[UA] [OT] Godlike

[James McGraw]

Liam, I've just realised it was your friend who wa
freaked by the game, not you. Hope what I said doesn't
come across as being too patronising.

--- James McGraw <jamesthecatforever at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > What freaked my friend (the potential GM) out was
> > the odd placement of 
> > the genre and mechanics of the game. Most guns,
> for
> > example, have 
> > roughly the same stats. And yet this is supposed
> to
> > be a "realistic" 
> > world war two game (or at least ww2 with super
> > powers). 
> 
> I think this is a case of differing definitions of
> realism. Godlike is a realistic WWII setting so far
> as
> the likelihood of death, the details of the setting
> and the greyness of the morality are concerned. It's
> not so realistic in the sense of simulating physical
> reality. Maybe in real life your PC, having cleared
> that wall, would be too tired to swim across the
> lake
> and warn the Resistance leader that the Gestapo are
> on
> their way. Maybe he wouldn't. The system doesn't
> sweat
> too much over modelling the physics behind these
> things, it just draws a fairly abitrary line in the
> sand between "possible" and "impossible" and,
> providing this doesn't fly too much in the face of
> common sense, lets it stand. Guns are a case in
> point-
> unless your character is a real gun nut*, he's not
> going to care what model of gun he was shot by, he's
> going to care whether he's still alive.
> 
> As for Godlike, I think it's a great game. My main
> objection is that there's loads of cool stuff in the
> setting (mainly the reaction of society to Talents'
> existence) that the default "you're all on a mission
> to bust some Nazi ass" missions don't cover. But
> that's a criticism that is limited to a single
> chapter
> of the book, and probably has more to do with my
> unwillingness, as an obdurate Brit, to accept a
> set-up
> that goes out of its way to make you play an
> American
> :)
> 
> Poorly-focussed rant over.
> 
> *Would a WWII setting feature a greater or smaller
> frequency of gun nuts than a typical modern-day USA
> setting? Discuss.
> 
> =====
> james the cat
> 
> The best lack all convictions, while the worst
> Are full of passionate intensity.
>                    -W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
> 
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james the cat

The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
                   -W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming

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