Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0
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@wildbaboons said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:
The tommy guns are more obvious. They're a tool laying around to use.. but the fashion and society? If all those people are gone why would the goblins, giants and orcs emulate it?
I think the answer is "because it's fun".
I mean... logically-speaking there's really zero chance, IMHO, of a transplanted fantasy orc even guessing what a car or radio might be, let alone figuring out how to use one. And that's not even starting on something as befuddlingly complex as a computer or telephone.
But what if they did? If you can get past that central suspension of disbelief issue then you can still have fun with it.
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@faraday Mage casts identify on a smartphone....
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@zombiegenesis said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:
Pictures and other bits of pop culture laying around? They learn to read and think old school dime novels are history books? Maybe. I dunno.
This was it. That and other technologies that are lying around: Clothes. Hats. Moving pictures. Phonographs. Newspapers. The information era didn't start with DARPA or CERN.
I am a little sad at the world when my direct A Piece Of the Action quote was not jumped upon like the nerdbait it is. It's a pretty damn good episode, too.
Sometimes, Fizbin rules apply.
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@kanye-qwest said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:
@faraday Mage casts identify on a smartphone....
Not buying, but everyone’s suspension of disbelief tolerance is different. Whatever works for you.
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I'm gonna ditto 'fun as a novel but kind of unsustainable as a game.'
It seems very likely to me that people would spend all of a week or two RPing about "learnin' stuff" and then everyone would be an expert and you'd just have orcs taking selfies. Which, I guess if that's the end-goal is fine.
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@faraday not buying what, exactly? It's a premise, not an outcome. But thanks for the permission to play out what works for me.
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@kanye-qwest said in Poll: Fantasy Earth 2.0:
But thanks for the permission to play out what works for me.
C'mon, it's a common figure of speech like "we can agree to disagree". No need to be snarky about it.
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@coin It seems that there are people who don't want any noir in their Witcher, if you catch my meaning.
In any case, Glen Cook has written a series of books about a private investigator named Garrett in a world that is pretty much DnD, with fantasy races and such. And it is done in a noir style.
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