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  3. A Game on the Run?

    in Dark Champions

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    Re: A Game on the Run?

     

    I thought Farscape pulled off what could be the SF Hero version of this admirably.

     

    And the cool thing about an "on the run" game would be the moment when somebody looks at the other players and say, "Dammit, we're not running any more..."

  6. Excellent PAH Resource: The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

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    About the book:

     

    In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.

     

    In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; what of our everyday stuff may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.

     

    The World Without Us reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations, and how, as the world’s cities crumble, asphalt jungles give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically-treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dalai Lama, and paleontologists – who describe a pre-human world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stood taller than mammoths – Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.

     

    From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth's tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman's narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that doesn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly-readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.

     

    A link to the author's book site, with some funky extras...

    http://www.worldwithoutus.com/index2.html

  7. PA water supply

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    Re: PA water supply

     

    I wish I could remember the name of this' date=' but a guy recently came out with a book that discusses in a fair amount of detail what would happen to human landscapes (skyscrapers, subways, nuclear power plants, etc.) if people just suddenly disappeared.[/quote']

     

    Ah, it came to me, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman...

  8. PA water supply

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    Re: PA water supply

     

    I wish I could remember the name of this, but a guy recently came out with a book that discusses in a fair amount of detail what would happen to human landscapes (skyscrapers, subways, nuclear power plants, etc.) if people just suddenly disappeared.

  9. A Game on the Run?

    in Dark Champions

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    Hey Gang,

     

    I was wondering if anyone had ever tried to do a game where the PCs are constantly on the run...

     

    You could do it like Prison Break, which has, through stretching credulity a little, managed to keep a cluster of characters together.

     

    Or, if it were a solo game (I'm led to believe these exist) you could do something like The Fugitive (a great show that I'm renting because it was before my time).

     

    So anyone ever used this model? So many games have the: incident, investigation, fight of some sort, resolution structure that I constantly think about other ways to do things.

  20. U.N. Armament

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    Re: U.N. Armament

     

    When we hire guards (who are usually ex-military) they come with AK's as standard - whether it's Africa Asia or the Middle East and that's what soldiers you see on the street carry too.

     

    Well now I'm somewhat intrigued, Mark. May I ask what it is that you do that you need to be hiring guards with this sort of "I'm not kidding around anymore" armament?

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