Posts made by Songtress

There are a few 'Magical Girl' games, being MahouMUSH and BattleFantasia, but yeah a lot of the problem is the split in the fan base if you go 'without FCs' or with, bot the games I listed allow FCs from various series, but also allow OC Themes.

If I were to create a Sailor Moon game It would personally have:

• No FCs ( as PCs) - Its set post Stars, and the Senshi are working to ressurecting other forms of magical girls to spread the work load - allowing for OC Themes.

• The FCs are around and a ( also the Shitenou live, they got reincarted at the end of Seasons 1 so they need to wake up be awesome male Knights...( Ala Sailor Moon Crystal).

• Rise of Crystal Tokyo- There are some kerfuffles with the timeline ( via Usagi meetin Neo Queen Serenity) (NSQ), so Crystal Tokyo's + the magical girls efforts are beginning to have an effect (magic tech, and improved life spans yadda yadda).

• The Bad Guys: Other Magical Girls- or rather 'Corruption' remember that 'Dark Sailor Mercury Arc from PGSM, its sort of like that. But there also literal Bad guys, entities and their generals (also with Magical people who've done heal-face turns-)

I think the problem with a Codex Alera MU* is that the 'cool stuffs' been done by Tavi, at least a bit. You'll have to create some way of people have Major & Minor furies, or something.

I didn't enjoy the series. The Concept was AWESOME but the series no so much.

This is why you have a fantasy MU* in a large city, the way the ancient game 'Ennersea' had, and then you do plot-room stuff for places elsewhere.

Please do! Perhaps it could start a revolution!
I love Nightvale's.. whacky horrorm I guess you could call it.
I mean everything is as a terrifying as FNAF 4, in NightVale.. but... man...

@Misadventure said:

Does the Off Screen System allow you to upgrade an areas economy, safety, stability, emergency services, quality of life, education etc? Be it a dystopic cyberpunk future or the Old West or the newly colonized island taken from the Fish-People, being able to upgrade the setting is something some folks like to do.

Agreed. I like seeing my 'plants' ( metaphorically speaking) grow. I think though a that if some kind of Off-Screen System were employed you'd need to make it a separate 'time scale' than the MU* Itself. ( Not sure how it'd work but...)

I suppose for me in a Fantasy MU* I don't want to play a brutal, harsh theme that has no hope of changing because my character and others work for it.

(I know a guy on an IRC channel that builds settings similar to Dark Sun, very dark, very harsh and pretty much wants to make the players 'understand ' ( his view point). And for me, I go play fantasy to get away from the doom and gloom of everyday life.

I think its just something you want to take into account. Building a game, that rewards players chances to struggle, and surivive and gain a foot hold, and then a handhold, until they climb that mountain!

I suppose its the difference between playing a Setting like Dark sun & something brighter.

@Arkandel said:

@Derp Way I'd do a Dark Sun setting is stick the PCs in an oppressive theme; a very powerful Sorcerer-King whose rule is lax, allowing plenty of corruption to seep into every level of local government. Characters would need to hide their true intentions from the law, play nobles working on their own agendas, work as Templars or be wizards on the run themselves.

Throw in an external threat (another slightly more powerful City-State is looking their way seeking to enslave/kill everyone) to give people a second long-term baddie and reason to not allow the inevitable resistance movement have a quick victory - unless that's also part of the plan. The challenge is to offer the latter things to do which are meaningful and go somewhere in a sustainable way without allowing them an immediate resolution.

By pinning PC factions against each other but giving them a good reason due to the dual threat to not simply go into an all-out war you can have politics (traditionalists versus reformists, loyalists versus rebels), variety of roles for PCs to play, and the unstable balance of power could allow for some interesting twists (if you have the chance to off your Sorcerer King, do you take it, since he's one of the main reasons the city's enemies hesitate to attack?). Etc.

I'd play that.
Good for a Tabletop game, but not nessacerily a MUSH also I think people try to get away from overly opressive settings. I mean the question is can the PCS make an actual difference?

I haven't read 'Neil Gaiman's "StarDust", I suppose I should, but perhaps drawn from that as well.

As someone who only has a cursoury understanding of OWoD, and less of the Mind eye Theatre, I'd say so far , so good.

I like the vibe, and the decadence motif ( something that in many ways onlu a few 'vampire only' games get down right.

I agree, use the Reign system of powerbases, ect. ( Cities and holdings, can be made out of the company system, so that way Landed Nobles (or anyone really a shop, could be a 'company'), has some stake in what they do.

IDEA: a game called "StarDust". which is Fantasy-space esque ( so Dune/ Fading suns), but without being of those things directly. For me Dune had their 'awesome concentrated into a great set of novels, but makes it hard to game.

Fading Suns had the opposite problem- hints of 'greatness' burried under its religion an technophobia.

Why not shoot for a game which carries more of a 'Dune Flavor, high-tech,science near magic awesome, throw in a little Dragon Age (religion and magic, and depth of flavor)...

and build something awesome?

Call me intruiged. Mostly because a focused oWoD game of Vampires & Mortals is what this world needs (There are only a few games that do 'single' sphere and so far the one I know of that's doing well, is nWoD good to see someone is doing oWoD.

Personally I'd be on board with a game that drew from say 7th Sea, or a Alternative History, with magic.
Games that Appeal to players:

Maybe a Solid Final-Fantasy-esque game with out /being set in any of the FF Worlds, but drawing heavily from them?

I wish there more of them. It seems to be a Fantasy downturn.

I like the setup of RtA's style but not nessacerily the... use of Amber, personally if you took it and did ' Lords of Gossamer and Shadow(spiritual sucessor to Amber, but different cosmology), with a 'central city' and travel could be a great game.

Or maybe something like Tenebrae... but not Tenebrae.

7th Sea MU* YES PLEASE. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! -- aww your running a real life game of it. and here I got super excited.

Ahh well. Happiness can still happen.

I am in.