Gaming Glen
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What will Earth be like in the year AD 3000?
Remember, we're only 100-150 years from the beginning of radio, electricity, automobiles, telephone, powered/heavier-than-air flight. We're 40-60 years into broadcast sight (TV) and computers (although the computer idea has been around longer). Phone viewers are in its infancy, with cable modems and the PC as the medium.
Add 1000 years.
For Traveller related campaigns (of course): add in FTL, anti-gravity, fusion power.
Might as well include a little about the Sol system (non-researchers/miners on Luna or Mars?).
Would such a description be a way of introducing new players, especially fantasy (ya know, those D&D types), into a science fiction universe? I think there would be much more interest in reading about our own planet than some fictional one, unless it was named something silly, like Tatooine.
FYI:
My campaign will be about human space, near Earth, with Earth being much less populated and relegated to an agricultural planet (best place to grow Earth-based crops), and home to all the Earth-evolved life forms we haven't exterminated yet. Sort of a large preserve, but still about 50 million people (give or take 10-20 million), mostly living in cities. Could we ever get that many people off the planet, barring a MAJOR catastrophe(s) that killed billions? Or am I being too optimistic and we'll overrun our own planet? I know, it is my fantasy, I can do what I want, but it would be nice to have a chance at realism. I will probably include a race of "elves" (home planet is smaller, low G) and "dwarves" (large planet, high G). Hey, that's a few less alien races I have to write up.
Glen
Remember, we're only 100-150 years from the beginning of radio, electricity, automobiles, telephone, powered/heavier-than-air flight. We're 40-60 years into broadcast sight (TV) and computers (although the computer idea has been around longer). Phone viewers are in its infancy, with cable modems and the PC as the medium.
Add 1000 years.
For Traveller related campaigns (of course): add in FTL, anti-gravity, fusion power.
Might as well include a little about the Sol system (non-researchers/miners on Luna or Mars?).
Would such a description be a way of introducing new players, especially fantasy (ya know, those D&D types), into a science fiction universe? I think there would be much more interest in reading about our own planet than some fictional one, unless it was named something silly, like Tatooine.
FYI:
My campaign will be about human space, near Earth, with Earth being much less populated and relegated to an agricultural planet (best place to grow Earth-based crops), and home to all the Earth-evolved life forms we haven't exterminated yet. Sort of a large preserve, but still about 50 million people (give or take 10-20 million), mostly living in cities. Could we ever get that many people off the planet, barring a MAJOR catastrophe(s) that killed billions? Or am I being too optimistic and we'll overrun our own planet? I know, it is my fantasy, I can do what I want, but it would be nice to have a chance at realism. I will probably include a race of "elves" (home planet is smaller, low G) and "dwarves" (large planet, high G). Hey, that's a few less alien races I have to write up.
Glen