Richard Morgan's Market Forces as a Dark Champions setting

[Xavier Onassiss]

I read this last month, and now I seriously want to make a Dark Champions game out of it!

 

Richard Morgan, the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels, strikes out into new territory with Market Forces, leaving behind the farflung battlegrounds of Takeshi Kovacs for the not-so-distant future of corporate Earth. Here, Morgan extrapolates a world where commodities trading reaches a brutal pitch and the outcomes of banana republic uprisings are the new market. Now, on the road to success, the brokers of the new economy compete for status and promotions via road rage on the freeways of new London.

 

Morgan's conflicted protagonist, Chris Faulkner, is a comer known for one spectacular kill that shot him to the top of mid-range global capital firm. He parlays his reputation and skills as a driver into a job in the emerging field of "Conflict Investment" at the world's hottest and hardest firm. Soon he finds himself running with the big dogs and rises to the top of a brutal realm, but his ascent is quickly threatened by vicious senior partners, gold-digging suitors, fame, fair-weather friends, and his own nagging conscience.

 

Market Forces is at once an anti-globalization treatise and anime fantasy meets The Road Warrior. Morgan employs the graphic-novel imagery of his two previous novels to create a disturbingly brutal picture of slash-and-burn capitalism run amok. There are times when Faulker's moral quandries seem hollow in the face of his actions but this isn't Crime and Punishment. Enjoy the ride and "come back with blood on your wheels or don't come back at all." --Jeremy Pugh

 

Corporate espionage, guerrilla wars, boardroom politics, media manipulation and road rage... looks like an excellent choice for Seared Champions! (see my sig)

[TheQuestionMan]

Re: Richard Morgan's Market Forces as a Dark Champions setting

 

Richard Morgan (Author)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Morgan_(author)#Literary_career

 

Market Forces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Forces

 

Industrial Espionage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_espionage

 

Guerrilla Warfare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare

 

Media Manipulation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_manipulation

 

Road Rage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_rage

 

Espionage Role-Playing Games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game

 

Cyberpunk Role-Playing Games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cyberpunk_role-playing_games

 

Dark Champions: Heroes of Vengence

Danger International/Millennium's End/Espionage HERO/Action HERO

 

 

Hmmm...

 

 

QM

[Killer Shrike]

Re: Richard Morgan's Market Forces as a Dark Champions setting

 

I read it a few years ago and liked it. That and Thirteen.

[Steve]

Re: Richard Morgan's Market Forces as a Dark Champions setting

 

Thank you for the author recommendation. I am currently reading his book "Altered Carbon" and getting some campaign ideas from it.

 

Wow! This is my 2000th post.

[Xavier Onassiss]

Re: Richard Morgan's Market Forces as a Dark Champions setting

 

Thank you for the author recommendation. I am currently reading his book "Altered Carbon" and getting some campaign ideas from it.

 

Wow! This is my 2000th post.

 

I read all of Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels then found Market Forces when I went looking for more of his work. As far as Hero write-ups are concerned, Forces looks a lot easier to do.