A Game with a Contemporary Setting

[AlphaStrike]

Mongoose has fantasy settings sewn-up with RQ2/Legend, and science fiction with Traveller...but what about something closer to home?

I, for one, love flitting between genres when I change from one game to another. It helps establish a different ambience - new setting, new rules, new characters, and so on.

It seems that there is a gap in the 'goose's line-up when it comes to contemporary settings. I wouldn't mind too much whether it was horror, spy or magic-themed - or something really new and inventive - I'd just like to see a system set in the here and now.

 

[Apep]

Thanks a bunch - now having flash-backs to D20 modern...

There is a couple of good RPG's out there that are set in the here and now - Just not by Mongoose.

 

[AlphaStrike]

Are flashbacks to D20 Modern especially painful for you? :shock:

I never played it myself...

 

[Rick]

Mongoose has fantasy settings sewn-up with RQ2/Legend, and science fiction with Traveller...but what about something closer to home?

I, for one, love flitting between genres when I change from one game to another. It helps establish a different ambience - new setting, new rules, new characters, and so on.

It seems that there is a gap in the 'goose's line-up when it comes to contemporary settings. I wouldn't mind too much whether it was horror, spy or magic-themed - or something really new and inventive - I'd just like to see a system set in the here and now.

That sounds like a really good idea, it would open up a lot of possible licenses for C20/21st ish settings. But only if the basic rule system was flexible enough to deal with spy/military/zombie/other horror mechanics.

 

[AlphaStrike]

There is certainly something 'zeitgeisty' about zombies at the moment. They're everywhere. That could provide inspiration for a sourcebook that would slot into a generic modern-day rules set.

 

[Rick]

There is certainly something 'zeitgeisty' about zombies at the moment. They're everywhere. That could provide inspiration for a sourcebook that would slot into a generic modern-day rules set.

There's also been a steady shift towards the same sort of scenario, but with alien invasion as a backdrop. What these seem to have in common is the theme of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events, which could translate well to an rpg.

 

[AlphaStrike]

There you go, Matthew.

With thanks to 'Rick and AlphaStrike' - a new system...just fill in the rules :wink:

 

[Apep]

Are flashbacks to D20 Modern especially painful for you? :shock:

I never played it myself...

More laughable than painful now – just having to deal with a rulesworth