Magicians Game
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@Lithium said in Magicians Game:
I am good with desc'ing, but, I've never read the books. Only watched the series. I can also code at work, because nobody cares if I code at work... but if I was writing descriptions and it came up on QA it'd be different.
Visually, I'll probably be going off the show, so that might help.
But I get it, re: QA. 
But I'm trying to remember how the school was described/laid out in the books to use that as a basis, since... well, shows aren't always consistent with stuff like that. And I know the book gave specifics on the different locations for like, the Nature kids, etc.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice said in Magicians Game:
@Lithium said in Magicians Game:
I am good with desc'ing, but, I've never read the books. Only watched the series. I can also code at work, because nobody cares if I code at work... but if I was writing descriptions and it came up on QA it'd be different.
Visually, I'll probably be going off the show, so that might help.
But I get it, re: QA. But I'm trying to remember how the school was described/laid out in the books to use that as a basis, since... well, shows aren't always consistent with stuff like that. And I know the book gave specifics on the different locations for like, the Nature kids, etc.
I just googled it and there's no map of Brakebills online, sadly. That would have helped.
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@Coin said in Magicians Game:
@Auspice said in Magicians Game:
@Lithium said in Magicians Game:
I am good with desc'ing, but, I've never read the books. Only watched the series. I can also code at work, because nobody cares if I code at work... but if I was writing descriptions and it came up on QA it'd be different.
Visually, I'll probably be going off the show, so that might help.
But I get it, re: QA. But I'm trying to remember how the school was described/laid out in the books to use that as a basis, since... well, shows aren't always consistent with stuff like that. And I know the book gave specifics on the different locations for like, the Nature kids, etc.
I just googled it and there's no map of Brakebills online, sadly. That would have helped.
Yeah, that's why I'm hoping someone has recently read the books. I don't want to re-read 'em just to refresh my memory of locations, y'know?
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice said in Magicians Game:
@Coin said in Magicians Game:
@Auspice said in Magicians Game:
@Lithium said in Magicians Game:
I am good with desc'ing, but, I've never read the books. Only watched the series. I can also code at work, because nobody cares if I code at work... but if I was writing descriptions and it came up on QA it'd be different.
Visually, I'll probably be going off the show, so that might help.
But I get it, re: QA. But I'm trying to remember how the school was described/laid out in the books to use that as a basis, since... well, shows aren't always consistent with stuff like that. And I know the book gave specifics on the different locations for like, the Nature kids, etc.
I just googled it and there's no map of Brakebills online, sadly. That would have helped.
Yeah, that's why I'm hoping someone has recently read the books. I don't want to re-read 'em just to refresh my memory of locations, y'know?
I have never read the books, just watched the show. To be honest, though, I wouldn't worry about it. I would just make Brakebills consistent in-game. People won't care, and the people that do will either be willing to put it aside for a good game or are really not the kind of anal-retentive jackasses that you want around anyway.
Or, maybe, will be willing to lay it out specifically for you.
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Wasn't Brakebills supposed to be in kind of generic upstate New York? So maybe setting it outside of Albany or Rochester or something would work? At least that way you would have a real world map to work with?
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@hedgehog said in Magicians Game:
Wasn't Brakebills supposed to be in kind of generic upstate New York? So maybe setting it outside of Albany or Rochester or something would work? At least that way you would have a real world map to work with?
It's the grounds directly around and the building of the school itself that I'm trying to get laid out, so sadly that doesn't really help either. But I appreciate the idea!
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I tend to agree that since Grossman himself doesn't provide a map of the layout of the school, there's no canonical way in which it is actually laid out. Especially since there's also Brakebills South to consider. And if people bitch at you, 'fuck you, it's a goddamn College of Magical Pegagogy' should suffice for explanation. Not to mention that it doesn't actually appear on any map anywhere.
And, hey, at least there's a map of Fillory.
