17 - Past, Present, or Future? When is your favourite game set?
It didn’t take long for me to gravitate towards modern-ish games, starting with superheroes.
I haven’t run a traditional medieval-style game in a long time, and it’s been a while since anything futuristic either. Occasional Star Wars.
I’d go for a 20s-30s pulp Adventure! game with player interest, or “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”...
But the Vampire family of games and Buffy both juxtapose the supernatural with a world that looks a lot like ours, and adding a different setting era can take away from that, as well as preventing Buffy’s mangling of pop culture references and the like.
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| My favourite picture from d20 Modern, by Ryan Sook. See resulting Buffy adventure hook. |
And for variety, I have another blog for a setting where the answer would be “Yes”.
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