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<blockquote data-quote="jedijon" data-source="post: 7709555" data-attributes="member: 49099"><p>So we've read the document now, discussed its meta-implications, and tried to reflect on in-game options presented. Is anyone interested in crafting a campaign using the setting?</p><p> </p><p>What caught my eye were comments like: this is an optimistic world with a lack of conflict - or - everything changed 60 years ago when Aether stopped being just a pretty face and started being harnessed.</p><p> </p><p>Hopefully somebody who is very familiar with the source material can come in here and school the pants offa me! Cuz I'm a touch confused on where one would start - using the provided 'givens' and extrapolating from there.</p><p> </p><p>Here, I'll start:</p><p>•No conflicts & everybody is happy = go home now, nothing to see here</p><p>•Optimism + crazy invention = you want story hooks...read any China Mieville ('specially the Bas Lag books)? Tons 'o ideas. 'Course the them there is that the gov't is repressing the cool people.</p><p>•Monumental change in the last 60 years = a conflict with the stated idealism...old humans would be crusty...ya think the Elves are going to take this lying down?? Tolkien's elves left in the third age because they were fed up. Gotta assume they are at the breaking point here!</p><p></p><p>TLDR; the real hooks are that a) in an age of peace & idealism...nothing is ever that peaceful...or ideal & b) progressivists and conservatives have opposite agendas. So - does that merely make me a cynic? Am hoping for thoughts!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jedijon, post: 7709555, member: 49099"] So we've read the document now, discussed its meta-implications, and tried to reflect on in-game options presented. Is anyone interested in crafting a campaign using the setting? What caught my eye were comments like: this is an optimistic world with a lack of conflict - or - everything changed 60 years ago when Aether stopped being just a pretty face and started being harnessed. Hopefully somebody who is very familiar with the source material can come in here and school the pants offa me! Cuz I'm a touch confused on where one would start - using the provided 'givens' and extrapolating from there. Here, I'll start: •No conflicts & everybody is happy = go home now, nothing to see here •Optimism + crazy invention = you want story hooks...read any China Mieville ('specially the Bas Lag books)? Tons 'o ideas. 'Course the them there is that the gov't is repressing the cool people. •Monumental change in the last 60 years = a conflict with the stated idealism...old humans would be crusty...ya think the Elves are going to take this lying down?? Tolkien's elves left in the third age because they were fed up. Gotta assume they are at the breaking point here! TLDR; the real hooks are that a) in an age of peace & idealism...nothing is ever that peaceful...or ideal & b) progressivists and conservatives have opposite agendas. So - does that merely make me a cynic? Am hoping for thoughts! [/QUOTE]
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