OfficerDonNZ wrote...
I also have to say the novel has me intrigued as well. Not an easy thing to write. I have enough problems with my not so little fan fic which is probably novel length by now, or at least headed that way 
'> Though I'm wondering how you're going to explain the use of a DnD deity like Lathander in your world, which from what I can see has only a passing resemblance to the FR. Not to mention WotC could get just a little cranky!
The novels don't contain any D&D content, though. As I wrote on the Sanctum 2 module page recently in response to MackyMac:
Sanctum doesn't take place in a D&D universe, and in the novels it does have it's own non-D&D panetheon. But NWN and its ruleset are based on D&D, which NWN players are already familiar with -- which is why I decided to adapt some familiar D&D elements for the first two modules. That included things like the Drow and the Svirfneblin (who don't exist in that form in the novels), and using some of the familiar D&D deities. I thought that might help add to the player's feeling of his or her understanding of the world being "turned upside down" by the revelations in TRS5.
So to take your example, I only decided to use Lathander as Orion's deity in the modules because he would be familiar to NWN players. And I only needed to do that at all when I decided to create Orion as a separate character
for the modules. In the novels, he's not. There, Orion
is the The Miracle Worker; and while he is something of a philosopher, he's decidedly not a cleric. But I concluded that that had to be changed in an adaptation of the story for the medium of a Computer-based Role Playing Game (or CRPG). My thinking was that in a successful CRPG, the
player has to be the main character, so the
player in the Sanctum modules had to assume the role of The Miracle Worker. (I wasn't willing to force a pre-created character on the player, although I know that some other module authors have gone that route.)
I wrote a bit about how the adaptation of the story for the modules evolved in some of the early posts to my blog (see
Balancing Romance Plots - Part I and
Balancing Romance Plots - Part II). In a nutshell, I only reintroduced Orion as a separate character when I decided that I needed a male romance for the first module. But while I was able to preserve a lot of his personality from the novels, I needed to create a new background (his had already been given to the player) and some new elements to fully flesh out his character. Having him as a philosopher cleric who undergoes a crisis of faith as the story progresses was what I came up with, and it seems to have worked pretty well.
At this point, though, I think I've done enough to introduce the player to the world of the Sanctum series. So all the new elements you see from here out will be drawn from the distinctive lore of that world. That specifically and very much includes its religion and pantheon, which you'll be seeing a lot more of in Chapter 3.
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Modifié par AndarianTD, 06 octobre 2010 - 03:26 .
