Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?

Kanye Qwest

@Arkandel Nice, but all female characters have an expiration date. It's just a bunch of hunky dudes and women who get too close to them and burn up, like Icarus and the sun.

deadculture

@Arkandel Supernatural would be an effing awesome setting.

Arkandel

@Kanye-Qwest Yeah, but that's the show's focus on its long term bromances (the Winchesters, plus Castiel+Crowley). A game could take all of those toys which aren't in any way inherently tooled for men - witches are damn powerful (hell, the most powerful recurring cast member is Rowena and she's quite alive and well), hunters can be just as easily female,the hosts for Demons and Angels can be either gender, etc.

Cupcake

@Kanye-Qwest said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

@Arkandel Nice, but all female characters have an expiration date. It's just a bunch of hunky dudes and women who get too close to them and burn up, like Icarus and the sun.

/pours a 40 for my girl Jo

Kanye Qwest

@Arkandel Supernatural is just Paranormal Bromance Soap Opera. I mean yeah, you could have fun in a setting where you take that out, but it'd just feel like a WoD game, maybe.

The whole point of supernatural is that the FATE OF THE UNIVERSE hinges on bromance, and manly feelings.

Kanye Qwest

BROMOTIONS, if you will.

Thenomain

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Charmed
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Cupcake

I will see your Charmed and raise you Lost Girl.

Arkandel

It's almost as if both genders want to have their buddies around when they fight evil

Bobotron

@Arkandel
Someone tried a Supernatural game set in the 40's in applachia focused on the Men of Letters. I don't think it ever got above 10 players.

Wavert

How about a true swords and sorcery setting in the vein of Robert E. Howard? Toss up a HyboriaMU, get rid of Conan (long dead or busy sailing the seas) and you've still got a rich world filled with all sorts of gritty potential.

Thenomain

@Cupcake said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

I will see your Charmed and raise you Lost Girl.

Well yeah, but Charmed was first. (Maybe not the first first, but before the others.)

Lost Girl: Canadian Charmed.
Supernatural: Dudebro Charmed.

Mind you, Ksenia Solo. That is all.

Chet

An air combat MUSH, something like UN Squadron/Area 88 or Airwolf.

Or, a giant monsters MUSH, like Rampage or Monster Island.

fatefan

@Chet Re: giant monsters...I toyed briefly with the idea of making a game based on the comic series Kaijumax, which is basically Godzilla + Ultraman + HBO's Oz.

Seraphim73

@Chet I would love to see a Crimson Skies game. It would combine my love of the '20s-'30s and crazy air combat action.

Arkandel

@Bobotron said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:

@Arkandel
Someone tried a Supernatural game set in the 40's in applachia focused on the Men of Letters. I don't think it ever got above 10 players.

I, too, am shocked that wasn't an instant popular hit.

Cupcake

@Chet There was once a Pacific Rim game, but it fell off because there were players who wanted to be Jaeger pilots while refusing to watch the source material. And playing drift compatability can be challenging.

Chet

@Cupcake I'll see how my experiment with original theme games goes, once I get this little project of mine rigged together. The world building is very rewarding, from what I've noticed so far, whereas taking an established theme and placing it into a MUSH seems like a job you're under pressure to rush into development. Fictional source material could be the curse in MUSHing, or it could be a necessity, I'm not certain yet.

Bobotron

@Arkandel
Nice snark. I was more meaning that 'there was a game based on this'.

ETA: Magic the Gatherring. Play as a wizard? Play as a dude/thing summoned by a wizard like the early MtG books presented the armies?

Ominous

@Bobotron

I would play a server set on Ravnica, Theros, pre-Eldrazi Zendikar, Innistrad, or Kaladesh.