While reading I came upon page called Corpathium, an idea for setting generation using handful of funny shaped dice. All based on a book called Viriconium by M. John Harrison. After a quick search I immediately decided to get one myself, it hit tome with multiple themes I enjoyed. And that slowly spiralled out of control
More and more appendix N themed literature was acquired.
Dying Earth by Jack Vance
Collected Fantasies by Clark Ashton Smith.
Meanwhile I still kept digging thru OSR clones deeper and deeper. And one starts inadvertently mixing things together.Why isn`t there a Dying Earth genre retro clone ( there might be, I just haven`t seen any). Well there was Numenera, I like the setting, not fan of system and writing, but it did its damage.
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| How it all starts |
Other noteworthy thing is one of local buddies started organising Eclipse Phase game, so as one should you slowly start researching into that. Spend way to much time in Orion's Arm transhuman wiki hellhole (warning exposure might lead to a chance of going down the rabbit hole). But I started having thoughts like, Dying Earth is kinda old now, and science has advanced in rapid pace, think of all the cool shit that we know! What would it look like if it was written now? Internet. Advent of cybernetics. Nanotechnologies. 3d printing ( i recently learned people are having ideas about 4d printing already) Space elevators. Mega scale engineering. Stellar engineering. There are people out there thinking about moving stars!
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| How it ends? Snorting pixie dust of a unicorn. Thats how! |
Ive been sitting on this for a while, but like some sick wizard spells its staring to burn a hole in my brain. I kinda want to put this down somewhere and maybe organise everything along the way in something more usable then bunch of random ideas.
So mission! Make a science / science-fantasy inspired setting dressed up in fantasy clothing I would want to play myself. And hope no one can tell I am making shit up as I go most of the time.
P.S You should really read Viriconium if you have not before.
