tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post153200964134129523..comments2024-03-28T22:10:04.089+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: Exploring the InfiniteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-82329177698628653492013-09-12T12:05:58.539+08:002013-09-12T12:05:58.539+08:00Consider that aside from travelers with out-of-dat...Consider that aside from travelers with out-of-date tales, the only source of information about farther upstream would be whatever flotsam and jetsam is floating down river. <br /><br />For example, a village may be hunkered down for some kind of unknown trouble approaching because a whole bunch of foreign corpses floated by one day. Did a city upriver get attacked, did a boat sink? PC's better have a good story if they want to dock. BigFellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03052419088140204154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-4449817731054310292013-09-12T05:44:17.467+08:002013-09-12T05:44:17.467+08:00Yes, I guess that's right. Basically, pirates....Yes, I guess that's right. Basically, pirates. Not what I had in mind particularly but there's no reason it couldn't work, either for the PCs or major NPCs. noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-42391150307660241412013-09-12T00:06:27.457+08:002013-09-12T00:06:27.457+08:00Reminds me of this: http://lotfp.blogspot.com/2010...Reminds me of this: http://lotfp.blogspot.com/2010/06/making-your-campaign-metal.html<br /><br />Letting the players become the monsters in a game like this would be amazing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01066409334411354268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-40793566201501793782013-09-11T23:16:17.726+08:002013-09-11T23:16:17.726+08:00What if you added a physical goad? Some sort of r...What if you added a physical goad? Some sort of relentless death/stasis/power which is advancing in an inexorable manner? So there is a drive to move on, to conquer new areas, before the creeping death, mutant hordes, or zombies arrive. Ahead you have entrenched, stable city states attempting to marshal their forces, behind only successive waves of howling chaos, far worse than you.Gort's Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08684913847135419951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-24990713800304191112013-09-11T19:30:15.828+08:002013-09-11T19:30:15.828+08:00It might become a kind of hell. If you can go down...It might become a kind of hell. If you can go downstream but not up, then you can do horrible things to people and sail away. If you escape down the river, the only way to get you is to send people after you who might not come back.<br /><br />You could run an entire empire like that, just going downstream on ships, looting and killing, then when you are done, just carry on. They can send peope after you or try to rebuild if they want.<br /><br />Becasue the river is infinate, you could just go on and on and on with no consequence for your actions. People going downstream might not be trusted very much becasue they tend to be irresponisble.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-85198717104442111562013-09-11T18:13:30.268+08:002013-09-11T18:13:30.268+08:00Yes - I like that. Maybe you can travel across the...Yes - I like that. Maybe you can travel across the river and upstream for a short distance but basically all the motion is downstream. That means that whatever civilizations grew up along the banks, they would mostly involve themselves with their immediate neighbours and not know a great deal about what was upstream and effectively nothing about what was downstream. noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-45509855118886727702013-09-11T18:11:34.927+08:002013-09-11T18:11:34.927+08:00That's always the problem with game settings b...That's always the problem with game settings based on novels. My idea is that people could get involved in the politics of the places they encounter and what have you, but the core of thing is the endlessly regenerating landscape.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-81088021425451437782013-09-11T10:09:35.486+08:002013-09-11T10:09:35.486+08:00I ran a brief Riverworld campaign last year with s...I ran a brief Riverworld campaign last year with some friends online. The GURPS Riverworld book is definitely worth a look, but it would have greatly benefitted from a better system for running endless river exploration of the sort you're thinking of. There are some nice hex maps of sample <i>sections</i> of the river valley, but the focus of the book was more on either engaging in pan-historical nation-building and technology development or else engaging in the metaplot of the novels. <br /><br />(Of course, since there are no animals or monsters on Riverworld other than your fellow man, things necessarily shake out in that direction anyway.)David Larkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04133630988557116729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-33266387010624625322013-09-11T09:42:03.535+08:002013-09-11T09:42:03.535+08:00It would be cool if you came up with some sort of ...It would be cool if you came up with some sort of circumstance that precluded going back up the river, like a strong current that the campaign's technology can't overcome or something. <br /><br />Maybe that's forcing things too much, but I find it interesting that "stay put, or move on to the unknown" becomes part of the party's logistical calculations. The boat becomes the home base/center, but the surrounding zones are never allowed to become familiar or safe. <br /><br />Neat idea. BigFellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03052419088140204154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-1425738133217965542013-09-11T06:21:30.572+08:002013-09-11T06:21:30.572+08:00Yeah. The really annoying thing is that even the i...Yeah. The really annoying thing is that even the idea that there's nothing new under the sun was known by Solomon about 4000 years ago.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-33336222055893882172013-09-11T06:12:53.022+08:002013-09-11T06:12:53.022+08:00GURPS has a riverworld book.
http://index.rpg.net/...GURPS has a riverworld book.<br />http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=2850<br /><br />Or are you planning to revive Source of the Nile, the avalon hill game?<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_of_the_Nile_(board_game)<br /><br />Sometimes everything seems like it's been done.Gort's Friendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08684913847135419951noreply@blogger.com