Forget Space: 1880, Try Space: 1640!

[Chaldfont]

This would make a great background for a campaign:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=570495

 

[Henry]

Oh, holy crap.

Space Privateers!

Protestant and Catholic Space Wars!

Roundhead Space Caravels versus Cavalier Space Cogs!

Shakespearean Fusilliers!

The possibilities are endless!

 

[ledded]

Oh man, now *that* would make a fun campaign.


"Whaddaya mean our touch-hole hand-gonne's don't work in space? Darn."


Though if the gravity part were true, we'd be sure to have never invented hand-stands...

 

[Chaldfont]

Shakespearean Fusilliers!

It would be fun to take a couple of The Bard's plays and rework the plots to work in space. Midsummer Night's Dream on the moon with moonfolk instead of fairies? Henry V space opera?

 

[The_Universe]

One word (and those two preceding it, excluding the most recent nine): Awesome.

 

[MonsterMash]

That really would be a great setting - the English Civil War in Space. Gadzooks!

 

[Dr Simon]

It would be fun to take a couple of The Bard's plays and rework the plots to work in space. Midsummer Night's Dream on the moon with moonfolk instead of fairies? Henry V space opera?

Yeah, or how about The Tempest, only instead of Prospero you have a stranded, slightly insane scientist and Ariel is a Robot and Caliban is an invisible force that is the dark side of the scientists personality, and...what do you mean, done already?


Seriously though, good idea. I've already riffed several Shakespeare plays in my campaign.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Spacebuckler

I'm not sure if its stalled or not, but here is something you might want to look into:

http://www.spacebuckler.com/