 Would a change do you good?, Changing "canon" within a RP game |
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 Oct 19 2003, 08:49 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 16-October 03 Member No.: 5,724  |
I was reading "Battle Angel Alita" the other day, and it occured to me that the general setting of that world would make an excellent alternate reality for SRun.
Imagine an endless urban sprawl/junkyard with a large number of medium to heavily cybered characters. Meanwhile, the true elite float above in a mysterious unreachable city, occasionally dumping their trash and exiles into the city below. The nice thing about it is that it's a little more vague and open-ended than the Srun world. You could drop hints about where the metahumans came from, but no one knows for sure. Big O would be another good source for an alternate Shadowrun game. A world of domed cities where no-one can remember anything earlier than 10 years ago, but the forgotten past is catching up with them... |
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Oct 19 2003, 09:33 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,012 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
"You can kill me, but don't touch this box! It contains the most precious substance in the universe!"
"...I bet it's flan." "Now, don't let us be tasty... er... hasty! No, not flan, not at all!" Battle Angel rocks. ~J |
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Oct 19 2003, 10:13 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,759 Joined: 11-December 02 From: France Member No.: 3,723 |
It varies a lot. There have been OECD numbers saying so [link] (there's a blurb below about how the ranking changed as data were revised). The CIA World Factbook ranking based on 2002 GDP estimation is instersting because of the entrance of China and India near the top (beware, because of the way their files are made, they rank as first "the World" as a whole). It doesn't introduce California but with the US GDP and the information that California accounted for 13% of it (source: Forbes), it would give a GDP of 1.352 trillions. Ninth rank near Russia (dot come crash and weak dollar I guess). But then the CIA estimation slightly differs from the one from the OECD. OECD doesn't include all countries, but in our case the point is that it gives Italy GDP lower by 250 millions $ to CIA estimation, and thus below California.
As a result of what I put above, no. Japan GDP is about three times bigger. On the population side there are 'only' 35 millions Californians for 127 millions Japanese, so the GDP per capita is a lot higher in California (intepreting the demographical-economical correlation is another whole can of worms). And while I'm here, 35 millions inhabitants put California around the thirtiest more populated countries in the world in the world factbook ou of 237 (hey, it's still better than Canada !). |
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Oct 20 2003, 07:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 197 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,542 |
Nah, Cent. I didn't think you were coming at me in a negative way. In fact I sort of feel the same way you do about playing SR. (I have nothing against the whole neo-punk rock ganger thing, but most of my characters are professional ex-military, corp sec, or government intelligence).
And as to the balkinization statement, no that wasn't directed towards you. Basically I was just making an arguement for the justification of having mega corps. "Hey you're not my friend." :talker: "me-me-me-me-me... me-me-me-me-me-me" G.I. Joe! |
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Oct 20 2003, 08:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 113 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 460 |
Has anyone changed the timeline completely?
For instance I am currently re-writing the timeline so that the awakening will occur with the 2061 passing of Hailey's Comet. The current game year according to my timeline will instead be 2061, a full 100 years after the awakening. Elves will have had time to show off their longevity, same with Dwarves. More time for the Balkenizations to occur as well as having some massive diseases and other disasters sucking the population's intellectia into oblivion thus retarding the growth of technology. Obviously it's still a large work in progress, but it's sorta fun in and of itself to play god with Earth completely, rewriting canon. |
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