Posts made by De Villefort

@lotherio Sounds fun to me. The problem with places like that though is that if you set games in modern times, with modern tech and modern social standards it just turns out boring.

The world is too safe today.
That's why star wars always had their characters rocketing off to some dirt planet like Tatooine, a frozen planet or a planet already controlled by enemy droids.

Technologically advanced societies always end up being boring and crime free.
Look at Star Trek. They spent hours every week reliving Shakespeare plays, old books and visiting beaches in a holodeck. The only place anything actually interesting happened was deep space far away from the federation.

I've always wanted to see a Robinhood game based on the Disney animated cartoon.
You could basically do the same thing but set it in the old west as well. Corrupt sheriff, outlaws trying to take him down but the state governor is partners with the sheriff trying to make sure they control the cattle market, the gold mines, and the whore houses.

It isn't covered in school but if you look into history on your own whores and whore houses were big political movers and were the life blood of some towns. Having a quality whore house in town meant workers would travel for days to come bone their money away.

The maid Marion of the story could be the hooker who runs the whore house.