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<blockquote data-quote="bwgwl" data-source="post: 819596" data-attributes="member: 3876"><p><em>Foucault's Pendulum</em> would make for one wacked-out campaign. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>my own ideas for d20Mod "literary" campaigns have been:</p><p></p><p>1) Philip Jose Farmer's <em>Riverworld</em> setting. how can you not like a setting that has <em>everyone</em> (literally) in it? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>2) a campaign set in the timeline of John Barnes' <em>Kaleidoscope Century</em>. great sci-fi book -- lots of bizarre and interesting stuff develops over the course of the century. i know that <em>Orbital Resonance</em> is set in the same continuity; i'm not sure about his other books. (it appears that <em>Mother of Storms</em>, for instance, is not.)</p><p></p><p>3) Julian May's <em>Pliocene Exile</em> series. take all the people who can't adjust to modern society and send them 6 million years in the past! would have to completely overhaul the psionics system, though -- some of May's metapsychics are superhuman in power! (at one point, one of them teleports <em>to another galaxy.</em>)</p><p></p><p>4) a campaign set in the world of Daniel Keys Moran's <em>Continuing Time</em> books. i've only read <em>The Last Dancer</em> and have been desperately searching for <em>The Long Run</em>, <em>Emerald Eyes</em>, and <em>The Armageddon Blues</em> for years now. hard to explain these books, but he's got some wonderfully great and strange ideas. it would make an excellent role-playing setting.</p><p></p><p>5) after SJ Games puts out <em>GURPS Planet of Adventure</em>, i might consider a d20Mod campaign set on Jack Vance's Tschai (the aforementioned "Planet of Adventure"). simply tons of role-playing opportunities on this world. it's one of those pulp SF retro-futuristic "swords & blasters" type worlds. where Vance shines as a writer is at creating fascinating and bizarre cultures and aliens. the Tschai series is a good read if you can get past the 60's-era misogynist mentality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bwgwl, post: 819596, member: 3876"] [i]Foucault's Pendulum[/i] would make for one wacked-out campaign. :) my own ideas for d20Mod "literary" campaigns have been: 1) Philip Jose Farmer's [i]Riverworld[/i] setting. how can you not like a setting that has [i]everyone[/i] (literally) in it? :D 2) a campaign set in the timeline of John Barnes' [i]Kaleidoscope Century[/i]. great sci-fi book -- lots of bizarre and interesting stuff develops over the course of the century. i know that [i]Orbital Resonance[/i] is set in the same continuity; i'm not sure about his other books. (it appears that [i]Mother of Storms[/i], for instance, is not.) 3) Julian May's [i]Pliocene Exile[/i] series. take all the people who can't adjust to modern society and send them 6 million years in the past! would have to completely overhaul the psionics system, though -- some of May's metapsychics are superhuman in power! (at one point, one of them teleports [i]to another galaxy.[/i]) 4) a campaign set in the world of Daniel Keys Moran's [i]Continuing Time[/i] books. i've only read [i]The Last Dancer[/i] and have been desperately searching for [i]The Long Run[/i], [i]Emerald Eyes[/i], and [i]The Armageddon Blues[/i] for years now. hard to explain these books, but he's got some wonderfully great and strange ideas. it would make an excellent role-playing setting. 5) after SJ Games puts out [i]GURPS Planet of Adventure[/i], i might consider a d20Mod campaign set on Jack Vance's Tschai (the aforementioned "Planet of Adventure"). simply tons of role-playing opportunities on this world. it's one of those pulp SF retro-futuristic "swords & blasters" type worlds. where Vance shines as a writer is at creating fascinating and bizarre cultures and aliens. the Tschai series is a good read if you can get past the 60's-era misogynist mentality. [/QUOTE]
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