Chaositech: Who's go it?

[Gez]

It's one thing to scrap "flavour", it's another to scrap "taste".

Coming with a different background for a monster is changing its flavour -- it's still a monster, it still has a monster's taste. Changing its taste would be more drastic -- making it something else than a monster, for example. If all barmaids everywhere became ratmen, and all ratmen are barmaids, then it would be a change of taste -- and, well, not for the better.

Chaositech is built around the idea of chaositech. I have not, of course, read it, but I guess scrapping the chaositech taste to replace it with something else would be as futile as use the D&D magic system for the matrix of a cyberpunk game and rename the wizard class "neo" and spells "functions"; for example.

 

[Wombat]

How can you possibly hate the WFRP setting? It's probably the best rpg setting ever?!?!?

To quote an old SCA filk song:

(sung to Men of Harlech)

"Death, destruction, and despair,
"Raining terror everywhere
"Will we kill or will we spare?
"All for beer and mead."

WFRP, besides have a really odd system, was the single most pointlessly depressing setting I ever ran across. As one of my British friends said, "Well, it made sense over here for the Thatcher years, but I don't see how anyone else got into it."

I'll stop myself at this point, as I am sure I've dug more than a large enough hole for myself...

 

[Nightfall]

Yes W-batty you have.

Btw Gez, I don't see what's wrong with Ratmen Barmaids. Just means when the party gets frisky, the Barmaids can fight back with great efficiency.

 

[Gez]

Yeah, but I'm not sure a setting can survive this kind of drastic surgery.

 

[Nightfall]

Maybe but hey if all else fails, blame the Slacerians! I do.

 

[Olive]

So yeah, if you don't like a bit of wierd science or corrupting chaos, it's probably not for you. But considering the title, that probably shouldn't be surprising.

So if I like corrupting chaos, but not wierd science?

 

[Nightfall]

Then you'd be in a interesting position.