bittermind
Mongoose
I'd really like to see an RPG based on Jasper Fforde's 'Bookworld' novels. PCs could play actual, literary characters - Sherlock Holmes or The Mad Hatter or The Mekon or D'Artagnan or Zaphod Beeblebrox, for example - or 'imagined' literary characters created by the players themselves (vanity publishing!). Or, if they prefer, PCs could play 'real' people, who have the ability to enter the Bookworld, much like the books' protagonist, Thursday Next.
The setting might be a mix of Bookworld landscapes (Gotham City? Dickensian England?), or 'real-world' venues. Characters might be a part of Jurisfiction, sent out to bust literary crime. Or they could belong to one of the many branches of SpecOps - fighting vampires and ghosts and werewolves and whatnot in the 'real' world (though let's be fair, the Bookworld element would be the real draw here - there's already enough vampire-fighting in other RPGs...).
The tone would necessarily be, as in the novels themselves, fairly light-hearted and Paranoia-esque. Supplements might be - for copyright reasons, or whatever - based around 'classic' literature. 'The Victorian Literature Sourcebook', or 'The Edgar Allen Poe Sourcebook'. Y'see, it'd be educational, too.
Throw in Goliath Corporation and the ChronoGuard, and I think there's a lot here to work with.
Thoughts?
The setting might be a mix of Bookworld landscapes (Gotham City? Dickensian England?), or 'real-world' venues. Characters might be a part of Jurisfiction, sent out to bust literary crime. Or they could belong to one of the many branches of SpecOps - fighting vampires and ghosts and werewolves and whatnot in the 'real' world (though let's be fair, the Bookworld element would be the real draw here - there's already enough vampire-fighting in other RPGs...).
The tone would necessarily be, as in the novels themselves, fairly light-hearted and Paranoia-esque. Supplements might be - for copyright reasons, or whatever - based around 'classic' literature. 'The Victorian Literature Sourcebook', or 'The Edgar Allen Poe Sourcebook'. Y'see, it'd be educational, too.
Throw in Goliath Corporation and the ChronoGuard, and I think there's a lot here to work with.
Thoughts?
