User talk:BenofZongo
--Matts 09:49, 23 October 2007 (MST)Cleaned out old discussion. I really like the high-seas idea, though I'm never sold on "high" fantasy (says the guy with the pillar thing). But boats are awesome. I'm a fan of swashing buckles in general, and cannon are also neat!
--Dieter the Bold 13:22, 24 October 2007 (MST) I always love me some high fantasy as well as the high-seas. But I'm starting to sour on the "small fish w/ super-awesome advantage in huge bowl" theme. In your currently imagined setting, I wouldn't mind playing a regular coastal vessel in vicious competition with larger merchant costers for nothing more exotic than regular cargo (and obviously smuggling). We don't need to be the one exception to a rule, pitting us against vast and unimaginable powers. We could be regular, yet awesome, Joes trying to turn a buck against mercantile monopolies. We have to watch out for sabotage and harassment, hustle people to get them to ship through us, scour the ports for jobs, contacts and materials, etc., etc. I could see a totally awesome game being run just trying to survive as a regular merchanting vessel. Of course, maybe this is just because I see shades of Gemini in the general set-up, but I'm wondering what it would be like to have a strictly mid-power level focus for the group. We're not absolute beginners who must fear pwnage at every encounter, but we don't have the resources or abilities (besides our own intelligence and imagination) to plot the take-over of entire cities and empires. Still, loves me some high fantasy and seas. So, Yahhhrrrr!!!
BEN: that game idea was posted pre-gemini, so it was essentially "gemini in fantasy". I haven't edited it or thrown it out because I just want to keep the idea written down somewhere, but given that we are a.) playing fantasy and b.) the gemini setup clearly is not well suited for our group, I don't anticipate that running this game would be a good idea any time soon. The last three ideas are the main ones I'm tossing around as "near- to not-so-near-but-not-far-either" future games.
--Edmiao 15:58, 24 October 2007 (MST) is this wiki-activity all kind of daydreaming, or are you getting the itch? and relatedly, what's going on with Exemplars? maybe i should post that on the main page
