Seelie/Unseelie Courts

[Nounours]

Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

If you'd like, we could work together on this-we can still make our own distinct nations if you want (it's always nice to have something to call your own, and I tend to be stubborn about the directions I want creative projects to go), but sharing the research and concepts, and making sure that the nations we create are distinctive, might not be a bad idea-you're a good graphic artist (with access to the unit databases, which I lack), and I like to think I'm getting better, so helping each other out with sprites (pun completely intended) would help keep things on track, and get the work done more quickly for both of us.

Were you intending on making a generic nation, or one based on a specific part of the world?

"Two heads are better than just one" (old Ettin proverb )

Well, I don't know what is better : working together on a same nation, or cooperating on two complementary nations .

I'll prepare & send you a quick presentation on what I was planning to work on, so we can see how we'll work. I was personally intending to work on different myths & fairies legends, maily celtic ones or adaptation of celtic fairies. I would like to mod a nation showing the "bad" aspects of fairies, even "good" Seelie Fairies being mischievious an darrogant creatures, who don't care what happen to their human "toys"...

Originally Posted by HoneyBadger

The word "Cantabira" sounds Spanish/Iberian-and there haven't been any Spanish mods yet.
The Spanish had their faeries too.

In fact, I teach Spanish. The name "Cantabira" is just an alteration of Cantabria (a northern province of Spain I like a lot), but the nation will not be Spanish at all ! It's just that "Cantabria" is supposed to come from "Cant" (which means "stone") & "abr" (dweller", "inhabitant"), so "Cantabros" (the name of an ancient celtiberian people) probably meant "Those who live in a rocky place", something like that.

In fact, I want to make a nation of people who built circles of standinf stones & monuments like Stonehenge, a late stone age/early bronze age nation with good mages, good sacred, and awfully bad & poorly equipped troops (cheap, but weak, like Machaka infantry/militia/archers). So, the word Cantabria jumped to my mind, because of its relation with stone & ancient peoples (the origin of Iberian is largelly unknown, but some authors believe they descend from the neolithic tribes of europe, like the Basque, who dwell in the Pyrenee mountains since the Palaeolithic, and were among the first inhabitants of Western Europe).

[Aezeal]

I'd love to see a nation like vanheim etc.. not mcuh about humans but all about the fae. But then not scandinavian but Scottish, Irish etc

[HoneyBadger]

Yeah, if you want to send it over, I'd love to take a look at it. And I can share my thoughts-I don't have anything concrete yet, but enough that I have a rough idea of what I want to do.

Aezeal-then you might want to consider one based on the Isle of Man.

[Aezeal]

well I'm not going to make one lol I just hoped to nudge this nation discussed here towards the direction I'd like to see it go

I'm only working on diminions 3000 ... since the others who started it seem to abandon the mod.

/me looking angry at certain persons

[JaghataiKhan]

Originally Posted by Edratman

Most likely because IIRC you offered to make the mod and only(sic) needed someone to do the sprites.

As you have seen, that is a low probability occurance. Many before you have tried with equal success. Ideas are cheap, sprites are real work.

If you go through the dozens of mods here you will not find more than two cooperative efforts.

First you need to post a mod of your own. Then you can look for a partnership.

nah, I meant the actual tabletop game of Changeling. Couldn't find a single player in Turkey.

Also, how do I made sprite?

[Aezeal]

I use gimp to make sprites but actually I haven't really made much sprites.. I usually search the net (or basegame) for a sort of fitting image and the edit it.. I'm getting pretty good at the editting but I'm not an artist myself. We'll you have seen dominions 3000 so you know what I've done

[HoneyBadger]

I haven't abandoned my mod, Aezeal, I'm still going to work on it, but it'll take time, like everything else-and it'll also require me having enough energy and focus to push it through-which can be hard for me to find, for various reasons.

[Nounours]

HoneyBadger, I will send you (today or tomorrow I think) the few things I've prepared, but I don't think I'll work on it very soon. First, I've got to finish Shangri La EA & MA, which will be done very soon I hope, and then I've to work on two other nations I'm modding, Cantabira, which is an EA nation, and another one who will go from EA to LA (= 3 mods !) plus all the sprites. And I can't worry about other fairies until all my sprites are done !

[HoneyBadger]

I know what you mean, in-between working on Aksum's .DM file, I'm now working on sprites for Ammon Kush-which so far has been pretty slow going.

[llamabeast]

Changeling: The Dreaming is awesome. I've spent a lot of time reading the books, and it would be high on my list of mod nations to do. Never actually played it though.