Apparently, Marvel is looking to add a few characters to their 2099 universe in celebration of 80 years. Conan has been chosen along with a few other characters, such as The Punisher and the Fantastic Four to be full-fledged 2099 one-shots. We will then see the universe show up among regular titles as well. However, we are here to talk about the Cimmerian.
Upon seeing it I chuckled and thought of all the people who would lose their minds as Marvel completed a whole new twist on the character. That is not what this blog post is about. It is about my second thought, "I want to play this!", this would be a super fun setting for an RPG game! First I have no clue about Marvel 2099, so we will just drop that as the rosetta stone of the setting. Instead, we will use our own ideas and inspirations from my own head as well as ideas liberally inspired by other settings.
I thought it might be fun to do a series of blog posts on building this setting and the reasons for choices I might make. To start the series I figured it would be good to introduce the idea in this post and outline some questions and ideas I will fill in as I continue with the series, eventually arriving at a rule system and any other material I might need to play the system, such as setting descriptions, main antagonists, gear and equipment, etc.
Let's start with a list of ideas from the covers of the book.
- High tech
- Not post apocalyptic
- Laser sword
- flying cars
- high tech armor or cybernetics?
Some other ideas we need to incorporate.
- Barbarism vs Civilization
- Magic/sorcery
- Short tales
- Earth
- Why swords? Do we still use guns?
Finally where can we take some ideas from, I have brainstormed these settings and ideas myself or from online input from others.
- Thundarr
- He-man
- John Carter
- Bladerunner
- Shadowrun
- Starwars
- 2099
As I go forward with this I realize I need a system to enact this idea.
- ICRPG
- Genesys
- Modern Age
- Savage Worlds
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This comic... looks... awesome!
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, that would be fun to play.
Worth noting that it's not the first time Marvel has had Conan traveling through time. Most of those were in What If? and set in the 20th Century, but I think there were a couple in main continuity too.
Going to keep my eye out for this comic. Too fun.