Haida Gwaii Mod (This round of beta closed)

[HoneyBadger]

Good point, further consideration is obviously needed.

[HoneyBadger]

Is there any way to make a province that works as both Land and Water-basically an amphibious province? I could definitely see this as being the reasonable quality of a given province-type.

[Foodstamp]

How about a whale in a magical water sphere? At the very least it would be an interesting looking unit

[XiahouDun]

Like a hamster ball?

[Foodstamp]

Yup, a gi-normous hamster ball.

[HoneyBadger]

That's a possibility, and get rid of some misc slots, but I'm looking into the possibility of a province which would allow both land only and water only beings to travel across it. Then maybe a special map that uses such a province as Haida's starting province. How does that sound?

[HoneyBadger]

How about a gi-normous hamster god...er no, nevermind.

[XiahouDun]

How about a magic Killer Whale that loses its fins and gains short stubby legs on land, like the mer people of Oceana?

[Foodstamp]

XiahouDun said:
How about a magic Killer Whale that loses its fins and gains short stubby legs on land, like the mer people of Oceana?

That's probably the way it will be implemented if I include a 3rd pretender. A shapeshifting killer whale with a land form and a water form. Although the air whales in "The Maxx" were pretty wicked

[danm]

A good (and thematic) solution for the whale Pretender is to set it up as a shapeshifter (like dragons) with a weak human form on land, and SC whale form in the water. The animal/people distinction is very blurry in Haida myths, and most animals show up in human form fairly regularly.

If you can force the transform based on location, it'd be cool -- if not, having the human form amphibious, and the whale water-only should work fine.

I'd also suggest using the Grey Whale, as that is more culturally appropriate (though a grey spermwhale definatly will LOOK more "SCish")