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Aug. 27th, 2008 06:25 amStolen from
merb101: Over at Story-Games.com
, a person posted the question, "If your mom wrote a role-playing game, what would it be like?" It is a funny, clever and interesting question. My response was:
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I got a lot of my love of reading from my mother, although our interests vary widely. She reads, a lot, but her topic matters tend to the modern historical (especially anything from expansionist america to present day) and mundane (and I mean that to differentiate from supernatural, not to mean boring.) Mine, on the other hand, veer towards the supernatural and either ancient/medieval historical or very modern/futuristic.
Oh, and she loves harlequin romances.
I can see my mom creating a game where you played folks travelling across the country with their families in a covered wagon. Dealing with disease and famine and indian raids. Environmental challenges like raging rivers, staggering mountain ranges and harsh weather.
Preferably while you were finding, fighting with and eventually falling in love with a handsome cowboy/scout or beautiful indian maiden along the way.
It would be called something like "Harlequin Trail..."
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*Grins* - How 'bout it, Mom? Up for some game design? Or am I way off?
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I got a lot of my love of reading from my mother, although our interests vary widely. She reads, a lot, but her topic matters tend to the modern historical (especially anything from expansionist america to present day) and mundane (and I mean that to differentiate from supernatural, not to mean boring.) Mine, on the other hand, veer towards the supernatural and either ancient/medieval historical or very modern/futuristic.
Oh, and she loves harlequin romances.
I can see my mom creating a game where you played folks travelling across the country with their families in a covered wagon. Dealing with disease and famine and indian raids. Environmental challenges like raging rivers, staggering mountain ranges and harsh weather.
Preferably while you were finding, fighting with and eventually falling in love with a handsome cowboy/scout or beautiful indian maiden along the way.
It would be called something like "Harlequin Trail..."
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*Grins* - How 'bout it, Mom? Up for some game design? Or am I way off?