How would you set up a setting like Sapphire and Steel, Veeky Forums? How would you portray the Time or it's minions? How would you portray the Elements even?
Sapphire and Steel
Robert Rodriguez
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Wyatt Hill
Bumping with images.
Ryder Cruz
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Jordan Ward
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Blake Cook
Buddy, great idea. Too bad all of 4 dudes actually know about this show.
What the fuck is a trans-uranic element anyway?
Jeremiah Wilson
The fuck show is this? Is that the guy from Man From UNCLE? Looks like him but I'm blanking on the name.
Cameron Johnson
Something that goes past Uranium on the Periodic Table.
Adam Scott
he's quite dead.
Basically you have to understand that in the 70s and 80s, the UK essentially had 3 TV channels: BBC1, BBC2, and ITV - ITV wasn't state funded and got its money like a regular TV channel via commercials.
Also, they kept trying to compete with the BBC in terms of programming, this included an attempt to make a "Doctor Who" equivalent show, which was Sapphire & Steel.
One of the Emma Peels and Hans Solo from TMfUNCLE were agents of something or other who were human shaped elementals with unique powers whose job was to stop Time and weird creatures from the beginning and end of time from fucking up the present.
To fuck up the present the evil Time monsters looked for "weak spots" to break through into the present, these weakspots were anachronisms from the past that people paid too much attention to, and as a result created haunted houses, which Sapphire and Steel had to then defeat using their elemental gimmick powers.
Its premise was so convoluted that it left no time in the programme to actually explain what the fuck was every going on.
Ayden Bell
Lots of Sapphire and Steel, which by the way is one of the first sci-fi shows I ever saw as a child and was hugely formative for me, so thanks for bringing it up, runs off complete nonsense. FATE is what you need to run said nonsense. Powers should be narrative and vague, broad in scope, rather than hyper specific - also, a lot of the weird trippy threats they face could be represented in a more abstract way through Aspects and environmental effects rather than as actual enemies.
As for actual gameplay and GMing, Sapphire and Steel is an investigative show. Every adventure, the primary focus shouldn't be fighting Time, but working out HOW to fight Time, by indentifying how it's fucking up reality this time, and countering it's plans.
Benjamin Lewis
This sounds a lot like TIME WIZARDS!!!