Posts made by Akurel

It's Marvel Children of Men with strong Shadowrun flavors. I cannot overstate how awesome this is.

I may be in the minority but I'd also be intrigued by something based more on X-COM2. Wide range of backgrounds, epic resistance plot, good times by all.

I'd love to take a stab at it.

So I put in Original Sci-Fi, but I am really hoping 2nd Edition Scion will transfer well to a MU. Want to play sooo bad.

Masaya Nakamura, founder of Namco, passed away on the 22nd.

@Ganymede Flyyyy me to the moon, and let me play along the stars....

@Ganymede Yeah. Premium recruitment population + powerful industrial base usually means you go out of your way to preserve one or both. For comparison, it's sort of like if you could recruit Cossacs from the Ruhr.

@Arkandel But it is the funniest, if most disturbing one.

@Ganymede Also Diego Luna. Which no one will judge you for.

@Faceless I'm picturing an unholy union of Shadowrun and Crusader Kings....and I'm not sure I dislike it.

@icanbeyourmuse Then you get into the interesting questions. Which aristocracies is he (Pronoun for sake of convenience) preserving? Which dynasties, which nations? You'd also have to blunt major plagues that would decimate (and thus increase the value) of the workforce. 'Sufficiently advanced science indistinguishable from technology' is the vibe I get. Definitely a complex and interesting proposal.

@gasket Well that would be part of the challenge. It either assumes that certain events or kind of events didn't happen, or that there was a more benign social contract, or perhaps that while the 'nobility' publicly appears to be a relic it has duties or privileges that it exercises in secret. Or perhaps that the aristocracy co-opts captains of industry, scientists, so on.

@icanbeyourmuse I actually had a similar idea, in a French Revolution setting. A magic wielding nobility challenged by the dissemination and development of technology and liberal ideologies amongst the masses. Perhaps even further complicate it by having tech and magic have that age old struggle with one another. Does the nobility embrace the modern age or cling to their old powers and bloodlines even if it makes them anachronistic?

@icanbeyourmuse So if I am understanding you correctly would that be more of an aristocracy struggling in a modern world which pays limited attention to their pedigree and their wealth is not what it once was? Or would you have events such as the Magna Carta (or your equivelant) or the French Revolution not occur and have the modern aristocracy at full or marginally diminished power? Either is an interesting concept!

@Songtress Well of course not, the way you put it. It needs all caps and more A's. Get the enthusiasm pumping. Imagine it being read by Brian Blessed.

@Songtress Terre D'Ange....

IN

SPAAAAAAAAACE!

@Royal

Continuity being what it is there is probably one Earth where that is actually a thing.

I'd love to toss my hat in the ring.

@Roz So you know what I'm hearing...I'm hearing you need to make the Kirkwall or even the Inquisition version of Alpha and Omega.