# Answers, In No Particular Order
**URL:** https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611
**Category:** Theory
**Tags:** blog, design
**Created:** [January 9, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611 "2025-01-09T19:04:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@yochaigal](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/yochaigal)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611/1 "2025-01-09T19:04:19Z")
I wrote a [blogpost](https://newschoolrevolution.com/answers-in-no-particular-order/) that answers a number of questions that Prismatic Wastelands asked me on Bluesky a few weeks ago.
I hope you find it as entertaining to read as I did to write.
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### Author:  [@dodgepong](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/dodgepong)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 7:16pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611/2 "2025-01-09T19:16:35Z")
> Religions are just factions who can’t reason very well
Brutal, and unironically good advice for a slush post!
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### Author:  [@eeldip](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/eeldip)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611/3 "2025-01-10T18:16:42Z")
fun read. ON MONSTERS: i think a core part of my favorite rpg fantasy flavor is having the protagonists be _mostly just humans_, while others can be, and often are… something else. like personifications of concepts etc.
that way, the PCs feel grounded in the player experience/the player world. they get to be “the everyman” to contrast with the magical world. I like to give them little seasonings of magic (wizards! people with weird powers or pigfeet), but want to keep their core experience as human. IMMERSION PURPOSES HERE.
then I want that shit wide open for the rest of the world. monsters can just rise out of the muck because of bad vibes- they aren’t people- they are bad vibes mixed with muck. maybe others are bits of the deep abyss of nothingness (thinking here like the pigmen in house on the borderlands). trixter foxes. etc.
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### Author:  [@laesquinadelrol](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/laesquinadelrol)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 3:04am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611/4 "2025-01-11T03:04:22Z")
It’s been a lot of fun to read. Random question: what’s the weirdest thing you wanted to include in the second edition of Cairn, but in the end you left it out?!
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### Author:  [@yochaigal](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/yochaigal)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611/5 "2025-01-11T12:38:57Z")
Weirdest? I’m not sure. I had a lot more examples written that we had to cut due to page count, and I would have loved to do a chapter on urban generation.
Originally I started with 36 backgrounds, then pared them down to 20. Perhaps one of the other backgrounds would have been cool (there was a druid of the undead wood, for example).
Initially I had a shared debt system for the PCs as well. It didn’t work quite as unexpected though.
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### Author:  [@ianboyte](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/ianboyte)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611/6 "2025-01-11T23:08:47Z")
I was just catching up on a month old Between Two Cairns episode with a brief mention of Bluesky, and wanted to check on what you posted. Your account didn’t seem to be live and I didn’t seem to be following you anymore, so down the rabbit hole I went until I ended up back here.
I’m sorry to hear about the drama nonsense and the immature sniping. This is why we can’t have nice things.
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### Author:  [@yochaigal](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/yochaigal)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611/7 "2025-01-11T23:34:06Z")
Haha I assume you read my post on the subject?
> **[Blue Skies Ahead](https://newschoolrevolution.com/blue-skies-ahead/)**
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> Hello friends.
>
> I don't usually write posts like this. Generally, I don't even write posts about myself, and I am not trying to create more drama with this...
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### Author:  [@ianboyte](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/ianboyte)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611/8 "2025-01-12T00:33:01Z")
I did! Do you plan to continue posting on Mastodon, or eschew the format altogether?
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### Author:  [@yochaigal](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/yochaigal)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2025, 10:09pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/answers-in-no-particular-order/1611/9 "2025-01-14T22:09:43Z")
No, though I might not close my account there since it’s harder to recover. I’ll just leave it for now.