Saturday, January 14, 2012

Reconstruction of the Titanic

Question: Could you do a titan based thing like you did with each pantheon?

Well, depends on what you mean. If you're referring to giving each Titan Avatar his or her own page with detailed powers, probably not; that information isn't really necessary for our players, and we don't want to horn in on territory covered by the books when we don't have changes to make.

But! If you mean are we considering adding a section on the Titans to the site, the answer is yes. We've been discussing it for quite some time, but it's a little ways back in our work queue; it's a pretty enormous undertaking, because in addition to all the usual nitty gritty (writing HTML, choosing stories, finding artwork, creating site graphics) there's the issue that we want to change pretty much everything (I know, the shock of us wanting to revise material is probably enormous, right?).

While there are a lot of creative ideas in the published Titans, and we really enjoy many of them, there are also a lot of confusing discrepancies (what is with Coatlicue's crocodile half?), odd choices (Ahketaten is great and all, but whither Apep, Egyptians? And what was the thought process behind randomly renaming Fujin and pretending he has nothing to do with his brother?) and outright insanities (dude. Huehueteotl. Mikaboshi. Pretty much all of Vritra. What the hell is going on?). I won't spend eighteen paragraphs right now ranting about how Huracan is not Aztec and how Mut and Gaia are not the same, but it's an area in which we'd like to do a lot of revisions, and that means it'll take us a while.

So it's likely that some time in the misty future, once we're done trying to shepherd all our PCs to God and have cleared out the ever-increasing potential boon file, the great Titanrealm rewrite will probably make its way up here (clues to what we're thinking can already be found in the Scent the Titanic knack, though of course it's likely to change along with everything else). Nobody wants to tackle that gloriously enormous and complicated project more than I do.

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