outside pseudomedieval what can be done well yet?

[johnsemlak]

How about something based on bronze age Greece and Rome.

uh, Bronze age Rome is an anomoly, the Bronze age was over well before Rome was founded.

I would like to see a game that did Greece and Rome in their post-bronze age period.

 

[Marius Delphus]

All of the above dude! (Except maybe cavemen.)

But I have a special place in my bookshelf reserved for steampunk stuff (second the call for Space 1889 d20 and hurry up [EDIT] Steam & Steel )

 

[Carnifex]

All of the above dude! (Except maybe cavemen.)

But I have a special place in my bookshelf reserved for steampunk stuff (hurry up Carnifex )

Pester Hellhound and Dextra if you want it to come any sooner; though if you haven't seen it already, the link in my sig takes you to a thread with some previews of art from the book in it.

 

[Sir Trent]

Blah

I couldn't vote for any of them. Either they've been done to death or just don't interest me. Something new and unique needs to come along, I'm ready for it.

 

[Marius Delphus]

Pester Hellhound and Dextra if you want it to come any sooner; though if you haven't seen it already, the link in my sig takes you to a thread with some previews of art from the book in it.

Gotcha. Saw the art earlier... have a special "need" as it were for a definitive treatment of the subject (Sorcery & Steam left me hanging on several counts) so am very much looking forward to and expecting great things from this book.

Not intending to hijack the thread, so I'll ask: are any (other) books that treat the poll subjects available, perhaps ones that flew in under the radar?

 

[kipling]

Well, we don't have cavemen either, but that sounds boring to me.

I presume you mean in the d20 systems. BTRC had Dreamtime for CORPS, which was kind of close to cavemen...average tech level put me in mind of Australian Aborigines (as the title is meant to do), no metal, and I always thought it was a pretty cool setting.

 

[Lalato]

uh, Bronze age Rome is an anomoly, the Bronze age was over well before Rome was founded.

I would like to see a game that did Greece and Rome in their post-bronze age period.

Oops...

 

[Wraith Form]

I couldn't vote for any of them. Either they've been done to death or just don't interest me. Something new and unique needs to come along, I'm ready for it.

Trent hit the nail on the head. Gimme something totally new and unusual....and NOT trains 'n' dinos (* cough *WotC* cough *).

Two areas of interest for me are:
1) Neil Gaiman's the Dreaming, Chaosium's Dreamlands, or even Ravenloft's Nightmare Lands.
2) Well-written, well-crafted time travel.

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

2) Well-written, well-crafted time travel.

Time travel is obscenely difficult to handle plausibly when written by one person with full control of every character. It requires an in-depth and highly developed control of plot structure, and even then fails, more often than not.

I do not think it is possible to design a smooth-running time travel RPG, even with the assumption that players will be abnormally cooperative and the DM has several layers of contingencies.

 

[hong]

Well, we don't have cavemen either, but that sounds boring to me.