| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: New totem. Whaddayatink? |
| Date: | Thu, 1 Jun 1995 14:24:46 +0200 |
Unlike some others...
>but I've always
>felt that sentient species have no Totem spirit guarding them - it's as
>if the Totem fragmented into pieces and lodged separate parts in the
>physical bodies of sentients. For example, you'll probably (read: I hope)
>never see a Dragon Totem in an official product.
Yes you will. Open your Grimthingy and behold the Wyrm totem from Wales. I
don't see why there _shoudln't_ be totems for sentient creatures. First I
wondered about why FASA didn't bring out paranormal animal totems, which
they now will do with the NAGM, so now the next step, I'd say, is sentient
totems.
We've had the discussion on what totems really are before, and it seems to
me to be a product of the WYTIWYG theory Jani is so fond of :) because all
totems are what "people" think about the animal in question. The Man totem
is along those same lines, but now for what people think of people. I don't
see the problems, really.
>Granted, Leviathan and
>Wendigo are listed in the (Net/Beta) NAGA, but I think these were pretty
>unnecessary myself, and could easily be ignored.
As can the Man totem, if you don't want it.
>(hey, are Metahumans included too? and what about women, do they really
>have the same "types" (Fighter/Talker) - I think not!)
"Man" refers to all men and women, human or metahuman. Maybe you should
create a Woman totem if you think they'd deserve so (that is, if you want to
use these totems at all), but for fear of getting attacked by any women on
this list, I say I don't see the fuss about the differences between men and
women, psychologically speaking. (This is getting off topic...)
>Perhaps the totems of sentient species are really fragmented into Idols -
>after all, sentience is characterized by a wide difference in mentality.
>Maybe this means that there are Dragon Idols (The Elf-Slayer immediately
>comes to mind... :) ), and Sasquatch Idols, and so on.
Idols are not much more or less than totems called by a different name
because "totem" doesn't fir with European culture, IMHO.
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