RPG systems frozen in time

[jian]

The next time I run FASERIP, it'll be Marvel circa 1987-1993, as intended.

Yup, my most recent two campaigns were set in 1984 and 1993. The first one was based on Secret Wars and the second one on X-Men 97. Made it a lot easier to use the material from the sourcebooks and The Marvel-Phile.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

When I run Cyberpunk 2020, and it's been more than 10 years at this point, I run it in the year 2020 as it was imagined way back in the 1980s. There are still newspapers in the form of screamsheets, there's no social media, the Soviet Union is still around, etc., etc.

 

[GrimCo]

Were I ever to run an oWoD game again, I couldn't imagine running it any other time than the early-to-mid 90s.

Yeah, that game captures zeitgeist of 90s edgy pop culture perfectly. I bet those were fun years to be teen/young adult.

When I run Cyberpunk 2020, and it's been more than 10 years at this point, I run it in the year 2020 as it was imagined way back in the 1980s. There are still newspapers in the form of screamsheets, there's no social media, the Soviet Union is still around, etc., etc.

Personally, i view Cyberpunk and Shadowrun more like alternative timeline. I'm cool with tech being both more advanced and more outdated at the same time, compared to current tech we have.

 

[Aldarc]

I do enjoy running most of my pulp adventure games in the early half of the 20th century. Outgunned Adventure, for example, can be used to run Tomb Raider and Uncharted but why would you when you can use it to run Indiana Jones and The Mummy?

 

[Staffan]

I set my East Texas University game in 2010 (well, 2011 now after one in-game year) both because it fits the backstory timeline better and because that way I don't have to deal with the current madness.