lawbabe said:
The poll does not cover sourcebooks based in mega-city 1, or sourcebooks based on comic source material. I want to see more adaptations of comic stuff before bringing out all new material - don't run before you can walk!
Hello,
All of the source books so far have been taken from exisiting material in the case of both Slaine and Dredd, but please understand that often the writers of this material have had to extrapulate information based on in some cases only a brief mention of a location or event. Everything that is in the Dredd books todate reflects this and likewise Slaine.
I want to see cityblock generation guides and source material, making use of the meg-ways as campaign settings - the jdjc is doing something like that} and information on playing lots more character types from mc-1. A book covering sector landmarks would be cool for anybody basing their games in mc-1. I wont buy any citybooks, but will run to grab more mc-1 guides, its the most fun place on the planet after all. Who cares about Atlantis?
Well Mega-City One is a vast place with millions of citizens and to cover even a sector in detail would be a real undertaking of epic scale. I know that John was working on some ideas about maping out an entire sector and that all the official Mongoose products based in MC1 are set in Sector 190, so it would be nice to see a product that will cover this sector, with all its key landmarks, hot spots and citizens of note.
A cit-block generator could well end up as a lot of paperwork for a GM to keep up with, as each block holds between 20,000 and 120,000 citizens, dependant on the size of the block in question. When you take into account the number of flyways, pedways, tween-block-plazzas, and levels in even the smallest block, you are looking at a very large set of tables to generate such a beast. It could be done but would it really be worth it in the long run.
I do feel that meg-ways as a campaign setting would be pretty much a one tracked thing if you get my drift, though one could always set a campaign based around citizens travelling in convoy from one sector to another, after all the Big Meg is a very strange place to live.
Every source book to date has covered npc material, both the Justice Department and citizens of note, and each has also included a large proportion of new Prior Lives and Prestige Classes to spice up your adventures.
And as for Atlantis? Well it is jointly run by Mega-City One and Brit-Cit and is often seen the gateway into the city, and like Luna-1 it attracts millions of visitors each year.
This poll btw is just a guide to see what the demand is really, and given the small amount of information you can actually place in the questions, its up the those reading the board to extrapalate what they will from these questions.
Source books includes those set in and around the mega-cities of Earth, and its outer colonies, details of the worlds of Slaine and events that have shaped the stories of both strips over the past 26 years.
NPC details would perhaps cover just that, npcs taken from the comics history for both strips, expanding on those who have made a brief entry into the game so far, or perhaps covering in greater detail those characters that have shaped the lives of other more well known characters such as Jug McKenzie and his influence on Chopper.
Historical Books as the question says this would be things such as the Apocalypse War, Necropolis, Zombie War, etc from Dredd, or those epic campaigns that go on for years in the Slaine stories.
The rest really speak for themselves I guess.
Hope that this helps explain the poll.
Marc