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Alternate Realities => What's this? => Topic started by: Fellfrosch on August 25, 2003, 05:35:10 PM
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I know you've all been raring to go o this one, so here's your chance: what game do you want to see replace Patriot City? Whether you want to be a GM or a player, state your ideas here.
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Who's running it? What are the options?
I'd play in a LOTR game, or any other fantasy. I want to be a player.
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I'd probably play in anything, but D&D, WoD, CoC and Nobilis (games i own) would be favoured. Either position as well... D&D most likely GM position, though dont hold yer breath.
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Keep in mind that I have an opening for the Grey Knight as soon as EUOL admits that he's already stopped playing him. You can be more tragic than EUOL is about it, or you can continue the zany ignorance.
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I'd be happy to GM a new game, but be forewarned that sooner or later the same thing will happen--my attention span will run out and you'll all be eaten by dinosaurs. Still, Patriot City lasted several months and, if we structure it right, we could do a full story in that time.
My preferences, for playing or GMing, would be D&D, LotR, or Star Trek (a Star Trek crew could be pretty fun, actually).
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oo! Ooo! I have an idea. How about Pirates/Privateers! We could use sea-elves and land dwellers on ships! We can fight giant kraken! We can wear bear feat and sing dirty sea chanties about halfling strumpets!
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I would happily run a small Deadlands game, using the Savage Worlds system. It'd be mostly freeform.
Old Western B Movie Goodness!
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I don't like the Western genre.
I'm tempted on the TGK offer. Not only can his name be encapsuled in a 3 letter word, but playing the part of a demented idiot would be supremely easy - most of my friends regard me as such a person. And, even better, he apparently doesn't remember anything, so i dont have to read the entire story until now. So yeah, let me think about it.
LoTR would be cool. Any game where i can play a dwarf would be right up my street at this particular moment in time - the dwarfs are pretty much the scots in LoTR in any case. (Elves are English, humans probably Yanks... go figure that in light of Iraq and so forth).
Star trek would be fun, especially since i can finally do the much needed Trek character. You know all those guys who say they adore 20th centure culture and so on? How come there is no John Woo fans? Security guys diving sideways through automatic doors with a phaser in each hand :D
And in IM me and Mr P agreed that CoC and Humour games are best as one off or very short campaign stuff inbetween other games, so those are probably not great. Might be hard to get the atmosphere going on a forum as well.
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any game with monkies are fine with me. I'm actualy surprised that the game managed to keep going even after the first hick-up. WEG starwars is allwayse a fan favorite and it's easy to learn. If no one else jumps in to GM (ie Slant or Mr. P) I'm tempted to run an empire campaign. Which would probaly take place sometime around a new hope and Empire strikes back.
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Monkey pirates fighting dinosaurs!
Actually, I was fairly serious about the privateer idea. I just got a little silly when I started thinking about the wenches. I think it'd be fun to be a pirate. And a monkey-like pirate would be great on a ship, what with all the running up and down the rope ladders and masts and such.
Perhaps BESM mechanics and a custom setting. Heck, Decipher or d20 or Feng Shui mechanics would work. I'd be happy to collaborate on a setting, but as I siad, I don't want to gm. I want to be a player.
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kinda pirates of dark water meet Dinotopia? Anyway what if on the starwars one there are two groups of players, one rebels and one empire and they're storys cross and such. The two different topics will only be avalable to those that are supposed to be reading them (until the story progresses past that part) so that way they cannot spy on each other?
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I wouldn't be opposed to running a pirate game using Savage Worlds. Their pirate setting book, 50 Fathoms, comes out soon, but I'd probably not use it for anything but inspiration as it has some kinda silly fantasy races in it.
But yeah, I'd run that.
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The Star Trek and Pirate ideas both sound fairly interesting. I'd be interested in playing most of the suggestions here. I do suggest that if some type of commercial rules are used, to avoid relience on the players knowing the rules well, mainly because I don't have money to actually go and buy books. So count me in as a player. I'm too busy designing an entirely different forum based RPG for some friends I have to come up with ideas of my own.
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Since, traditionally, our forum games have relied on the GM running the mechanics and the players not worrying about anything (but having sheets, so they can at least get an idea of their capabilities), then not knowing the mechanics of a system is not a particularly troublesome issue.
Now, I was NEVER serious about the dinosaurs, I was just getting into Fell's recent mood. However, if the people WANT pirates of darkwater v. Dinotopia, who am I to object.
