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Discussion in 'Computer RPG Discussion' started by Whipporowill, Jan 30, 2004.

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  1. Ausir Cipher

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    Wolsung (http://wolsung.rpg.net.pl) is a Polish steampunk fantasy stetting (for now it's free, and using the free Q10 mechanics system, but it's going to be published by ISA, the official Polish publisher of D&D, as a setting for d20 Modern), where technology and magic are not opposite, but the technology is based on magic (magic-driven trains, cars and planes, kabbalah computers, etc.), and it's hard to distinguish between the two.

    If you want books where magic is exploited by humans, and the setting is what the world could REALLY look like if there was magic, you should read Jacek Dukaj's short story "Iron General". It's going to be published in English soon (it's a great Polish author, one of his short stories was made into an animation nominated to Oscar last year).

    You can read a fragment of one of his short stories in English here:
    http://dukaj.fantastyka.art.pl/index_english.html

    I strongly recommend any of his books to anyone who isn't afraid to think. His style looks a bit like a cross between P.K. Dick and Stanislaw Lem :) (it's even translated by the same guy that translated Lem to English).

  2. mr. lamat Barely Literate

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    i'd like to see something on a recently colonized world. three main arcologies with maybe some frontier mining camps and terraformed farms. the pc is grown in a vat, like the rest of the population, the human body being to frail for spacetravel. it'd give a pretty decent caste/class system with interesting politicking between the factions. the classes might come off a bit generic, but it'd allow the player to follow the path they liked, with replay value unique to each subspecies.

    maybe something about the degredation of the colony's dna bank and a cadre of scientists who want to infuse the fossil remains of a silcate-based lifeform into the pool. the debate surrounding that... 'if we're not human, or natural to begin with why can't we control our own evolution?'. the breaking down of the caste system and control. the desire of some to begin reproducing organically. a clash between the tekno-shaman class and a new luddite religion of the worker brutes. something definately focused towards the problems a new culture might encounter, divisions of power, the rights of an individual, why they pay tribute to a world they'll never see...

    think 1760, but with 'frickin lasers'

    ooh... and an uber-quest involving bigbad aliens who haven't been around for 1,000 years!!! :shock:
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