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Originally Posted by tedopon
So, in closing, I submit to all of you that we should spend less time:
A) Saying how much we like or dislike another person's ideas
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I dislike that idea straight away
Actually I don't, it makes a lot of sense.
The problem is, nothing has actually been done yet, so people tend to flap around a bit.
There's not much point writing background in a world where the background will conflict with everything else, so I guess that people are waiting to see whether any consensus may be reached before they spend a lot of time writing things up.
For example I'm from a heavy-Gloranthan background and I like myths, cults and history. That means that I'd write myths, cults and history for any shared world. Based on Triff's Sky Mountain World, I've already thought of 20 or so myth fragments that I think would fit. However, there's no point writing them down if the world is a Sci Fi world or uses a different fantasy setting. Similarly, there's no point writing up a race of planet-hopping gypsies for a single-world fantasy setting.
Certainly, if people start to create content around the same setting then more poeple will use that setting. For instance, I like the reverse map for Sky Mountain World and the premise behind Sky Mountain World, especially as it could include something like The Green fairly easily. Given some time, I will start writing things for this, but at the moment I don't have a lot of free time available as I am under pressure to limit my PC use at the weekends and in the evenings.