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Middle East

Started by beejazz, October 09, 2006, 02:58:46 PM

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beejazz

October 09, 2006, 02:58:46 PM
Are there any Middle Eastern themed mecha, supers, etc. games?

Would that work? I mean... I'm imagining this world with mecha jihad or a Persian Empire supers game... Or something.

JongWK

#1
October 09, 2006, 03:01:17 PM
Safevid Persia with mechas? :p
"I give the gift of endless imagination."
~~Gary Gygax (1938 - 2008)

beejazz

#2
October 09, 2006, 03:11:07 PM
Quote from: JongWKSafevid Persia with mechas? :p
Exactly. That would be SO win.

Romans: Raugh! Army! Favorite of historians everywhere!
Persians: Fuck yous! MECHA!
Romans: Aaaugh! Retreat! Jeebus save me!
Persians: Jeebus FTL! Eat righteous fire!
Mani: Can't we all just get along?
Romans and Persians: (in unison) Fuck noes!

JongWK

#3
October 09, 2006, 03:17:53 PM
Hmm... fantasy mechas could work then. Hephaestus' Iron Legion duking it out with Mithras' Golden Dragoons. :)
"I give the gift of endless imagination."
~~Gary Gygax (1938 - 2008)

beejazz

#4
October 09, 2006, 03:21:34 PM
Well, yeah...

also supers?

also modern?

also Jihad-justification? Or parody if that's more comfortable.

Though, yeah... the fantasy mechs in the Middle East is really starting to open up some doors in my brains... wow. Mithraic Mech seems totally awexome to me now.

jhkim

#5
October 09, 2006, 04:45:18 PM
Quote from: beejazzAre there any Middle Eastern themed mecha, supers, etc. games?

Would that work? I mean... I'm imagining this world with mecha jihad or a Persian Empire supers game... Or something.

The only one that comes to mind is the "When Gravity Fails" sourcebook for Cyberpunk from R. Talsorian Games -- based on the George A. Effinger novel(s), with the participation of the author.  

http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=1475&editionid=1628

beejazz

#6
October 09, 2006, 04:51:06 PM
Quote from: jhkimThe only one that comes to mind is the "When Gravity Fails" sourcebook for Cyberpunk from R. Talsorian Games -- based on the George A. Effinger novel(s), with the participation of the author.  

http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=1475&editionid=1628
Any good, you think?

jhkim

#7
October 09, 2006, 04:54:11 PM
Quote from: beejazzAny good, you think?

I haven't used the sourcebook, and I don't recall offhand -- I'll see if I can dig up anything on it.  The novels are kick-ass, though.

David R

#8
October 09, 2006, 09:17:20 PM
Quote from: beejazzAny good, you think?

The novels were great. I got the source book and I'm going to use stuff from it for my upcoming cyberrap game - but, I remember not being very impressed with the sourcebook when I first read it. It's been ages since I looked through it, so I can't really give a detailed breakdown of the sourcebook.

Regards,
David R

beejazz

#9
October 09, 2006, 10:07:20 PM
I am not familiar with teh novels. Whastaboust?

David R

#10
October 09, 2006, 10:13:00 PM
Quote from: beejazzI am not familiar with teh novels. Whastaboust?

The hunt for a serial killer by the terminally cool Marid Audran in the "Budayeen" - populated by personality changing freaks, and sex changing bohemians...

Regards,
David R

beejazz

#11
October 09, 2006, 10:14:16 PM
Anyword on the tech? Cyberpunk? Mecha?

Gender WHAT now?!

David R

#12
October 09, 2006, 10:19:08 PM
Quote from: beejazzAnyword on the tech? Cyberpunk? Mecha?

Gender WHAT now?!

Cyberpunk. Tech wise - the thing that sticks to my mind, were the personality catridges. You plugged them in and presto you are James Bond or thought you were him.

Yeah if I remeber correctly, there were a lot of "modified" folks walking the mean streets :D

Regards,
David R

beejazz

#13
October 09, 2006, 10:26:05 PM
Well... yeah, I guess that makes some sense "as the technology becomes available" but... in the Middle East? One of the last bastions of any kind of sexual uber-conservativism?





...America (or, by the sound of it, Japanese H-fandom) wins?

David R

#14
October 09, 2006, 11:40:20 PM
This quote prefaces the story in When Gravity Fails - I also stole it to preface my own campaign notes for my game.

...He must be the best man in his world and a good
      enough man for any world......
   He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will
treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw
        him. He talks as the man of his age talks -
        that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the
     grotesque, a disgust for sham and a contempt
                       for pettiness.
       
               - Raymond Chandler
               "The Simple Art of Murder"

The thing is this book is a great source of ideas to steal from if you are ever thinking of setting a sci fi game in the Middle East. I mean, it's got a lot of cool imagined details regarding the intersection of science and religious beliefs.

The writing is extremely evocative and doesn't have the stench of a
Chandler pastiche. It's damn cool.

Regards,
David R
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