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Post by D.T. Pints on Mar 27, 2017 14:08:29 GMT -8
Well its on its way... One of the first setting books! (Comes with free odors of 1985!) To all my GURPS flag wavers, any other setting books you recommend putting into a setting to tell what happens in Alaska after sea levels rise 50 feet and then this happens... "And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again...” Because lets face it...Alaska ain't no joke. Set in the year NOBODY KNOWS ANYMORE...
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Post by D.T. Pints on Mar 27, 2017 17:29:29 GMT -8
I think I shall attempt to document how I go about prepping for this game that started as a seed of an idea seeing Tina Turner was coming to Anchorage. Then the Expanse series mentions the Anchorage Archipelago and there we have it. Thunderdome Alaska Style.
Having obtained an elevator pitch concept the next step was picking a system. I have been running GUMSHOE games and I love that system but I think the gritty hard reality of Mad Max world could be really well served by GURPS.
Next step. Learn how to GM GURPS better...in an online setting. I'll let you know how it goes.
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Post by sbloyd on Mar 28, 2017 6:11:31 GMT -8
Are you using 3e GURPS? The Vehicles supplement might be a help.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Mar 28, 2017 6:42:10 GMT -8
Agreed! Using 4e but there's supposedly pretty cross compatible. I want vehicles to be the big component of this game. Modded out trucks and SUVs...AKs got a massive surplus of military vehicles as well. But add that to omnipresent salt water...Rust, rust everywhere. Diesel rigs probably most available because we rely on so much of the stuff as a heat source.
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Post by sbloyd on Mar 28, 2017 6:49:28 GMT -8
Maybe some whale oil? I could see the tribes going back to whaling.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Mar 28, 2017 8:06:20 GMT -8
Definitely going to put this into the mix.... Battle for Sitka. And...from Snowcrash: Chapter 36 All these beefy Caucasians with guns! Get enough of them together, looking for the America they always believed they'd grow up in, and they glom together like overcooked rice, form integral starchy little units. With their power tools, portable generators, weapons, four-wheel-drive vehicles, and personal computers, they are like beavers hyped up on crystal meth, manic engineers without a blueprint, chewing through the wilderness, building things and abandoning them, altering the flow of mighty rivers and then moving on because the place ain't what it used to be. Chapter 39 (Hiro's observation as he drives along the Alaska Highway)
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Post by D.T. Pints on Apr 2, 2017 9:10:58 GMT -8
I'm going to start this request within the game development thread but if I don't get enough responses I'll post it as a genuine Jackercon Interlude game. So anyone interested in a session of Microscope to create this timeline for my After the Flood game? Probably be in 2-3 weeks most likely a Sunday or Monday?
My goal besides playing the glory that is Microscope is to create a world involving an ecological apocalypse and how we as a species would strive to continue...
Then if people are interested further we'll play a session or two in that world in GURPS (yeah!) before Jackercon XIII rolls around in June.
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Post by SirGuido on Apr 2, 2017 14:09:41 GMT -8
I'm going to start this request within the game development thread but if I don't get enough responses I'll post it as a genuine Jackercon Interlude game. So anyone interested in a session of Microscope to create this timeline for my After the Flood game? Probably be in 2-3 weeks most likely a Sunday or Monday? My goal besides playing the glory that is Microscope is to create a world involving an ecological apocalypse and how we as a species would strive to continue... Then if people are interested further we'll play a session or two in that world in GURPS (yeah!) before Jackercon XIII rolls around in June. If its a Sunday and the time is reasonable, I am totally in.
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Post by ayslyn on Apr 2, 2017 17:39:22 GMT -8
^ This
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Post by D.T. Pints on May 15, 2017 7:02:59 GMT -8
Waterworld is such a god awful movie. It really needs a gritty reboot.
The only thing of quality to come out of it was the Universal Studios stunt spectacular...
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Post by kurtpotts on May 15, 2017 12:12:58 GMT -8
If you haven't run it already I could be down for a session of microscope.
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Post by fredrix on May 15, 2017 12:51:16 GMT -8
D.T. Pints you might want to listen to Songs from the Floodplain, folk songs from a post-apocalyptic rural England Songs from the Floodplain by Jon Boden itun.es/gb/2Orthb
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Post by D.T. Pints on May 16, 2017 6:33:13 GMT -8
Yeah that's good stuff there! I've been thinking about a game trailer video (it always helps me focus on what the game should be). I want there to be plenty of action and I keep coming back to this song to set the tone...also just might be current frustration with American culture. But definitely makes me want to see jet boats zooming through the drown streets of Anchorage and wrecked tanker ships piled high with roof top fortresses and smoking, rumbling volcanoes in the distance. A Tsunami just awaiting...
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