Lands of Creation Spotlight

Lands of Creation Spotlight - Jungle Brute

Hello. C J here. I’ve officially started work today on Lands of Creation. Yes, I often work on weekends but only on the creative and brainstorming part of a project. Writing stories is really a full time thing and while I do not write books or draw on weekends I do still think and plan. It’s also when I like to do video game design and social media posts. Reliably I’ve never found this tires me out at all.

Lands of Creation will feature no matter what 50 recipes on cards and 200 generic monsters and creatures, mostly humanoid, for use in Legend games. These creatures are Regency decks, so they don’t have lore and instead have stat lines for use with Dominion. They will still have the spell poems that list their Quantum traits and while they work in Dominion they also are mainly designed for Quantum. Here’s a sample of the text of one of them.

Jungle Brute
I have a male black reptile tyrant with chest as an ally. He is a greater monster, a warrior and a sage. Come to me.

Dark Brute Greater Monsters (15)

SPD STR FIN SKL ARM

3 3 3 3 3

FIGHT MARK MONSTER

I’d like to reference one of my newer pages here, the Heart and Fur page. This page is named after my first game product, Heart and Fur. There’s a free download of it in the Books page. It lists the story and lifestyle concepts for each playable Class in the game, which correlate to the gem colours used to pay for cards in Legend games. This jungle brute is Basalt and so his lifestyle involves the concept of identical magic applied to everyone in a society at once. Each Regency deck then is a unique take on their parent story concept.

The question I have that I’m working on today is can I write a book about each one? Heart and Fur could use more supplements and I can do things in that system I can’t do here. It would work wonderfully as a guide for writing, and in particular drawing, these story concepts. The Heart and Fur page would otherwise grow so large that I can’t manage it. More Heart and Fur books have been a plan of mine for a long while and the Modern book is under development including its cover art to with the upcoming Modernist card deck.

I’m asking myself then, what would help people write conversations, narrate romance and draw art of these ideas and my setting as a whole. The entire setting is available for commercial use through the license system I run through Patreon and while the Patreon is still being set up the system is still there and works. Non-commercial use is always free. My thought was to read the spell poems and then let the narrative power of them guide the design of the game. Do the cards and then do the books last. That should work although very slowly.

C J Mcpherson

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