Continuum continued - Firefly and a VERY interesting idea

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The Firefly game was fun - won't say much about it because the guy who ran it is using it as his main demo game at cons, but I will say that Heroquest seems to work pretty well as a system for this setting, and that running into the Blue Sun corporation can be a little worrying...

The "State of the Rowland" thing went well. Didn't have a huge audience but one excellent suggestion was made for Forgotten Futures; as of a month or so ago G.K. Chesterton is out of copyright, and there would appear to be no reason why I can't use his work. Some of his fiction is borderline fantasy and SF, and I think that his style would work pretty well. I also know at least one expert on him, Dave Langford.

As a first thought the books I would want to base things on would be:

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Club of Queer Trades
The Man who was Thursday

Not the Father Brown stories, I think. Any other suggestions?

I'm running At The Mountains of Flatness at ten - I asked for six players and have nine sign-ups, fortunately I brought loads of character sheets. Just hope my brain is up to that many players.

More later.

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[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

This might interest you in a weird, crossover way.

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I'm usung a mac at the con, it doesn't seem to be a supported video format - I'll check it out on the PC tomorrow.

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Lovely - many thanks!

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

The Flying Inn and Tales From The Long Bow are also possible sources. Would you be thinking of distilling a sort of Chesterverse from the common characteristics of all these, or just picking a milieu and running with it?

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Dave Langford has also recommended both of those - if I can get hold of a copy The Flying Inn is certainly a possibility, it's many years since I've read it but I still remember it. And The Long Bow is definitely in.

Not sure how the setting will work yet, I'm going to have to reread the books first.