tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post1979489878208325904..comments2024-03-28T00:41:13.514-07:00Comments on B/X BLACKRAZOR: Feeling TekumelJBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-65059755863067379262016-04-04T10:57:00.482-07:002016-04-04T10:57:00.482-07:00@ JD:
Yeah, Tekumel is fantastic...which is what ...@ JD:<br /><br />Yeah, Tekumel is fantastic...which is what makes it so infuriating. But I'll discuss that in a follow-up post. JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-16268997537624022662016-04-04T05:34:21.797-07:002016-04-04T05:34:21.797-07:00My family has been in the Americas for almost 400 ...My family has been in the Americas for almost 400 years, and we can trace one family line back about 1000 years. The wife's family actually has a lineage going back to someone recorded as Odin of Asgard (I'm guessing that might be soething someone embeleshed her family history with a few centuries back), we've got the key to a family castle in our possession currently (hope they got a new one).<br /><br />What is cool about Tekumel is it has it's own legendary and epic past, it is overflowing with places like Atlantis or Troy and a host of darkages. It's history is long and written large and alien, influenced by beings of god-like power and technologies best described as magic. JDsivrajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674833512849495283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-45443743736659332352016-04-03T19:11:26.719-07:002016-04-03T19:11:26.719-07:00@ JD:
The past IS a foreign land...as is the futu...@ JD:<br /><br />The past IS a foreign land...as is the future. I suppose that's why they prefer to call it "speculative" fiction.<br /><br />I can trace my family back about a hundred years in both directions (a little more on one side, a little less on the other). Still doesn't mean I know anything about what it was like to live in their shoes...were they introspective like myself? What were their main worries or thoughts after putting food on the table and clothes on their children?<br /><br />I know humans can adapt and survive. "Thrive" is something else altogether. I should probably point out (in case it was unclear) I'm not dismissing or deriding Barker's work. If anything, I think he extends out the timeline more than I would (when I say he's off by a decimal, I mean he should truncate the history to 11,000 years rather than 110,000 years). But as a fellow Washingtonian...albeit from the western side of the Cascades...I'm inclined to give him a lot of "props," even if I give him some shit at the same time.<br />JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263662621289630246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4143435314932633148.post-89599621926940579022016-04-03T15:26:06.539-07:002016-04-03T15:26:06.539-07:00How cultures change and endure can be curious. In ...How cultures change and endure can be curious. In Australia there's a spot that has had almost constant human use/habitation for near to 40,000 years. A culture can almost disappear, adapt and endure for millenia and in an amazingly short time be absorbed or destroyed.<br />History is written by the winners and they are prone to lie.<br /><br />As slight aside 100 years ago y Greatgrandfather was a young imigrant lighting the gas street lamps of New York, my father's mother was still living in a house without electricity and I write and draw on a computer.<br /><br />The past is a foreign land.JDsivrajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10674833512849495283noreply@blogger.com