Are you suggesting my good Mr. Baggins of Bagshot Row, Hobbiton is not a god among burglars?
Are you suggesting my good Mr. Baggins of Bagshot Row, Hobbiton is not a god among burglars?
Is that not what the post office is for? Were pony express riders stopping at every individual farm and cabin?
Come on, this isn’t real. Sound out that name ‘Mike Oxmall’. Even Moe Sizlak might not fall for this one.
Doesn’t work for me either, despite having ‘show read posts’ disabled.
In my scifi campaign based on Star Control II, all genetic engineering was illegal (one of the primary antagonist groups is a race of blade runner style artificial humans). So of course two of my players teamed up to be an outlaw geneticist and his awakened capuchin monkey. They played it 100% unironically and it resulted in some of the best role-playing it has been my privilege to DM for.
There is a shocking lack of Star Control 2 in here. Easily the best game I have ever played, period. It frequently gets name dropped in lists of game developers’ favorite games of all time. Later space epics like Mass Effect stood on Star Control 2’s shoulders to reach the heights they did.
Good news! The devs released it to the open source community under the name The Ur-Quan Masters. You can play it now for free! And they’re developing a sequel as we speak over at Pistol Shrimp Games
A good DM is both of these. They want you to feel that the danger is real, because higher stakes means the narrative payoff feels earned. They want you to feel like the world is wonderous, so that it feels like a thing worth fighting for.