Out-of-Character Thread

May 9, 2025 5:16 pm
Do it here . . . .
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May 12, 2025 7:37 pm
Since we didn't really have this discussion on the intro thread, howabout we have it here?
Kaneda, you wrote back in the interest-check thread:
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I was thinking a futuristic setting would be pretty cool, give us some neat tools to use. But if we wanted to go more of a fantasy route I'm ok with that too!
What do you think about this, Furmyr?
Personally, I don't want to get too far away from Current Time; if we do decide on a futuristic setting, I don't want it to be too advanced. In terms of Alternity (the game system we're using), we're currently Progress Level 5 (The Information Age); I don't want us to be much beyond early Progress Level 6 (The Fusion Age) because I don't want the game to be about gadgets.
Same goes for fantasy: any elements like this I prefer to structure like a "Hidden History" campaign, one where relatively only a few people are aware of how real magic is and how to use it.
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May 12, 2025 10:41 pm
All good with Progress Level 5 and no problem with magic being really rare.
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May 13, 2025 12:44 pm
No problem. Have it be a few years in the future so you can have some early future tech, though likely out of our hands. I hadn't expected magic at all with the pitch, but having some eldritch elements that could be revealed to the characters could be fun.
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May 13, 2025 6:36 pm
OK, so we'll keep it at Progress Level 5, and we'll see what happens wrt magic . . . .
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May 13, 2025 9:24 pm
All good, to be honest, if we end up not using any magic, it should still be good!
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May 16, 2025 4:19 pm
BTW, Kaneda, did you see the link to the quick-play rules I posted in the recruitment thread?

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