Shireling
A Servant of King and Country
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I had the idea of an RP set in a fictional 19th Century where basically all of Jules Verne's characters exist. So Captain Nemo is running around in the <em>Nautilus</em> being pissy about the Brits being in India. Robur is buzzing around here there and everywhere in his flying contraption. Professor Lidenbock is about to take his second voyage to the center of the Earth. Barbicane and the Baltimore Gun Club are building a bigger Columbiad to launch themselves to Mars. Phileas Fogg is globetrotting as a British diplomat with Passepartout close on his heels. Dr. Moreau is still creating his hybrid beasts. That sort of craziness. The setting has multiple ways it could be played out. It could be a nation-builder, with players assuming the roles of Imperial powers forced to deal with rapidly advancing technological discoveries. OR I was also thinking it could be a character RP focusing on a gaggle of reporters going from one ecentric genius to another to get the scoop for their newspapers. And various other ways the settings could be come manifest. What I want to know is: 1. Are there too many or not enough fictional characters shaping the world? Should I dial back and just use say Nemo and Lidenbock and everything else is straight historical, or should I take a <em>League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</em> approach and add in characters from other science fiction writers of the day, like the Inventor from the <em>Time Machine</em>, the Invisible Man, Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Professor Challenger from Doyle's <em>The Lost World</em>, Dr. Cavor from <em>The First Men in the Moon</em>, and fictionalized versions of real-world characters from the era like Florence Nightingale, Theodore Roosevelt, and John Wilkes Booth? 2. Tips on how I should cobble the characters together to form a single, unified, canonical world. 3. What the best approach would be to how the setting should be used, as a nation-builder or a character RP?
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I had the idea of an RP set in a fictional 19th Century where basically all of Jules Verne's characters exist. So Captain Nemo is running around in the <em>Nautilus</em> being pissy about the Brits being in India. Robur is buzzing around here there and everywhere in his flying contraption. Professor Lidenbock is about to take his second voyage to the center of the Earth. Barbicane and the Baltimore Gun Club are building a bigger Columbiad to launch themselves to Mars. Phileas Fogg is globetrotting as a British diplomat with Passepartout close on his heels. Dr. Moreau is still creating his hybrid beasts. That sort of craziness. The setting has multiple ways it could be played out. It could be a nation-builder, with players assuming the roles of Imperial powers forced to deal with rapidly advancing technological discoveries. OR I was also thinking it could be a character RP focusing on a gaggle of reporters going from one ecentric genius to another to get the scoop for their newspapers. And various other ways the settings could be come manifest. What I want to know is: 1. Are there too many or not enough fictional characters shaping the world? Should I dial back and just use say Nemo and Lidenbock and everything else is straight historical, or should I take a <em>League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</em> approach and add in characters from other science fiction writers of the day, like the Inventor from the <em>Time Machine</em>, the Invisible Man, Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Professor Challenger from Doyle's <em>The Lost World</em>, Dr. Cavor from <em>The First Men in the Moon</em>, and fictionalized versions of real-world characters from the era like Florence Nightingale, Theodore Roosevelt, and John Wilkes Booth? 2. Tips on how I should cobble the characters together to form a single, unified, canonical world. 3. What the best approach would be to how the setting should be used, as a nation-builder or a character RP?
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