What would a modernized N&SS setting look like?
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2022 4:03 pm
This is a general question for fun. Lets face it, the setting of Ninja's and Superspies, such as it is, and what there is of it, is horribly outdated. It was a product written in the late 80's to mash the 80's Kung-Fu Movie craze togeather with Cold-War Spy movies and novels, a genre which even at the time had already peaked in the 60's (Although by no means dead).
Then wouldn't you know it, whoops, a few years later the Cold War is over and a bankrupt Soviet Union isn't sponsoring multi-billion dollar spy organizations anymore. And the Super Technology is, with the exception of Bionics, laughably behind modern tech (Heck, plenty of the tech was dated at the time of it's release).
Pretty much everyone I've seen who uses it, either uses it as a supplement to other palladium systems, or uses it for a Retro-Asthetic, actually placing the game in the 80's or earlier.
So the question is: What if you went the other way. What if you tried to run Ninja's and Superspys in a modern setting.
How do spys deal with ubitious cell phones? how do they use them?
How would the world react to Kung-fu battles doing clearly superhuman feats?
What would gimmicked super tech look like beyond the tech we already have?
What on earth does the MMA scene look like when some old monk did in fact come out of the Moutians and kick everyone's ass with Chi powers?
These are just some ideas. There's no need to present a coherent vision, just throwing out ideas is plenty of good fun
Then wouldn't you know it, whoops, a few years later the Cold War is over and a bankrupt Soviet Union isn't sponsoring multi-billion dollar spy organizations anymore. And the Super Technology is, with the exception of Bionics, laughably behind modern tech (Heck, plenty of the tech was dated at the time of it's release).
Pretty much everyone I've seen who uses it, either uses it as a supplement to other palladium systems, or uses it for a Retro-Asthetic, actually placing the game in the 80's or earlier.
So the question is: What if you went the other way. What if you tried to run Ninja's and Superspys in a modern setting.
How do spys deal with ubitious cell phones? how do they use them?
How would the world react to Kung-fu battles doing clearly superhuman feats?
What would gimmicked super tech look like beyond the tech we already have?
What on earth does the MMA scene look like when some old monk did in fact come out of the Moutians and kick everyone's ass with Chi powers?
These are just some ideas. There's no need to present a coherent vision, just throwing out ideas is plenty of good fun