Saturday, September 22, 2012

Holy Shit Are They Really Done?

We are putting the finishing touches on our Titan project.  It was a SERIOUS endeavor that took ~200 man hours between us working on it and I'm pretty sure you'll be pleased.

We finished 4 titan realms(they are massive and amazing) and really put a lot of time into getting it "right."  We hope you're pleased and there will be an announcement probably early tomorrow or monday when they go up officially(we'd love to hear your comments/ideas)(although its probably too late to change much).

Until then we have an easter egg on the site.  There is a character whose page has a link somewhere to one of the titan pages.  If you find it you have to enjoy it on your own though and promise not to tell anyone.  It'll be on their webpage not on their character sheet.

ONWARD!

So birthright/armory compendium won the latest poll.  So we'll get working on that asap(and it be done MUCH sooner).  Are there anything you'd like in the birthright compendium?  Let us know if you have any ideas.  We'll probably do some variation of the following.

A few relics at each "dot" level
A couple relics for each purview
A couple relics for each pantheon
MAYBE <big maybe  A relic for each god that they might give their kid
Some of the more famous relics from our games.


ONWARD!

There should be a new poll to the right.  I know some people are able to trick the system and vote more then once(and when it takes 6 months to finish thats easy to feel the need, but we promise we'll be much faster this time), but please try to abstain from that.  Pretend  you have 5 dots of intellect and expression, and your intellect demands you get true data for the poll but your expression demands that your voice be heard.  Save "cheating" at the poll for those rare days when you're super low on willpower and only have enough to pay for ignoring 1 virtue.

But seriously please dont cheat.  But feel free to ask questions about what the different poll choices might entail. 

60 comments:

  1. I have been waiting for this Titan rewrite forever. I'm like a kid on Fucking Christmas.

    I was going to suggest 'hey how about a sample relic for every God' before I saw you actually wrote it. So yeah, that's what I'd suggest.

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    1. We're pretty excited about it, too. It's been fun to see them coming together, even if it has been a ton of work. :) It'll be just the four to start with, but we'll put new Titans on the voting poll again for future expansion.

      Suggestion duly noted - thank you!

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  2. Am I allowed to comment on [released Titanrealm Easter Egg] or should keep my mouth shut about its contents until release date?

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    1. As John said above, enjoy on your own but don't give it away. :) Some folks might want to be surprised, and anyway, we hope everyone will be seeing the whole thing soon.

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    2. Wow. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy reading this Titan content. I am seeing mythological connections everywhere with the [redacted], especially the [redacted]!

      Must keep this a secret. Must keep this a secret. Way more secrets than I expected!

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    3. I was particularly proud of [redacted], myself. Really snaps the whole thing into cosmic focus, you know?

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    4. I think this anonymous is trolling us :P

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    5. I'm not trolling, I'm being totally serious. I am really enjoying all this material. I just can't tell you what I enjoy because It's a secret! Maybe come monday I will reveal what goes in those [redacted]. :P

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  3. Is this an actual character, as in a player character?

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    1. ... Are you sure you put the link in? Because I literally just opened every character page and couldn't find it

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    2. It's definitely there, but it's a bit subtle - it doesn't say "This is a link to a Titan!" or anything.

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    3. Ah, okay, just figured it out. After three tries. Seems so obvious now. Excuse me while I smash my head on my desk.

      WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM

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  4. ... CURSE YOUR EPIC MANIPULATION.

    I find myself actually /wanting/ you to /release the Titans/ (and thus it was realized that at least in a meta sense, Anne and John are responsible for the Titans' return).

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    1. I can release a kraken for you if you like?

      There you go.

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    2. Your magnanimity truly knows no bounds.

      For the record, while hypothetically I'd be starry-eyed if you gave even a single example Birthright for every God and Goddess you have available for selection, I don't think it makes a lot of sense, at least for the pantheons you may not have done a lot of fine-tuning for, like the Shen and the Amatsukami and the Loa, where you may be adding or subtracting gods from the playable list once you get to them. From a practical standpoint, it just doesn't make sense unless the pantheon revisions are done first, which it doesn't look like they will be.

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    3. The only thing really stopping us, I think. Is that there are a LOT of gods, and undertaking a project like that might not let us get it up in the time frame we wanted to. But we'll see.

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  5. I hugs you both via Interwebs.

    Very nice. I'll be borrowing a lot of this (not all, of course) for my own Titanology. Especially now my players are Gods. It'll be awesome.

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    1. Yay, you're gods!

      Welcome to several different planes of utter hell.

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    2. Iztac Ocelototec is shaking in his fur.

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  6. Too dumb to find the easter egg, but the Titanrealm stuff looks good nevertheless. >.>

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  7. is the easter egg in any of the characters or just the alive ones?

