What would your ideal gaming system/mileu have to include?

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lots of furry criters to hug and play with.

Lots of big swords and axes to kill the furry little critters!!!!!

MANY S

sorry about #3...  I messed up.  <Coyote Blushes a nice shad of off-pink>

        It'd be devoid of players who want super-powerful
weapons, armour, spells and just want to get to the end of the game.
(That's the realistic side)
        The fantasy world would be a huge (and I mean huge) planet
about 10 to 20 times the size of the earth (our earth).  It'd
be a fascinating combination of oodles and oodles of races,
creatures, classes, and whatnot.  The possibilities would be
endless, or at least near-endless.
        Several types of environments would work, but only in their
realm.  Perhaps magic cannot exist in area "A", and only psionic
powers function in areas "J" and "X", et cetera.

        In my opinion, a perfect world would let a player play *anything*.
They want to be a chipmunk with an UZI?  Sure!  They want to be a god?
We can manage that!  

I've tried running games where I told the players they could play
anything from any genre they wanted to. The odd thing is they 
rarely went over the edge. In a few cases I had to urge them to 
do something a little more powerful so they could keep up with
the scenario.

Hehehehe!!!  A chipmunk wielding an uzi!!!  When a chipmunk can kill an
army of dragons, somethings definently wrong!!!!!!!!!!

Put the worlds from Alan Dean Foster's "Spellsinger" and David Edding's
"Belgariad" & "malloreon" Series into a blender, set to "Puree". Serve warm.

RE #9- That's a truly scary combination. Throw in a sprinke of the 
Elenium and the Tamuli jsut to spice it up a little too.

One of my favorite genres to play/run is the settings created by
Charles DeLint in his books. If you never read any of these, start 
now !

Also, add the world of the "Redwall" series of books and Raymond Feist's
"Riftwar" series worlds, blend those in, and serve on a Niven-type Ringworld
for lots of wierd stuff on an area hundreds of times the size of Earth.  You
could set a room full of cartographers to work for a year and not run out
of space!

Riftwar?

The Riftwar saga is a fantasy series of epic proportions by Raymond Feist.
It's an excellent series !

Two worlds of vastly different magical levels and fighting abilities come
together by a magical rift, one trying to invade the other for metals....
It's very cool, especially some of the political maneuvering that takes place
on one of the worlds.

(continuing drift) A great set of sompanion books is the _Daughter of
the Empire_ books, co-written by Feist anf Janny Wurts. These booksa
are set on the world on the other side of the Rift (of the Riftwar books)
incredibly well done : lots of action adventure and political intrigue.

you want epic action and political intrigue, go for DUNE.  I must admit,
the ending is not what I would have liked, but it's a good book

Books, let me see....
The Rose of the Prophet series by Weis and Hickman.

HECK YEAH!  Also The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan
great books

THe Fiest stuff is actually indirectly based on a preexisting game world;
it's Glorantia, I think, though I'd have to chck my sources to be sure.

Yes!  I love the _Daughter of the Empire_ series!  Not as midieval as the
Riftwar saga, which is what draws me to most fantasy, but I really liked the
politics and the Game of the Council.

I don't much like most straight fantasy.  I prefer a combination of technology
from sci-fi and the chivalry and politics of fantasy a la DUNE...yes,
I'm obsessed...its just the best mileu i've seen in a long time.

DUNE kicked butt, but the movie's ending sucked

RE #19: The Empire world bears a strong resemblance to the old rpg
world _The Empire of teh Petal Throne_

I don't like sci-fi, espesialy militaristic stuff. Post-apocalypse gets to me  
some too.

Try _The Death Gate Cycle_...

Post-Apocalyptic is cool if I can see some hope for the world. Don't like
cyberpunk.

Post Apocolyptic: anyone remember Morrow Project ?

I've never seen the movie DUNE, i was talking about the book...is the
movie any good?  eld...try some sci-fi short stories, they tend to be
quirky and interesting (at kleast the good ones) without being militaristic.
Also try some Vonnegut, for some borderline sci-fi without the
ray guns and martian death troopers

death gate cycle rox
The wheel Of time Series by Robert Jordan Rulez

re :#28: the movie DUNE was ok, fx were cool, but the vehicles looked too
weird (ornithopter had no wings) and the ending didn't follow the books.

doh! kinda puts a damper on things don't it

I hate it when movies are made off of books and then mess everything up!

Well, the book's end was pretty mediocre too, IMHO...they changed
Paul/Muad'dib's personality too much

I've noticed that lots of books have mediocre endings, I think the writers are 
just eager to finish the book off and don't give it a lot of thought.

only to true

Computer Games based off of books tend to be the same, i.e. Death
Gate CD-Rom game missing key characters like Alfred Montbank and
Bane.

no alfred montbank?

No Bane either... removing key characters just fucks up the plot.  O yes,
No Marit either... and the people in Elven Star have had their names removed,
except Zifnab.

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