Submitted by Chainsaw Aardvark on Wed, 2008-05-14 17:15.
Sounds like an interesting back story, an epic conflict and a good chance of becoming a game worth playing.
One element of caution though. You mention hacking minigame. Most cyber-punk table top rpgs fail in that regard - because its time for one specially equipped/trained player to shine while the others sit around with nothing to do. In Cp-2020 this is even worse as A)It takes only a few seconds "game time" (and quite a bit of real time) so the others can't do other stuff while it happens - and B)It splits up the party with some doing stuff, and another strapped to a computer line.
Perhaps if each is a unique place, they have avatars that reflect their abilities - thus everyone is needed, even in the computer world.
Then again, net running is based on a somewhat obsolete metaphor (more akin to raiding a BBS than surfing the web) and is more to make it visually interesting for non-computer geeks. Of course, a deliberately reto setting could be quite interesting
I should ask - are you thinking computer game, where a single player controls all the characters, an RPG where each person has one pre-made PC, or are the Manhattans simply archetypes/bosses to the players?
Thanks Evil1. I've been a bit depressed and uncreative as of late (Unemployment and a grandmother's death will do that...) but the credit you give me is a nice pick-me-up.
There is a fine line between hobby and obsession. I seem to have lost sight of it some time ago.
Decker Problem
Sounds like an interesting back story, an epic conflict and a good chance of becoming a game worth playing.
One element of caution though. You mention hacking minigame. Most cyber-punk table top rpgs fail in that regard - because its time for one specially equipped/trained player to shine while the others sit around with nothing to do. In Cp-2020 this is even worse as A)It takes only a few seconds "game time" (and quite a bit of real time) so the others can't do other stuff while it happens - and B)It splits up the party with some doing stuff, and another strapped to a computer line.
Perhaps if each is a unique place, they have avatars that reflect their abilities - thus everyone is needed, even in the computer world.
Then again, net running is based on a somewhat obsolete metaphor (more akin to raiding a BBS than surfing the web) and is more to make it visually interesting for non-computer geeks. Of course, a deliberately reto setting could be quite interesting
I should ask - are you thinking computer game, where a single player controls all the characters, an RPG where each person has one pre-made PC, or are the Manhattans simply archetypes/bosses to the players?
Thanks Evil1. I've been a bit depressed and uncreative as of late (Unemployment and a grandmother's death will do that...) but the credit you give me is a nice pick-me-up.
There is a fine line between hobby and obsession. I seem to have lost sight of it some time ago.