[crossfire] Bigworld and Pupland

Nathaniel Kipps nkipps at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 22:37:48 CDT 2021


Per Leaf, my original email was oversize, and so silently quarantined.
You can of course read it below, and here's a link to the image I
originally attached:

https://i.imgur.com/xwckXf3.png

--DraugTheWhopper

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:09 PM Nathaniel Kipps <nkipps at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I guess no feedback for two weeks means no objections! :)
>
> Here's my thoughts on the questions I asked:
>
> > Should Pupland be part of the main continent, a separate continent, or
> > on a separate plane entirely?
>
> I was hoping to put it on it's own continent, but a fallback is to put
> it on it's own plane, ostensibly "on the other side of the world."
>
> > Should Pupland be east or west of the current Bigworld?
>
> Common consensus is that it is traditionally just West of Scorn.
> However, I'd like to put it East of the current continent altogether,
> in alignment with it being a more "exotic" place, as well as only
> reachable by dragon, at least from Scorn.
>
> > Should Pupland be its current size, larger, or smaller? See the
> > attached image for a reference of how it would look if it was
> > immediately scaled to bigworld proportions.
>
> I'd like to make it bigger, lifting heavily from Lalo's theorycrafting
> on the wiki.
>
> More (or any) feedback is welcome.
>
> --DraugTheWhopper
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 1:56 PM Nathaniel Kipps <nkipps at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to gather a little feedback before attempting (yet again) to
> > bigworldify pupland. A few questions:
> >
> > Are there any reasons *not* to bigworldify pupland? For example:
> > respecting the author's design choices, someone else is working on it
> > already, or even just plain nostalgia.
> >
> > Should Pupland be part of the main continent, a separate continent, or
> > on a separate plane entirely?
> >
> > Should Pupland be east or west of the current Bigworld?
> >
> > Should Pupland be its current size, larger, or smaller? See the
> > attached image for a reference of how it would look if it was
> > immediately scaled to bigworld proportions.
> >
> > Thoughts on these and any other related topics would be greatly
> > appreciated. I am aware that Lalo did quite a lot of work and
> > theorycrafting, and I'm taking this into account already. Comments on
> > his work on the wiki
> > (http://wiki.metalforge.net/dokuwiki/doku.php/dev_todo:pupland) are
> > appreciated as well.
> >
> > --DraugTheWhopper


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