Author: Steve D (---.edu.au)
Date: 05-22-2000 07:31
The game is about the New York Underground. So it makes sense to call them Taggers, since that's (presumably) US slang. But if this is going to be explandable for other Undergrounds, which it should be, what are you gonna do with Taggers, GMS? Gonna change the name of the class for each new city?
What about anything else which doesn't quite cross-over? Language in general. Other groups/ideas/tropes that are meaningless in certain situations. I mean, what's an underground like in a city like New Delhi?
Or are you just gonna mostly take a very tight, NY focus? Probably better. I just was thinking about the Taggers as the big problem, because the term has absolutely no meaning to me, both as a name and as a class (that culture just is so minimal over here). And who wants to play yet another Americo-centric game?
Well, alright, your audience is mostly yanks. But do think of making mention of foreigners at some point. Don't make the mistake of assuming (as one RPG supplement I own does, and the game of Ghostbusters did) that the setting of the adventure and your local town where you are setting the campaign are necessarily on the same continent. Or that anyone can easily get access to a street map of NY (another assumption I've seen).
Just a few little considerations that not everyone in the world lives in the US, please Gareth. It makes such a difference to the foreign reader.
Cheers,
Steve
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