thread: 2005-07-05 : Setting and Source Material
On 2005-07-06, Chris Goodwin wrote:
Re: fetishization of Firefly. I think there's a little of that going on, given that a few of us have seen the film, many of us are champing at the bit for it to come out, and there's not a lot of actual setting info out there.Re: gaming in the Firefly 'verse, I don't see the necessity to try to play the original characters, if that's what you're getting at. See, when we watch Firefly on DVD or whatever, we're not just getting Joss Whedon's vision. We're getting Joss's, and Tim Minear's, and Ben Edlund's, and Nathan Fillion's and Alan Tudyk's and Morena's and Summer's and Sean's and Ron's and Adam's and Gina's and Jewel's and all of the set builders and costumers and.... I'm reminded of when my group and I played Amber. We started with Roger Zelazny's vision, filtered through Garth's filling in additional details... and then it became our Amberverse through play. There was no fetishization of Zelazny's work there, just a desire to take it and.... well, play in it, not just in a roleplaying sense but in a get-in-the-sandbox-and-have-fun sense. That is where a Firefly RPG needs to go; not an idealized vision of the Firefly setting in concrete but a willingness to take it and run with it. Anything else may as well be a Yahoogroup where you'll be Mal and I'll be Simon and she'll be Inara...
