"Shock: Social Science Fiction" <-- Nan desu ka, koreya?

[Ben Lehman]

As an aside, I want to play a Shock game where the scales are

Gunfights <--------> Car Chases
Explosions <--------> Swords

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--Ben

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

As an aside, I want to play a Shock game where the scales are

Gunfights <--------> Car Chases
Explosions <--------> Swords

Well, you could. I guess all the talking would wind up being color...

This is interesting, actually. Expert characters will be one of:

Gunfights and Swords! PFC Lance Benjamin. He fights and kills!
Gunfights and Explosions! Sarge: Demolitions!
Car Chases and Swords! Rex Factor: the brash mercenary pilot with a shady past!
Car Chases and Explosions! Felby, the Useful Sidekick!

What would you see as a Shock/Issue matrix for this, though? It would have to be something really broad-brush. Like Slavery, Sexism, Imperialism vs. Space Travel and Alien Invasion.

[Ben Lehman]

Well, you could. I guess all the talking would wind up being color...

Yup!  Talking is fine, but if you really want to, you know, resolve a conflict, boom!

What would you see as a Shock/Issue matrix for this, though? It would have to be something really broad-brush. Like Slavery, Sexism, Imperialism vs. Space Travel and Alien Invasion.

I think that this could really cover a broad stretch of issues and technologies.  Think of a Shonen anime rather than the more limited Pulp genre -- you could easily have, say, Sexual Frustration, Political Disillusionment, Nuclear War on one side and Giant Robots, Cybernetics, and Aliens on the other.

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--Ben

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Well, you're right!

Hooray for Shock:!

I may have to use this as an example in the book.

[lumpley]

Angela Bassett's character in Strange Days was totally car chases and swords.

-Vincent

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Yeah. It's too bad the rest of that movie wasn't any good.

"Racism is a big deal!"

"Oh, no! Something's set off the powder keg!"

"Wait, no, no it didn't."

[rafial]

Wow... I'm definitely going to be following the development of this game!  Please tell me there is some Cordwainer Smith in the bibliography.

[Joshua A.C. Newman]

Not yet.

You know what? I'm'a start a reading list thread.