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Theme Clarification: What do you want to see?
🕑 Added 2022-08-01 18:05:33 +0000 UTCHey folks,
In the Year 3000 (Far Future) is our winning theme of the month, but that can be taken several different ways... so we want to ask especially those of you at the $7+ level what you'd like to see.
To Keith, "In the Year 3000" suggests a more utopian society (Star Trek ish) than something Dystopian (Blade Runner like). But we could also take it in a more Buck Rogers-y way and if you've got other ideas please post a comment. Keep in mind in June 2019 we did "Outer Space" and in Sept 2020 we did "Outer Space Expanded" and we could continue expanding those. Or we could revisit any of the three styles in our Science Fiction Map Icons we made 8 or so years back (this links to the Settlement icons, but we could expand any of those styles to battlemat and classic/isometric).
Second, what subject matter would you like to see? Some of that is driven by the subsets (battlemat vs. world/kingdom vs. settlement, etc.) but there is still a lot of variety possible that we need to narrow down. One person already suggested spaceship tokens--which would probably be for our classic & isometric sets. We could also do more planets for sector type maps in those sets as well as space stations and such. Battlemat icons would be things that help you make a starship or starbase or building interior deck plan. Settlement could also have some top-down views of starships as well as colony buildings (which could be on a main planet too for that matter). What am I overlooking regarding subject matter?
So again, please post ideas for styles we can shoot for (and if you like someone else's suggestion, please like it) and ideas for subject matter.
Thank you!
Joe
Comments
Julius Wollfarth
A few idea. You can have floating city base and underwater city/base symbols, these tend to show up in a lot of sci fi in addition to the ones on land. Mecha bases. Mecha in addition to futuristic military symbols to indicate troops on a map. maybe some mecha as battle map icons. Post-cyberpunk inspired icons. the Infinity wargame and RPG based on it is posy-cyberpunk and not dystopian in the way of setting like Cyberpunk 2020. A symbol to indicate if a space elevator is in a hex and maybe one a magnetic launching asset device used to help get space craft in to space. Buck Rodger style can vary a lot depending on the version of Buck Rodgers you are using. In some sci fi setting you have things like giant air purification structures that are used to keep the atmosphere clean. Seaquest DSV had them in key part of the eart to keep the planet pollution free as I recall. Futuristic style castles show in a few sci fi setting too. I like the spacecraft and starbases idea, but that might work better as a separate companion theme. Mecha/robot factories could get and map icon. Another companion theme could be ground/water/and air vehicles to go with the this months theme.
I love the Orville!! Woot!
Star Trek/Jetsons/Bladerunner mashup theme and something Spelljammer like for the Battlemat, Classic World, Isometric, and Settlement sets.
Mark E Manning
Earth could be reverted to caveman, scorched earth, fused areas, or unstable portals - 3000 years. But I'm with Craig Janseen - pick one of those games and go for it! Also human/animal hybrids, lycanthrope creatures (look human - become beast) neccesary when food ran out. Superhero types but which are warped (human torch but unstable, Captain America only his shield melts, Dr. Octopus but the tentacles come out of his stomach.
John
Traveller, Starfinder, Spaceship Tokens, able to create star map and ships with setttlements/spaceports
Keith Malinowski
I’d love to see Gamma World, mostly ruins and villages with a smattering of Cryptic Alliances. Of course there would be pockets of advanced territories and some domed cities for good measure!
Craig Janssen
Let's see. Gamma World, Judge Dredd, Traveller, MCC, BatlleTech
