kawasaki wrote:That's what I like about HotT, anything can be what you want it to be

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I've got Jason and the Argonauts and opponents on the go at the minute. It's a good enough excuse to field a god (Zeus) and a behemoth (Talos), with harpies, skeleton warriors, centaurs and shit

And to be frank, HotT is the only sort of fantasy/sci fi I can be bothered with. Everything else is historical. I don't have time to be painting fahsands of orcs.
The HotTs rules for simulating masses of orcs and things like that with the replacing hordes rules are great.
It's clever and economical and can represent so many things, I wish other rules sets would pick up on the idea.
I keep finding myself trying to adapt summoning and raise dead spells in other rules to simulate it.
It's like video game respawning for the table top.
If a flexible rules set like Chipco's Fantasy rules! or Dragon Rampant that lets you stat out your characters and units let you add this as an ability I'd be a happy gamer.
I was thinking about who I'd like to see try to do an adaption of War of the Worlds for TV if it was up to me, and was surprised to realise the people I'd most like to see have a crack at making it, or at least realising the background and the period setting, are the people who make the Murdoch Mysteries.
They do such a
consistently good job, season after season, of realising the time period and setting for that series, which must be very difficult and expensive, but the costumes, sets, CGI, acting, locations, everything about the setting and background, are so seamlessly and unobtrusively done, yet give such a good feel of the time and place without being over the top or cliché, that I think they'd be the perfect people to take on creating the setting for this project.
No overly dramatic OTT Penny Dreadful style dramatics, no gothic Dark and stormy night or eternally dark and foggy London streets, no exaggerated emphasis on decadence and corruption, or filth and squalor, no blatant pushing of modern day agendas, just a naturalistic, straight take on the period without ignoring or overemphasising the social situation of the time.
No rewriting history or delving into social issues unrelated to the story, just give us as true and honest a depiction of the time and place the story is set in as posible, so that they can concentrate on telling the tale Wells wrote, and get that right for once, and I'll be happy.
The Murdoch people
might be able to create a setting that would allow that IMHO.