Doc Posted December 6, 2007 Report Share Posted December 6, 2007 I had a flash this week about a mix of two or three previous ideas to make an entirely new setting for a hero game. It's a world were intelligent robots "live" side by side with humans, with all the complexity and social consequences that means. By robot, I mean totally artificial consious beings, not cyborg, more like Astroboy or Megaman. This would take place in a futurist alternate history where Soviet Union didn't crash. Now, both blocks produce robots and manage this new reality in their own ways. The world live in a new détente and the risk of war is limited, altough political and economical competition between the blocks is still harsh. It may seem weird, but I wanted to reproduce the feeling of the japanese anime series of the 80s, where cities of white concrete skyscrapers were theatre of android battles or nuclear explosions... Does this sounds crazy to you? Do you have any suggestions or commentaries? I ask because in my immediate vicinity, I couldn't find any other reaction than laughing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign I wanna play Bender. Bender is great! Sing it with me! Okay, now in binary! 00010 00101 01110 00100 00101 10010 00101 10011 00111 10010 00101 00001 10100! Okay! Now in hexadecimal! 02 05 0E 04 05 12 09 13 07 12 05 01 14! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign How big are the robots you're thinking of? If they're large (as in Autobots and Decepticons) you might check into TUV's optional rules for INT, EGO, and PRE in Vehicles as well as the Mecha rules there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign How big are the robots you're thinking of? If they're large (as in Autobots and Decepticons) you might check into TUV's optional rules for INT' date=' EGO, and PRE in Vehicles as well as the Mecha rules there.[/quote'] No, they're about human size, like Astroboy or Megaman. It's not a mecha genre game. And, just to be sure, TUV means The Ultimate Vehicule, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign No' date=' they're about human size, like Astroboy or Megaman. It's not a mecha genre game. And, just to be sure, TUV means The Ultimate Vehicule, right?[/quote']Actually, that would be Vehicle, not Vehicule; but essentially, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Well, it seems this idea doesn't get muc support... Sorry, next time, maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Actually, as a player, I'd be rather fascinated by the idea. But that's just me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowsoul Posted December 8, 2007 Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Sounds like it could be fun. Perhaps if each robot had a theme that would make it more appealing. Assassin, defender, forest, night, lawgiver etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Well, thank guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thia Halmades Posted December 13, 2007 Report Share Posted December 13, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Mmm... bear in mind that this is the "other genre" section; it doesn't get much traffic. I'm only checking this board because of your earlier link. You might get more responses from StarHERO where most Mecha material gets shunted too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Mmm... bear in mind that this is the "other genre" section; it doesn't get much traffic. I'm only checking this board because of your earlier link. You might get more responses from StarHERO where most Mecha material gets shunted too. I see... Well, I first thought that Star Hero was pretty much a space opera genre than a general sci-fi section. That's why I posted my non-space related thread there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted December 19, 2007 Report Share Posted December 19, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign I'd definitely play in a Mega-Man inspired campaign! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Can I be Zero??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamamura Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign I have thought of using pics of those creepy living dolls in a campaign where robots exist. It would be a world where most machine are not self-aware but there exist those that are. Also I plan to throw in ESPers and stellar travel where you enter a type of hyper space that it takes 3 months to travel to the campaign world from Earth but in regular space 5 years go by. Oh my I am rambling aren't I? Oh well, just some scattered thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thia Halmades Posted December 21, 2007 Report Share Posted December 21, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Little robot men in funny helmets weird me out. Jus' sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
input.jack Posted December 26, 2007 Report Share Posted December 26, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Are robots available as a Player Character option? Cause Im all about playing characters like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Are robots available as a Player Character option? Cause Im all about playing characters like that Sure, that's what it's all about... Of course, human character would be allowed too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Will this be an online game, that I could actually play in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Dibs on AlcoMate 2000... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted December 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Will this be an online game' date=' that I could actually play in?[/quote'] Yiay... Sorry for the possible misunderstanding, guys. I don't have time to play online... The idea of this thread was just to test the idea, as I hadn't get any positive feed-back about it around me. Sorry again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thia Halmades Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Aw, dude. Those were his nutz. That's not nice... It's okay, ZP. Diamond Spear is going to make me run an online HERO: Combat Evolved game. That'll be fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midas Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Little robot men in funny helmets weird me out. Jus' sayin'. Marvin the Martian is a robot?? Re the topic of the thread: What would be distinctive about this campaign? Why would running robot characters be *different* than running a group of SF characters with one or two being robots? Midas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thia Halmades Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign Marvin the Martian is a robot?? Re the topic of the thread: What would be distinctive about this campaign? Why would running robot characters be *different* than running a group of SF characters with one or two being robots? Midas To be fair, not every game is terribly different. There's the whole "Seven Basic Plots" argument, and so on. I think that he'd just be shaking up the stylistic elements a bit, and introducing different genre-trope NPCs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midas Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Re: Idea for a robot campaign To be fair' date=' not every game is terribly different. There's the whole "Seven Basic Plots" argument, and so on. I think that he'd just be shaking up the stylistic elements a bit, and introducing different genre-trope NPCs.[/quote'] I was afraid my question would sound a bit snarky in print. Let me try again. Sell it to us. Pretend you are trying to sell a Japanamation script to an animation studio. Why, of all the scripts/rpg campaigns available would this one be one to take particular interest in? Pitch the concept so that I want to go "Whoa, lemme play in that world!" Midas BTW, could you point me to a "seven plots" link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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