I rise from my LJ grave with...

[niwandajones]

... a short, relatively non-substantive bit of gaming geekery that probably has a target audience of two, if I'm lucky.

I want to write up a Spirit of the Century hack based on Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels, call it "Spirit of Altered Carbon" or something, in which you spend Fate Point Refresh to buy the sleeve you're in, and spend more or less of it depending on how much modification the sleeve's packing. From the books, it seems like most of what defines a character in SotC terms -- skills, aspects, even stunts -- are things that follow a personality from sleeve to sleeve, but in addition to that core each sleeve would come with its own package of stunts and/or aspects that would cost a certain amount of Refresh to possess.

And that's what I'm thinking about right now instead of doing homework.

Comments

[judd-sonofbert.livejournal.com]

I endorse this non-school activity.

[niwandajones.livejournal.com]

Nice. Because you're at least 50% of my target audience, here. ;)

[jccohen.livejournal.com]

Maybe 3, unless you meant me! :-)

[niwandajones.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you'd read any of the Kovacs books. Cool!

[jccohen.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't... didn't mean to imply I had. But I always like a good game hack, and what you described sounds interesting even to someone who doesn't know the source material.

[niwandajones.livejournal.com]

Understood. Glad it sounds fun! I really will have to write it up sometime.

[monstrousform.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I'll be really geeked out about this once I read AC and SOTC. ;-)

[niwandajones.livejournal.com]

Well, get on it, man. :)

Though, to be fair, it's a bit more of a Dresden hack than a SotC hack, now that I think about it.