Manbearcat
Legend
I've been thinking about this a lot the last few years. A poster on here, @loverdrive , recently wrote a beautiful game that is a marriage/hack of these two games, but it doesn't do exactly what I've been thinking about.
I figured I'd put a thread out there where I can (a) put my ideas, (b) people can give feedback/their ideas, (c) and I can iterate.
I'll go ahead and get rolling.
There are many things that need to be tackled first, and I'm going to post some prelim thoughts, but here are the first things I feel need to be resolved before you work downward on the hiearchy:
* What is the Structure of play?
* What are the Factions thematically?
* What is the Stress analog?
* What is the Heat/Wanted Level analog?
* What is the Bluecoats analog?
* What is the Vice analog?
* How does the Payoff incentive structure work?
The Classes and Crew Analog (likely "Companies" which could range from Mercenaries to Scoundrels to Wardens to Holy Warriors to etc) and other things like this are well done on the totem pole. Those can easily be fleshed out and slotted in, but not before the other parts.
So with that, my first post below is going to be my thoughts on Structure.
I figured I'd put a thread out there where I can (a) put my ideas, (b) people can give feedback/their ideas, (c) and I can iterate.
I'll go ahead and get rolling.
There are many things that need to be tackled first, and I'm going to post some prelim thoughts, but here are the first things I feel need to be resolved before you work downward on the hiearchy:
* What is the Structure of play?
* What are the Factions thematically?
* What is the Stress analog?
* What is the Heat/Wanted Level analog?
* What is the Bluecoats analog?
* What is the Vice analog?
* How does the Payoff incentive structure work?
The Classes and Crew Analog (likely "Companies" which could range from Mercenaries to Scoundrels to Wardens to Holy Warriors to etc) and other things like this are well done on the totem pole. Those can easily be fleshed out and slotted in, but not before the other parts.
So with that, my first post below is going to be my thoughts on Structure.