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[Idea] Sky Pirates

Started by Werekoala, October 12, 2007, 03:40:01 PM

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JohnnyWannabe

#15
October 13, 2007, 02:31:24 PM
There are airships in Realm-Antique. The game is set in a late 18th/early19th century parallel earth.
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Scoundrel

#16
October 14, 2007, 02:27:48 AM
Not really familiar with Eberron, but aren't there elemental-powered airships scootin' around there?

AH!  it appears that there are!  



and it that's not cool, then I don't wanna see what is! :P
 

TheQuestionMan

#17
October 14, 2007, 03:27:54 AM
Meridian by CrossGen Comics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_%28comics%29

Both of these Compilations have a little of what you are looking for.

Victorian Hero Resources
http://herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30759

Pulp Hero Resources
http://herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30071


Good luck


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#18
October 14, 2007, 01:20:40 PM
Upsidasium

I was thinking of stealing this idea but pushing things back to a middle ages light fantasy setting. Kinda Ars Magica Punk.

Tyberious Funk

#19
October 14, 2007, 07:43:12 PM
Quote from: WerekoalaI'm certain that this has been done before (not thinking of Spelljammer, but something more like....)

Sky Pirates. A world where there are literal airships, tech level otherwise about that of the 1600 - 1700s. Spanish Main kinda stuff. Maybe throw in some magic or steampunk-style technology. Cannons. Fencing. Floating ports or forts or cities held up by huge balloons, or some kind of "liftwood". Hidden jungle kingdoms. Globe-straddling Empires patrolling the skies. Secret societies. Mythical treasures. Stuff like that. Earth, or not-Earth, or an analog.

Been done before? Does it need to be done? Thoughts? Suggestions?

I watched Stardust last night, which has something similar.  Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro), flies a vessel that looks like a cross between a galleon and a zeppelin.  It flies, but also lands in the water (which is an awesome scene).  It's almost believable, except for the mechanical "wings" that spread out in flight and flap like a bird.  The crew of the ship are basically a bunch of pirates that make a living collecting lightning from storm clouds.

The whole thing was pretty cool.  I reckon I might try and pick up the graphic novel that it was based upon.  Definitely inspirational material for roleplaying.
 

Spike

#20
October 14, 2007, 07:47:55 PM
I'm pretty sure those wings were only there to collect the lightning they bottled... itself a totally awesome concept. Particularly the part where it seemed like they were poaching it somehow....
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Tyberious Funk

#21
October 14, 2007, 07:51:08 PM
Quote from: SpikeI'm pretty sure those wings were only there to collect the lightning they bottled... itself a totally awesome concept. Particularly the part where it seemed like they were poaching it somehow....

The entire movie was a cornucopia of roleplaying ideas.
 

Spike

#22
October 14, 2007, 07:55:30 PM
Quote from: Tyberious FunkThe entire movie was a cornucopia of roleplaying ideas.

What? You expect me to argue????

;)
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Marco

#23
October 15, 2007, 12:50:35 PM
It may not fit all your criteria, but we have a free world book for JAGS called C -13: The Thirteen Colonies that is an alternate reality with steampunk / pulp sensibilities. The idea is that magic experienced a resurgence and changed history. In the C13 reality America is still composed of the 13 colonies and there is around a 1920's-1940's tech level.

There is an adventure called Sky Pirates that has the characters investigating blimp heists over New York City. There is a GURPS conversion. All of it is free.

Link below.
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flyingmice

#24
October 15, 2007, 01:33:01 PM
Quote from: MarcoIt may not fit all your criteria, but we have a free world book for JAGS called C -13: The Thirteen Colonies that is an alternate reality with steampunk / pulp sensibilities. The idea is that magic experienced a resurgence and changed history. In the C13 reality America is still composed of the 13 colonies and there is around a 1920's-1940's tech level.

There is an adventure called Sky Pirates that has the characters investigating blimp heists over New York City. There is a GURPS conversion. All of it is free.

Link below.
-Marco

It also kick nineteen kinds of ass. It's what turned me on to JAGS way back when. :D

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Spike

#25
October 15, 2007, 03:59:15 PM
Speaking of JAGS, I read the Wonderland stuff a couple years back. Pretty damn impressive handling of what might have otherwise seemed like a bad joke.

Of course, I got no clue how JAGS works from that, but hey!
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#26
October 15, 2007, 04:08:16 PM
Quote from: SpikeSpeaking of JAGS, I read the Wonderland stuff a couple years back. Pretty damn impressive handling of what might have otherwise seemed like a bad joke.

Of course, I got no clue how JAGS works from that, but hey!

You shouldn't, any more than reading The Big Book o' Tech will tell you how StarCluster works! It's a supplement, watt-head! :D

Marco has written tons of excellent supplemental material for JAGS, all of it free - but three supplements stand out as trancendant - C-13, Have-Not, and Wonderland. Brilliant, brilliant stuff!

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Dr Rotwang!

#27
October 15, 2007, 04:09:06 PM
Quote from: Tyberious FunkI watched Stardust last night, which has something similar.  Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro), flies a vessel that looks like a cross between a galleon and a zeppelin.  It flies, but also lands in the water (which is an awesome scene).  It's almost believable, except for the mechanical "wings" that spread out in flight and flap like a bird.  The crew of the ship are basically a bunch of pirates that make a living collecting lightning from storm clouds.

The whole thing was pretty cool.  I reckon I might try and pick up the graphic novel that it was based upon.  Definitely inspirational material for roleplaying.
That movie ROCKED, so hard in fact that I saw a bunch of Finnish Death Metal guys running away from it, wiping mascara from their eyes, screaming "Tevreden, niet zo hard!"

Anyway I interpreted the wing-thingies as a steering mechanism or maybe an energy-collector or something.  Hell, I dunno, I'm just gonna buy the DVD as soon as it's available and watch it again because that movie was so bad-ass that I saw Shaft and Nick Fury hiding from it in a trash can one day at the Safeway.  After I do so I can drop you a line, if I can still walk because DAMN.
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Spike

#28
October 15, 2007, 04:12:16 PM
weirdly, I pretty much thought the movie should have ended about the time he punked out the other suiter back in his own side of the wall. Everything after was just tying up loose ends for me....

Not that they didn't need to do all that, but really. THAT was the end of the main character's story arc.
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Tyberious Funk

#29
October 15, 2007, 11:04:30 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!That movie ROCKED, so hard in fact that I saw a bunch of Finnish Death Metal guys running away from it, wiping mascara from their eyes, screaming "Tevreden, niet zo hard!"

Anyway I interpreted the wing-thingies as a steering mechanism or maybe an energy-collector or something.  Hell, I dunno, I'm just gonna buy the DVD as soon as it's available and watch it again because that movie was so bad-ass that I saw Shaft and Nick Fury hiding from it in a trash can one day at the Safeway.  After I do so I can drop you a line, if I can still walk because DAMN.

Well, I don't quite know about that.  I thought the plot rambled a bit at times... something quite common when a screenplay is adapted from a book or comic.  But I definitely thought that the whole idea of the galleon/zeppelin with the crew of pirates collecting lightning could make an awesome story all on it's own.  Maybe someone will follow-up with a sequel?
 
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