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

["Jay Carlisle" <Jay_Carlisle@charter.net>]

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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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