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Games => Role-Playing Games => Topic started by: Mad Dr Jeffe on October 14, 2005, 06:37:30 PM
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Published or unpublished, what is your favorite rpg setting. Rules arent an issue here on this one.
Mine is the Superhero world that my buddy Charon made up for us, a world that was 1 part Wildcards, on part Marvel and all bang. In our supers world, the sups were all the patrons of different pantheons and each millenium they were selected by different gods to become avatars of the gods realm of power. Which is why Havoc, ended up becoming the Avatar of mischeif (under Loki) by not fighting a single fair fight. He went grenade fishing against dolphin man and rigged a whole city block to blow to kill vanguard. He beat uppercut to a pulp by hitting him with a lead pipe from behind in a dark alley. (all his power was built around boxing haymakers and uppercuts, useless when the unconcious uppercut had his hands cuffed behind his back when I dumped his limp body in the worst part of town) See it was like the final 4 if the winning team had just cheated cheated cheated their way into winning.
It was a rough and tumble world too, and though havoc may seem evil, he wasnt... just ruthless. He also swung between the role of villain and hero quite often. It was fun.
So a homemade setting was pretty much my favorite of all time.
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Sounds like x-men meets urban arcana.
I don't know what my favorite would be. Elric would probably be my favorite published setting, cause its from a book I like, but I've never got to actually play it, and the Chaosium ruleset isn't very good (and their d20 Dragon Lords of Melnibone conversion ruleset was kind of pathetic). Wheel Of Time might also be cool if you tightened up the rules, fixed all the lame classes, and ignored the books/made it more LotR/DnDish.
A setting based off either a Vampire Huner D or Death Dealer could also beat out Elric, but none exist and I know of nobody who's really tried. I ran a campaign with 42 based off the Coldfire Trilogy mixed with DnD that turned out kinda okay, not a favorite though. It did blend into existing DnD stuff insanely easy, practically just standard DnD (and I matched it up surprisingly close to the books), that was a plus.
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BESM does Hellsing... sort of similar I think...
Just curious, which Elric system do you use?
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Well I think Chaosium does all the Elric stuff (same company who does Call of Cthulhu). There is Stormbringer that uses the Chaosium system and Dragonlords of Melnibone that uses d20 system (but with funky chaosium rule stuff like the Stormbringer alignment system). I never have really played it, so I don't use any of them, although I have a few of the books and have read though them.
I heard about the Hellsing RPG, but I've never saw it. Hellsing is in modern times, Vampire Hunter D is in a sort of neo dark ages. There is some sci-fi tech still around (primarly made by the vampire overlords who used to rule the earth after the Apocolypse). Most of the monsters in VHD were genetically engineered by vampires, although most of them are based off real monsteres and fairie creatures that existed in the past (ie werewolves, although D meets a "true" werewolf in book 1 which is a lot stronger then the ones that were made genetically).
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Kid_Kilowatt, our old movie/rpg guy, developed a setting for BESM that I thought was absolutely killer. The idea was that the gods had become corrupted, and the act of worshipping could infect you with a communicable curse, like a virus. It's still in our archives, somewhere, and it's just overflowing with cool ideas. Very neat stuff.
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i'm a newbie in this forum and in d&d too...
eberron is really cool...
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Fell, didn't you guys not play the setting because it was too high fantasy and not anime enough for BESM?
And I don't really have a favourite. I like the setting of the homebrew i'm playing in now, which is being tested by 2 groups for a year of play before the authors try to push it for publishing. I like Eberron. The WoD is fun. The Mythos and 20's america make for interesting gaming. And so on. Depends on what i'm wanting to do/play.
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There were probably multiple reasons we didn't play that game, but yes, the lack of anime-ness was a big one. It's like when you're expecting pepperoni and you get Hawaiian--it's still pizza, and it's still good, it's just not what you wanted at the moment.
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I absolutely love Weryth of The Riddle of Steel. There's just such a diversity of culture and languages across the entire continent that practically anything is possible. I've been playing in it with my regular TROS group for about two years now and we haven't gotten bored with it yet, even though we've really only touched about a quarter of it so far. It's a rough world, loosly based on the medival world where magic is rare and very very dangerous. One of the things I like best about it though is that each country has its own point of view- there aren't any purely good or evil nations, which makes it more realistic.
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TRoS's setting reminds me of the Warhammer Setting for its paralellism (want to get a good idea of a place? Read up on your history).
This has its advantages, certainly, though I wasn't particularly impressed with Weryth.
Glad to hear someone else here is enjoying TRoS, though. =]
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The thing about Weryth that turns a lot of people away is that the book doesn't give you every single detail about the countries. It leaves a lot up to your imagination and what's in the book is really just a framework. I happen to really like being given that flexibility to create anything I like.
