*sigh*

[camwyn]

lots42 asked, 'what would your favourite fandom be like if it took place a hundred years earlier?'.

My stupid brain answered.

Ghostbusters 1884 would involve an utterly chaotic New York City full of ghosts, a smooth-talking scholar with a predilection for gambling, an old buddy of his from Switzerland who had the most amazing ideas imaginable about quantifying and understanding the truth about spirits through the development of etheric science, an educated Black man whose frustration at the casually idiotic attitudes of most of the public led him to finance the Swiss guy and his gambling buddy (they sounded like a good investment), a young, severely deranged architect who'd served as a physician in one too many European wars, and Harold Ramis in a long black duster and cowboy hat. I don't CARE what his part would actually be. I just love that image.

I HAVE OTHER THINGS TO WRITE FIRST, THANK YOU, BRAIN.

Comments

[aberrantangels]

My favorite fandom (the TU) spans roughly 200 years. One of the other writers on the Trinity Storytellers Handbook is including, in his chapter, an alternative campaign setting in which Trinity's psions appear in the early 21st century instead of the early 22nd, taking the place of Aberrant's novas (of which latter md_donighal is one).

Can it be only about fifty years earlier? Because I've long wanted to write a campaign frame in which the Inspiration Age of Adventure! (the 1920s game), instead of ending in the forties, segues into an early Nova Age.

[camwyn]

Sure, as you like. The hundred was just what the original poster asked.

As for Ghostbusters fifty years earlier, that's relatively easy. That puts the boys smack dab in the middle of the pulp era, when everybody expected science to be Science!, and gives us just as much opportunity for the original Shandor scenario. On the other hand, it's all but impossible to do pulp homages without referencing the Nazis thanks to Indiana Jones... although if the Nazis get brought in somehow, possibly because they're attempting to buy the Shandor Building or steal the plans for it or something for the Occult Bureau, then the movie suddenly focuses a lot harder on Egon. Mostly 'cos I fancy using the bit from the deleted scene from GB 2 where he says his family came from a specific town in eastern Poland...