New version of UNDERGROUND

LouGoncey · March 02, 2016, 09:28:25 PM

Ray drops the 411 in this interview:

http://www.pigames.net/store/blog.php?entry=2465

Very excited.

brettmb · March 02, 2016, 11:06:15 PM

Me too.

LouGoncey · March 03, 2016, 12:53:48 AM

Could be the same exact system as the original -- it would be fascinating to see the setting from a 2016 point of view instead of the one from a 1993 point of view. It could be a very different setting...

LouGoncey · March 03, 2016, 01:04:11 AM

Maybe this is just a personal thing, but my all time favorite RPGs are:

1) UNDERGROUND
2) OVER THE EDGE
3) WASTE WORLD

I m kind of excited by the news...

Simlasa · March 03, 2016, 01:52:09 AM

That would be cool, if it comes to fruition. I've never gotten to play Underground but from reading it I got a lot of inspiration for some gutter-level supers games. I will be particularly interesting to see how he might update it for current world-events.

thedungeondelver · March 03, 2016, 02:13:55 AM

Underground had the best cover for a cyberpunk/whatever RPG ever. I love that damn thing. You can look at it for ten minutes and still find new things in it.

JesterRaiin · March 03, 2016, 04:53:23 AM

Quote from: LouGoncey;882936Very excited.

Pardon me, is this the game where everything happens in the sewers and there are animal-PCs?

Quote from: LouGoncey;882936OVER THE EDGE

You're a good guy.

I'd love to see people upgrading Al-Amarja to y2k+10. The Internet and the abundance of both easy to hide and custom DIY guns are factors that would surely change the way the island works.

...and the question of Her Exalteness' reign in contemporary times... She would be very old by now.

Grymbok · March 03, 2016, 06:17:33 AM

Quote from: JesterRaiin;882999Pardon me, is this the game where everything happens in the sewers and there are animal-PCs?

No - it's set in a future LA with genetically engineered super-soldiers.

JesterRaiin · March 03, 2016, 06:55:55 AM

Quote from: Grymbok;883004No - it's set in a future LA with genetically engineered super-soldiers.

Ah, I see. It seems I mistook it for UnderWORLD.

Daddy Warpig · March 03, 2016, 07:16:26 AM

I think Winninger's wrong though — if you didn't have the precondition of "grim and gritty", you could have played it straight and made a great non-satirical Supers setting.

Just Another Snake Cult · March 03, 2016, 07:52:42 AM

UNDERGROUND is a masterpiece, and one of my favorite RPGs of all time. I had a lot of great times playing it back in the day (Mid-Nineties).

That said, the game now has a patina of bittersweet tragicomedy by dint of the sad fact that so many of the dystopian predictions of the first edition basically came true.

LouGoncey · March 03, 2016, 11:31:51 AM

UNDERGROUND came at the exact right time for me. When I saw the ads for FENG SHUI, for example, I was convinced it was perfect for me. My players were coming up to me and saying, "You gotta run this!" I went into Philly to watch current Hong Kong flicks where it was me and two friends surrounded by a Chinese-American audience from Chinatown.

But FENG SHUI did not do it -- UNDERGROUND did it. Every shot was described. Every hit was agonizing. Every miss was devastating. The description of collateral damage was EPIC. The cover of the book inspired me on how I ran the game.

Just Another Snake Cult · March 03, 2016, 05:59:27 PM

Quote from: LouGoncey;883048But FENG SHUI did not do it -- UNDERGROUND did it. Every shot was described. Every hit was agonizing. Every miss was devastating. The description of collateral damage was EPIC. The cover of the book inspired me on how I ran the game.

Yes. This. 110%.

Remember the bloody Wound Stickers and $10,000 bills with Reagan on them that came in the (FUCKING EPIC) Streets Tell Stories L.A. campaign box set? Priceless.

RPGPundit · March 06, 2016, 12:20:36 AM

I never got into Underground. Seemed a bit too... I don't know. Sort of stereotypical. Its politics were too blatant.