Heck, just looking at Wikipedia's broad outline of Cold War events in the 80's gives me a million ideas for the campaign. I have to make some big decisions. Is George H. W. Bush going to be the President in my game? I am also very much considering running both US and USSR groups of players through the same campaign. I have been wanting to finally jump into Google+ gaming and this will be the perfect excuse. I am envisioning the two parties as ultimately becoming bitter rivals in the race to unlock the secrets of the Martian megadungeons. I will track time for both parties so that I can tell who gets where first.
Showing posts with label space race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space race. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Alternate History Space Race
Sometimes being a DM in the age of the internet feels like cheating. I'm rolling the dang d30 every time behind the screen and no one notices because everyone is doing it. I posted a while back about how the internet is a megadungeon. My new Mars 1990 campaign idea has led me down a tunnel into some interesting caverns lately, like this amazing series of posts at alternatehistory.com which will give me some good starting points for my alternate history space race. A real life space historian runs a simulation game with five Russians and five Americans players modeling national civilian and military space programs; they have gotten through 1973. I am certainly not going to go to that level of detail but I do want to do a little reading up on the subject.
Heck, just looking at Wikipedia's broad outline of Cold War events in the 80's gives me a million ideas for the campaign. I have to make some big decisions. Is George H. W. Bush going to be the President in my game? I am also very much considering running both US and USSR groups of players through the same campaign. I have been wanting to finally jump into Google+ gaming and this will be the perfect excuse. I am envisioning the two parties as ultimately becoming bitter rivals in the race to unlock the secrets of the Martian megadungeons. I will track time for both parties so that I can tell who gets where first.
Heck, just looking at Wikipedia's broad outline of Cold War events in the 80's gives me a million ideas for the campaign. I have to make some big decisions. Is George H. W. Bush going to be the President in my game? I am also very much considering running both US and USSR groups of players through the same campaign. I have been wanting to finally jump into Google+ gaming and this will be the perfect excuse. I am envisioning the two parties as ultimately becoming bitter rivals in the race to unlock the secrets of the Martian megadungeons. I will track time for both parties so that I can tell who gets where first.
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