SJG is fervently hoping that someday they'll hook another licensing deal as good as the one that fell apart with Interplay. They believe that they need to provide exclusive rights for that, and they also believe that giving permission to MUSH projects would mean that the rights couldn't be exclusive any more.
I know I've asked this before, but has any game ACTUALLY been slapped with a cease & desist? IIRC a Matrix Mu got hit with one (or at least they said they were).
Double down
Kinda surprised you don't see more anime themed games. I know there's a bit of an aversion to it on NON-Anime games like WoD (which, I agree with).
A while back someone mentioned a Tokyo Ghoul game, which I got excited about. I'd love to see stuff like Robotech, North Star, Full Metal Panic, Tokyo Ghoul, Attack on Titan (Fs3 worthy), Blame!, Knights of Sidonia, Sword Art Online (Gun Gale baby!) etc etc
I may still check out that fighting themed game with Blazblue, KoF, etc someday if it's still around.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
@Ghost — There used to be what felt like 200 different anime games out there back in the 1990's, and every time you blinked another one popped up. AnimeMUCK, AnimeMUSH, RanmaMUCK, ElseMUCK, ShoujoMUCK, FictionMUCK, there was a MUCK solely based on Utena which I do not honestly remember the name of, BSSMM (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon MUX)...
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@Sparks Yeah I missed that bus, apparently. I imagine a lot of those people are on Multiverse.
My thing? I'm a genre queen. I'm not into Sailor Moon fighting alongside Gundam Wing or Tokyo Ghoul fighting the Hellsing Organization, which is why I never bit on Multiverse Crisis. I can wrap my brain around a central theme and build on it because the architecture/rules of the theme provide all the mooring points needed to write good stories in that one setting.
The moment it becomes Super Saiyan Goko fighting alongside the SDF-1 and Skull Squadron vs. Team Rocket, the Zentraedi, and the Angels from Evangelion my brain would buckle and think: "the fuck are we doing right now? Are we magic or tech or what? Serious or fan service? Harem bullshit or tragic teens?" Multiverse concepts are too sandboxy for me, personally. It becomes too "fan-fiction" for my tastes.
But a single-themed MU or a TT in an anime setting? I could do that. Also, for some reason that fighting game (even though it's multiversy) comes across less multiversy to me thanks to Marvel vs. Capcom, Injustice with Mortal Kombat, and Mortal Kombat with Leatherface. For some reason I can click with the concept of "Pick a Fighter" as a genre in itself because those genre lines have blurred and the scene ideas seem more single serving to me.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
@Sparks said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
@Ghost — There used to be what felt like 200 different anime games out there back in the 1990's, and every time you blinked another one popped up. AnimeMUCK, AnimeMUSH, RanmaMUCK, ElseMUCK, ShoujoMUCK, FictionMUCK, there was a MUCK solely based on Utena which I do not honestly remember the name of, BSSMM (Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon MUX)...
NeoTokyo MUCK was the big one I remember. I played there for a while.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@Auspice I would play a member of the Capsules for sure. Cyberpunk and Shadowrun go-gangs are my jaaaam
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man
@Ghost said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
@Auspice I would play a member of the Capsules for sure. Cyberpunk and Shadowrun go-gangs are my jaaaam
The characters I remember playing....
AndrAIa from Reboot (funny enough: once Staff decided sure, we'll allow non-Japan animation on a case-by-case basis when I asked to play her, the WHOLE REBOOT CAST filled out almost immediately)
Kyo from Fruits Basket
Trish from DMC
...I sort of took the 'anime' concept a bit loosely. >.> In my defense, there already was a Dante when I apped Trish.
@Ghost A bunch of games on the MUD side of the things have gotten C&Ds. (TSR/Hasbro used to do this in particular). Ask on mudconnector, they could probably come up with a whole list.
To name one amusing incident, Farside MUD famously got a cease and desist from Gary Larson's people.
I'm still waiting for @Cheesegrater's D&D place where there will be RP between plots and an OOC room where you can say 'fuck' without someone fainting. But I'd love to see a Deadlands game. I miss Buffy, but that system is so unbalanced someone would have to do a homebrew to get it to really work on a MUSH environment.
