Cycles-RPG

Maybe you don't know it, but I'm a Québécois (ie french Canadian from Québec province) living in Paris. I've been there for six years now, married to a french women, with a young child. Well, after all those years, I've decided to come back home with my wife and child ; back to Montréal !!!

This departure is coming very soon, in three weeks from now. And this is a big mess. Administrative actions, cloturing bank account, internet access, phone ... last week of work.
I've been working on this for the last three months, but as it gets closer, there are the details to finished.

And even that aside, those last weeks are crazy !!! Seeing old friends for the last time before leaving ; I have something to do each and every night !!! But that is all very exciting !!

And I'd like to point out that in Montréal I don't have a job nor an appartement for the moment. So, the first couples of weeks of my coming back home should be very busy too !!!

Anyway, this explains why I missed an update of the blog last week. Believe me, I'm trying my best here, but my life is just getting too crazy at the moment ... This shouldn't last much longer.

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Peut-être l'ignorez-vous, mais je suis un Québécois vivant à Paris. J'y habite maintenant depuis six ans, marié à une Francaise avec un jeune enfant. Et bien, après toutes ces années, j'ai finalement décidé de retourner "chez moi" avec ma petite famille ; de retour à Montréal !!!

Enfin, ceci peut expliquer pourquoi je n'ai pas à mis jour le blog la semaine dernière. Mais je vous assure, je fais de mon mieux ici, mais ma vie est juste trop malade en ce moment !!! Cela dit, ce n'est qu'une situation temporaire.

Like most fantasy worlds, Cycles has its own gods. Here, I do not wish to talk about their portfolio, but discuss their nature, rise and specificities.

First thing, the gods of Cycles can live in their natural society ; be it on Ethernya or in the Outer World. They can, in that context, take various roles : leader, oppressor, advisor or more discrete behavior.

Generally, the gods are first great heroes of their people, who accomplished great deeds, and had reached immortaly ; one way or the other. But, immortaly alone doesn't make gods. They need to be worshipped.

But what makes a god a god ? When a worshipper of his pray him with fervor and sees his prayers comes to reality. Of course, the said prayer must be related to the portfolio of the god.

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Comme dans la majorité des univers médiévaux fantastiques, Cycles possède ses propres dieux. Ici, je ne souhaite pas aborder la question de leur portefolio respectif, mais bien discuter de leur nature, de leur émergence et de leurs spécificités.

Mais qu'est-ce qui fait qu'un dieu est un dieu ? Il faut qu'un de ses disciples, lorsqu'il le prie avec ferveur, se voit exhausser ses désirs. Bien entendu, ces derniers doivent être en correspondance avec le portefolio du dieu en question.

The world of Avalanche is a very classic one. The lands of exile represent, somehow, a very common place. There are orcs, half elves, dwarves, humans. Let's say that people who know a few things about medieval fantasy won't be lost there. Alas, some of you might say ...

In fact, the lands of exile still have some of their specifities. There are many subraces of orcs, among them the white orcs, ghost creatures who don't have a physical body of their own. There are also the Luciomes, wood people, kind of treants, protectors of nature. But those are the exceptions you might say ...

But Cycles is not limited to Avalanche. The second scenario, Prelude to the fall, presents a very different region, with very different people. Other adventures will take place in the Outer-World, where many surprises await you. But yes, it is true, this is all long term.

I must admit that sometimes I regret this aspect of Avalanche ; maybe I would have prefered to create a world of my own, entirely new. On the other side, this common aspect is there on purpose, I must admit. In fact, the narrative structure of Avalanche is really "new", very different from anything existing as of today. Was I afraid to propose a different kind of story in a different kind of world ? Too many changes for a single product ? The future will tell us if that was the right choice ...

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Le monde d'Avalanche est très classique. Les terres de l'exil représentent donc un lieu plutôt commun. On y retrouve des orques, des demi-elfes, des nains, des humains. Disons que les amateurs d'univers médiéval fantastique devraient facilement s'y retrouver. Hélas, certains me diront peut-être ....

Je dois reconnaître par moments regretter un peu cette facette d'Avalanche ; j'aurais peut-être préféré créer un univers qui me serait plus propre. Par contre, cette familiarité est volontaire, je dois l'admettre. En effet, la structure narrative qu'utilise Avalanche est réellement "neuve", différente de ce qui existe aujourd'hui. Peut-être étais-je craintif à l'idée de non seulement créer une histoire différente, mais également un monde différent ? Trop de changements ? L'avenir nous dira si ce choix était le bon ...