A) My story follows a team of anthropologists exploring an alien planet, and focuses on a Power Trio... and that's the part which strains realism. (Though, IMO, it doesn't strain believability. The Main Characters Do Everything is pretty much unavoidable.) The trip to the planet is "international co-operation"-level of expensive, so there would be a lot more people involved from a realism standpoint. Also, their Cover Story is that they're representatives of another tribe, so it seems an Elephant in the Room if there's only three of them. The problem is that I'm struggling for distinctiveness with the human characters as it is, (though I think that's only because I haven't written about them that much) Is it worth adding more?
B) As mentioned, the story mostly revolves around alien natives, who are quite low-tech. Assuming I avoid playing Magical Native American straight, is it funny and/or interesting if:
Braids, Beads and Buckskins gets deliberately invoked? The humans are trying to blend in as another low-tech society, and so have to hide the fact they have 200 years of polymers, artificial dyes, etc, and since that aesthetic fits the tech level...]]
a human marries a (explicitly non-princess) Indian Maiden... for purely political purposes, and with the understanding he'll be leaving when the mission ends?]]
edited 23rd Nov '10 2:32:37 PM by Yej
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A) My story follows a team of anthropologists exploring an alien planet, and focuses on a Power Trio... and that's the part which strains realism. (Though, IMO, it doesn't strain believability. The Main Characters Do Everything is pretty much unavoidable.) The trip to the planet is "international co-operation"-level of expensive, so there would be a lot more people involved from a realism standpoint. Also, their Cover Story is that they're representatives of another tribe, so it seems an Elephant in the Room if there's only three of them. The problem is that I'm struggling for distinctiveness with the human characters as it is, (though I think that's only because I haven't written about them that much) Is it worth adding more?
B) As mentioned, the story mostly revolves around alien natives, who are quite low-tech. Assuming I avoid playing Magical Native American straight, is it funny and/or interesting if:
edited 23rd Nov '10 2:32:37 PM by Yej
Da Rules excuse all the inaccuracy in the world. Listen to them, not me.