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Post by Kainguru on May 28, 2013 18:22:51 GMT -8
Of all my favourite incarnations of the eternal champion Jerry Cornelius is my favourite. Buy it's weird world with time travel and alternate realities and and an in going struggle to return the balance after a great unspecified catastrophe. But it'd suit a round robin GM campaign where each GM takes turns creating an alternate timeline and/or setting. The struggle between chaos and law differing each scenario. All that would need to tracked is the standing of the cosmic balance overall as each scenario is resolved - either towards law or chaos or neutrality. Meta gaming would actually be negated by the genre as all the characters are often aware if the greater scheme but have to constrain their actions so as not to violate their personification in the timeline they are in or risk being ejected from said time line. Thereby conceding that reality to their opponents. Which system would best support this set up? Aaron
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2013 4:50:21 GMT -8
Though I haven't played it I would think GURPS and its Infinite Worlds setting would work. Alternately you could go with Savage Worlds and jump between setting worlds.
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Post by jazzisblues on May 30, 2013 5:22:45 GMT -8
Though I haven't played it I would think GURPS and its Infinite Worlds setting would work. Alternately you could go with Savage Worlds and jump between setting worlds. I have read but not played Infinite Worlds and I concur I think it would be the perfect way to do this. Savage Worlds would also work as would Hero (though there is not as much in the way of cross genre cross world premade stuff that so smoothly fits together). JiB
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Post by Kainguru on May 31, 2013 14:36:59 GMT -8
I like the idea of GURPS but it still intimidates me bit when I look thru the books. I really should bite that bullet one day soon . . . Aaron
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Post by D.T. Pints on May 31, 2013 19:59:50 GMT -8
Yeah I'm really hoping somebody will step up and run a GURPS game for Jackercon...a Gritty zombie survival horror would be awesome...*cough* MOOK! *cough*...
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Post by ericfromnj on Jun 4, 2013 4:24:31 GMT -8
I like the idea of GURPS but it still intimidates me bit when I look thru the books. I really should bite that bullet one day soon . . . Aaron Just use the amount of rules you are comfortable with to start. You can add as worlds are jumped. Aaron, if *I* can run me some GURPS anyone can do it...
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Post by Kainguru on Jun 4, 2013 7:25:56 GMT -8
I like the idea of GURPS but it still intimidates me bit when I look thru the books. I really should bite that bullet one day soon . . . Aaron Just use the amount of rules you are comfortable with to start. You can add as worlds are jumped. Aaron, if *I* can run me some GURPS anyone can do it... Yeah Gurps keeps beckoning . . . the lack of bestiary (as mentioned on the podcast) is my greatest concern re: new system and having to 'create from scratch' creatures. Though with Jerry Cornelius the antagonists are (mostly) human . . . it's a weird and wonderful world as novels go with the protagonists and the antagonists often changing allegiances to suit the requirements of the current reality in question. Sometimes there is a real conflict of ideologies in how to solve the problem correcting a reality, other times the are playing acknowledged roles as they work to a common end (stopping the encroaching entropy that has resulted from an unspecified multiversal catastrophe*) - constrained by requirements of the persona they assume to 'slip into' the reality and maintain the cohesion of their 'existing'. Aaron *it is sometimes hinted that Jerry's temporary merging with Ms Brunner in an attempt to create the next evolution of humankind as a hermaphrodite contributed largely to the 'catastrophe' vis-a-vis the 'solution' was misguided. Other times it is hinted that it is just natural order that eventually all things decay into state of entropy without the injection of additional energy . . . the purpose of the protagonists often being to set about disrupting the established order so as kick start a new cycle and thereby offset the approaching entropy.
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