Paragons...
20 May 2008 18:44![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_eggwhiteSo, I've decided that I'm going to listen to demand and do something vaguely pulpy as my next tabletop RPG project.
That said, since I currently have a distinct lack of coherent plot ideas, I'm going to design a setting first... then do a character creation session for a small player group... and then think about writing some plot. The setting and the characters should help drive it somewhere interesting.
I have many setting ideas, but I need some assistance from folks. I'm looking for people who were paragons, and who were known prior to 1940. I need to know names, what they would be considered a paragon for and a few tidbits about their personalities or background if possible. These paragons can be inventors, explorers, scientists, artists or whatever, but they must have really broken new ground... pushed back boundaries within their field and so on.
As a special case, I'm particularly interested in people who broke the mould, but are not well known for it, or who did things before those who were famous for doing them... The controversy over Newton & Leibniz and who actually came up with the fundamental theory of calculus (or the science of fluxions, as newton would have it) is a good example - two great minds and an argument over who got there first...
I've also got a particular interest in paragons who would have been still living by the 1930s/40s, or those who would be remembered by those who knew them when they lived.
So... give me your paragons!
That said, since I currently have a distinct lack of coherent plot ideas, I'm going to design a setting first... then do a character creation session for a small player group... and then think about writing some plot. The setting and the characters should help drive it somewhere interesting.
I have many setting ideas, but I need some assistance from folks. I'm looking for people who were paragons, and who were known prior to 1940. I need to know names, what they would be considered a paragon for and a few tidbits about their personalities or background if possible. These paragons can be inventors, explorers, scientists, artists or whatever, but they must have really broken new ground... pushed back boundaries within their field and so on.
As a special case, I'm particularly interested in people who broke the mould, but are not well known for it, or who did things before those who were famous for doing them... The controversy over Newton & Leibniz and who actually came up with the fundamental theory of calculus (or the science of fluxions, as newton would have it) is a good example - two great minds and an argument over who got there first...
I've also got a particular interest in paragons who would have been still living by the 1930s/40s, or those who would be remembered by those who knew them when they lived.
So... give me your paragons!
