altamaros Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 Re: Use the news Someone else started a thread on timelines, and a mention was made of using real-world events. To some extent the "canon" CU timeline does this, but in what other ways have you taken real world events and made them into campaign-specific events? See the idea I'm goin' for? Any other ideas? I'm the one who started the thread on timelines. Actually i spoke about incorporating historical events in the timelines not actually using real world recent events. i'm not american, i did not live 9/11 as you could have but i'm strongly against using it in a game; it's something i think too serious to incorporate this in a game (i have the same problem with Shoah even 60 years after). Any event with a political issue must be dealt with a lot of care. and especially man-made events which imply a lot of dead and/or massive destruction. I also don't like using real political personalities in the game since anyone can have different opinions about them. When i refer to a president or a prime minister, i tend to change the name slightly so the players are actually "cooler". (as an example, in my current the US president is named "Banner"; i wonder if i gonna use a Lex Luthor as his VP) The Tsunami or last year earth year in Iran (40 000 dead; remember ?) are different matters; they're natural disasters and thus unavoidable and non-polemic. I would have no problem leading my PCs in Indonesia as a rescue team since after all, it's perfectly in the Hero mentality. For the timeline; i will go bakc to it next week. By now, i have to GM a 7th Sea on sunday so i'm in my scenario right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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