Friday, January 20, 2012

Wonders of the Orient

Are you going to ever post versions of Taiyi and Tsukumo-gami like you did for the other pantheon purviews?

Yes! Both purviews are in our work queue, but they're not really priorities because we currently have no Chinese or Japanese PCs and thus nobody who needs them cleared up right away.

Tsukumo-gami will probably get an edit and maybe some new bells and whistles (our good friend Brent over at Modern Mythos has already done some cool stuff with it). We do love us some eight million kami.

Taiyi will probably take longer because it's likely to get rewritten altogether; while it has some cool powers in it, we're not big fans of the lack of a unifying theme and the sort of feeling of grab-bag-of-powers-that-one-Chinese-god-used-once that it has going on right now. Trying to hash out something that feels coherent and interesting from the crazy soup that is centuries of interbreeding Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Shenism is pretty challenging, but we have some ideas and hope to get them more firmed up soon.

So fear not: the glories of the far East will be more glorious still. Once we manage to climb out from under a mountain of other things. (John, you get up there with Making it Look Easy and I'll get some Atlas Shrug action going on from behind the scenes.)

5 comments:

  1. Taiyi in the books is clown shoes.

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  2. That your version of Charmer? ;)

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  3. It is. Also I realized Taiyi is only in one book. So I guess I meant in the RAW.

    I have charmer up, everything I say is awesome.

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  4. You're thinking of Hapless Cool ;)

    Also, Taiyi is the the only PSP I have seen that comes close to stealing the title of 'Most Powerful PSP' from Enech. Being able to create anything you want, even imaginary things, qualifies as more batman style versatility than any other knack or boon in the game.

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  5. O definitely. Level 10 is pretty much god of all powers ever.

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