Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[iEpinephrine]

...that I find myself underwhelmed with the reading provided by Legends mode.

I've never really bothered to take a proper look at it before now, and don't get me wrong, I absolutely love that all this stuff is tracked, but when I started reading the legends of the world that I had generated I expected epic exploits of dragons and kings, the slaying of terrible beasts and the founding of great citadels.

So when I opened up the legends of one of the mountain halls, I was not expecting:

"Tradedlashes was a mountain halls.

In 26, The Dipped Lancer of The New Clasps founded Tradedlashes.

In the late winter of 35, the wolf Istbar Stylesflooded devoured a turkey hen of The Dipped Lancer in Tradedlashes.

In the late winter of 35, the wolf Istbar Stylesflooded devoured a gander of The Dipped Lancer in Tradedlashes.

In the late winter of 35, the wolf Istbar Stylesflooded devoured a rooster of The Dipped Lancer in Tradedlashes."

And so on...

The stuff of legend just isn't what it used to be!

[Jiharo]

Spoiler: DF Talk quote (click to show/hide)

Capntastic:   Can you make it so ... those people waiting for that to be more literary, so they can just print it out and have a novel to read on the bus, like 'a kobald flayed a dude, and then an elf got him', only you know, more flowery.
Toady:   It's one of those things where you can put time into that and you wonder where you're going to reach any kind of threshold where it's satisfying. We always wanted to make legends mode sound better but it's inevitably stayed a list so far, and we mainly just added things like battle maps and stuff like that. But I've been playing a little bit, just a little bit, with combining information into paragraphs and so on with the wounds and to a small extent with the attributes; just packing things in just a little bit and hopefully it'll be able to do that with the historical information. It's a lot easier when you have things like a battle where it knows what kind of events are going to be in there, and they're stored within the battle and then the battle contains sub events, or there's a war and the war contains just a few kind of events like site conquering events, site destructions and battles themselves. And so when it's got that kind of information and it knows what to expect than it can go ahead and write it. And then the embellishments we add can be things that we do the other way around, so that we'd write the description for a war, and then if you want to make it sound a little more literary you think of what kind of details that would imply – it's like the story planning that I do with Zach – and we'd all those kind of details in to flesh it out a bit perhaps. But so far it's just all been going the other way in the legends mode, where we just catalogue things that were already in the game, except for the tortures ... after the battles, that's kind of the first main embellishment we put in ... unfortunate things to make a little more descriptive, because you never find any evidence of that. Although, that might be changing as we get some of the ruin information in there, or being able to go to old battlefields, which is part of the plans. Then you'd be able to see some of the horrifying things that happened, like if you've got those grotesque sculptures, maybe those are still hanging together as bones on one of the sites. But then it might come alive, and kind of shamble towards you ...

By the way, if you are willing to spend time digging you can find some amazing stories in legends waiting to be discovered. I remember a story of Night Freak who married/converted some village girl and a couple of years later his father( another Night Creature) married/converted this girl's mother. I'm sure that could be a nice plot for romantic comedy.

[iEpinephrine]

Yeah I've read that all before... I'm not actually complaining, I just found it amusing that in this fantasy world where ettins and hydras roam free, a wolf eating some geese went down in history.

[Vattic]

I know what you mean and ideally it would condense similar events into one or two reports that could perhaps be expanded. Then again I know full well that if a wolf attacked anything in my home town the local papers would be all over it.

[AutomataKittay]

That's pretty much what I'd expect from local histories

I've heard of a utility or two that helps to check out legend mode easier and connect things together faster.

[Oliolli]

I know what you mean and ideally it would condense similar events into one or two reports that could perhaps be expanded. Then again I know full well that if a wolf attacked anything in my home town the local papers would be all over it.

True in most smaller towns, villages and why not even small cities? Heck, if someone got killed by a wolf in the entirety of Finland, it may even get into the papers, as wolves haven't (provenly) killed anyone in over one hundred years here

[Vattic]

Oliolli: I didn't think there were any accounts of wolves killing people.

[Oliolli]

Possibly. Even so, wolves are often seen as more dangerous than traffic...

[Vattic]

It looks like I was mislead into thinking that wolf attacks were just myths spread by those who keep animals. Still they apparently only rarely attack. List of fatal wolf attacks.

[kotekzot]

Yeah I've read that all before... I'm not actually complaining, I just found it amusing that in this fantasy world where ettins and hydras roam free, a wolf eating some geese went down in history.

Oh, you just know the engravers were all over the "slaying of the hen".

[Dae]

This is Uduk the Henslayer the kitten. It has thick fur and sharp claws. Beware its mighty jaws !