Well, you're right. It's a long way off, so we don't have any formal plans or details to share with you. But we do know a lot of neat stuff we're planning, and we also love bulleted lists of the things we want to do! Look, here's one now!
- Remove obvious Titans from the playable god roster. Raiden is the most obvious culprit; he really shouldn't be anywhere near polite god society, and was probably just included because of his pop culture incarnations, particularly in video games. Izanagi and Izanami are also possible departees, though we won't be sure until we've had a chance to do more research and make some calls.
- Add missing playable gods who should be represented. Several of the most major Japanese gods of myth and legend are mysteriously absent from the current roster; off the top of our heads, we're considering Inari, Sarutahiko, Uzume and Tenjin. We might or might not run across others who should get consideration to make the cut.
- Overhaul Tsukumo-gami. Alas, the purview is one of the weakest left; it has a good basic idea but little variation and creativity across its boons, and the powers themselves tend toward underwhelming and inconsistent. We want a purview that makes people excited to play Amatsukami Scions, and Tsukumo-gami needs more work before it'll be there.
- Reassign a Titan antagonist that makes sense. Amatsu-Mikaboshi is a badass, but he's certainly not their biggest problem and he's blatantly not a Titan of Darkness, a characterization we can only assume comes from the Marvel comics portrayal of him. We're currently thinking of possibilities involving storms, impurities, death and other nastinesses, but we don't have a specific plan yet. We just know that Soku-no-Kumi ain't it.
- Fix these associated powers. Holy shit, Raiden has Guardian, what is even going on?
Inari certainly deserves better than the weird lesser immortal status that the books place him in, though I can't say for sure whether or not he'll end up a full Legend 12 playable god. The project's too far in the future for us to have any details yet, so we really won't know any more until we're finished with the things we're buried in right now.
Tenjin has an official writeup. His Scion does a Scion Style(Along with Eric Donner and the backup Shinobi breakdancers)!
ReplyDeleteOn Inari isn't cult popularity one of the big factors on Legend? He's pretty widely modernly worshiped and might be one of the few gods with Industry and Fertility!
The April first "supplement" was a gag release. It's not "official" (although you're free to use it if you want to!), and the Tenjin in it is, like all the writeups in it, a little bit ridic. Which is on purpose - part of that supplement's goal was specifically to poke gentle fun at those of us who run around yelling about authenticity and mythic accuracy. ;)
DeleteYep, cults are definitely one of the things we look at when deciding on a god's Legend rating, so Inari's will be taken into account! (Though I'm not sure he has enough to do with Industry to justify it - that's about building and creating stuff, and it's his connections to good fortune and prosperity that make industrial businesses use him as a totem, not because he actually has anything to do with the assembly line. But like I said, we haven't done the research yet, so we won't know until then.)
It was made by WW its an offical release.. whether its a SERIOUS release.... Ok giving him Psychopomp is kind of in WTFland and Guardian is debatable but that Epic intelligence that's solid!
DeleteGuardian is also pretty WTF. Ain't done no guardianing that I know of. But then, none of the god writeups actually make much sense. It's not even close to a serious canon release - the Scion at the end is a sendup of the Dev, for god's sake.
DeleteThe Epic Intelligence is solid, though. There we can agree. :)
I mean he is a Guardian of a particular group of people, it makes more sense than Psychopomp. Its a lousy choice because at that point just about every God should have the purview and that's just silly.
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