New Concept
-
@tsar All good. This is good stuff to think about, but going with ALT History. Have started my plotting, and world-building. I think divergent history is going to be the way forward, major changes that have to speed up human progress, due to other factors.
-
@Roadspike Well part of my theme was going to be some major events happening prior to game-changing history, so going to expand on that to help with the lore. Second, I also don’t wish to minimize the horrible things in the past but more going with the greater evil so we have to band together style of story telling.
-
@Pyrephox They are yes very tied to horror elements. Why I was debating back on forth how to handle it.
(Edited: For clarity)
-
I’ve more than said my piece about historical accuracy vs authenticity, etc.
But if you really do need or want systemic discrimination to be a part of your game, there’s a relatively easy one that isn’t about anything intrinsic to a person like gender, sexuality, or race are: Poverty.
Certainly, poverty is often exacerbated by the other -isms but it doesn’t have to be. Some people are poor, and other people look down at them for that, so the system fails to support them because of that, etc.
ETA: That said, these kinds of things are for NPCs to do. The opinion of the faceless masses is X, that doesn’t mean a PC needs to conform. A game can have racism or sexism without opening that can of bullshit for PCs to comply with.
-
@Pavel I’m doing the five boroughs as the setting. I was going to have poverty as part of it, given I’m starting with Socialites as the kick-off to the story for the catalyst for the game.
-
@BloodAngel Everything I know about the United States is something I’ve learned against my will, so I shall just nod and smile and pretend to know what you’re talking about.
-
@Pavel Gangs of New York. Is a good example of it. New York city, is the setting. Not the same year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYsS_3zdwmA
(Edited: Add link)
-
I think @L-B-Heuschkel mentioned it above, having a survey or a system for people to opt-in or opt-out is something I will be adding to the game. That way, I know which of the plots people would be excited about and two willing to go through, I do want to run this as I stated as a story-heavy game, so such debates truly are important to what I will be doing over time. I love running plots, and being able to have players shape the world as it moves forward is one of my major goals as a game runner.
-
@farfalla I mean it was a political question and social-based talk, that is filled with passion on both sides of it. I know this was coming when I went with the setting of 1915, it would have been worst with my first concept of doing it in the middle of the civil war. So, I know this would happen better before the game launch than getting derailed during play.
-
@BloodAngel Wait, how is it 1920s era if it’s in 1915?
-
@BloodAngel I should’ve specified that it was getting too political about contemporary politics in a way that wouldn’t inform your game at all. Contemporary immigration debates aren’t going to be helpful here, lol.
-
@Roz Yeah starting in 1915. It’s up above, might have been missed. But my goal is to advance time using seasons, so we can slowly build out as a game from there. Using an event in WW 1, as the moment that changes the world, combined with other few events to start the Alterative History line of the game.
-
Now to start the process of building! Got it all up and running now!
-
@BloodAngel Yay! And maybe some admin could split off the last few pages to a new thread - “Historical Games Round 75” or something - so it’s not cluttering up your game post.
-
@BloodAngel I look forward to seeing what you come up with
-
Forked off a bunch of the historical stuff to https://brandmuday.mythicus.net/topic/291/historical-games-round-75/86 but not all of it. Some of it is pretty embedded in early posts.
-
@Tez Thank you!
-
Very much on the back burner, might not happen at this point. Real life has once more blown up.
-
I want to tell stories, grant stories I have this plotted out now from 1915-1965 with stories and seasons, everything is ready to go on the plot side of things. Have the desc all ready to go, and have NPC’s built.
I am ready to set it up but I just need some help with Ares Q and A, showing me what does what. I can handle it once it’s live, but might have questions on how to get it to function and the such.
-
@BloodAngel Are you on the Ares discord? They’ve been quite helpful to other game runners from what I’ve seen.
