Good and Evil aesthetics

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Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby LordJorge » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:29 am

Have you ever seen a village and wondered if they are raiders or peaceful people?

Maybe with some flower pots and beautiful statues and stone columns you can show that your village is a beacon of hope, knowledge and civilization

Or with some menacing stakes and the skulls of your enemies you can warn those dirty peasants that they are not welcome here

Little changes that can change the way your village looks here are a few examples:
Stone column->made with stoneworking (a few white columns in your philosopher garden)
Flower pot-> gray clay x 6 + 10 stone: and you can put a dandelion/bluebell/Edelweiß/Blood Stern/Thorny Thistle/Snapdragon inside for decoration
Nymph statue-> bone clay * 10 to build a block and then carve it into a statue (my village is a paragon of culture)

Menacing stakes-> wooden block x 6 + 3 bloody gauze + 1 rope (looks evil and a now the bloody gauze have a use)
skull on a cage-> 5 any metal bar and a skeleton ( send the right evil message)
Get out post-> wooden block + board x 2 + Tangled Bramble x2 ( you're not welcome here) a sign with thorns and a skull painted on

If they may or may not have a use is optional since I thought of em merely as decorative items

now I prepare for the bashing :o
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Re: Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby ninja_yodeler » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:35 am

while i do like the concept of being able to customise and decorate your village, a good and evil thing would not be the way, as no evil people would really want to show it. they want to lure people in then kill them.

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Re: Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby cloakblade » Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:55 pm

Usually the most evil people in the world are the most charismatic and well dress people. You're ideas of the evil people where skulls are extremely silly besides we have this in the form of bandit's mask.

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Re: Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby Jackard » Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:25 pm

itt children's storybook good and evil
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Re: Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby LordJorge » Mon Jun 27, 2011 4:54 pm

It's not childish it is old school evilness
civilized city vs the barbaric raiders

all those refined evil villains are the standard today something akin to vampires shining
back in my days the only makeup evil used was blood; but now... sigh...
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Re: Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby burgingham » Mon Jun 27, 2011 5:02 pm

That doesn't make it any less of a bad clichee.
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Re: Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby cloakblade » Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:48 pm

LordJorge wrote:It's not childish it is old school evilness
civilized city vs the barbaric raiders

all those refined evil villains are the standard today something akin to vampires shining
back in my days the only makeup evil used was blood; but now... sigh...


When the fuck were you born? I'm pretty sure that many people back in the medieval ages were more well dressed. I mean isn't this kind of the stereotyped slave owner: Well dressed, wealthy, but considers himself better than any black and considers them trash and that they should almost be exterminated but he might as well make a buck off them. Just because when you were born the only things you saw were Disney movies where you can tell pretty quickly who the enemy is doesn't mean that there weren't evil people who were well dressed walking around.

I mean Satan himself is often talk about as being one of God's most beautiful angel, sorry I cant' find a quote.
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Re: Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby Jackard » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:04 pm

LordJorge wrote:It's not childish

except it totally is
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Re: Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby saltmummy626 » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:01 am

you know all the evil/chaotic peoples would be putting flower pots and peaceful stuff around their places. at least that's what I imagine some of our well know evil fellows doing.
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Re: Good and Evil aesthetics

Postby Radenk » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:57 am

saltmummy626 wrote:you know all the evil/chaotic peoples would be putting flower pots and peaceful stuff around their places. at least that's what I imagine some of our well know evil fellows doing.

This is what I was thinking as well. it's not like the decoration is actually based on your actions, as any player can put whatever they want on their village.
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