renaming The Rustbelt?
Lance D. Allen:
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Because irrationally sticking to your guns against all comers is such a damned Rustbelt thing to do.
Yeeeup!
Dude, seriously though. Ralph said what I meant, only better. I went through a similar naming crisis with a couple of my projects, and eventually stuck with what I'd originally chosen. My third project will probably hit even worse barriers of assumption that you're worrying about. I mean, seriously.. Who, seeing the title "Rats in the Walls" isn't going to assume that it's a game about Lovecraftian horrors, unless like me at the time, they've never read the story? Rest assured that the chances of any disenfranchised people who wanted to play a game about how hard it is to be laid off from the steel mill being disappointed by your game are pretty slim. I mean, you *can* play such a story, and it would totally fit in The Rustbelt.
...you know... Nevermind. Such speculation is for another thread, or better yet, when I've got the game in front of me and players interested in playing.
Think of your lack of Rustbelt lore as being like one of those times that the players assume your big mysterious plot is actually something much cooler than it is. When a player comes to you and tells you this awesome story about steel-workers fighting their way through the rustbelt and giving in to addiction and doing unconscionable things, you can say "Yes, that's exactly what I had planned for this game all along" and you won't even be lying.
Ron Edwards:
For whatever it's worth, Ralph and Lance are convincing me. It's not a democracy or consensus-issue, but especially if some little bit of text were in there that started the Rust in that region ... geez, that actually puts a shiver up my spine.
Best, Ron
David Berg:
I dig that too. Even just a hint of the story behind how the name has changed in meaning over time could be cool. "Old folks say 'the Rust Belt' used to mean X, and some claim that even before that it meant Y..."
Marshall Burns:
Yeah, all right, I ain't changin' it.
I *am* gonna have to write a new "Overture," from the ground up, but that's been long overdue for, like, years.
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