I think a lot of how fiction fits into RPGs. I've been reading the dagger and coin series by Daniel Abraham.
Its a fallen world, where there's not enough hope or enough peace. All of history is the fall between the last Great Dragon Empire. There are cities of thousands, kingdoms reaching across the globe.
I see it as some version of Apocalypse World, probably Fallen Empires.
The principle characters are an ensemble:
Geder, the manchild regent. (Hardholder)
Cithryn, the banker who likes booze and occasional sex. (Maestro)
Dawson, the honorable Baron. (gunlugger)
Marcus, the Guard Captain with a dark past. (Chopper)
Clara, who spreads words of the War and faces down lies. (The News)
Master Kit, leader of a band of travelling players. (Skinner)
That's what I see -- an AW game. What game system / setting / mechanics sound like this to you?
Or, put another way: If you wanted a fantasy game of intrigue and plots, of wars and famines, of dragons and emotions, of swords and loans, what game system would you use?
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I could do many, many game systems with that setting. It would depend upon what kind of story I wanted to tell.
ReplyDeleteIf you play it with AW, you will take that setting, and immediately start changing it in ways great and small, because AW dissolves any status quo like a wash of industrial bleach. If that's the story you want to tell, that sounds fun. But I don't see any reason that the setting (as you've described) has to evolve in that kind of arc.
I'm reading Imaro right now. It's basically Conan+Africa. I feel like I would run this with some OSR game. Barbarians of Lemuria is a bit on the nose, but it'd work.
ReplyDeleteAaron Griffin I'm not sure how I feel about a black Conan. Generally, if I see a black barbarian, my brain screams racist. I'm not sure here!
ReplyDeleteAgreed, on first glance this looks like an OSR setting. Because its about, what, going into dungeons and trying not to fight monsters and surviving by tricking them? That's maybe what OSR means to me right now.
Tony Lower-Basch The books, at least, continuously mess with the status quo. That's one thing I adore about them, that I think they do right and well.
ReplyDeleteSo ... maybe it is AW.