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I was turned off to Riddle of Steel when I tried to learn how to play from the creator of the system and left so confused and frustrated that I could have killed a cat.
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I'm with you, 42. The system is insanely complicated to newcomers. It assumes you start with a very good basic understanding of swordsmanship, or that you analyze the damage charts. Otherwise, you're likely to get wasted in combat (unless your DM is as inept with a sword as you are).
I think it's a very good system, overall, but there is that bit of a learning curve.
However, I'm not convinced that Weryth is much more than a tRoS rip-off of the Warhammer World world-building concept (and any other major derivative world).
I wonder what Jake is up to these days, anyways.
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I believe he's in Iraq at the moment with the Army... that was the last I heard at the very least.
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i don't have much experience playing roleplaying games outside of D&D. but i know i definitely want to try some eberron, though that is still d&d. d20 modern was actually really fun. It would be cool to try that again, then i can come up with another insane character.
My character was a field medic named dr. licorice, who was a sandslave (cyborg) who used a chainsaw. He also found a little buddy robot (like R2-D2), that he ended up chopping up for parts, named twizzler.
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That's right. He enlisted.
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Mine was the Dragonlance setting - we didn't run into any of the major characters, but our DM twiddled with history a little, and the vampire elf (our one ally in the game) was responsible for starting the Kinslayer Wars. Of course, he neglected to mention that until later .... :D
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Kid_Kilowatt, our old movie/rpg guy, developed a setting for BESM that I thought was absolutely killer. The idea was that the gods had become corrupted, and the act of worshipping could infect you with a communicable curse, like a virus. It's still in our archives, somewhere, and it's just overflowing with cool ideas. Very neat stuff.
What was that, the Plague Lands of Winterlight or some-such?
That was a fantastic setting. Truly inspired. Wish more had been done with it.
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My favorite settings, in no particular order:
1) Deadlands- Old West + Horror = Amazing fun! Best setting ever.
2) The Old World - The Warhammer setting. Grim, gritty, dark, and filled to the brim with black humor. It is a very specific fantasy world with a very particular feel. It's just fantastic, really.
3) Planescape - best weird fantasy setting ever. Deserved a better system than D&D. I still think this would be a fun one to convert to Savage Worlds.
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Can't believe I forgot planescape. It's main problems for me now is that it's hard to sell people on it, and that it's in an old and crappy system. There are resources online that upgrade planescape to 3.5 though. As in, proper planescape, not the manual of the planes passing mention.
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2 of those are mine... Deadlands and Planescape...
Im definately a sinker baby!
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instead of just talking about it, I'm actually linking you to The Plague Lands of Winterlight (http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=375)
I'm still not a fan of published settings, though the worst system I ever read, Chosen (http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=488) had one of the best setting potentials ever. Too bad they couldn't write or design a game.
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I think they made Planescape too weird, too comical. They don't even use the Great Wheel cosmology for anything but Greyhawk anymore, cause even when it is serious they end up still just too bizzare. Like some of them are pretty cool- Celestia, Abyss, 9 Hells, Pandemonium. But then others just get too strange, like a plane of giant metal cubes crashing into each other? And Hextor decides to live here why?
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I liked the giant cubes :)
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Modrons were a fantastic part of the setting.
...and were left behind in the edition change.
They used to represent Lawful Neutral, but stupid Formorians too over that job.
Stupid ants.
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They got replaced by something not so weird. But they didn't get completely left out, there is a 18 page web enhancement for 3.0 manual of the planes with stats and background info of the Modrons. It includes about everything ever written abot them, so I wouldn't say they got left completely out.
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I'm an old school gamer that's fallen out of the habit.
I have two favorite settings.
One- The old Element Masters gameworld (company forgotten) was a great world, maybe due to a sharp witted GM. Elf, human, dwarf and halfbreeds all hoping to stop a common invader. Plus the Half-Trons. Trons were the supper-sized genderless minions of the invader's shock troops. Born full sized from captured women, killing mom in the proccess. Half-Trons are from mothers that escape before the kid is big enough to be programmed (we hope) Incomplete, male, and grown to full thinking size in the last hour, with some of their mom's memories up to the last second of life.
In that world there's an invation into your magical world from forces of high tech power and some incidental other thingys get in too. You players are tapped by a great trainer to learn the lost art of Elemental Manipulation. THE most poweful form of magic. (It was lost when the other masters lept into the other demention to fight and the remainders were assasinated.)
My character, dwarven, lost an arm and foot to take out a great three headed dragon guarding a portal. The hand was replaced with robot parts and dragon armor.
When we got to the end of the set cenario and literally blew the invading extradementional bad guy off the planet we kept playing.
The other Favorite Gameworld is R.I.F.T.S. due to it's versitility and "it's all inside" element.
RPH