@Ganymede I'm honestly likeing the name what about Beyond Virtuality: Nowhere? And I try to make it a bit more of a DC beyond feel. Take more elements of Batman Beyond and the like and mix it with the basic shadowrun premise to make something new. So Decking would be the same as shadowrun magic functions the same we have Elves, Trolls, Goblins, Dragons, Megacorps but with a bit more of that Beyond Feel So it's not QUITE shadowrun proper but instead a bit more comicbooky.

I could even take in some minor elements of kingdom come.

Maybe the reason some of the corporations are able to exist in a world that has people like superman is because they've got Corporate heroes on their side.

@MarsGrad said in Dark/Low-Fantasy with a Witcher-esque Feel:

Setting aside, I'm still shopping around for RPG systems, staff, and feedback so suggestions for any of the three are more than welcome! Thanks!

I'll provide the usual pieces of feedback which apply to most settings.

Pick the mechanics and world that excites and drives you the most. Until the project is well underway it will live and die on your interest level, after all. If your momentum dies, so will it, but staff and players will look twice at a creative, energetic game creator with vision and energy.

Keep answering the question "what will players actually do in this game once they log on?". An idea that looks amazing on paper but doesn't somehow end up translating to players having stuff to do may be a flawed one. For example is there stuff to do when no plots exist to throw monsters at PCs? Is there room for stuff to do for non-combat PCs? And so on.

Good luck!

Ive not had much time to work on the game lately, I do still plan on finishing it at some point. It might have to wait until the new MU engine is finished,

@popes I agree that this would be the best approach! The last thing I think anyone would want is to feel restricted in this way.

I want to emphasize the master/apprentice relationship like Dean Fogg has with all the students. I don't really want the students to be running around like crazy doing Marina-esque things right off the bat. They're going to struggle like early Quentin and Julia. Magic is hard. It comes from pain and all that.

I do like the difference with rotes and praxis though. I think that definitely applies with what happens post Brakebills South. It could also be some difference between hedge magicians and regular magicians.

@Ominous

Well, I kind of have basic questions. Like how long is a good length of time for a one-off. I don't want it to be too short, but don't want it to go for too long. Also, how can one balance monster CR with the party's Elle last, which will be eve level 3, etc.

@Jennkryst Licensed sex workers are a thing. They are not hospitality staff though. Also the plot of Ascension is not the plot of Euphoria. You def left earth.

@Derp Running up stairs of his own making.

@faraday

Absolutely. I think that if the web presence bit is the primary priority, the choice being between those is spot on, and I really do think that all told Ares is going to be the solution here. BUT! If there are priorities that haven't been identified yet because that's not how the project has been approached, it's really hard to tell.

We don't see a lot of discussion about the other platforms either, so I wanted to make sure that people who haven't been making games for 30 years are aware that further tools exist than the ones we're mostly using now.

You live! I'm so happy.

Your silly avatar of an overly cheery banana always makes me smile.

Also, your Affinity idea is a good way of ensuring people need others to get shit done rather than being an army of one.

I'm not sure what I think of CSPS. I need time to cogitate on it.

I'm bias because playing Leia on a game is on my bucket list, but it'll be how it'll be.

I took a very brief stab at Iron Man, but it was hard to fit him into the setting. I think in my case it was really my fault; somewhere in my concept I could and should have filled in some kind of magic-related fuckery to make the suit work as everyone expects it to. I had an idea about having Edwin Jarvis' spirit somehow get trapped in the suit and planned to play that out on grid, but it would've been better as a trait in play at the time of creation. I couldn't wrap my head around how to Iron Man with a suit that doesn't keep up.

It's worth noting that I've also never played a supers game, so it was a little bit of a long reach for me in the first place.

You can also just draw an ansi grid and update it if people really need it.
I would say anyone GMing would have first right of veto, followed by the players.

However, I've been playing 5E with just theater of the mind, and other than mapping (OMG just draw it already) its been fine. However, we don't have a lot of AoE going on.

@Mr-Johnson said in Building a new Supers Game:

It makes me properly sad to see that so many people have gotten so jaded and cynical over the years that a genuine statement of praise is seen to be something it's not.

It's not that I didn't think you were praising Runescryer & Co., it's that I disagree with the premise that games are inherently in competition with one another. But that's enough derailing for one day.