User talk:Robotech Master/Capsule Review: Changed: The Unveiling

Interesting idea

Interesting idea; I hope you can expand on it. Especially since it's another way of 'hiding in plain sight' which is one of the aspects I've liked about the Paradise setting (especially in the middle years I've been writing. :) ) --Jetfire 19:12, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

I like this idea as well. I hope you expand on it. --Buck 19:15, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Hey, great. I had a couple of story ideas around it, but wanted to get the kernel down here, so that in case there were any objections, I wouldn't have wasted the effort in writing the story. IC, it would be the Changed me who wrote it (which is one story). The other would be the story of the reviewer, as you can probably guess. :)

The kernel of the idea grew out of De Profundis (which is exactly as described in my review), and the way it encouraged you to pretend that the game world was the real world. I just thought it would be amusing to add another layer to that: pretend you're pretending that the game world is the real world.

Among other things, this means that people can discuss their Changed condition right out in the open, and just explain that they're acting "in character" the way the book encourages them to. And it's a printed "survival manual" that can be handed around to Changed who don't have Internet access, and yet will be non-incriminating (at least, beyond "I didn't know you were into role-playing") if they accidentally leave it lying around.

And it's a way to get at least some unKnown mundanes used to the idea of the Change even in the abstract so they won't go totally off their rockers when it happens to them and they don't have a local support network.

It doesn't necessarily contradict with other, later stories, either—being a small-press indie book, it would be lucky to sell in the low four-digits of copies. So there's no reason its failure to be mentioned in "Tall Tales" and the like would be notable.

And again, it might be fun to get together and write up the actual rules to the game (the sourcebook being something that could just be taken as read). FUDGE is free and freely-downloadable, after all… —Robotech Master 19:45, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Another idea

Hmm.

A "Changed" ARG (Augmented Reality Game), like the ones for A.I. or Halo 3.

Hmm. —Robotech Master 18:02, 11 June 2009 (UTC)