Mike asked: > What authors world would you all like done as a role playing game using gurps? > > Eric Flint 1632 world comes to mind.
Hello Mike, a tricky question, because several angles get into this ... 1) Which stories do I like? Banks' Culture. Pournelle's CoDominion. Cherryh's Alliance/Union. Brin's Uplift and Bujold's Barrayar, both already done. Hamilton's Greg Mandel. Star Trek DSN. Weber's Honor Harrington and Safehold. Robinson's Mars trilogy. 2) Which worlds do I like? As above, plus Hamilton's Night's Dawn (great setting, the story is mediocre). Niven's Known Space. Star Wars. 3) Which worlds would I like to play as a setting for my favourite RPG? How do I handle the Minds of the Culture? Distant, ineffable gods? Not quite right, they meddle a lot. PC Minds with their own 80-km starships? In the Honorverse, tech races and the surprises they bring play a big role. A TL11^-and-a-little-bit dreadnought will slaughter a merely TL11^ fleet. Games might work in the early, static-tech era, but not later. Do I really want a writeup of the economies of the Hinder Stars, and how they were affected by the Mazianni raids? Do I _want_ to know what happened after Tripoint? I wait for the novel, not the RPG supplement. 4) Are we talking about replaying the stories, or playing in the world of those stories? The Serenity RPG made a couple of mistakes in this regard. One great season, way too short, just didn't have the material to fill a world. 5) What would happen to GURPS if SJG made the investment in license fees and time to make happen? Is it public knowledge how the Discworld books turned out? Of course that was a different era. ISTR that the Vorkosigan book was a lot of trouble. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