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  8. WOOT! I found two of them!
    No I'm not lying, and yes I cheated.
    your easter egg has failed you Josh an Anne!
    MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

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    1. Uh oh, make that threeeeee.
      again MWAHAHAHAHAH!!

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    2. Who the fuck just called me Josh?

      And cheating is bad. Stop cheating. Although some of them have been up for 2 months already, so I guess joke is on you :)

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    3. YES!! NUMBER FOUR DISCOVERED!!
      ALL YOUR TITAN BELONG TO US!
      ... oh almost forgot, MWAHAHAHAHAH!
      ... I'm sorry about that, I just seriously love your work & the titans you picked are just so awesome.

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    4. Yeah, a friend of mine found one a couple months ago and it has been neat watching it come together bit by bit.

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    5. crap sorry got your post after I finished cheating I'm so sorry I got a Little carried away. At the very least i made sure not to reveal anything. Oh and JOHN, sorry about the Josh thing, rushed typing while tired makes it easy to screw up names.

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    6. No worries. I was mostly joking. Although I do get called Josh more often then I like and I hate it.

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    7. Very glad you enjoyed them though.

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    8. oh yes you two did amazing work on them, but the thing I'm most happy about is that one of the for titans you chose is my favorite.

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    9. It's funny when there are so many Anonymous commenting.
      Is this the same person? Is it different? It must get frustrating sometimes.

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    10. very cool, cant wait to know who it is

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    11. Yeah, it gets frustrating sometimes. Just people too lazy to log in on one of many accounts blogger allows.

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    12. wait let me try something... oh sweet it worked! hey john I'm the uh, cheater you've been talkin to and well I didn't have a proper blogger ID until just now. It's great to finally have a name!

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    13. YAY! You made the internet work

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    14. can't tell if that's sarcasm but still yay!

      Now that I have a name I can finally say that I have been submitting questions for a long time(my first one was "International Adoption Agency" way back in February) and you an Anne have yet to give me a disappointing answer. BRAVO!

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    15. Nah, no sarcasm. Welcome to losing your anonymity. Very cool you've been reading that long, thank you for sticking with us. And thanks for the praise. Do you play in a scion game? Or just like reading about stuff?

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    16. I picked up my first Scion book in high school and despite my friends being interested in it, I could never get them to focus long enough to get past character creation and actually play the damn game. Even though I haven't played, that hasn't stopped me from reading as much about it as I can. unfortunately that means when I'm bored I just start making up random Scion's in my head(seriously I have three full character casts, but none of them have been in a game!).

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    17. Well, since it seems to be 'come out of anonymity week', I'm the guy who asked about Magma in Fire and Fusion in Sun and Vishnu's Avatars. And while I've never played Scion (tried a little STing once though, didn't work out), you guys have not just kept my interest up in the game, but helped expand my interest in mythology into full fledged mythophilia. Thanks a ton for the amazing work you people do. I am now busy devouring the Titans writeup, and I can't wait for the other stuff you guys have planned. Once again, thanks a lot.

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    18. Nice to meet both of you - I know I've had fun with your questions, too, and with discussion. :) You guys are all pretty great.

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  9. This is awesome. Thanks so much guys! Can't wait to see the full thing on monday :)

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  10. I apparently have absolutely no idea how to find easter eggs. Oh well, I tried :)

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    1. It's okay, we'll get it official soon enough!

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  11. Couldn't find the easter eggs through the character pages, but I managed to find some of them anyways through guesswork. Although it seems I'm still missing one. Very cool.

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    1. Glad you like them. Soon to be official, so no worries. :)

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  12. You've got so much hype going on right now. Can't be please, pretty please talk about it?

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    1. If anne was up I'd probably allow. But shes asleep and would miss talking about it way too much.

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  13. So NOW having seen the entirety of the Titan pages, You guys have out done yourselves again. I can't wait to throw some of these concepts at my unsuspecting scions!

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  14. I'm assuming despite being up, they're not going to be released yet because they're not quite complete. Like, a bit of minor spelling edits for the most part and the map for one of the titanrealms. Either way, having cheated like, well, everyone else (though I'm amused by the Easter Egg, it was rather clever). Can't wait for the official release.
    Really enjoyed them, the avatars were some great choices, though some bring as many questions as answers, they make for an amazing resource for any ST. I really do hope you make/revise other titanrealms.

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    1. Yes, they weren't up yet because they were still mildly dusty with construction, but they're available now. Sorry for the wait. :)

      I'm glad you enjoy them! We'll definitely be working on other realms in the future, but we need a little break to look at other things, lest we get burnt out or forget to handle other important things for our games.

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