{"id":3781,"date":"2021-03-24T23:11:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T06:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2021-03-27T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T19:08:15","slug":"bruce-sterlings-shaper-mechanist-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/bruce-sterlings-shaper-mechanist-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Sterling\u2019s Shaper\/Mechanist Stories as an RPG Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After many decades and many re-reads, I still marvel at Bruce Sterling<\/a>\u2019s Shaper\/Mechanist<\/a> stories. They hold up. I\u2019m still discovering new things in them. It\u2019s an excellent setting for an RPG. Ben Iglauer<\/a> has got the ball rolling<\/a>. He suggests GURPS<\/a> but I\u2019d use Classic Traveller<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[31,94],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-rpg","tag-sciencefiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0B5DF843-BB4B-4162-B48F-FFB52F2DB4CF.jpeg?fit=1080%2C1080","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephaleo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}