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[Haspen]

I kinda wanna make "alternate 1940" Era of Diesel* game with 14 players (Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Germany, UK, France, USSR).

Can we get 14 reliable players on this site tho :vc

[AoshimaMichio]

Has there been any games featuring necromancy in modern times?

[Tyrant Leviathan]

I kinda wanna make "alternate 1940" Era of Diesel* game with 14 players (Greece, Yugoslavia, Romania, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Germany, UK, France, USSR).

Can we get 14 reliable players on this site tho :vc

Call USSR or Germany

[Haspen]

Call USSR or Germany

Don't call for a game that probably won't go up

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Has there been any games featuring necromancy in modern times?

Not that I know of, but the concept is highly interesting. Do we speak 20th century modern times or modern-modern times, as in the 2000s??

Skeletons with iPods?

[AoshimaMichio]

Modern-modern times.

What would a necromancer do today? Youtube pranks involving zombies? Corporate espionage employing spirits and ghosts? I started wondering about that after reading some grimoires. As you said, it is intriguing concept.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Modern-modern times.

What would a necromancer do today? Youtube pranks involving zombies? Corporate espionage employing spirits and ghosts? I started wondering about that after reading some grimoires. As you said, it is intriguing concept.

I have a feeling it'd be essentially Resident Evil.

[10ebbor10]

Modern-modern times.

What would a necromancer do today? Youtube pranks involving zombies? Corporate espionage employing spirits and ghosts? I started wondering about that after reading some grimoires. As you said, it is intriguing concept.

Sweeyshop labor, most likely.

Zombies are cheaper than robots.

[flabort]

Definitely dumb labor.

Workers in oil fields, workers on construction sites, sweatshop workers, soldiers in battles over oil, miners digging for precious rocks, workers refining oil into petrol and tarmac and lubricants, workers on offshore oil platforms...

[milo christiansen]

Like the "recycled labor" in unsounded?

[flabort]

Like the "recycled labor" in unsounded?

Precisely so. Except more geared to the oil industry.

That reminds me, I haven't read that for a couple months.

[Haspen]

The Unfamiliar Year of 1940!!

Just throwing it out here so Tyrant Leviathan can call dibs on Germans

[OceanSoul]

There's several directions to go with modern Necromancy. Is its existence known by the non-magical public, and to what degree? Is it legal, or illegal? What does it take to become a Necromancer? Does one need to be born with talent for necromancy to use it, or can most anyone learn it? Is it taught in schools and universities, or is it more of a hobby? Do other forms of magic exist, and if so, what are they? How do widespread religions handle the topic of Necromancy? Is there some sort of racism against/for necromancers? How long has necromancy been around? Is it some ancient art that has reached its limits, or are there still necromantic innovators crafting new spells, making more efficient zombie structures, and/or connecting the arts with modern technology? Does it affect the way the living treats or buries the simply dead? Is there any demand for necromancers in the workplace? Is Necromancy a dying art, or is it in the middle of a renaissance? How does necromancy work? How is necromancy seen from a moral perspective? IS there any demand for artificial skeletons or zombies? How about organic undead servants? is undeath a worse fate that death?

Are there different varieties of necromancer? Are certain objects needed to perform Necromancy? Does it have any affect or cost on the body? Are liches possible? How do necromancers get stronger? Are there zombies with free will? Do necromancers have any particular goals or dreams in mind? Do governments use necromancy? Can necromancy revive an undead soul within an inanimate object? Is necromancy limited to manipulating the dead, or can it also directly cause death to the living? Can necromancers only create zombies, or are skeletons and ghost available, too? Does the Grim Reaper, or other Death-incarnate deity, exist, and if so, what does he think about necromancy? Is necromancy expensive or cheap? Are some souls or bodies innately more useful, powerful, or otherwise special than others?

[AoshimaMichio]

Several? That's 32 very good questions.

Back to my original question, the answer appears to be "No, there hasn't been any games featuring necromancy in modern times".

[milo christiansen]

Answer all those questions and you are well on your way to a consistent, interesting setting.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Ideas in head.


Sovereign: PVP thing set in space. There is no tech tree, but lots of options. Three to nine players. Plot is that I n future humanity rules this solar system. Sovereign is king/queen of it. Whoever holds title of sovereign the law test after turn counter is over, wins. Problem? Sovereign is not a moron and got to deal with the other players who want the same thing.


Company Commander:  A SG story game in which you command a gigantic drop ship worth of soldiers and gear. Explore space and fight in funded warfare.




Space Ship: Another SG. Here you manage a space ship. Big difference is get to decide background of ship, crew, and their over all mission  statement.