Shadowrun D20??????

[JPL]

And what, roleplaying in a pseudo-medieval world doesn't have a slightly dated aspect? :\

It's snubbing the d20 system "just because" that I'd say is a bit dated.

"Gritty near-future noir" is still a fine idea. "Cyberpunk", however, has come to be associated with certain specific traits --- plugging your head into a computer, the whole "punk" attitude, Japan becoming the dominant world power --- which have gotten pretty stale. Culture and technology and history are taking a different path.

Now, a ribofunk RPG...that would be interesting.

http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPgraf/Manifestos/Ribofunk.html

 

[JPL]

And what, roleplaying in a pseudo-medieval world doesn't have a slightly dated aspect? :\

It's snubbing the d20 system "just because" that I'd say is a bit dated.

"Gritty near-future noir" is still a fine idea. "Cyberpunk", however, has come to be associated with certain specific traits --- plugging your head into a computer, the whole "punk" attitude, Japan becoming the dominant world power --- which have gotten pretty stale. Culture and technology and history are taking a different path.

Now, a ribofunk RPG...that would be interesting.

http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPgraf/Manifestos/Ribofunk.html

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

I've never liked Ribofunk ... and in all the years it's been around, the best place to cite it is still an old web-site with broken pics.

It smacks too much of difference for the sake of difference ... notice the questions it raises aren't answered ... like a politician it just takes the opening to attack the other guy. Why ribo? Because it isn't cyber. Why funk? Because it isn't punk.

This "manifesto" doesn't even accomplish that. Cyber isn't over-used, it's just been assimilated. The cybernetic cultural ideal has dissappeared almost as readily as the "technology" of writing has disappeared. Cyberculture, cyberspace ... the prefix functions very well to model the postmodernist zeitgeist in which we live, and so it is utilized to do that.

The affiliations with "cyber" and "punk" were always ephemeral at best. Cybernetics, in the truest sense of the word, was a term created merely to bring the synergistic relationship of man and technology into the discursive realm, specifically in relation to making space travel survivable. As far as punk music goes, it was more the postmoderm thematic parallels than any particular nod toward nihilism that brought the word into play.

In so many ways "ribofunk" is merely an extension of the cyberpunk ideology, if not the genre (and I'd hazard to say that the "genre" was limited, anyway). The popularity is in the ideology, which is as valid today as it was in the 80s, if-not moreso.

Um ... yea. Sorry.

--fje

 

[ledded]

Very loosely translated:

"There is some guy in America who is still taking this totally seriously. That is the damndest thing. Let's go invade France."

Ok, maybe I'm just silly today, but I laughed by @ss off when I read this JPL... thanks for the mid-afternoon chuckle...

 

[Henry]

...I still cant see Fanpro taking down their entire web page dealing with Shadowrun, the online store links, etc just for a one day joke. Anyway if anyone finds out anything new please post here. Thanks!

joke-wise, I loved it. Why not make the joke? It was a good one, IMHO.
Tech-wise, Some people think this would be a hard thing, but it really isn't.

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%cd /home/web/srsite
%rename index.html backup.html
%rename jokesrsite.html index.html

just reverse the process after 24 hours.