From: Brent Krupp (fletcher@u.washington.edu)
Date: Sun 27 Feb 1994 - 19:48:22 EET
Brent Krupp here, obsessing on ducks...
On Sun, 27 Feb 1994, Steven E Barnes wrote:
> It is possible to interpret Ducks in a non-silly way. The problem
> is that, for years, Chaosium portrayed them as Donald / Daffy Duck
> style creatures. Anyway, I have no problems with Ducks being included
> as long as they are nothing more than a short writeup in the creatures
> section. And get rid of the part about getting a APP bonus (or lack of
> APP penalty) when joining Death cults...
But without the Death cult reference they really *are* cartoon characters.
Back in RQ2 that bonus (when joining "certain Death cults") seemed to
clearly indicate that Humakt must like Ducks (the other prominent death
cults - Storm Bull, Waha, Seven Mothers, and Zorak Zoran being foreign to
Sartar and the Duck Point region) and gave them a serious purpose as
characters. Humakti ducks can be role-played as Humakti and need not be
jokes. But without that kind of guide (more recently crystallized as a
unique role in keeping Delecti and his Zombies from swarming Sartar) they
are just feathered Hobbits and about as silly.
BTW, that always did seem like a reason for ducks (quite possibly
unintentional): to fill the role that most FRPs give to Hobbit/Halflings.
Ala Tolkien, every FRP used to have a really short character race...
Brent Krupp
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