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bedlamgames · 2 years ago

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Q&A #116

Today we have a pally possibly being too convincing, scaling standards of ambiguous gender, and a decidedly thorny question I’m honnestly amazed it took this long to ask about. Well publically anyway as I’d already had one person suggesting it privately as an option, and needing to calm the nerves of one rather worried artist who wondered where I stood on the issue.

[ Anonymous asked : ] had the Severina unique recruitable slaver (Rynhart) " [see] the error of their ways and accompanied the paladin to redeem themselves through a new life of righteousness and devotion.", which seems like it shouldnt be possible?

- - Heh, will have to come up with some alternate text removal for someone like Rynhart that even such a persuasive paladin couldn’t manage to turn their head.

[ Anonymous asked : ] It seems like Aurviel Nightkiss no longer has the unique aspect: Flesh Art, and only has the enchanted item Despoiler's Reward. Is this intentional?

- - I think she always had a enchanted item instead of an aspect if I remember right? I checked back to 0.90 and she’s unchanged from what she is now.

[ Anonymous asked : ] I'm not sure if this is a bug or if the requirements for getting her have changed, but I can't seem to get the unique slave, Johanna from the Centre of Attention quest anymore. Male PC in the first slot with Corruption, Alrissa with Corruption in the second, and a generic slaver in the third slot has worked in the past, but now, even on a critical success, I just get a generic slave.

- - You only get her on the first attempt. Otherwise you’ll get the generic version.

[ cappyanon asked: ] So, there are two things that slightly puzzle me with character creation that bug me a little, so this is more of an ambiguous "bug report" than necessarily a question meant for this feature, but here it goes; Is there any chance you can go back through the male portraits characters and re-look at how the feminine and exceptional femininity traits work/are distributed? I feel like there's a lot of portraits where I should *really* be able to play as feminine, Goblin Trade Prince, the new Draenai portrait I forget the name of, that looks reminiscent of an Asian realdoll, and I think a taggerfolk portrait iirc. Hope you have good luck with your ongoing medical problems with your eyes, and can make a full recovery.

- - Happy to sort that for next update, and if you want the option for more of those borderline characters I didn’t think needed to start with (Fem) as standard but could have it in Full Custom let me know and I’ll make it available for them too. Thanks for the well wishes on the eye health. Still not quite back to 100% alas.

[ From the Patreon : ] Have you given any thought to using that AI Art system to gen art for your game?

- - Now that's a topic to put it lightly. Yes I've certainly considered it. Very tempting and that's quite the understatement. Especially to remove a bunch of the placeholder work like many of the portraits which could take a long, long time and expense to update them all. For now I'm going to rely on using commmissioned artists only as I think it's the right thing to do.

[ From the Patreon : ] Out of interest, is there an exceptional result for the ensnared rose quest to recover the package?

- - Best result on that one is getting the Cathayan bandit leader if you're taking slaves or getting extra gold if not

[ From the Patreon : ] there should probably be better feedback/mechanics when trying to get slavers to do stuff. When you try to intimidate someone and fail, for instance, it says the leader "wouldn't stand a chance in a fight," even if the leader is stronger, taller, aggressive, has magic, etc., especially since what it really means is "try again another day and you might get a different result." In general it's too hard to talk slavers into doing things.

- - There is an option to turn on more information in regard to the various rolls and modifiers.

And now a whole bunch of random lore questions

[ From the Discord : ] do Lamia/Lizardfolk/Gorgons consider Draki to be some kind cousin race? not so much like related cousin, but more like if they see one in a fight, they're quicker to side with them sort of thing

- - no, they don't smell at all right, and it puts them on edge. Draki may get entirely the wrong impression as the lamia keeps licking their lips and thinking they're horny for them

[ From the Discord : ] Is there a faction/race that is Far Ahead in Science/Culture/Magic/Faith? (Me note: Think 4x/Civ style win conditions)

- - High Elfs are winning a faith/culture strat for sure in how much they've managed to grab onto positions of power in the church of the dawning light

[ From the Discord : ] what type of job/classification would each race take too ordinarily? Veil are scholars, or record keepers, but what about the rest

- - Drider seamstress obvs. Troll bartenders or bouncers. Even wenches sometimes. They like taverns.

[ From the Discord : ] Are there any minor faiths we have yet to see?

- - I did have a dropped faith back when I was more using existing art and wanted to do something with those demon hunter/that draenei thing style tatts. Ideas from that are now going to be eventually, maybe used for that circlyte cult I talked about in new races.

I've also been toying with doing something with the Hashut/Mordor vibe seeing as the zharr I did something entirely different with. That'd probably be an add on to a new race

[ From the Discord : ] do get sunny beaches north of the kreen desert right?

- - Closest sunny beaches is there's some north of quellini which is on that patch of land just across the sea. There's probably also some both north and south of the sands east of the mountains.

[ From the Discord : ] You know those maps of the us with the most searched sex term? for each state If that was a thing in NH, what would the top search term of each area be?

- - City of Aversol: Probably Convent/Corruption or both at once

Ever Forest: The urge to make a world wide web joke is so very high. Probaby High Elves due to them being tantalizingly close but also far too protected

Great Plains: Nobles getting degraded

Dreadsea Coast: Given all the brothels and vast variety already available, likely something overly romantic and with a plot to really get invested in, also they'd probably be the ones making it for the other regions, and there's likely some porn shows with an audience to be found

Deep Mountains: They like to get out into the fresh air and touch grass too much to bother with porn

[ From the Discord : ] Are there beauty pageants in the city?

