What's the most ridiculous version of the classical 4 elements you can think of that's still (barely) usable in an RPG? I'll start with a relatively tame one: >Violence Mages specialize in damage abilities. Gain power through fightan >Indolence Mages specialize in defensive buffs. Gain power through sleepan >Gluttony Mages specialize in debuffs and drain abilities. Gain power through eatan >Sex Mages specialize in healing and social abilities. Gain power through the obvious
A few examples of how they'd work as alchemical building blocks >Rock=indolence Rocks don't do much >Fire=violence+sex+gluttony It destroys, it consumes, and it makes more of itself >Book=sex+violence+indolence Reading is an idle past time, and every good story supposedly has at least a little of the first two >Hippo=violence+indolence+gluttony Self explanatory if you know anything about hippos
Brayden Jackson
Ass Titties Chub Feet
Jaxson Parker
that's just the seven deadly sins with greed, pride, and envy taken out
Brayden Rogers
>muh classical 4 elements! >muh Mendeleev table! >muh circles of hell/mortal sins/divine virtues! >muh Chinese/Greek Zodiac! >muh cosmic alignments! shit's trite, mate stop rehashing the same old shit
Luis White
Go with the classic flavours of Chinese cooking: Hot, sweet, sour, salty. Everything is a mixture of those...
James Smith
Spicy, Sweet, Sour, Salty
Sometimes Savory.
I like it.
Jaxson Bell
What about umami? I still don't know what the fuck umami is
Lincoln Sanchez
Fuck off with your vore
Carter Cooper
Umami just means savory but it sounds slightly cooler
Benjamin Ross
Mouth feel. Like you like the taste of onion, as in a soup, but you wouldn't want to eat an onion like an apple.
William Garcia
Well, the point of this thread is to think up something that ISN'T one of those, so rather than telling us what we already know, how about tossing some good ideas out?
What about a table of elements that goes through Gaseous - Liquid - Solid on one axis and Heaven - Sky - Earth - Hell - Cocytus/Tartarus on the other? So for example, water could be made up of Liquid Sky (maybe the sky in this world is a massive ocean that hangs overhead, I dunno), or maybe it's Liquid Cocytus (being that Cocytus is a river of ice). The dirt would obviously be Solid Earth, living creatures made of Solid Heaven and plants would be partly made of Solid Earth and Solid Heaven.
Obviously it's not 100% thought-out, but it's the best I can think of on short notice, and it might be interesting to play with.
William Edwards
Blood, Bone, Bread, and Wine (a kind of blood)
Brody Richardson
>Muh things with cultural traction >Not muh dumb shit that only sounded good in muh head You're not using these things because they're good, you're using them because a number line isn't quite as evocative. Not everything has to be a display of intellect.
Hudson Mitchell
Plastic, Meat, Smoke, Metal
Gavin Sullivan
Solid Liquid Gas Bose-Einstein Condensate
fuck plasma
Dylan Smith
CANDY, FIRE, SLIME, ICE
THE BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS OF OUR UNIVERSE
Jordan Rodriguez
BLOOD, SWEAT, IRON.
Jaxson Hernandez
Ying, yang. I Ching hexagrams. Zhengqi, yuangqi, xieqi. All in one. Triple Burner - magical organ of spiritual body.
Wuxia sure is my favorite setting.
Elijah Robinson
BLOOD, SWEAT, FECES. THE 4 ELEMENTS OF MAN.
Ian Perry
Surely man has more elements.
Charles Rivera
...
Juan Clark
unless you're the Prime Minister of Australia.
Josiah Edwards
Piss Shit Cum /pol/
Samuel Edwards
>leftists shitting up unrelated threads Color me surprised.
