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Genuinely alternate rpg ideas

Started by Balbinus, July 04, 2007, 08:17:28 PM

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Balbinus

#60
July 07, 2007, 05:16:28 PM
Quote from: Dr Rotwang!J Arcane just brought up Transhuman Space in a thread about RPG.Net darlings, wherein he states (and I paraphrase), "Sure, you can play a cyborg cat girl, but what does she DO?"

Thing which made me go, "Huh."

So, y'know, I thought..."Hey, wouldn't these ordinarily-mundane campaign ideas discussed in the 'Alternate RPG ideas' thread be made a little more palatable by setting them in the future of THS?"  

I mean, I don't wanna play a quarterback for the Colts, but...how about a brain-taped "ghost" of Peyton Manning in a genetically-engineered bioshell?  (Especially if he's an llegal ghost.)  An uplifted dog in a cybernetic body, doing rescue missions in the Alps -- or on Mars?  A heavily-modified vice cop in a 2100 update of Miami Vice?

Have I just hit on something...?

To be honest, whenever someone says (and it does come up from time to time) that anything you could run today you could run in THS I tend to think, well, why not run it in the modern day then?  It's a hell of a lot easier and the conflicts are more relevant to our lives.

I think that's one of the key problems with THS actually.  It's like now, but much harder to run a game in.

Sigmund

#61
July 07, 2007, 05:37:55 PM
What's harder about than modern day (honest question)? Seems to me the future/near future stuff is a little easier to run just because the GM can be a little more fast and loose with the facts, especially about real world locations that the players may or may not be familiar with. I've never played or read THS though (I've wanted to for awhile, just haven't gotten around to it yet), so there may be things of which I am unaware.
- Chris Sigmund

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Balbinus

#62
July 07, 2007, 07:09:43 PM
Quote from: SigmundWhat's harder about than modern day (honest question)? Seems to me the future/near future stuff is a little easier to run just because the GM can be a little more fast and loose with the facts, especially about real world locations that the players may or may not be familiar with. I've never played or read THS though (I've wanted to for awhile, just haven't gotten around to it yet), so there may be things of which I am unaware.

THS is hugely detailed, a far more complex society than ours and has ubiquitious technologies many of which render traditional plots meaningless.

Everyone has wearable computer systems, see someone and you can instantly have a semi-ai do a profile of them based on all publicly available information online that relates to them, that alone changes a ton of stuff.

Sigmund

#63
July 07, 2007, 11:58:23 PM
Quote from: BalbinusTHS is hugely detailed, a far more complex society than ours and has ubiquitious technologies many of which render traditional plots meaningless.

Everyone has wearable computer systems, see someone and you can instantly have a semi-ai do a profile of them based on all publicly available information online that relates to them, that alone changes a ton of stuff.

Criminy, I guess so. Instant public files on people off the top of my head would indeed suck. I imagine location info would be just as easy to access. Lotsa prep work, but if pulled off it sounds like it'd be fun. I get what you're sayin now though.
- Chris Sigmund

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"I\'d rather be a killer than a victim."

Quote from: John Morrow;418271I role-play for the ride, not the destination.

Balbinus

#64
July 08, 2007, 09:26:55 AM
Quote from: SigmundCriminy, I guess so. Instant public files on people off the top of my head would indeed suck. I imagine location info would be just as easy to access. Lotsa prep work, but if pulled off it sounds like it'd be fun. I get what you're sayin now though.

And that's just one example.  There's tons of technologies with just as far reaching implications, it's a cool setting but almost nobody succeeds in running games in it.   Phil Masters to be fair is addressing that, and has put a lot of thought into runnable campaigns, but he seems to be a lone voice on that front.

Ned the Lonely Donkey

#65
July 08, 2007, 09:48:50 AM
Quote from: BalbinusOnline EG, which is quite vibrant and I'm very into, is all about the rp.

You're absolutely right, and of course I was thinking exactly of what you've told me of the EG community. So I'm not sure now exactly what I was getting at there.

Ned
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