Re: Yet Another PA Campaign Idea
PA Hero just showed up at Pegasus Games in Madison, WI, so I finally have a copy.
I've been reading the "Ember" series-- the one which starts with "Dies the Fire"-- by S.M. Stirling, and have really been enjoying it. I will second the recommendation. (For one thing, the villain is rather interesting-- a sociopathic history professor who had always longed for something like this to happen!) I haven't read the last book, yet, so no real opinion on the ending of the first trilogy (a second one is coming).
I am kind of reminded of the fantasy novel from the 1980s called "Ariel: A Book of the Change", in which technology stops working one night and magic starts. In that book fantasy creatures appear at the same time as magic. I have forgotten the author's name (Boyett?), and some parts of the book worked and others didn't work so well (I didn't like the lighter-than-air, hydrogen filled dragon). Still I figure that there may be a way to pull off a similar setting for a game.
Another prospect is one of the alternative settings presented in "The Slayer's Handbook" for Eden Studios "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" role playing game. In the setting, Buffy didn't get the dimensional tear Glory opened shut in time, and Earth got invaded by many demon armies, so technology, while it still works, lies in ruins due to the sheer casualty rate humanity suffered and the collapse of civilization. I think that would be a fun setting to game in, with or without Buffy.
Just some thoughts.
Brian.
