h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

yes?

Heh ... the last time I even *thought* about this was when I was deciding whether to delete it or not. I dunno ...

yeah... maybe it needs to be tweaked to fit the atmosphere here better now...

my only take on it, and keep in mind i am not well versed in all the magic stuff you have up there, is that it might be too constricting...

i always wanted to see a cross-over role play where characters from science fiction as well as fantasy could interact...

all well-known so that just about anyone could participate...

for instance, and this is just off the top of my head... darn...

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...top blew off...

well elements and characters of star wars, star trek, harry potter, dr who, pern, the hitchhiker's guide, Niven's known universe and disc world... for starters

just ideas...


. ... .looks around for my head top. ... . .

Uh. I think that if I *did* start this up again I'd want to do something more original. >.>

sorry... don't know what you mean.

no biggy, tho...

By "original" I mean "not shamelessly ripping off elements and characters from Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Dr. Who, Pern, the Hitchhiker's Guide, Niven's known universe, Discworld, and everything else I happen to be interested in at the moment." :P

aha! but the interaction between them can be verrrrrrry original!!

Um, no, sorry, given the vastly different way those universes work from one another, it would be silly. Ripoffs, by definition, aren't original, no matter what you do with them.

well... my experience with role play has been solely on here... and not much. I can see that you are very experienced and actually it has become an art form for you... of course you would have definite tastes and preferences for it, and lots of development in the storylines, too, i would imagine.

i have just been into pretty fast-paced silly stuff... but its a start!!

Anyway... i just meant it would be good to have a mix-it-up kind of rpg here... whatever the parameters.



carry on!

Oh, I don't mind fast-paced-and-silly at all. It's just that Harry Potter doesn't really belong right after Star Trek in a list of things you want to combine, especially if you include the phrase "wouldn't it be cool if" in the sentence.

I know how crossovers work.

he he they managed to bring the star trek crew back to 20th century earth and was THAT a hoot! (the whale one) IIRC spock and kirk, in fact all of them were trying to learn american slang? well, spock was the funny one... all the swearing

and, in my mind's eye ank morph and hogwarts are just 'around the corner' verily i say unto you, can't you just see the sea turtle discworld is atop of... in the Star trek viewer on the bridge? And the tardis can go anywhere... and so can Hitchhikers... .

Oh, the TARDIS and insert-Hitchhiker-spaceship-here I'll grant you, but Star Trek is, I think, a bit too ... serious.

You really think the original Star Trek tv series with Capt. Kirk, Scotty, Spock, McCoy and Chekov was too serious!?

Well, not "serious" exactly, but they generally don't *outright* use "magic."

yes... that would be the beauty of it... the trekkers' reactions to magic

Ahhhhh.

Let's see ... Kirk would take the three most important officers on the entire ship on a dangerous mission, Spock would whine about everything even remotely illogical, Bones gets to end a sentence that begins "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a", the Redshirt does what Redshirts are famous for (i.e. dying at the slightest provocation), and Scottie cannae give ye anymore power because he's givin' ye all she's got.

So, typical classic Trek episode.

precisely.

Classic trek is awesome.

I've been trying hard to find an RPG on h2g2, but they all seem to be defunct. Yes, this needs to start up again.