Vapourware Josh Sawyer wants to make a historical RPG

[Morality Games]

i think they'd honestly be way better off without this sawyer clown, i don't think he's actually ever made a good game besides fnv

The way you say that you make it sound like good games are common.

 

[Roguey]

To have the game be Millennials LARPing around with today's mores, or a twisted over the top wink, wink, nudge, nudge version of it ala WH40k will make the game unbearable.

Josh is Gen X.

 

[Sannom]

A big thing about Darklands is how straight its played with no chance to think of witches as the servants of the devil are presented as such.

What?

 

[Beastro]

A big thing about Darklands is how straight its played with no chance to think of witches as the servants of the devil are presented as such.

What?

Missed patch there: "as anything but".

 

[Sannom]

That helps, but that still doesn't explain "are presented as such".

 

[taxalot]

"I am working on an historical RPG. Here is how magic will work."

Fuck you.

 

[DraQ]

Sawyer cannot make a historical RPG because historically it's been possible to break down doors.

 

[Infinitron]

"I am working on an historical RPG. Here is how magic will work."

Fuck you.

Uh, Darklands?

 

[undecaf]

Would be nice if Josh changed the record for at least one game. I can't be arsed about yet another "medieval with magics" type of game, or, really anything with magic; "historical" setting or not.

 

[taxalot]

"I am working on an historical RPG. Here is how magic will work."

Fuck you.

Uh, Darklands?

A game that had magic and supernatural elements, which is clearly therefore not that much historical.

 

[Roguey]

Mythology (particularly that associated with religion) is historical.

 

[hivemind]

the only game that does a more realistic showing of medieval Europe than Darklands is probably going to be only Kingdom Come

 

[LESS T_T]

Brian Heins on historical RPG setting: http://www.pcgamesn.com/tyranny/tyranny-historical-rpg

Tyranny, Obsidian's RPG that casts you as an evil doer, is coming this year, but you might already be wondering what could possibly come next from the talented studio. One possibility is an RPG set during our own history, albeit with a sprinkling of the fantastical.

During a recent interview, Obsidian's design director Josh Sawyer revealed his ambition to create a historical RPG, telling RPG Watch, "I need to devote my attention to the project I’m currently directing, but it is my intention that the next project I direct (after this one) will be a historical RPG. It’s something I’ve been talking to Feargus every once in a while for the past couple of years and he’s been supportive.

"I don’t consider PoE to be a historical RPG in any way. When I say “historical RPG” I mean something set in Earth’s history - inclusive with fantastic variations, like Darklands and Ars Magica."

We spoke to game director Brian Heins at E3 and he mirrored Sawyer's wishes. "One of [Josh Sawyer's] passions is [a historical] RPG," Heins says.

"[I like] the idea of setting something in an actual historical period on Earth, then adding some elements of fantasy - whether it's magic or things like that - and see how that would shape the experience. Personally I would love to see like a Dark Ages historical events and then you're a wizard in the middle of that."

He sure loves magic, huh?

 

[Infinitron]

telling RPG Watch

It's a newspost about a Tumblr question you retards

 

[LESS T_T]

Cool beans.

 

[Darth Roxor]

"I am working on an historical RPG. Here is how magic will work."

Fuck you.

Uh, Darklands?

Darklands had very little to no actual magic.

Outside of the system used in Darklands (which I think is pretty cool), most of what’s in the game is a slightly fantastic interpretation of historical organizations and myths. There aren’t any new organizations or layers of lore

fuck off sawyer

 

[Infinitron]

Darklands had very little to no actual magic.

The point is it has supernatural elements.

 

[Infinitron]

Josh was asked about his historical RPG plans on SA: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...=17931&perpage=40&pagenumber=15#post466490950

 

[vonAchdorf]

TB Renaissance Darklands. I'd probably even figstarter that.

 

[Roguey]

I'm surprised he's still interested in his antebellum spirits setting. The audience for such a concept as defined by him is much smaller than it already was. For example,

http://baby-goat.livejournal.com/202002.html

I have been writing sections of an Antebellum story. I haven't been consistent with updating it, but I have a few thousand words written and I think I have enough momentum to continue. The prose isn't particularly great, but it's still fun to write. I still think that the Antebellum settings and characters would be great in an action/adventure game, but I think it will take more fleshed-out exploration of the main theme (i.e. racism) to help people "get" it in the context of a game story. Anthony and Annie seem to be enjoying the story, so I have at least two friends who can see the word "nigger" in the context of fiction and not shit their pants.

If Annie refers to Vandermeer/Carlson/Mitsoda (whoops, checked comments and indeed it does), he can scratch one off the list.

He won't be able to rely on goon support either.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Meh, We've got Logic Artists, and that's enough for me.

 

[Infinitron]

I'm surprised he's still interested in his antebellum spirits setting.

"Mid-late 19th century" doesn't sound like he's thinking of antebellum.

 

[Beastro]

but I think it will take more fleshed-out exploration of the main theme (i.e. racism)

If he ever does it better do what Tranny failed to do and get in your face and visceral.

I'm surprised he's still interested in his antebellum spirits setting.

"Mid-late 19th century" doesn't sound like he's thinking of antebellum.

Antebellum is just one half of the era he's talking about. Who knows, he might be adding the late part to peek the interest of the full on Western lovers. A niche, but larger than that niche.

 

[vonAchdorf]

I'm surprised he's still interested in his antebellum spirits setting.

"Mid-late 19th century" doesn't sound like he's thinking of antebellum.

Unless he's exploring an alternate universe in which the good side won and the spirit's living on.

 

[Roguey]

"Mid-late 19th century" doesn't sound like he's thinking of antebellum.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...is_avellone_tim_cain_and_josh_sawyer/c6mty3k/

Personally, there are two settings/ideas I'd like to explore. One is a setting called Antebellum that is an alternate Earth stuck in the late 19th century at the outbreak of the Civil War after spirit armies swarm over the American South, Ireland, India, and a variety of other places. I'd mostly like to explore the idea of different power groups (e.g. slave owners and slaves) being paralyzed by inaction due to the thread of reactive spirit groups coming to the defense of any party being victimized.