MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't)

[GreenFlashlight]

@l-b-heuschkel said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@sixregrets I figured that was the joke. That his name is close enough that he's having a really shitty week because of that other guy.

Truth is, from over here, I wouldn't know one from the other. I have no idea who either of them are.

Matt Gaetz is a professional Jimmy Neutron cosplayer who wandered into Congress one day and through a series of comically implausible misunderstandings was declared a legislator in the federal government despite his obvious incompetence and moral turpitude.

[Too Old For This]

I would pay good money to see a 60s James Bond/Austin Powers/Evil Genius-esque game where everyone was a minion working under the Big Bad. Very tongue-in-cheek style, etc. where you end up facing off against agents from various world governments as they try to suss out your boss' Evil Plans (tm). Every so often in the arc the Bondian protagonist shows up and you just have to make a mad race to survive the inevitable fallout of the confrontation. And hey! If you guys win and the Bond is killed... that's okay, there's two dozen more empty tuxes just waiting to be filled by Secret Agents! And the best part is, you can have your main Super Awesome Secret Lair in some gorgeous but dangerous remote location... but minions can also be sent out into the world to perform tasks for the Big Bad! Maybe Sciencey Underboss Lady needs a ton of weapons-grade plutonium to power the Doomsday Device your boss is going to threaten the world with. Maybe Head of Security Dude has found a mole and your team has to locate and assassinate them! So many options... and if you die? Well, you were a cog in the wheel of Evil, roll up your next fodder bit!

Too many games these days are SUPER SERIOUS and have people getting crazy attached to their characters. I want to see one that rewards risk-taking and high rate of death. One where you aren't meant to win or lose, just have some crazy, wacky, hijinks-ridden fun!

[Ganymede]

@too-old-for-this

[Too Old For This]

@ganymede

We all know the cat was the true mastermind.

[Carma]

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[il-volpe]

@carma One of the John Wicks is the John Wick's Cat: A Little Game About Little Heroes guy, and that would make a fun MU.

PCs are cats defending their humans from the monsters that only cats can really see.

The Boogeyman is still under the bed.

Bloody Mary is still in the mirror.

All your childhood fears are alive and well, looking for you.

And your only guardian... is Mister Whiskers.

[Too Old For This]

@il-volpe I would play the shit out of that.

[Ominous]

@too-old-for-this

https://commanderbond.net/834/a-cat-named-blofeld.html

The cat is the mastermind, the villian to end all villians, the cat has to be Blofeld. Don’t tell me its unrealistic, this a world with Aston Martins that have ejector seats and parents who name their offspring ‘Pussy’ and ‘Plenty’, a cat craving world domination instead of a can of Whiskas is nothing out of the ordinary.

[il-volpe]

@too-old-for-this The trouble is that cats don't seem like the small-talk type.

I can see it being extra hilarious if you did it under a cozy small-town drama Northern Exposure/Picket Fences sort of thing where your human alts can do their dumb little human dramas and while you should not play your own cat it's okay to keep both characters connected so you can have your human react to the yowling fur-flying tangle as half the cats in town chase an invisible foe through the cafe.

[Jennkryst]

@il-volpe said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@too-old-for-this The trouble is that cats don't seem like the small-talk type.

The solution is to let humans understand cat-speak, Cinder Spires-style.

[il-volpe]

@jennkryst I wouldn't care for that.

Now that I look at it again, humans in Cat as it's written (more or less) could be heavy go. If you don't catch the invisible monsters when they're just scurrying about they can latch on to your human and give them symptoms of mental illness, and lay eggs and infest others so you could end up with outbreaks of all the humans getting jealous and paranoid or unmotivated and depressed.

[Wizz]

I would love to make a King of the Monsters-style game, where the kaiju are the PCs and they have like, human cults/creepy corporations/both dedicated to them as game resources the players can use. We'd track collateral damage and how much cities have had to pay to rebuild, etc.

Totally goofy but fun.

[Coin]

@wizz said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

I would love to make a King of the Monsters-style game, where the kaiju are the PCs and they have like, human cults/creepy corporations/both dedicated to them as game resources the players can use. We'd track collateral damage and how much cities have had to pay to rebuild, etc.

Totally goofy but fun.

A game idea I had was people playing spirits/ethereal beings/demons/angels/gods/faeries/whatever and you got to be ONE of those, and you were the patron for different people (PC you controlled) and they all worked in your Patron's interests (or against them, if you wanted to play some traitor storyline).

S'a great way to get rid of Conflict of Interest (your PCs are supposed to help each other -- they all work for the same Patron Being).

And you get to explore the relationship each "sub-PC" has to their Patron in whatever way you want. Patrons could control people via light possession, oaths, contracts, blackmail, sheer devotion and faith on their part, whatever made sense for the Patron.

[Kanye Qwest]

I want to make an episodic game with a different group of chars for each episode, all working backwards in time to discover what happened to a place to make it Big Evil.

[Lisse24]

Just finished Rhythm of War and I really, really want a Cosmere game - despite the fact that I generally avoid games based on books, shows, or movies.

[Arkandel]

@lisse24 said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Just finished Rhythm of War and I really, really want a Cosmere game - despite the fact that I generally avoid games based on books, shows, or movies.

I would love that (but I have the same reaction to most of Sanderson's works).

An issue specific to this is how many things we still don't know about how the magic system works, what the next Words are, etc.

More generally though when a MU* is based on books (and especially an unfinished series) where the focus needs to be taken off of the canonical characters and shifted over to the PCs, funny things happen in the transition.

[eye8urcake]

@greenflashlight said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Matt Gaetz is a professional Jimmy Neutron cosplayer who wandered into Congress one day and through a series of comically implausible misunderstandings was declared a legislator in the federal government despite his obvious incompetence and moral turpitude.

I've always said the guy looks like the reporter's kid from Family Guy.

[silverfox]

@lisse24

10/10 agree with you and @Arkandel !

I think it would be rather easy to make a game set in the Reckoners world though! It would be like a super hero game. Only NPC Epics, and everyone else is a nice "normal" human. Very PvE with different Epics vying for control You can ally with an epic, work against them, slice of life stuff if you don't really want to engage against the Epics. Shifting worlds as one Epic takes over from another (we're all tired of this city of steel? Damn, look at that Water dude that just flooded the damn city). Probably place it in an alternate universe altogether so that we don't have to worry about being true to specific powers granted by Calamity.

Man... I would staff the freak out of this game but know zero about setting something up. Le sigh.

[Lisse24]

@arkandel said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

@lisse24 said in MUs That We Would Love To Make (But Won't):

Just finished Rhythm of War and I really, really want a Cosmere game - despite the fact that I generally avoid games based on books, shows, or movies.

I would love that (but I have the same reaction to most of Sanderson's works).

An issue specific to this is how many things we still don't know about how the magic system works, what the next Words are, etc.

More generally though when a MU* is based on books (and especially an unfinished series) where the focus needs to be taken off of the canonical characters and shifted over to the PCs, funny things happen in the transition.

Yup, that pretty much lays out why I wouldn't make it, even as much as I'm hankering to play this game.

[SixRegrets]

I realize this is the pandemic brain talking, but an idea just rattled into my head about an alternate Disneyland MU sort of along the lines of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.