What RPGs are in the works right now?

[Rob Lang]

Excellent tip, thanks Corone! I'll add it onto things to mention in a future blog post.

[Evil Scientist]

Um, I'm working on an alternate history alien invasion RPG, set in a fictional Eastern European country, in 1887... It's gonna include all the things that get me going: conspiracy theories, secret societies, inverted clichés, Greys and gaslights. So basically it's Illuminati! meets Doctor Who meets War of the Worlds meets X-Files meets Eastern Europe. Right now I'm in the brainstorming phase. So it's not even "raw material" yet..

Do you guys know of anything similar? RPGs, novels...

[Rob Lang]

Victoriana (written by our very own Corone and published by Cublicle 7) is in the same era but is much less specific. I think what will provide you with plenty of novelty is 'meets Eastern Europe' because I think most of the planet is ignorant of what went on in Eastern Europe at that time. It should give your game a distinct and welcome flavour.

What stage are you at? Got anything written? Any system chosen?

[Evil Scientist]

[Rob Lang]

I think clichés will work really well here rather than being historically or geographically accurate. You can take the most interesting features from each of the different countries.

As for aliens, I think the aliens-being-nasty has been done to death. Perhaps, instead, they rather like the human race but just despair at its faults.

[Evil Scientist]

Or I can go for the "holy jeebus, these alien folks are actually super-nice when compared to us humans" effect..

Right now I'm going for the peaceful co-existance of the two races - the aliens are permitted to mine on the country's territory (in exchange for certain technologies maybe? Nah, that'd be an American scenario. The aliens bribing a limited number of city council members sounds more like 19th century Eastern Europe...). This is what goes on on the surface (pun not intended). Whether the aliens have a hidden agenda or not I'm purposefully leaving to the imagination of the players; I want to implent a few groups/secret societies, who all have different opinions. Truth, after all, is not unique. Everyone has their own take.

Edit: by the way, the working name for the country is Boleslavia so far.

[Rob Lang]

Boleslavia is a great name and keeping the connection with the aliens vague is good too. Absolutes can hurt a setting. Perhaps the aliens could be mining something we don't need. A certain type of rock we have loads of, like marble or limestone.

[Evil Scientist]

You can read the first half of the "Setting" chapter here
It's not too much (not that I plan it to be more than approx. 20 pages). I'll be adding updates now or then.

[Rob Lang]

Cool, can I suggest you start a new thread in the Roleplaying Games forum so we can have a proper chat about it!

[kumakami]

after playing "Metriod: other M" on the wii I'm thinking I would like to do sci fi. Heavy on the power armor and intrege (only spelled right)