02-20-2015, 04:23 AM | #1 |
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[Space] Anyone Ever Run A Campgain Based Off Of Wild Life?
OK, first up Wild Life is one of the worked examples designed for Space that had to be cut. The chapter 7 and 8 vignette's are set in that setting and the full details can be read here: http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=5878
So has anyone ran a campaign based upon this? What was it about? Do you have any advice for someone interested in running it? |
02-20-2015, 09:22 AM | #2 |
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Re: [Space] Anyone Ever Run A Campgain Based Off Of Wild Life?
No, but I've wondered about where that particular setting came from. Thanks for pointing it out!
I will admit I'm a little at a loss as to what the 'default' adventure in such a game would be. high tech espionage, perhaps?
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02-20-2015, 12:33 PM | #3 | |
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02-21-2015, 09:50 PM | #4 |
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Re: [Space] Anyone Ever Run A Campgain Based Off Of Wild Life?
Interesting concept, but the whole modify humans to be less competitive etc seems misguided. Making humans more cooperative would make them more dangerous, not less - you've just solved a whole lot of collective action problems for them. Sounds like a good way for the conquerors to get subverted.
Of course that could make for a darkly humorous campaign - a combined New Human/Tarcaseru alliance takes over and the Shahar and Wild humans desperately join up to oppose them. |
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02-22-2015, 03:19 PM | #6 |
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Re: [Space] Anyone Ever Run A Campgain Based Off Of Wild Life?
I think the best way to stave off species based rebellion is to tweak with our Us vs. Them mentality. If you can get us to accept non-humans as Us, then we would rarely if ever rebel.
Imagine what aliens would have to do to make you rebel vs. what your second cousins would have to do to make you rebel violently.
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02-22-2015, 03:33 PM | #7 | |
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02-22-2015, 03:39 PM | #8 | |
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I imagine that the first order of business is to reduce trouble rather than trying for perfection right out of the gate.
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02-22-2015, 06:30 PM | #9 |
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Re: [Space] Anyone Ever Run A Campgain Based Off Of Wild Life?
It vaguely reminds me of the campaign I've been running recently (currently in a holding pattern while we hash out who is and isn't going to be able to be a part of it). Except that alien invasion occurs in 1938, and is taking place "in the now" rather than being part of the background. My invaders, though, are a cosmopolitan alliance of species, only a few of which the players have encountered.
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02-24-2015, 02:07 PM | #10 |
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Re: [Space] Anyone Ever Run A Campgain Based Off Of Wild Life?
The real objection I have is that the subject races don't appear to have been tinkered with to make them more tractable. I can see the Qasuti being left alone and the Tarcaser slipping under the radar, but the ascended and Gustrogin still have will 10. Its possible that they started out with higher wills and selfish, but I don't think that really fits.
That said, I think this thread has inspired me to start a campaign loosely based on the setting. I plan on toning down the alien stats, changing the superscience to allow portals onto planets, and starting the story during the invasion (and in modern times), but otherwise the setting should be quite similar.
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