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Here’s a big ad for Mermaid Hunters, the new box set for our Yeld RPG. Its on Kickstarter right now, and I’d love it if you’d check it out!
Nick and I wanted to create a set that was easy for new players and young players to try out. Mermaid Hunters comes in a box like a board game and includes everything you need to play, all for just $35! We think its a fun set, and we hope you’ll give it a chance. It also makes a great gift!
You can find the Kickstarter here. I’d super appreciate your support!
I have nothing to Say … Yes , I have to send useless + and idiot) messages
Thanks anyway!
.-. Why ? I am just a Guy that send message that are Never serious …
I approve of foxes wearing bow ties.
Thanks. He’s the Mayor.
Well, it’s a fine day for mayoring.
You’re livin’ the dream!!
One last question about the mermaids, I guess that it makes sense that their all female do to being an artificial race, but are rare mermen born every now and then? Also what about choosing mates? I guess they just kidnap them in the case of the bandit culture, but when they’re living in peace part of a community they’d have to worry about people either discriminating them because of history or only getting with them because of their chest. Do they go through the whole dating process, just choose the best warrior they can find, or just take the first volunteer they can find? Would they keep a husband/boyfriend or do they just ditch them once they got their seed? Also I know this is alot of questions but why are there so much all female races in fiction in this day and age? How come there’s no all male races?
Thats a lot of questions!
I’m not sure if there are mermen. There might be. But the mer-people we see in Yeld are female. We may see mermen eventually, depending on my interest in exploring that. I wouldn’ rule it out.
The mermaids we see in Yeld are all either current soldiers of the Deep who are invaders, former soldiers of the Deep who now work for the Prince or one of his Hunters (thats the group we see here), former soldiers of the Deep who have defected and are now just normal people (fishers, farmers,sailors, thieves, boat makers, etc) or the children of one of those groups. The Deep has been at war with the Prince for nearly a thousand years, so theres generations of mermaids who have lived in Yeld. Some of those still practice mermaid traditions, and some practice regional Yeld traditions.
Mermaids were designed to be able to reproduce with Kings People, so relationships between them are common. They can also reproduce with each other, and sometimes some of the other people of Yeld. Offspring are sometimes mermaids and sometimes not. Marriages or partnerships between all the people of Yeld are fairly common. depending on the area.
Discrimination is a problem. A lot of Yeld people can be racist, fearful, territorial or otherwise just wary. This exacerbated by the reality that some people in Yeld flat out eat other people, and others have a long history of war with each other. So you’ll find communities and individuals who hate mermaids, or want nothing to do with them, or think they’re all criminals and deserters.
Different mermaids (and generations of mermaids) probably having different dating, relationship and mating habits. mermaids who live along side the other people of Yeld probably have habits that are from those communities (and mermaid habits and traditions certainly shape broader communities as well. So you may get Mermaids who are just looking for strong people to reproduce with, or a strong warrior to fight beside, or a good fisherman to live with. You’d also have mermaids who date and flirt and hope for flowers and romance. And mermaids who never have any interest in finding a partner too. Even within stricter mermaid culture within the realm of the Deep (whatever that looks like) their habits, traditions and wants might be fairly broad. But Yeld is a big place populated by a LOT of different people with very different traditions, and because of that theres bound to be a wide and interesting mix. Once you leave your repressive military state you discover that the world is broader than you thought with way more people, and the narrow view that you had of how you had to live your life, who you could love and where you could live gets shattered. You may still want what you wanted before, but there are so many options now, and more for your children and more for theres. A few generations later things that seemed impossible for you are mundane for your children. So you’ll get a mermaid married to a fairy with 3 adopted Toothfacer kids. And in the next town over theres a small fishing company run by 3 Mermaids and they never talk to anyone at all. And the town over from that
is about 1/3 mermaids, mostly married to King’s People with a mix of children, and the next town over hates mermaids and has banned them, and the next town has a super popular Mermaid mayor, and the next town is overrun by mermaid soldiers turned to banditry, and etc, etc…
Scuba snakes are amazing
Okay, I think I need to know more about the buff mermaid in that fourth illustration from the top. ‘-‘
Of course you do!
Miss Vanessa is the main antagonist of Mermaid Hunters and the leader of the local gang. But is she really such a villain, or has the Mayor of Lake Town (that fox with the bow-tie) been spreading lies about her? Miss Vanessa is strong (check out those abs!) and fast, and knows some dangerous magic! But is she a match for two kids from our world and their talking dog?
Also , WHY IS THERE A ZOMBIE MERMAID !?
Zombie mermaids are cool!
Seriously though, Yeld’s plague of undeath brought on by Dragul and his vampires effects nearly all the people of Yeld. Because of this the dead are usually cremated instead of buried. But sometimes someone will die out in the wild or away from friends and family and after a few days will rise up into undeath.