proditor Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 So a long while back I got Nomad of the time streams in hard cover from the Sci-fi book club (It was 50 cents, can ya blame me?) and I like the worlds and ideas that Moorcock had for the different places that Bastable ends up. Has anyone considered using them in a Hero game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Re: Nomad of the Time streams Hero That's some pretty wild pulp sci-fi there. I've thought that NotTS would make a good basis for a campaign, but have never done any work on it other than the most basic conceptual work for some of the stuff. The airships in use would have to be a lot faster and more maneuverable than real world airships to fit the descriptions, IIRC. The fei-chi would basically just be WWI era airplanes. It's been a long time since I've read it so I don't remember too much. Weren't there some kind of supertanks too? At least in one story, I think... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Re: Nomad of the Time streams Hero Y'know Proditor ... with your penchant for V&V stuff, I originally thought this was about Nomad from the V&V book I haven't read them ... are they weird dimensions? Or just alternate views? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Re: Nomad of the Time streams Hero They're set in a series of alternate 1974s, where the British Empire never faded. The technology is amped up Space:1889 style stuff, mostly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proditor Posted September 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Re: Nomad of the Time streams Hero Yeah, it's mostly a social/political commentary on the evils of imperialism, but the veneer of shiny things is nice. There are three stories in the NotTS series: The Warlord of the Air: 1974 setting, Britannia rules the world, the best tech is blimps with the equivalent of heavily doped aluminum skin, 150 mph top speed and the first planes are pretty similar in description to the Fokker Eindecker with one exception...the 500 mph top speed. The Land Leviathan: 1904 setting, a kid who makes Einstein and Tesla combined look like drooling morons advances the tech into and slightly beyond Sky Captain levels. Battleships have main guns firing 12"+ shells at the rate of a good semi-auto carbine, the battleships can do 90+ knots, the blimps have case hardened steel armor and still fly, etc. War came in 1903 and the world is all but destroyed as a result. Africa unites under a very dynamic leader and starts taking over the world, their secret weapon being a 9 story high moving ziggurat of guns. The Steel Tsar: Rereading at the moment, but set in 1941 with Japan as the main enemy, lots of blimps again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Re: Nomad of the Time streams Hero Yeah, I guess they weren't all 1974, although I seem to remember him mentioning that year in all of them for some reason.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proditor Posted October 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Re: Nomad of the Time streams Hero He does, but in part that's because he has this almost unceasing need to compare everything to the setting from Warlord of the Air. Just noticed something in the Steel Tzar BTW...Bastable mentions that he has now been to 3 other future worlds before this one...but we only know about 2. He also states that he feels responsible for starting a war on one of them. Well, in LL, the war was in full swing when he showed up. In TSZ, he gets to see what Pearl Harbour looked like to US Sailors, thus being on the receiving end. And in WotA, he drops a bomb to end a conflict...so which one are we missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Re: Nomad of the Time streams Hero The one you're about to run for us on Hero Central. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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