On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Michael Hopcroft wrote: MH>* Domain actually comes across as quite a good RPG setting. Even MH>herbivores who live in the city run the risk of being eaten by MH>carnivores, both civilized and "wild". There is also political and MH>corporate intrigue to deal with, people like rabbit's revenge who are MH>trying to reshape the world to match their own agendas, and let's not MH>forget the GBC (which, though they have retired, are still a force to be MH>reckoned with). That's where I think it'd get weird. Sentients eating sentients is a little odd in a comic strip, but I think it could get downright strange in an RPG. MH>* Player-characters might find themselves dealing with the lethal office MH>politics at HerdThinners Inc., facing all sorts of problems associated MH>with daily life in a world in which predation is big business, or facing MH>Domain's unique versions of cyber crime. Or they could just find MH>themselves dealing with many of the same things the characters in the MH>comic do -- relationship issues, identity crises (Lindesfarne is going MH>through a doozy of an identity crisis in the strip at this particular MH>moment) or the demands of growing up. Let em pout it this way -- in two MH>years of reading the strip, mr. Holbrook constantly comes up with new MH>ways to surprise me. That's the other problem I'd have: there is such a densely interwoven mesh of plotlines tying together there that I'd expect it to suffer greatly from continuity issues... I'd expect the strip to be continuously overwriting a decision I'd made as GM. It's a problem anytime you're licensing a work whose canon is still being added to, but K&K seems a particularly susceptible case. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
