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Post by SirGuido on Feb 8, 2014 7:07:19 GMT -8
Yeah but if you let the genres mix then it no longer makes sense that you have a bronze age area when there is the possibility that a dude from a high tech area could come in with his tech and change their lives. I mean honestly can you imagine what difference it would make to drop a lighter, a hammer, and a wheel into a prehistoric village?
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Post by Kainguru on Feb 8, 2014 7:17:55 GMT -8
Yeah but if you let the genres mix then it no longer makes sense that you have a bronze age area when there is the possibility that a dude from a high tech area could come in with his tech and change their lives. It's policed . . . perhaps by the PC's vis-a-vis 'Astrocity', 'Top Ten', 'Marshall Law', 'Indigo Prime' . . . Aaron
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 8, 2014 8:09:46 GMT -8
Old Basic D&D had Hollow World. That was basically a living menagerie of the Immortals favorite cultures throughout history that had gone extinct. They each had their geographic regions and "don't try to fuckin' change 'em" 'cuz the Gods were watching. Magic and "gods" make ANYTHING ON the table.
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Post by heavymetaljess on Feb 8, 2014 16:23:16 GMT -8
Old Basic D&D had Hollow World. That was basically a living menagerie of the Immortals favorite cultures throughout history that had gone extinct. They each had their geographic regions and "don't try to fuckin' change 'em" 'cuz the Gods were watching. Magic and "gods" make ANYTHING ON the table. This is a great idea for mauntaining a full-on multigenre.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2014 19:51:00 GMT -8
So, maybe people and stuff can travel, but trying to change certain places and people will result in long metaphysical consequences. So, say, in a multiversal city, if you try to introduce the wheel to the bronze age people living in the subway then there god might come to smack you around for trying to change things.
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Post by ayslyn on Feb 8, 2014 22:07:29 GMT -8
Or, maybe the city or world itself resists the change. Perhaps it's alive or at least aware on some level.
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Post by heavymetaljess on Feb 8, 2014 22:30:28 GMT -8
Or, maybe the city or world itself resists the change. Perhaps it's alive or at least aware on some level. Yeah, like Titan-like Deities that embody their world - like Gia.
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Post by maxinstuff on Feb 8, 2014 23:32:51 GMT -8
Or physics (metaphysics?) just WORKS DIFFERENTLY in that god's territory.
When gods fight over territory - it tears the fabric of reality.....
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Post by guitarspider on Feb 9, 2014 3:55:01 GMT -8
Personally I'd prefer a Sigil type situation. Wether we pick fantasy or sci-fi or anything else as a genre, there's always ways to explain "portals".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 7:03:34 GMT -8
A gods territory, or a sentient city sound awesome. If it's a god's territory than we can have multiple areas with not everything being run by a god so change in areas is okay. A sentient city can be really cool though as a way to get players together, or to have huge plots on, "What does the city really desire?"
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 9, 2014 10:05:01 GMT -8
A gods territory, or a sentient city sound awesome. If it's a god's territory than we can have multiple areas with not everything being run by a god so change in areas is okay. A sentient city can be really cool though as a way to get players together, or to have huge plots on, "What does the city really desire?" And to get very "meta" with it. Each GM creates a 'god' and a section of the world and when another GMs god/world starts to bleed too much into their territory for their personal liking "phenomenal cosmic powers" bring the smash hammer and that BUTANE LIGHTER in Viking Town goes bye...bye...but for now Yertle the God of Turtle Alley (working title) will let those astronauts wander around his Land of Heroes in a Half Shell...but he's watching you...Yertle is always watching... .
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 10:30:37 GMT -8
This is why I think keeping specific genres out of the setting makes sense. If one GM runs some events as fantasy in one location and another wants to run Sci-Fi there later they can, they just have to take the previous events and re flavor any events they want to bring into their game.
It also allows GMs who want to run multi genre if they want to but those that don't don't have to deal with stuff. There could maybe be some page assigning a genre to certain districts if running multi genre but if not give the district this sort of a feel.
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Post by maxinstuff on Feb 9, 2014 13:06:06 GMT -8
Why not just have GM's throw their settings up and allow other GM's to use 'em. Multiversal plane-hopping stuff can always come later. Perhaps we are getting a bit ahead of ourselves. I say we start witb blood blade and tusk Stu Venable - where's the book at?
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Post by maxinstuff on Feb 9, 2014 13:06:18 GMT -8
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Post by D.T. Pints on Feb 9, 2014 14:49:56 GMT -8
Why not just have GM's throw their settings up and allow other GM's to use 'em. Multiversal plane-hopping stuff can always come later. Perhaps we are getting a bit ahead of ourselves. I say we start witb blood blade and tusk Stu Venable - where's the book at? One desert setting coming up...(in TWO WEEKS time...). Now where did I put that file...*putters down into dark cellar*.
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