- - Beauty Pageants are certainly a thing, not just for ladies either, and yes that sounds like a great unexplored avenue for assignment fodder

[ From the Discord : ] are there any widely played boardgames in the world of NH?

- - Definitely yes on the board games, though they haven't caught on as much due to the expense of acquiring one, as card games of which there's a dizzying numbers of.

So you'll only likely find them in the possession of the richer types as a status symbol.

[ From the Discord : ] What's the discovery that hits the sweet spot between "utterly baffling to those that found it" but would be completely mundane to like, us? like gym equipment or something

- - explosives that actually do something cause a certain amount of awe, they are incredibly hard to transport without losing potency, and so only the really well funded mining guilds can afford to make use of them. It's so rare and so unlike what can be accomplished that some nobles will pay to come along and watch the devestation

[ From the Discord : ] hmm, which race, not counting the fel, would you say is publicly viewed as the most "dangerous" correctly or not

- - witches, absolutely witches

there's posters in most town saying if you see a black pointy hat to report the sightings to your friendly town guard

other than that depends who you ask, you could probably get someone to say pretty much any race deoending on their experiences

also lago'mae but that's mainly as either they won't have heard of them or they just wonder what the one they might have seen was up too

demi-angels too I guess, though they're more 'in danger'

only exceptions seen as 'mostly harmless' are probably the hakh

[ From the Discord : ] Speaking of Oozes, how "in control" of their bodies are they? Like could a sufficiently determined Ooze go full Mystique and mimic anything she sees - aside from, like, still being see-through

- - reasonably so but they do have a preffered form they need to revert to where their body is at ease

anything they do that's not that requires a certain strain, it might be minimal but eventually it adds up like holding a book out in front of you

but yes there's like the equivalent of ooze body builders who can perfectly mimic someone's body and facial features for a time, though y'know still being green and translucent

[ From the Discord : ] how long can Lamia get?

- - not that big, hmm say can bring themself up taller than an ogre, and with a tail length at least as long again as that

though most aren't that long

[ From the Discord : ] Do the various beastie races integrate their traits into beauty standards? Shiny scales are attractive on lamia, neko appreciate a fluffy tail, horned ones like big horns, etc.

- - lamia aren't too bothered about scales as long as they're not too uncared for, mermaids though absolutely are, and yes horned ones very much believe the bigger, the more curly the horns the better

[ From the Discord : ] Assuming an average member of the race, which race is the least bothered about being enslaved?

- - probably neko? They're used to people thinking they can take advantage of them

and will often play along if it sounds fun

though full on enslavement is going to get even the most ditzy neko thinking they deserve more respect than that

[ From the Discord : ] Which races tend to be the most solitary, and due to preference instead of rarity and all that?

- - driders are the obvious one, as they tend to either be a loner doing their own thing, or a single mother raising a couple of driderlings at most

not counting leviathan though

they love it there and so have congregated far more than is usual for them

[ From the Discord : ] I'm sure you answered this way back, but if Aversol is like NH Vegas, what are the other 2 main cities like

- - hmm I wouldn't see Aversol is Vegas, I'd say if you can think of a city with a bit of a chip on their shoulder (naming no names as I'm sure you can think of your own national examples) due to not being the biggest, not being the wealthiest, and certainly not the best located but think they're better than they're given credit

Quinelles is Aversol with it's act more together, it's actually on the coast, it's got much cleaner streets, and everything is just that bit more glam and shiny. Though it's also got more of a troubled recent history within living memory as it has been sacked, and there have been incidents locally that have scared the locals so they tend to be a bit less relaxed

Leviathan is weird, people don't tend to stay long, as you either jive with living on an unimaginably big sea monster corpse or you don't

[ From the Discord : ] Is the local l-ball team the most victorious though? That's everything. that. counts.

- - ooh tricky let's say the division is curently close between a team from the drow city under the deep mountains, and one owned by a dwarf also from the deep mountains and so there's a lot of interest and rivalry

though that's just the local league and neither are expeted to do much against the teams from further north

[ From the Discord : ] Is are there kaiju equivalents in NH? like is there a Gidorah/Godzilla adjacent mythos?

- - there's evidence of them but the biggest creature people have actually seen are the bigs and mermen

[ From the Discord : ] seeing as how Lago'Mae's are the most recently found race, are there as of yet undiscovered races? (don't have to name names)

- - there are races that people don't know about usually like gorgons, but even in those cases there's going to be plenty who do based on location like in the frost wastes everyone knows about them

looking at my races to do list, scorps would be one of those people know all about them in the sands, but outside of it people would be rather scared by the concept actually existing

spotted newps would be another where those living on the edges like wastelanders know they're a thing, but outside it'd rare to have heard of them

[ From the Discord : ] What's the setting's Florida equivalent I.E. has a lot of bizarre stories come out of it

- - you know what? Totally this region where the game is set, the deep mountains is totally blamed for being a weirdness magnet

that's one of the reasons Aversol people have a complex, and will say things like '"we're not that got close to those mountains, really"

and get pouty when relatives refuse to visit

[ From the Discord : ] Everyone seems to be more or less ok with the status quo, is there any race that is actively trying to rock the boat?

- - probably lago'mae actually as they have a genuine agenda which is why they've made themself known for the first time in the last couple of decades

they're unsure of what they need to do, or to who, but they have something to do and they do not care whose toes they need to step on to do it, tail either if toes do not apply

[ From the Discord : ] Does the mermaid update come with a Suspiciously Large Crab (Bea) trait

- - ...why must you create more work for me, okay it does now :D

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