my saturday, in review

[omnia_mutantur]

a neat chickpea soup, the library, an appointment for a haircut, some ovencleaner, a kitten asleep on my foot, migraine medicine, and the idea of creating a board or card game based on a jane austen novel.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

you have eight major characters, you have to get them married and keep them married. you're in charge of two couples, your opponent is in charge of two. there are a variety of minor characters that are single events (lord darcy falls in with a trollop, etc) that can either aid or hinder plot progression. i can see it all in my head. hell, i can think of more than a handful of books i could subject to this manhandling (no pun intended..

Comments

[creed-of-hubris.livejournal.com]

I wanted to write Jane Austen LARP rules, back when I was doing some RPG writing, but alas, Joe Goodman thought the commercial potential was nil, so I never really did it.

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

poo on joe goodman's head, then.

not nil, just limited. think of it as a niche product.

[cataptromancer.livejournal.com]

La! 'Tis already done. I am sure, however, that your game would be more perfectly designed than the one made by these people.

[omnia-mutantur.livejournal.com]

see, mine would be for the express purpose of getting everyone married off, not just meander through the novel. where's the challenge in that?

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

OH, I meant a computer RPG, like a first-person shooter thingy for Gamecube. Except not a shooter. First person matchmaker, perhaps?

The soup sounds good.
:)