tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4691609183217207055.post8404545463934691843..comments2024-03-27T22:20:55.710-04:00Comments on I Fly By Night - clash bowley's blog: Example Alien - StarCluster 3Eclash bowleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02867031157318138584noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4691609183217207055.post-22814281911376580162010-05-24T10:38:30.416-04:002010-05-24T10:38:30.416-04:00These are great questions, Kobold! I considered bo...These are great questions, Kobold! I considered both communication and environment for parameters, but they seemed to be to be dependent parameters - the make up of the alien in other respects may dictate the method of communication or environment - so I left it to the GM/group's judgement. Otherwise, the random method might give you a hooved leg as a locomotor for an aquatic species, or voice communication for an essentially deaf species. For the Ocs, either telepathy or sign language would be appropriate in addition to vocal communication - they have excellent hearing.<br /><br />-clashclash bowleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02867031157318138584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4691609183217207055.post-54996102069917512022010-05-24T03:35:39.362-04:002010-05-24T03:35:39.362-04:00Very, very cool. I could build up a picture of the...Very, very cool. I could build up a picture of the alien in my mind's eye as I read down the construction sequence, and it made sense, and I've never read Starcluster so I had no scale concept on the results, except for your descriptors.<br /><br />One thing I missed was method of communication - do you define it in your construction sequence, or work it out from the picture you build as you go? For example, being strong Psionics, the Ocs may use Psionic communication (and if so, can they then communicate with non-ocs who will have a different brain structure? And do you have to be psionic to hear them?) or, given their tentacles, do they communicate in an elbaborate sign language, perhaps assisted by psi?<br /><br />Also, what is their native environment? Are they aquatic, land dwelling or aerial/arborial? Is this something that needs to be added in a table or worked out when the basic structure of the alien is created?<br /><br />Sorry about all the questions, and I hope I'm not being boring and repeating stuff already covered, but I really like this construction system.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14192928573798426693noreply@blogger.com