Re: (TFT) world on a "standard" (?) table map...

[Joey Beutel <mejobo@comcast.net>]

Actually I can see waterfalls on floating islands existing in rare  
circumstances. Floating islands could be done with some sort of  
magnetism, i'm sure, while having the rocks be of the sort that they  
gather water through condensation (think like a glass of water, but  
multiplied to massive size of a floating island, and giving the rocks  
a much better condensation rate based on environment). This sort of  
water could pool on the islands and then fall down to the planet with  
massive gusts of waterfall for days (or given the right circumstances,  
it could even be a continuous thing). Its not likely, but it can be  
done.
On Dec 14, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Jay Carlisle wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Carlisle"
> Subject: Re: (TFT) world on a "standard" (?) table map...
>
>
> > North American Range Plants
> > http://books.google.com/books?id=epqO5Z4ExtcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=range+plants&source=bl&ots=4ocdOTqyDv&sig=DL7d1k5SlB0NM1_TN_6Y6AZ5zHc&hl=en&ei=XdkHTfnwC8_wsgaRxMXmDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=16&sqi=2&ved=0CHAQ6AEwDw#v 
> > =onepage&q&f=false
> >
> > Planet building is a heady thing.
>
> Concerning this book I wanna sound off about something.
> I was inflicted with the movie Avaitar recently.
> Camerons view of alien flora struck me as being something like this.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avjmBiH89M8
> I find this funny not only because of a childhood reference but  
> because my Figure-foot-placement system uses a square grid just like  
> this.
> Laugh about it while you can monkey-boys but I have been doing  
> "motion capture" RPGs for quite a few years before the 'consoles'  
> caught up to me.
> Act out the manuver you want your Figure to attempt and I'll use the  
> Flexable, Visable, Scale-man to show the Action in the Figures  
> enviroment and we'll see what the die-roll needed for success is.
> "BANG!, your dead" ought to be fair.
> The movie director went for a visual unsuported by biological  
> information IMO.
> In other words, Cammeron wanted a pretty picture w/o explaining how  
> he got there.
> Waterfalls from floating islands?
> VERY poor art IMO.
> Make it work on a informational level and THEN pick out the areas  
> that are going to be "pretty" from a metric like that.
> He is thinking from a "movie camera" POV while I'm trying to deal  
> with something deeper than the pictures.
> I'm trying to make enviroments that player Action affects the  
> "picture" that is presented at a given point on the Timeline of the  
> Campagin.
> JC is a poor match for JC conceptually, although he tops JC  
> visually... or died for our "sins" which makes JC MUCH better than  
> JC or JC.
> WTF? =====
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