| Pope Uncommon the Dainty |
Way back in the long ago, when I had to walk uphill both ways in the snow barefoot to purchase D&D3.0 books and the internet was full of really ugly webpage design, there was a small trend of taking fantasy settings and advancing them in culture, history, and technology to approximately the equivalent of the modern day, maybe with a few cyberpunkish elements. Dungeon and Dragon did a thing on Greyhawk 2000, which was fascinating if frustratingly light on actual setting information, and one of the designers of Legend of the Five Rings (was it Rich Wolf?) had a website called Rokugan 2000, updating that setting to a near-future setting, complete with stories, RPG rules, CCG cardsets, and mecha-piloting Unicorn Clan detectives.
So I've been thinking lately.....
What would Golarion look like in *cough*cough* years, with the advancement of technology and the increasingly entangled sociopolitical scene that comes with all of it? Nidal would have to still be around ~ it's already twice the age of Earth's recorded history! ~ but I can imagine it accidentally creating a World War by seeding its advisors throughout the various governments of the world and binding them all together in a complicated mesh of treaties/alliances that only require the murder of a relatively obscure noble to make explode.
Galtan troll farms mucking about with Iblydan elections for hero-gods, Segada-as-Hollywood (but better, cuz duh), ... What do y'all think G2K might look like?