Channeling Terry

[subplotkudzu]

Over dinner Rachel and I were discussing possible scenarios for a Diskworld based game on the next prospectus. It's not likely to happen, as too few of the play group have read the series and one really needs exposure to pure Pratchett to "get it". Still, it's fun to speculate.

I'm a big fan of the books that include some aspect of Ankh-Morpork's cultural and technological revolution (The Truth, Going Postal, any of the Watch books, etc.) so I'd likely try to emulate one of those. The ideas that we felt had legs were introducing Mass Transit (some elevated rail lines running across the city - likely cars on ropes pulled by horses on treadmills on either end - and perhaps some tunnel lines under the city), Continental Transit (developing an actual rail line or the equivalent from Ankh Morpork to Genua) or an ER styled game in the city's new hospital. Any or all of these might work as a storytelling vehicle, even if they defy the usual concept of "adventure gaming".

Does anyone have other suggestions?

Comments

[brianrogers.livejournal.com]

With, one hopes, hilarious results.

I remember seeing this on your prospectus but I didn't think it had been voted in. I'll be interested to hear how it goes. Still, I'd much rather splash around Ankh Morpork than Lancre if I ever dip my toe in these waters.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

I can see that. But in some ways I'm a miniaturist; I enjoy running games in toy settings that provide miniature models of larger social milieux. Manse, for example, has an entire social hierarchy, with seven officially recognized classes, in a community of about 1500 people.