-----Original Message-----
From: Karen J. Cravens [mailto:silver@phoenyx.net] 
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:46 AM
To: gamers@phoenyx.net
Subject: Re: GM: Kevin & Kell roleplaying game


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.

* As long as they're not PCs, it's no stranger than slaying orcs.
Predators gotta eat....

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.

* Personally I'm not too worried about that. GMs can adapt if they feel
they have to, but essentially they'll be running their own versions of
Domain. And if the campaign uses entirely original characters it becomes
less of a problem. They can read about the latest exploits of the
Dewclaws 9art least the more newsworthy ones0 in the newspapers.



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