{"id":909,"date":"2003-08-13T23:28:16","date_gmt":"2003-08-13T23:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2003-08-13T23:28:16","modified_gmt":"2003-08-13T23:28:16","slug":"mashup-4-neuromancer-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2003\/08\/mashup-4-neuromancer-meets\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashup 4: Neuromancer meets&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Population: One: Monday Mashup #4: Neuromancer\" href=\"http:\/\/popone.innocence.com\/archives\/001068.html\">Population: One: Monday Mashup #4: Neuromancer<\/a>.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s put this in a non-standard game system.  How about the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpgnow.com\/product_info.php?products_id=330&#038;\">Dreamwalker<\/a> system\/setting (available at RPGNow for five bucks).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis one is pretty straightforward:  the Dreamlands = the Net.  To introduce the Neuromancer feel you need a number of powerful corporations that are trying to fence off key sections of the Mass Subconcious for their own purposes.<br \/>\nOne of the bits I loved about Gibson&#8217;s stuff from this era was the Voodoun gods that had found new life within the Net &#8212; that sounds like a heck of a fun thing to carry over into the Dreamlands &#8212; Legba et. al. trying to help out the PCs against the Taenia Spiritus.  Tie things up a little more tightly by having some of the international corporations that are researching &#8220;dream technology&#8221; (think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haro-online.com\/movies\/thirteenth_floor.html\">Thirteenth Floor<\/a>) actually in league with the Taenia, making massive advances in the Dreamworld tech in exchange for giving the hivemind Enemy a strong beachhead from which to mount their invasion.<br \/>\nDamn.  Another idea I&#8217;d kind of like to run.  This would be pretty darn cool.<\/p>\n<address>(Side note: Dreamwalker is also available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpgnow.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1653&#038;\">diceless flavor<\/a>, using the RPGNow-ubiquitous Active Exploits game system.)<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population: One: Monday Mashup #4: Neuromancer. Let&#8217;s put this in a non-standard game system. How about the excellent Dreamwalker system\/setting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}