that prize. it infringes too much
on the autonomy of individual realms.
and focusing their energy on developing dark, nasty characters and
> structures while others focused on perhaps the good side of things.
this is cool! many folks like to have a balance of good-n-evil in their
realms. this affords the ability to have realm contained, conflict driven
storylines. the crossovers end up creating more complex conflicts. ("hey,
you're allied with my enemy, so i don't like you" type stuff)
In terms
> of resources that seems to make sense because then you could focus on
> obtaining one particular type of mini-figs (like all Fright Knights, or all
> Black Falcons etc...). In my younger days I used to take part in quite a bit
> of Lead Miniature Fantasy Wargaming and it was easier for the group that I
> played with if different people focused on different types of armies so that
> we could really reach a grand scale in a certain area (like a huge skeleton
> army or a really nice collection of elves). I tend to take the opionion that
> I would rather specialize, focus my resources (aka. CASH), and build a really
> specialized force (with accompanying structures) than have to dabble in 5 or 6
> different areas and really never be able to do any of them the way I really
> want (the price of being somewhat of a perfectionist)
> While I can appreciate Shiri's idea of building, photographing, tearing down,
> and building something new, I can't speak for anyone else but after I spend
> several weeks (often longer) putting together something that really ROCKS I
> hate to tear it apart. It's just very difficult for me to do. I guess I
> would rather work on building the "perfect" (and I use that term VERY loosely)
> castle or town and then use that in conjunction with other peoples "perfect"
> structures to make one interlaced storyline.
just different approaches, but both work! even "good
guys" could end up in conflict with each other for that matter. "bad guys"
in conflict just makes sense! there's so much bad-guy on bad-guy violence in
the world today!
this is a great aproach to CW and several folks do specialize in building a
singular force. jeff's auldragon and richard's blacktron/1313 CW creations
spring to mind. (i'm a "build-photo-tear down" type person, myself)
Of course not being a techno
> internet guy I'm not sure how to make that work from a computer standpoint.
lol! (laugh out loud) you and me both! i've only been on the internet for
a year and half. you'll be suprised at how quickly you'll learn!
I guess this may only be possible if folks lived closer together and could join
> in one place a couple times a month and put it all together. I'm not sure if
> that is possible to do in a CW format or not????
well, for instance, if shiri's sig fig, SCAR ever wants to visit one of my
structures, all i have to do is put together a scar 'fig and take the pics.
also, hook up with (or start) a local LUG group for your area! pawel and i
spent time at the first DixieLUG meeting to hammer out details of setting up
Castle World. at our last meeting, franklin cain and i set up an awesome
seige of gregor tower.
> Now Shiri, I know for a while you were the caretaker of CW. Is anyone working
> up a map, and will that map contain all the stuctures on the site or will it
> be and amalgamation (is that a word) of all the Balladeers sites???
oh boy! that's been a job i've been working on for a while now. :-O it's
all on paper, and i'm learning the computer skills to make it into virtual
internet reality. dave eaton is working on the interactive aspect of the
site. richard marchetti polishes the graphics. everybody pitches in. our
fabulous founder, pawel n. has been working at summer camp, and that's where
shiri and her slave-boy, chris kicked in. (oops did i type that?;-)
Just
> wondering. Once again thanks for all your feedback and "HEY PASS THE BRICKS
> PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!"
~ yes, please!
later ~ craig~
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