Comments on: Sacrificed to the Insect God (1)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:40:22 +0000

Aphid-kinden are meek, pastoral and ~~crap honeydew~~ productive. The insect totems are always there - you've not had anyone else trying to develop Art in the books, and Che's experience was unusually clear, in book 1, but a similar epiphany is not uncommon when making a breakthrough to a new Art. Too much communing is dangerous in that the trance-like state can become addictive - it is quite possible to seek the Art until fatal dehydration sets in, in extreme cases, or until a coma state is reached.

By: Moon

Moon — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:23:25 +0000

Aphid kinden… that I'm curious to see their society and their relationship with plants shown in the books.… though speaking of which Alethi ants quite fits the bill… And also this Insect Spirit which was felt in book 1 and 2 and no more is gonna hit us in the head at a much later time period i'm gonna guess? Finally you stated that to commune too much their genius is unhealthy and we see an example of that in the Sea Watch, have there been cases where other kinden have communed too "deeply?" (How does one commune too deeply with a philosophical concept anyway)

By: Sargash

Sargash — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:24:03 +0000

An RPG, That is crazy, crazy good. Id love to see one, and Id love to play it through every possible kinden out there.

By: casey

casey — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:42:34 +0000

hi you will have to for give me for not posting befor but only found the first book last month am now on Blood..

but the reson im here is Adrian you have to get white wolf (the d10 system)
do make a setting for you.….…

Cam has it right the d10 system just gives the story teller and the player characters sooooooooo much more freedon in the game!!!

By: Cam

Cam — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:00:03 +0000

There's other systems. I'm currently converting white-wolf's World of Darkness into a Shadows of the Apt setting. It's a d10 system. I find that it allows more freedom and creativity than a d20 system. It also allows for more freedom to play with Arts and Kinden.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:54:43 +0000

yea… the d20 system… i didnt know there was another system… some rpg nerd i am. lol.

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:40:47 +0000

Ah well, as for ideas for book 4, there are complete working drafts of books all the way up to 6 so far, and progress continues.

As for crustaceans, I resort to my favourite acronym: FOIP (find out in print).

A Shadows of the Apt RPG would be grand and various people seem to be hard at work on versions of it. It would be nice to see an official version at some point.. I assume you mean the d20 Star Wars rather than the West End Games original?

And yes, there are Aphid-kinden.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:41:31 +0000

that last bit brings to mind something else…
crustaceans.
did they survive the rampages of the insects? are there mysterious crab-kinden pirates, living below the surface of the waves?
probably not, but if you havnt thought about it then.… ideas for book four.… new allies.… cough, not that i can claim that my ideas would have your series better, on the contrary, i'd probably ruin said series. lol.
doesn't mean im going to stop designing a shadows of the apt rpg. i havn't mentiond that yet have i? well yea… i have started converting the oficial star wars rpg to your world. and as soon as i get my dnd book back i can design the weapons. no idea how ill create the air batterys yet… but nailbows shant be hard.
RISE OF THE APHID-KINDEN!!!