A Continent of Banalities

 Day 07 takes a departure in setting, if not system. Meet Madysyn from the Electric Bastionland hack The New Economy (by me).  Favored Enemy: The Managerial Class. The glassy-eyed woman sitting on the other side of Svalte is Madysyn. She is far from home, and trying to figure out if this is a very detailed trip, or if she's really sitting here in the company of mutants and pyros. Madysyn worked in the now obsolete circle of hell that's big box retail. Mauermart was the place, and she hated it like everybody else. The downright psychopathic behavior enabled by the axiom that "the costumer is always right". The managers who decided to abandon all humanity because they were a teetering half-step above you on the ladder.  When Mauermart went out of business it was not due to lack of costumers. The owners' insane wealth had become so fluid that the actual stores were no longer needed. The stock was sold to people with money, i.e. the dwindling middle class in their dec...

In this post I'm trying to answer the questions from Jeff Rient's very useful list:  twenty quick questions for your campaign setting . I left out a few as they were quite D&D-specific. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? The big guys are still here. Maybe yer man is a Muslim, a Lutheran or a Buddhist. Of course there are more exotic types like the Church of Based Loathing whose adherents believe that loathing is the only truth, the Star-Druids who stand out in the rain looking for spacecraft, and the Unity of Perspective who hope to understand the world  by means of optics. Where can we go to buy standard equipment? One of those flea markets down by the overpass. Where can we go to get plate mail custom fitted for this monster I just befriended? A custom-fitted Kevlar vest will cost ya. A donation to the Anti-Scum Solution might help. They used to be riot cops, so they have the gear. Who is the mightiest wizard in the land? Beff Jezos, post-human mir...

"That's the head of Mark Pincus. Guy who made Farmville. Fought like a bastard he did. That over there is, um, the head of Mark Pincus. He keeps comin' back for some reason. That time he had goddamn LASERS." -- The Commodore, Biggest Game Hunter I am working on a game called THE NEW ECONOMY with my co-conspirator Mr. S. It started life as a hack for Chris McDowall's Electric Bastionland , and still exists in that form. It is a scifi game about a world where the capitalism of the present day is gone. You don't have a job or a paycheck. The god-kings of capitalism have left you behind for a post-human eternity of ego boosts. The vestigial middle class huddles in gated communities fearing the day they'll become you.  Out here there's no wage slavery. No commutes. Also no electricity or clean water. There are still people who wanna get paid though. People who wanna have their revenge.  People who want a better world at last.   What do you want?  ...