06-29-2015, 11:30 AM
(06-29-2015, 08:42 AM)Surge Wrote:(06-29-2015, 08:40 AM)Gonzogonz Wrote: i'm planning to make a sci-fi DnD setting sometime, dunno if it'll be as applicable to a text-based RP as this though.
the problem with a sci-fi setting is that it's often very VERY big. meaning that someone will need to write literally 50 times the exposition and stuff for the setting. unless everyone is fine by running around on the same planet, in the same general area. which in a sci-fi setting with spaceships and such is frankly a bit tame.
Sci-fi is just on such a bigger scale than all the other stuff. else i would probably have done that instead.
It might be best to draw from a pool of writers and concepts for a sci-fi rather than do it all yourself.
yeah yeah, of course. 85% of all i make is a mishmash of different things. this would undoubtedly be any different. and it would strongly build on the dungeon world ruleset to the point it's almost just a re-skin with reworked classes.
but making a sci-fi setting as opposed to a fantasy/medival setting just takes so much more time, even if you make it in a pre-existing universe, maybe even more so for the work and researched required to know about said pre-existing setting.