What's Your Cynosure?

Astromancer · 04-13-2013, 01:57 PM

Cynosure is a city in the Grimjack comics stories. It's one of those places that stands between many different worlds. Cyborgs can chat up wizards and paladins at seedy bars....ect.

When you want to let your players mix and match genres, what's the Cynosure you think fits GURPS best?

Thank-you all.

ericthered · 04-13-2013, 02:44 PM

As in the one we use, or the one that's published that we like best?

quarkstomper · 04-13-2013, 05:27 PM

I usually use two that I link together. I've run several "D-Hopper" campaigns using the Polymundes Club, (which is essentially the Horatio Club from GURPS Time Travel with a different name) and have a nice cast of supporting NPCs associated with it.

And most of my Polymundes campaigns feature occasional shopping trips to the Bazaar on Deeva from Robert Asprin's Mythadventure series. The Bazaar makes a wonderful launching point for trans-dimensional adventures, as well as a place where Bertie Wooster might meet beligerant demons from Dragonball Z.

Stripe · 04-13-2013, 05:33 PM

Reminds me of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.

robkelk · 04-13-2013, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Stripe

Reminds me of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.

Sort of - Callahan's only played host to weirdness and compassion from one universe. At least, it did canonically...

Purple Haze · 04-13-2013, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Stripe

Reminds me of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.

Or of Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille, if you like it a little more pro-active.

jeff_wilson · 04-14-2013, 01:08 AM

I refashioned PYRAMID #1's, "The Hole" into a place where adventurers (and their enemies) that vanish without a trace end up. There's a near-constant shower of similarly lost-forever bits of stuff, so hospitality is valued and good behavior encouraged. It's also something between a prison and a septic tank for primal beings with progressively increasing suppression of most supernatural abilities, so it's a good idea to keep one's limited supply of uses for really good reasons. Mis-jumped starship's crews and energy beings mix with displaced necromancers and lost legions. The only guys to make it out permanently had to walk home.

David Johnston2 · 04-14-2013, 11:15 AM

If I ever do an IW campaign I may use Simon Green's Nightside. a kind of magical and super powered Mos Eisley which has new people and things being dumped in by "timeslips" all the time.

Astromancer · 04-14-2013, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ericthered

As in the one we use, or the one that's published that we like best?

Either, or you could simply say what you requier/prefer in that sort of setting. I'm trying to start a conversation about a type of setting. My hope is to get interesting ideas and leads to interesting products.

dcarson · 04-14-2013, 03:42 PM

The Old Phoenix a inn that shows up in several of Poul Anderson's books.

04-13-2013, 02:44 PM	#2
ericthered Hero of Democracy Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: far from the ocean	Re: What's Your Cynosure? As in the one we use, or the one that's published that we like best? __________________ Be helpful, not pedantic Worlds Beyond Earth -- my blog Check out the PbP forum! If you don't see a game you'd like, ask me about making one!

04-13-2013, 05:27 PM	#3
quarkstomper Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: The Enchanted Land-O-Cheese	Re: What's Your Cynosure? I usually use two that I link together. I've run several "D-Hopper" campaigns using the Polymundes Club, (which is essentially the Horatio Club from GURPS Time Travel with a different name) and have a nice cast of supporting NPCs associated with it. And most of my Polymundes campaigns feature occasional shopping trips to the Bazaar on Deeva from Robert Asprin's Mythadventure series. The Bazaar makes a wonderful launching point for trans-dimensional adventures, as well as a place where Bertie Wooster might meet beligerant demons from Dragonball Z.

04-13-2013, 05:33 PM	#4
Stripe Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Midwest, USA	Re: What's Your Cynosure? Reminds me of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. __________________ . "How the heck am I supposed to justify that whatever I feel like doing at any particular moment is 'in character' if I can't say 'I'm chaotic evil!'"? —Jeff Freeman

04-14-2013, 01:08 AM	#7
jeff_wilson Computer Scientist Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Dallas, Texas	Re: What's Your Cynosure? I refashioned PYRAMID #1's, "The Hole" into a place where adventurers (and their enemies) that vanish without a trace end up. There's a near-constant shower of similarly lost-forever bits of stuff, so hospitality is valued and good behavior encouraged. It's also something between a prison and a septic tank for primal beings with progressively increasing suppression of most supernatural abilities, so it's a good idea to keep one's limited supply of uses for really good reasons. Mis-jumped starship's crews and energy beings mix with displaced necromancers and lost legions. The only guys to make it out permanently had to walk home. __________________ . Reposed playtest leader. The Campaigns of William Stoddard Last edited by jeff_wilson; 04-14-2013 at 01:37 AM.

04-14-2013, 11:15 AM	#8
David Johnston2 Join Date: Dec 2007	Re: What's Your Cynosure? If I ever do an IW campaign I may use Simon Green's Nightside. a kind of magical and super powered Mos Eisley which has new people and things being dumped in by "timeslips" all the time.

04-13-2013, 01:57 PM	#1
Astromancer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: West Virginia	What's Your Cynosure? Cynosure is a city in the Grimjack comics stories. It's one of those places that stands between many different worlds. Cyborgs can chat up wizards and paladins at seedy bars....ect. When you want to let your players mix and match genres, what's the Cynosure you think fits GURPS best? Thank-you all. __________________ Per Ardua Per Astra! Ancora Imparo

04-14-2013, 03:42 PM	#10
dcarson Join Date: Mar 2008	Re: What's Your Cynosure? The Old Phoenix a inn that shows up in several of Poul Anderson's books.