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Every template I've written so far has a sample character somewhere for exactly this reason.
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02-17-2016, 11:08 PM | #82 |
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It's GURPS Day, and I continue my data dump week with the spy
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02-19-2016, 12:12 AM | #83 |
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Today, we end the data dump with Background Lenses, which was probably my favorite part of this iteration (as much as I like templates, I really like context).
Next week, since I'm sure you guys liked this weeks data dump so much, is another data dump! This time we'll take the templates, remake the characters from Iteration 1, and see how well they perform in yet another playtest. See ya then!
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02-19-2016, 06:24 AM | #84 |
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I would think say 'Monastic' or such would be key, for Jedi who were raised at the Temple since small younglings
I am also a bit hazy as to say what best corresponds to a Middle Class / Professional background |
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02-19-2016, 09:48 AM | #86 |
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Honor Harrington of the series of the same name is literally a yeoman by class to begin with, so there is certainly a possibility
Not Space Opera, but Kim Possible is a totally middle class main character also Also not Space Opera, but often compared to Space Opera, Horatio Hornblower is middle class son of a doctor |
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02-19-2016, 10:11 AM | #88 |
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Wow, did I really say "Space Opera in general"? That's definitely my mistake. Let me say this better.
Quite a lot of space opera, and certainly Star Wars (and Warhammer 40k) represents times in crisis in a world that seems to draw as much (or more) from fantasy imagery than from modern imagery. You have princes and princesses and knights, and you have farmers and scallywags and old hermits. What you don't have are suburbanite teenagers and accountants and bored housewives who have a business on the side, the real "middle class." But you do have that sort of thing in quite a lot of anime (Tenchi Muyo leaps to mind), and in Star Trek and in more modest, or modern-aimed space opera. My G-Verse certainly had it, but it was meant to be "Action Movies in spaaace" and action movies certainly feature a middle class modernity. I'm going for the former in psi-wars. You could certainly recast the Humble Origins as the sorts of characters you might get in a sit-com or a rom-com, but that's not really the thrust of the direction I'm going in. This is a universe in crisis, in the midst of war, and in a civilization torn apart by war, the comfort and ennui of the middle class tends to evaporate (while contrasting that comfort and ennui with the dangers of the frontier are an excellent source of dramatic tension in, say, Star Trek)
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They got wage slaves, urban life, corporations and all sorts of things like this. While you don't see it too much in the movies, definitely in Clone Wars and other extended media. The Old Republic has you dealing with streeters, gangers, corporate offices, police and more. What you see is very planet oriented. On farmer/backwater worlds you're likely to get the typical treatment you describe. On highly civilized worlds, Corellia, Coruscant (Where Humans Evolved), Nar Shadaa, and these worlds you will find a lifestyle much like modern earth but with more technology involved. Mandalorian home world is another example, where they had schools much like modern day show up in Clone Wars episodes, complete with kids acting like Scooby Doo and the gang. Sub ways, alleys, apartments, etc. They will include low lifes and the wealthy alike. I'd say Star Wars has more in common with Shadowrun than Star Trek.
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Star Wars doesn't work anything like that. It's pulp. Good guys are good, bad guys are bad, the common man is blue collar, someone who works with his hands, rather than someone in middle management. It's a world of legends and lore, of princes and princesses. It's a fairytale crossed with Wild West "Wahoo!" and late victorian adventurism. It tends to buy into the sort of idealism that would have a cyberpunk character sneering at you. The presence of the middle class is vital in a cyberpunk story because they represent the foolish herds marching to their corporate suicide. They're also vital in Star Trek, because they represent what the Federation is protecting, the paradise that a Federation officer hopes to return to. In Star Wars, they might represent a dream, a utopian goal, that people want to ressurect, but generally Star Wars has an even "simpler life" sort of take. A Jedi would retire to a farm or a distant bog or become a hermit. He doesn't get a condo and a wife and a couple of kids who go to school. That sort of thing is a little more apparent in the Prequels because that was before the order of the Republic was torn apart by civil war and Empire. The Alliance cannot have a idyllic middle class because the Empire oppresses them, and the Empire cannot have an idyllic middle class because that would make the Empire seem like the good guys. They all have to be slaves or soldiers or fascist leaders. The dream of peace, freedom and a better life is what the Alliance is fighting for, but it's not what they have. I will note further that low-lifes vs aristocracy certainly exists in Star Wars, but is covered by my lenses already. And the scooby-doo gang episode of Clone Wars featured aristocrats, kids who could just walk right up to the Duchess of their world and tell her what was up, rather than some middle-class kids. Or so it seems to me, and thus that's the tack that I'm taking. If you disagree and want to come up with a more "middle class" lens, feel free. The point of Psi Wars is not, of course, "Do it Mailanka's way." Were it that, I would just publish the setting material and be done with it. I publish it the way I do so that you can more cleanly pick it apart and put it back together. After all, a space opera game based heavily on the Action Framework would certainly make for excellent "Cyberpunk in space"
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