@Thenomain Interestingly, it is in the bundle itself, too. I went ahead and picked it up. If nothing else, I will have fun learning about the system. My local nerding group has apparently heard of it, so we might run through a short campaign to get a handle on things.
@Zen said:
- everybody wants Shadowrun, but how about Earthdawn?
Earthdawn could be fun. I'd want to go the other direction in the timeline and aim for the 8th world. But then, I've only sort of read the stuff on Equinox, so it's probably terrible.
I tried to like Earthdawn, especially when it was meant to be the Fourth World in Shadowrun canon (i.e., for a very brief period of time), but it never grabbed me.
Friends.
Just think of all the social RP and a one room grid! Minimalist with a sweet soundtrack.
OMG, @Royal I could totally dig that. And it would be like a 3 or 4 room grid. The coffee House, Monica and Rachel's apartment me, and Joey and Chandeler's (sp?) place.
@Royal said:
Friends.
Just think of all the social RP and a one room grid! Minimalist with a sweet soundtrack.
Seamus tried that with Victorian Reverie.
It sucked.
I wonder if a Wall Street game would be fun?
Everyone plays coked up stock brokers in either the 20s or 80s, gambling with a randomized stock market, dodging federal investigations and trying to scam their way to owning the world!!
Or something.
@SG said:
I wonder if a Wall Street game would be fun?
Everyone plays coked up stock brokers in either the 20s or 80s, gambling with a randomized stock market, dodging federal investigations and trying to scam their way to owning the world!!
Or something.
If the zombie outbreak hits or the traders are involved in demonic pacts to stay afloat you have something.
If not, Iiiii dunno. 
I'd love to see a game set in the 80's drawing inspiration from things like American Psycho, The Wolf of Wall Street, Cruel Intentions, Igby Goes Down and such things that present a dog-eat-dog high society world? Everyone is of the super-rich elite and it's a non-supernatural game of politics, backstabbing and who is screwing over who.
That or true post-apocalyptic supernatural ala Vampire Hunter D.
I want either a Red Rising MUSH or a MUSH based on the Old Man's War universe....
Red Rising sounds amazing in principle, but I have to imagine it would need to focus down the setting and it would need to be carefully managed to have characters who were not Golds matter, outside of the odd outlier like a Ragnar equivalent.
Also most of the people playing Golds would fail to be brutal and arrogant enough to make it convincing.
@Bobotron said:
I'd love to see a game set in the 80's drawing inspiration from things like American Psycho, The Wolf of Wall Street, Cruel Intentions, Igby Goes Down and such things that present a dog-eat-dog high society world? Everyone is of the super-rich elite and it's a non-supernatural game of politics, backstabbing and who is screwing over who.
That or true post-apocalyptic supernatural ala Vampire Hunter D.
Either of those would be amazing. I'd actually love to see WoD (old or new, frankly) set in the early 90s -- which is essentially the world that it came out of.
Oh fucking well.
@surreality said:
Either of those would be amazing. I'd actually love to see WoD (old or new, frankly) set in the early 90s -- which is essentially the world that it came out of.
What I love about playing vampire is that you can base them in a decade, then research the shit out of it and really make the flavor come out. But not just the fancy period stuff with corsets and crinolines; my favorite was when I played Cold War spies from the 70-80s. The paranoia and obsession, but also the rise of the New Age hippy influences, stuff like Mad Men, there is so much to draw from. Then you play those archaic snapshots in contrast with the modern world, which gives you a lot of flavor to draw on.
@Sundown One of the uncelebrated advantages of setting games in the post-WW2 era is also that you don't run into the classic problem with historical settings where some players don't know enough OOC (and some know too much) about the time in question. If it's in the 70s they know what to expect in terms of technology, general politics - just have a wiki up with the basics such as who the US President is, what's happening in the USSR, etc - and general feel.
No one will object because you posed your character going to the bathroom ("you mean the street outside?") or taking a shower before plumbing was advanced enough to allow for such comforts.
The tough part will be finding PB pictures with age-appropriate haircuts and pants.
#FuckPBs
Your second concern is pants?!
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
@Thenomain said:
Your second concern is pants?!
He should be!! You can define decades by the cut of its jeans! 60's was bell-bottoms, 70's summoned forth polyester disco pants, 80's was high-waisted, acid-washed jeans, 90's was saggy wide-legged (think JNCO) jeans and/or ripped/torn up jeans (black was big, color-wise), 00's saw a huge rise in the 'boyfriend' cut, and the 00/10's ushered in the dreaded skinny jeans.
I find it weird that I can't get the feel of a decade after the 80s. The 80s have their specific flavor, but the 90s, what's that? Past 2000, it feels like everything is just a mishmash of sorta-modern. I wonder if this will change as those decades "age" and children born in them become nostalgic adults.
@icanbeyourmuse
I guess I missed the times, when Vampire - Victorian Age and (or) Vampire - The Dark ages existed, right? But I wish I could play in one of these games. It does combine historical times I love, and WoD things.
I still wish to play on the original medieval fantasy MUSH with heavy focus on politics, and with decent activity, and without all these lame OOC dramas. Or at least with as little as possible.
I would love if Lord of the Rings themed MUSHes would come to life again.
I wonder if that would be possible to have a MUSH with themes similar to:
@Sundown said:
I find it weird that I can't get the feel of a decade after the 80s. The 80s have their specific flavor, but the 90s, what's that? Past 2000, it feels like everything is just a mishmash of sorta-modern. I wonder if this will change as those decades "age" and children born in them become nostalgic adults.
The key thing about the 90s to me is that they were the last somewhat analog decade, even though the Internet was kind of a thing. You can really see this if you watch TV from the 70s/80s/90s and compare it to plotlines on shows today. While there were minor differences and jumps in technology, those eras aren't radically different from one another in terms of the kind of stories that were told. But you add the one basic element of everyone having a cell phone, and it torpedoes or radically alters most old sitcom stories. I'm not sure those of us who grew up in those times and adapted to them reasonably well appreciate how different 2015 is from 1995.
