This is bitterly opposed by a small religious group, God Hates Frogs.

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other [elements] seemed forced, if not slightly misplaced (The Andersons Gang, to some extent).

I had ‘Bloody Bill’ transported to Mars for no reason known to himself or explained to the player, because that’s what seems to happen in a lot of fiction about Mars. John Carter famously gets there by concentrating really hard. I don’t think it’s ever really explained, and the Martians don’t seem to show any curiosity about it. There are a few less famous books I read about in Imagining Mars – a history of fiction about Mars – which have people who die on Earth reincarnated on Mars.

However, there’s no point referring to conventions which players aren’t going to get. That leads to people perceiving what you’ve done as lazy or illogical. A famous example of this would be the magic system in Dungeons & Dragons, which is based some stories by Jack Vance but, if you haven’t read those stories, seems very arbitrary and ‘un-fantasy-like’.

So I might drop ‘Bloody Bill’. He wasn’t intended to be a major part of the game anyway – he was just a one-off encounter, that would be treated like an encounter with Green Martians except that the Anderson Gang are always hostile.

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I got an interesting long comment that asked, among other things,

Air? Is Mars supposed to be terraformed to some degree, or are our characters in spacesuits constantly?

The setting is based on 19th century ideas about what Mars might be like: a world that is far older than Earth, but basically Earth-like. Mars was once covered in oceans, but is now a dying, desert world, and so its people have built a planet-wide network of canals in order to bring water from the polar ice caps.

The most famous example of fiction set in such a world is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom series, featuring the Earthman John Carter who is transported to Mars. The Red Martians possess advanced technology, but appear to have degenerated into a violent, chivalrous, fuedal society.

My version of Mars is related to Barsoom, roughly as the Dungeons & Dragons world is related to Middle Earth. That is, ‘my Mars’ is based on Barsoom, but I’ve freely changed the details and added other elements that I thought were cool or interesting (thanks to Adventures on Mars for this explanation).

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Should I keep posting about it?

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