Meanwhile, I wait for my copy of “The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian” to show up.
MAP OF BARSOOM SERIES
Still, if it did make it to release, and if it was even a modest hit, that might be all the series needed to stoke its popularity. Paramount is the latest to attempt it, but the film is currently stuck in pre-production and may never see the light of day. There have been a number of attempts in the past to get the world of Barsoom on film, but none has ever made it to completion.
MAP OF BARSOOM MOVIE
Well, John Carter might have a movie some day. What has John Carter got that can match that?
Howard, was dead.Īh, but Conan… he had a movie! And he went on to become governor of California. His books are a little more current overall, but the last Barsoom book by Burroughs was written after Conan’s author, Robert E. But close!) It is going to be 100 years old in a few years. (Okay, not quite, I’m a bit older than that. The first book was nearly twice my age now when I read it back in high school. Still, so what! Skill based systems work! And you can put in a much more detailed character creation tool since you won’t have to adapt every single armor set to all the possible characters that can be created.įinally, there is the whole “Who has even heard of Barsoom” thing. (Not that I have heard, anyway.)īut it does mean that any MMO trying to keep close to the story will probably not be equipment driven, except for weapons. I have never seen Deja Thoris on the cover of any of the books looking as John Carter describes her when he first lays eyes upon her, and nobody has screamed about that. Still, nakedness could probably be bypassed, to a certain extent. You think that Oblivion topless/nipples mod caused problems? In the books, naked is the order of the day, with just a leather harness on which to hang your equipment (or hold it in place) and some jewelry to indicate status or wealth.
MAP OF BARSOOM CODE
The obvious racial overtones of such a situation are bound to be controversial.Īnd then there is the dress code on Barsoom. To start with the dominant race on Mars, the red Martians, while descended from a mix of their black, yellow, and white brethren, are pretty down on them otherwise. There are, of course, some downsides to the idea. (Light gravity means you might actually be able to wield the huge weapons you see in some MMOs.) Warlike nomads, lost cities, weird flora and fauna, strange and ancient technologies, burning rivalries, and light gravity all add up in my mind to ideal conditions in which to quest and explore. There are a few big cities, some outposts, and the rest is wild. (Science fiction from 1912 was about as current as our high school library was when it came to the genre.) The adventures of John Carter of Earth and Deja Thoris, Princess of Helium (the city on Mars, not the inert gas) take place in a unique setting that seems ripe for translation into an MMO.
How many people can you have swinging from vines in the same jungle?īut the author of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs, who also wrote the Barsoom series of adventures that take place on a fictional Mars.īarsoom! Now there is a setting for an MMO! I read that whole series in high school.
That would have the “everybody wants to be a jedi” problem in the extreme. Since I was thinking about MMOs, I started to consider Tarzan. (Conan, Tarzan, six hyper links of separation.) I like a game where I have some investment in the back story and content and, aside from the movie version, I am pretty light on the Conan mythos.Īs is my usual MO on, when it recommends other books based on what you are looking at, I click on a few of those, and they show other recommendations, some of which I click on, and eventually I ended up on Tarzan. I was on the other day ordering a copy of “ The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian.” I decided that before Age of Conan comes along I ought to get a bit of the back story.
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