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Monte Cook's new RPG: Numenera [UPDATED]
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<blockquote data-quote="fled" data-source="post: 5989056" data-attributes="member: 45634"><p>Ok. So please tell me what about an Orc is more "familiar" to you than a fictional civilization set a billion years in the future?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And making it up as you go along isn't fun anymore because......... Please keep in mind there's a reason its called Fiction.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Cook addresses this, the 8 civilizations got "rebooted" several times, so there is no continuous, unbroken billion year evolution of technology and science. Each civilization achieved what it could in it's allotted time, then they were either wiped out/ taken over/ or just simply left....their artifacts are the Numenera.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again please explain to me how an elf, which is a completely fictional creation by the way, is in any way shape or form more "realistic" (lol) to role play than a human (assuming that some kind of Homo Sapiens is around in Numenara) a billion years from now? </p><p></p><p>At least with the human, you can make some scientific assumptions about evolution taking into account what kind of atmosphere is predicted to exist in that future....excluding any creative intervention Cook would have used to justify certain assumptions he makes on his own.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Why not earth? Why not a familiar Galaxy? The man has free "real estate" to play with...one that we are familiar with. Why not use it? Aside from pragmatism, why are you so dead set against basing a campaign on the remotely familiar?</p><p></p><p>I personally like the fact that he intrudes upon my world. I would somehow feel more connected to it. When discussing the prehistoric era, i don't feel completely disconnected from that reality, its still my earth, and I still feel connected to it. So a billion years ahead, I'll still find some symbolic anchor to place familiarity to, even if its just the burning orb we used to call the Sun.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You got me there. Ask him.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again why not? I am still trying to understand your skepticism as opposed to a completely fictional (dare I say cookie-cutter) setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fled, post: 5989056, member: 45634"] Ok. So please tell me what about an Orc is more "familiar" to you than a fictional civilization set a billion years in the future? And making it up as you go along isn't fun anymore because......... Please keep in mind there's a reason its called Fiction. Cook addresses this, the 8 civilizations got "rebooted" several times, so there is no continuous, unbroken billion year evolution of technology and science. Each civilization achieved what it could in it's allotted time, then they were either wiped out/ taken over/ or just simply left....their artifacts are the Numenera. Again please explain to me how an elf, which is a completely fictional creation by the way, is in any way shape or form more "realistic" (lol) to role play than a human (assuming that some kind of Homo Sapiens is around in Numenara) a billion years from now? At least with the human, you can make some scientific assumptions about evolution taking into account what kind of atmosphere is predicted to exist in that future....excluding any creative intervention Cook would have used to justify certain assumptions he makes on his own. Why not earth? Why not a familiar Galaxy? The man has free "real estate" to play with...one that we are familiar with. Why not use it? Aside from pragmatism, why are you so dead set against basing a campaign on the remotely familiar? I personally like the fact that he intrudes upon my world. I would somehow feel more connected to it. When discussing the prehistoric era, i don't feel completely disconnected from that reality, its still my earth, and I still feel connected to it. So a billion years ahead, I'll still find some symbolic anchor to place familiarity to, even if its just the burning orb we used to call the Sun. You got me there. Ask him. Again why not? I am still trying to understand your skepticism as opposed to a completely fictional (dare I say cookie-cutter) setting. [/QUOTE]
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