I think there are still a few floating around (single theme anime Mush/muck/muse)? One sailor moon joint, which may finally be dead(?), had a pretty good/quick system to get into play fairly quickly. I always thought it would be good for a simple comic/supers system. It was like you had three things and three levels to assign. You had one high power, one medium power, one low power - and the three things were attack, defense, and other (which included like heal or teleport or maybe just support?). High attack beats medium defense (sort of rock paper scissors); but you could work together so a high defense friend could shield or something. Not crunchy, but simple and to the point. More fluff than anything. When you set the powers, you took time to explain what it was and did, like high attack, like Silence Glaive Suprise (I had to google this), does some cool stuff with her glaive thingy, kicks major villain butt, shakes the planet, does cool side effect things, this that and the other describing what it looks like and does.
That was a tanget, but I think some are still out there, just niche and the players that want to play do? But like mentioned, I don't see them advertising here so much. I guess that's the weird thing, if people see a place with ~5 players, around here that's assumed dead but sometimes its the same group playing the place, they just know the times each other is active to RP. I've gone to a few and tend to find them rather welcoming, its just coordinating my time to get into RP that doesn't always mesh.
@Quinn said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
But I'd love to see a Deadlands game.
I will open this game, but only if there is a rule that all character PBs are versions of either Will Smith, Kevin Kline, or Salma Hayek.
@Cheesegrater Can I play the giant mechanical spider played by Salma Hayek?
@Coin said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
It really is very sad because The Strange is one of the most enticing game settings, really.
Isn't that owned by Monte Cook Games?
@Lemon-Fox said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
@Coin said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
It really is very sad because The Strange is one of the most enticing game settings, really.
Isn't that owned by Monte Cook Games?
I mean, given it's literally a game by Monte Cook and all...
But I just thought Coin was saying that MCG had the same sort of policy about online games SJG does, not that SJG literally had The Strange.
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@Sparks said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
But I just thought Coin was saying that MCG had the same sort of policy about online games SJG does
Oh, weird. They always struck me as very friendly and laid-back people when I had to work with them. Especially Monte Cook himself. Anyway, my mistake! I thought @Coin had the impression that The Strange was a SJ game.
@Lemon-Fox - I mean, I don't know if MCG does have a policy like that; I just thought Coin's post was saying they did by saying that using the Strange for something online would be as bad as trying to use a Steve Jackson Games line. Your reading might also be correct!
@Ghost said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
the fuck are we doing right now?
A Serious Fan-service with magitech and a harem of tragic teens, duh.
@Sparks said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
@Lemon-Fox said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
@Coin said in What Types of Games Would People Like To See?:
It really is very sad because The Strange is one of the most enticing game settings, really.
Isn't that owned by Monte Cook Games?
I mean, given it's literally a game by Monte Cook and all...
But I just thought Coin was saying that MCG had the same sort of policy about online games SJG does, not that SJG literally had The Strange.
They have similar policies, IIRC, but Monte Cook may be more lenient on their practices enforcing them. I don't know, it's been a while. But I remember having checked it out, re: The Strange, and being bummed out.
Delurking to throw a hat in the ring for an active Wheel of Time game. There's a series in development through Prime, right?
And didn't see anyone mention it, which tells me more of what I already know about interest in the theme, but I wish there was still an Elfquest game. Two Moons was the only one to manage consistent activity and was one of the earlier popular games. By the time I got to it as a second-wave MUSHer, it was player-active but idly managed by the wizstaff.
I've thought about making an embassy or whatever it is on Gateway for anyone who wants to play the theme in a drop-in, sandbox sort of way where the meta idea is that each scene is a story told through a spin of the Scroll of Colors (Rayek, Suntop or Timmain being the activator, if that much meta-setting is even necessary).
I love the Original Quest characters, but Richard Pini got a bunch of authors together to publish a series of short-story anthologies about each of the Ten Chiefs and those stories are some of my favorite reads ever in the history of evers. Popping in and out of those timelines, plus any other elf groups, would be great.
The Pinis have always been very generous with permissions, too, and I doubt that's changed. However, the fanbase, while devoted, is small. Sigh.
