OK damn it, another idea came into my head.
The "Interpretron" sort of Bride of Envisioner, or the Mistress of What-if-inator.
The Interpretron would have lists of well known genre stereotypes - the One and Future King, the Mad Scientist, the Dark Lord.
Only it would give suggestions of how to interpret them IN OTHER GENRES. So it'd give you ideas like "Interpret the Dark Lord (Fantasy) in Film Noir" or "Interpret a Train Robbert (Western) in Science Fiction".
So the idea would be something to give one remapping ideas, to produce genre-crossing concepts such as one may see in Serenity, etc.
I don't feel like this idea is fully formed, but there's something there.
And no, I'm not giving up on the Fantasy Race generator.
The "Interpretron" sort of Bride of Envisioner, or the Mistress of What-if-inator.
The Interpretron would have lists of well known genre stereotypes - the One and Future King, the Mad Scientist, the Dark Lord.
Only it would give suggestions of how to interpret them IN OTHER GENRES. So it'd give you ideas like "Interpret the Dark Lord (Fantasy) in Film Noir" or "Interpret a Train Robbert (Western) in Science Fiction".
So the idea would be something to give one remapping ideas, to produce genre-crossing concepts such as one may see in Serenity, etc.
I don't feel like this idea is fully formed, but there's something there.
And no, I'm not giving up on the Fantasy Race generator.
