War of the Worlds, RPG in development.

[Marcus]

Hi everyone, hmmm long time reader, but I only just bothered to sign up. Sorry.

Okay... heres how it is. I, myself, am fairly high up on an Online RPG site... located here:

www.cdoe-rpg.com

BTW, your all invited to check that site out. Now, as you can see, so far, all the System, both Core Rules and Fantasy, are based in a Setting that unqiue too the site. We also have a completly original Sci-Fi System coming out.

But, we are hoping to draw in more players by creating new Suppliments, for example, an RPG game of Anne Rice, Star Wars, Buffy, Dracula. Things like that. The Site Owner and System designer will be working on some of these, while I will be working on some also. One of the ones I plan to make, is, The War of the Worlds.


Now, Im doing this, obviously, because Im a great fan of the book, music, and even the film. So, I was just wondering how you would all like to see this happen... fan opinions, ideas and sudgestions. If you want to look over the Core Rules, which is linked on the main page of that site, then you can get an idea for the depth of the rules, which, is unmatched.

Now, yes, it will be Chatroom based, and I just want to say that it isnt smut. I get that most of these places, rightly so in some cases, are concieved this way, but our website is a dedicated RPG Site.


My initial ideas are to have only Humans and Martians, and to have the original invasion having succeded... meaning mankind is now fighting for survival, and like the Artillery Man sudgested living underground, except in condition far worse than he dreamt up. So... yes, please give me your ideas and thoughts. And any questions, also. I want to know what fans of the book would like to see from this, Id also like ideas on how to appeal to non-fans. Most of it I already have down, but, its always nice to hear other thoughts, ya know?

Oh... and... of course, Story wise, ideas would be nice, I wanted events to have developed since the War, and say, mankind having captured a fighting machines and having studied Martian technology and having adapted to its own, give them a fighting chance, to balance the system.


Thankyou all so much, and also, Im glad to be part of the MB. -S-.

Again, on a random side note, I was thinking of using Peter Fussey's design for the Tripod, Handling Machine, etc, and was wondering if anyone could let me know how to contact him on this. The system is free, and will always be, free to play and all, so, I cant see why copyright would be an issue, but its nice to check. Thankyou. -S-.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]I'd consider having humanity starting to split into the Morlocks (well they are living underground now) and eloi (Martians breed 'em that way).

For human uses of Martian tech see the excellent Gaphic Novel Scarlet Traces.[/glow]

[Marcus]

I ordered that last week from my local store, cant wait to get it.

And I was thinking of that, somehow including ALL of H. G. Wells' ideas...

I was thinking more of hinting at it, or even having each country develope differently, as the Martians came later, they didnt have the same idea to go underground or whatever.


I want to order The Crystal Egg aswell, do you know if this is actually available in novel form?

[kurt]

hey, that sounds like a brilliant idea!
i agree you could have humans split in to opposing sides too, maybe the artilery mans people could be a bad kinda facist group.
maybe have a few martian rebels too? (kinda like "v' )
welcome to the board by the way, im pretty new too there are some realy nice and interesting people on here

[Marcus]

Thankyou.

And yes, I was thinking of having some Martians that dont agree with the Invasion, because, realistically there would be some that rebel. Would also add alot of new dynamics to the game itself, and put on more human face on the invaders, really give them the feeling that they just wanted to survive.

[uselessinfo]

Hey, Marcus.

The idea of a RPG based on Well's best novels is genious! I have a couple ideas of my own.

To represent the book The Invisible Man, include some invisible soldiers.

To represent the book The Time Machine, you could have "TimeTanks" that shoots out a beam of energy that accellerates the age of your enemy.

And, of course, include Fighting Machines, Flying Machines, & the Red Weed to represent the War of the Worlds.

[uselessinfo]

Another idea!

To back up "The Time Machine", have the game take place in different time periods. It would be AWESOME to fight Martians & Dinosaurs in the same batlle!