"Top 5 Terrain Every SF-VSF-Pulp Gamer Should Have (Round 1A)" Topic

These are three genres. What is useful to the point of cliche for one of them will frequently be useless to the other two. Even within SF, all those ruined buildings and fortifications made from scrap so beloved of the post-Apoc gamer are no use at all to those who seek out new life and new civilizations.

are no use at all to those who seek out new life and new civilizations.

Robert,

Are those the same people who boldly go where no one has gone before?

Dave

who seek out new life and new civilizations.

I'd just be happy to find some civilised behaviour on my way to work in the morning.

But, I am pretty sure all the Treks ran into at least one (probably half a dozen) new friends living an war-torn postapoc like environs. So, I would argue with "no use", but maybe not "top five" for several SF subgenres.

Which brings up my agreement with your point (that applies to the other "top five" terrain polls, too), any of the genres listed have so many variants with different requirements as to make a generalised statement uninteresting. You might as well ask what are the top five terrain pieces for historical gamers …

Except a quarry in Wales. Everybody needs a quarry in Wales.

No Dave. They boldly go where no man has gone before. By the time they went where no one has gone before, all the bold had leaked out--along with the life, mostly. And they had more bureaucracy than civilization.

Point taken, etotheipi. But much as I love the 40 Acre Lot, I always winced a little when a civilization which had evolved completely independently from Earth turned out to have an architecture which was a dead match for Chicago, Atlanta and Mayberry, with or without wrecked cars in the streets. (I cut everyone a lot more slack for the "Arab Village" sets: building with stone or mud seems to be much the same everywhere. Brick and clapboard not so much.)

I am waiting to see whether some later round has "mad scientist's laboratory" as an option, though, along with "chief villain's underground lair." Those really do go a long way in all three genres.

oh no! Another of these endless polls?

Brace yourself, Asterix. Judging from the "pre-poll discussion" I figure 1A to 1H, followed by 2A to 2D, 3A and 3B and then in Round 4 I get to vote "none of these."

Oh. In case someone missed it, the 40 Acre Lot was in Culver City, and belonged to Pathe, RKO and then Desilu. First season or two of Classic Trek filmed exteriors there, so if you look close in "Miri" you can see the Mayberry Court House and the Atlanta Rail Station from GWTW. In "City on the Edge of Forever" Kirk is walking his girl past Floyd's Barber Shop, and I'm told after that if you watched Mayberry RFD one of the buildings was marked "21st Street Mission."

It's an inspiration to us all on the economical use of terrain.

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Hills, rivers, buildings…..same old same old

What is "Delelict "?

What is "Delelict "?

Marlene Dietrich reading the terrain list?

This poll makes me vont to be a-lone…..

Let's face it
I'm tired