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Alternate Time Periods for Dresden RPGs
MatthewD44:
Hey that would be an idea Blaze...
Murphy's Stunt Double:
I absolutely love the 20's thread in our RPG (I'm in the same one as Blaze) - but I'd also love to do one set in the 40's
Heh - Mainly because my characters are feminine and I prefer the fashions of the 40's over the 20's... LOL
I think a Wild West one would be really really cool, too!
Simon Hogwood:
What about the future? 2020's, 2070's, 2100 and beyond?
Murphy's Stunt Double:
That strikes me as really difficult and taking it too far out of the fanfic realm (not that I'm any expert, mind you>)
But as I see it, fanfic is grounded in a common base of a universe (Dresdenverse) of common history, experiences, laws, etc, and even superimposing the regular world of the past, there is a common base there too that we all know, or can at least Google, and can draw from.
In going into the future, the players lose that common understanding of social evolution and technological advancement. Five, ten people bringing completely different visions of the future to an RPG seems like it would muddle it the storylines horribly.
We've had some challenges on our board with people bringing characters in that really can't exist in Jim's world, and it makes the storylines difficult at times. But they're good and interesting writers, so we work with it, and we've made a non-Dresdenverse storyline area available for them as well.
The Last Bean:
You would definitely be setting yourself up to write a lot about the world. You'd have to come up with a specific vision of that future and communicate it clearly to your players. Perhaps the magical world flowed over into the realm of the mundies (to use Fable-speak) and we're now talking post-apocolyptic version of the dresdenverse. Maybe the Vampires won and dominated society. Perhaps the mundies found out and started exterminating magical creatures a la the Technocracy from WoD?
That last one could make for some awesome dresden fights. How does magic fight lasers? What would a teleporter into the Nevernever look like? You could even take a CoC type approach if you start incorporating regular humans into things. A wetworks squad assigned to the Nevernever would make a badass player party.
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