While thinking around for some of the possible options for the new Great Artists, Musicians and Writers, I thought about all of the major ones that had multiple great creations that could be Great Works. How do you think Fraxis will handle those Great people that could have muiltple Great Works accositated with them, like Homer (The Iliad and The Odyssey), Shakespeare (any), Beethoven (any), van Gogh (any), Rembrandt (any), Faulkner (Absalom, Absalom!, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dieing), Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms), Tolstoy (War and Peace and Anna Karenina), etc. There are three possible ways that I could see them go with it:
a) Simply leave out any of the Great Artists, Musicians or Writers with multiple works, as there are of course binders full of great people with only one really great work (Fitzgerald a prime example of this). This option seems like the least likely to me since it would involve leaving out people like those listed above (Homer? Shakespeare? Leave e'm out!)
b) Only have Great Artists, Musicians or Writers have their most famous or reconizable achievement as their singular Great Work, such as The Sound and the Fury for Faulkner or The Old Man and the Sea for Hemingway, which are what they were most lauded for and are famous creations. The issue here would be for great people like Shakespeare and Homer, how would or could you choose between Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, or The Odyssey and The Iliad, respectfully?
c) Have it so that Great Artists, Musicians or Writers who had multiple options for a Great Work choose a random one from a list, and have that be their Great Work for that game. For example, say you get Shakepeare as a Great Writer, in one game he'll make Romeo and Juliet and in another he makes King Lear. This would be by prefered option since it opperates in a similar fashion to how great people themselves work (randomly each time they pop) and would add variety to the Great Works and wouldn't force less main stream ones from being made (King Lear doesn't exist, BNW says so, Shakespeare only ever made Romeo and Juliet!)
d) Have it so that Great Artists, Musicians or Writers with mulitple options for a Great Work can appear more than once in a game, with different versions having different Great Works, an example being popping Homer as a Great Writer with The Iliad as a Great Work and later on in the same game popping another Homer as a Great Writer with The Odyssey as a Great Work. This option simply seems confusing and could end up as really akward if one game all you ever end edup with were Shakespeares as your Great Writers, and would hamper varity in Great Artists, Musicians and Writers.
a) Simply leave out any of the Great Artists, Musicians or Writers with multiple works, as there are of course binders full of great people with only one really great work (Fitzgerald a prime example of this). This option seems like the least likely to me since it would involve leaving out people like those listed above (Homer? Shakespeare? Leave e'm out!)
b) Only have Great Artists, Musicians or Writers have their most famous or reconizable achievement as their singular Great Work, such as The Sound and the Fury for Faulkner or The Old Man and the Sea for Hemingway, which are what they were most lauded for and are famous creations. The issue here would be for great people like Shakespeare and Homer, how would or could you choose between Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, or The Odyssey and The Iliad, respectfully?
c) Have it so that Great Artists, Musicians or Writers who had multiple options for a Great Work choose a random one from a list, and have that be their Great Work for that game. For example, say you get Shakepeare as a Great Writer, in one game he'll make Romeo and Juliet and in another he makes King Lear. This would be by prefered option since it opperates in a similar fashion to how great people themselves work (randomly each time they pop) and would add variety to the Great Works and wouldn't force less main stream ones from being made (King Lear doesn't exist, BNW says so, Shakespeare only ever made Romeo and Juliet!)
d) Have it so that Great Artists, Musicians or Writers with mulitple options for a Great Work can appear more than once in a game, with different versions having different Great Works, an example being popping Homer as a Great Writer with The Iliad as a Great Work and later on in the same game popping another Homer as a Great Writer with The Odyssey as a Great Work. This option simply seems confusing and could end up as really akward if one game all you ever end edup with were Shakespeares as your Great Writers, and would hamper varity in Great Artists, Musicians and Writers.
It's a neat idea though, and on one level I'm sad we won't be seeing this.
