What type of setting will you use BRP for first?

[OooMatron]

Oookay.

Lots of nice ideas.

I wanted to do a modern day David Kronenburg scanners type thing.

[tedopon]

Originally Posted by OooMatron

Oookay.

Lots of nice ideas.

I wanted to do a modern day David Kronenburg scanners type thing.

If you want to do an over the internet game, I'd love to help out or at least play this one. I'm a huge fan of early Cronenberg. I've also been thinking about a giallo themed game with a modded CoC ruleset. (Which ideally would have at least one player in on the joke, as the bad guy, and focus more on roleplay than blowing things up).

[RMS]

I just read Moorcock's Ice Schooner again yesterday and was inspired by it. I've always wanted to steal the ideas of the ice ships, the frozen world, etc. and build a fantasy campaign out of it. I'm tempted to make it more fantasy with ice demons, magic, etc. (No ice elves, dwarves, etc. though!)

[drohem]

Originally Posted by RMS

I just read Moorcock's Ice Schooner again yesterday and was inspired by it. I've always wanted to steal the ideas of the ice ships, the frozen world, etc. and build a fantasy campaign out of it. I'm tempted to make it more fantasy with ice demons, magic, etc. (No ice elves, dwarves, etc. though!)

hehe....Talislanta is the game world for you then. It has a frozen land called the Northern Reaches where there is a blue-skinned race called the Mirin who have ice schooners on frozen Sea of Ice. Their main enemy are the Ice Giants. The Ice Giants are giant humanoid animated ice creatures ruled by a mysterious quasi-deity. It is rumored that the Ice Giant might some form of demon.

Also, Talislanta has none of the standard fantasy races (i.e. elves, dwarves, gnomes, halfling, orcs, etc.). In fact, the advertising slogan for Talislanta when it came out in the late 80's was "No Elves!" The new 5th edition has revised that slogan to "Still no Elves!"

[Atgxtg]

Originally Posted by drohem

Also, Talislanta has none of the standard fantasy races (i.e. elves, dwarves, gnomes, halfling, orcs, etc.). In fact, the advertising slogan for Talislanta when it came out in the late 80's was "No Elves!" The new 5th edition has revised that slogan to "Still no Elves!"

Probably the biggest load of BS in the RPG hobby is Taslatntia's lack of elves. They got a dozen pointed eared slender races that act like elves. Just they give them a different name. Even the species they used to use with the "no elves" pictures looked like elves.

[drohem]

Originally Posted by Atgxtg

Probably the biggest load of BS in the RPG hobby is Taslatntia's lack of elves. They got a dozen pointed eared slender races that act like elves. Just they give them a different name. Even the species they used to use with the "no elves" pictures looked like elves.

I disagree completely!

[RMS]

Originally Posted by drohem

hehe....Talislanta is the game world for you then. It has a frozen land called the Northern Reaches where there is a blue-skinned race called the Mirin who have ice schooners on frozen Sea of Ice. Their main enemy are the Ice Giants. The Ice Giants are giant humanoid animated ice creatures ruled by a mysterious quasi-deity. It is rumored that the Ice Giant might some form of demon.

I actually have Tal4 and the Northern Reaches, and I like the ideas in general. Ironically, I like the system much more than the world. The world isn't bad, but everything is at such a high level that I might as well use my own. I do the high level things well. What I don't do so well are the details...which I generally just wing. Still, it's a nice reminder to dig out that book and look it over again.

I agree. Tal is full of what are essentially elves. It's also full of races that remind me of the "humans with funny ears [skin, <insert feature>]" that are all over generic fantasy RPGs. Personally, I'd prefer to stay humancentric and deal with societal differences. If I'm going to have other intelligent creatures, I'd prefer them to be completely alien: demons, elementals, etc. Glorantha is my one exception to my humancentric tastes, and it at least makes everything alien to some extent.

[Atgxtg]

Originally Posted by drohem

I disagree completely!

Besides, we know you'll be running a Sci-Fi setting first. Right?

[fmitchell]

I honestly don't know how to answer this poll, since I'm trying to decide among several possibilities: low-magic "low fantasy" a la Howard and Leiber, "hard science fiction" where interstellar travel still obeys the speed of light, "planetary romance" (after Jason Durall's thread), steampunkish "space opera" inside a Dyson sphere instead of through star systems (so rockets and even zepplins can go between worlds) ... argh. My head a'splode.

A few constant principles are, though, that 1) Magic, if it exists, is mysterious and not an alternate technology, 2) Nonhumans are seriously non-human, 2a) NO ELVES! (of the Tolkien/D&D variety, anyway), 3) 3 * 10^8 m/s isn't only a good idea, it's the law.

Maybe I'm just sick of point-and-chant magic, funny-looking stereotyped humans, and one-city planets.

[Atgxtg]

Originally Posted by fmitchell

Isteampunkish "space opera" inside a Dyson sphere instead of through star systems (so rockets and even zepplins can go between worlds) ... argh.

Now that could be interesting.