Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?
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@Tempest said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
Everybody wins?
Until Mage gets involved, then only they win.
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@Thenomain
Yeah. It's weird. I have never experienced it IRL, having done Changeling as a tabletop game and played/ran it as a LARP for a long time. But people apparently love it. Maybe another of those 'must work out my real life issues through game' things that people do. -
Well here's what I both love and hate about Changeling:
- You have been put in a situation where you have absolutely no control.
- You have regained enough control to escape.
- You have a built-in support group that has one foot in the real world and one foot in the world that abused them.
Characters and situations write themselves.
What World of Darkness is (and always has been) particularly bad about, though, is they set up these situations and effectively make the characters superhero in relative power level and power variety and doesn't match the system to the theme they're trying to invoke.
This is kind of a known issue with most "do whatever you want" game systems. Eclipse Phase is amazing at escaping it and drenching every part of the system in the theme it wants. It's not my kind of system, but I appreciate it for what it does.
Anyhow, that Changeling attracts abuse addicts is about as surprising as Werewolf attracting steroid freaks or Vampire attracting control freaks or Mage attracting rules lawyers, etc. etc. It's another issue of not wanting to associate with a group because of the most negative of its fanbase.
Sometimes ya just gotta latch on and ignore the negativity because you're having fun.
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addendum: I think the Chronicles of Darkness line is genuinely trying to resolve this. Mage is no longer a rules lawyer's wet dream, and I'm hoping Changeling does the same thing tho from what I've seen so far it looks kind of gentrified (no pun intended) and bland.
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I lied; some pun was intended.
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No really, someone make a modern day Supernatural game where everyone has to play a hunky dudebro hunter or demon or angel and all the NPCs are the mother figures and girlfriends and plucky female sidekicks who are DOOOMED.
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I would play the shit out of Supernatural. You can even use Hunter: the Vigil for most of it.
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@deadculture Problem with Supernatural (and Hunter) is that it's so PrP dependent... there just isn't enough to do when you're not hunting monsters.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Wrong. You can drink beer and talk around your feelings in a manly fashion. The bar-rp WRITES ITSELF.
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@Arkandel Well, you can add a Hunters Hunted spin to it.
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@Arkandel said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
@deadculture Problem with Supernatural (and Hunter) is that it's so PrP dependent... there just isn't enough to do when you're not hunting monsters.
Second problem that is kind of related is that it's kind of a trash setting for a MU* thanks to population.
Like, a lot of people think the "small town where literally every other person is a woof or a vamp" games are kind of goofy, but you can still suspend disbelief. I would just find it incredibly dumb that monsters would waste their time coming to a town with like a hundred professional monster hunters all sitting around and picking their teeth with silver daggers or whatever just waiting to dogpile and stab something to death.
At what point does that reputation not spread?
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@Wizz said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
I would just find it incredibly dumb that monsters would waste their time coming to a town with like a hundred professional monster hunters all sitting around and picking their teeth with silver daggers or whatever just waiting to dogpile and stab something to death.
Hahah, thanks for the visual. That hadn't occurred to me before.
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@Bobotron said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
A lot of people also have problems with people playing Changeling as 'abuse victim: the RPG'.
If the mindset of the Social Combat thread is any indication, there are never abusive keepers. They are mega-friends with the changeling, who either bluffed their way out of their durance with crap poses and AMAZING DICE ROLLS, or 0 social stats and amazing poses. No combination of the two exist.
@Wizz said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
At what point does that reputation not spread?
When you fail to kill a thing and it can go spread rumors. Besides, this is just the home town base. All plots are ROADTRIPS, donchaknow?
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@Jennkryst said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
Besides, this is just the home town base. All plots are ROADTRIPS, donchaknow?
What made that fun in the show is that it was two dudebros just broin' across the country, a formula that eventually got reeeeaaaally stale and so they gave up monster of the week for plots that have just increasingly gotten bigger and dumber and will continue until the heat death of the universe.
I dunno, I can see it being a good time with a small group as like a limited-run kinda game.
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This makes me want to go to a Changeling sphere and remake my LARP Changeling, a Marine sniper who was taken to lead a toy army. He was forcibly rebuilt with metal, cogs, gears, pulleys and such and became a cross between a tin soldier and a nutcracker. He was relatively normal (and had something that the STs would probably ignore, in that his Fetch and him both had PTSD and when he came back his fetch ran off and he could relatively take back over his normal life), but his Keeper was an utter horrible monster (it had a fucking actor that was Boelzyn the King of Crawling Filth, IE the Rat King) and he had this horrific, deer-in-the-headlights kind of reaction to when his Keeper would be brought up (by other dumbass Changelings) or when Keepers in general were brought up or when something triggered his Lost PTSD.
Was good times.
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@Wizz said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
.I would just find it incredibly dumb that monsters would waste their time coming to a town with like a hundred professional monster hunters all sitting around and picking their teeth with silver daggers or whatever just waiting to dogpile and stab something to death.At what point does that reputation not spread?
It has! The Town is the monster worlds Cabin in the Woods! As long as they feed it, the rest of the world is their oyster.
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On a different note, Elder Scrolls. Jesus, Joseph, and Mary would I really like an Elder Scrolls game. There are so many options for time and place that are basically all super interesting and engaging, the lore is just that rich.
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@Wizz said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
On a different note, Elder Scrolls. Jesus, Joseph, and Mary would I really like an Elder Scrolls game. There are so many options for time and place that are basically all super interesting and engaging, the lore is just that rich.
10/10 would play for the Lusty Argonian Maids.
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I could do Elder Scrolls. The issue with Elder Scrolls is the issue of doing, say, Legend of Zelda. It's a franchise built on expansive settings, which MUs have a bit of trouble with, since you want to concentrate players in small areas so RP happens, rather than let them spread out. You would have to decide where to focus the grid. The Imperial City? Morrowind? Skyrim? One of the Daedric Princes' realms in Oblivion? Shivering Isles might be fun.
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@Ominous said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
I could do Elder Scrolls. The issue with Elder Scrolls is the issue of doing, say, Legend of Zelda. It's a franchise built on expansive settings, which MUs have a bit of trouble with, since you want to concentrate players in small areas so RP happens, rather than let them spread out. You would have to decide where to focus the grid. The Imperial City? Morrowind? Skyrim? One of the Daedric Princes' realms in Oblivion? Shivering Isles might be fun.
SKYRIM
FUS ROH DAH
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Which city, though? All of them?
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@Ominous said in Which canon property/setting would be good for a MU* ?:
Which city, though? All of them?
My money would be on a city per 'season' more or less. Like Whiterun, then Windhelm, then Morthal, et cetera. Might be fun to move the game through them so the player has to solve things* on each setting.
- Metaplot stuff. This might be a bit too much, though.