Mr. P, I've never played Savage Worlds, but as I just said, that's not a major problem round here. I'm just wondering if you're really volunteering to run one, and if so, if you want me to help create setting. Note that my ideas would be 100% independent of anything SW demands, but I don't know if that's important.
Probably we could converse fastest by email, once I get to work (in 3.5 hours), that address is [email protected] if you want to start discussing something. Again, I do NOT want to run, but I'm happy to help design a setting (complete with potential plot hooks
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I like the pirate campaign idea. That sounds fun.
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Yay Pirates! I just hope we won't have to suffer an avalanche of Captain Jack Sparrow clones.
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I can honestly say that I was not even THINKING about PotC when I brought up my idea. Pirates of Darkwater was closer too it.
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I for one would be all for a modern Hong Kong setting involving rival Triad gangs, crooked cops, vengeful family men, and killers for hire in black leather and shades: the whole John Woo treatment.
Some other ideas off the top of my head are:
Elf demon hunters in the New Victorian age of the 42nd Century (kinda an inside joke).
80's style horror film where the players are all teenagers trying to evade and destroy a seemingly immortal killer who has supernatural powers.
Personally I LOVE westerns, but I would put a different... umm, slant on it and make it maybe a Gothic Western.
How about a pulp-era game where the players could all be lone-wolf mystery men who are forced to band together to stop an evil mastermind from uniting all of their combined enemies and taking over the world.
What would you all think of a Marvel or DC Universe game where we all played the big guns (Avengers or JLA)?
Two words: Halfling Ninjas!
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Two words: Halfling Ninjas!
*shudder*
But otherwise some good ideas.
However, the triad one is (sort of) being done. That's what "Back for Seconds" is about.
I think I like the LXG best of all the others
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Yeah... the lone wolf one has promise. Playing an anti hero, who is busy associating with other anti heros could make for funky RPing.
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Yup, I was serious about running Pirates. Savage Worlds can handle just about anything I can throw at it and Pirates! fits its style very well.
Which is why there is a pirate book coming out for the game :)
More info is in teh review I wrote here and on pinnacle's website (demo rules, free adventures, etc).
I was just going to create the world myself, but if you want to do it, Saint, I'm all for it.
But I'll run if everyone wants me to, no problemo.
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Well, I'm not going to do any GM work if someone else is.
But yeah, I want you to run the pirate game. We'll see if we get more votes.
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I like the pirate ideas. I have an RPG book for pirates. It's the d20 version for the 7th Sea. I really like colonial exploration stuff.
I also like the Star Trek idea. Could I play an infinite number of Red Shirts?
Deadlands would be cool also. I'm not big on Westerns, but I've lived almost my whole life on the West so you think I would be a lot more open minded to it. Course, Deadlands has a cool Sci-fi twist to it.
I would rather be a player, since recently I'm usually the GM.
Other things I think would be cool:
1920's superheroes.
Farscape (This is just for fanboy suppport.)
Terraforming Spacers
Prometheus got me on small Mecha RPG world kick
Modern Fantasy
1920's Cthulu
Modern people sucked into a fantasy/sci-fi world.
Some sort of Bestiary campaign.
So I'm willing to try a lot of things, except pokemon, things involving Satanic rituals, and anything to do with Jane Austin. I guess those are all the same.
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Admit it 42 you love to act out Jane Austin books. But I think a Jane Austin theamed RPG with dinosaurs would be fun, the players would be the dinosaurs who would get extra EXP for eating a woman that was postulateing on the stupitiy of men.
But I'd love to do a pirate adventure, but 100% fantasy dosen't sound appealing to me. Set it in a tech level of the victorian age with gun powder and such. But western setting would sound cool too, especiuly if it had dinosaurs....with monkies.
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If we do pirates, would it be fantasy or historical? And if fantasy, would non-humans be included?
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Pirates is cool with me, but would it be Hollywood style, swashbuckling rogues with hearts of gold like Captain Jack or more of the real world, desperate and bloodthirsty sea killers?
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Remember folks...Deadlands isn't just western. It's a mix of western, horror, steampunk, and kung fu. Sure, it sounds like a mix that would never work, but it does, and well. I've run a lot of DL one-shots and the players are still asking me to run more for them. Once you taste Deadlands, you never go back... :)
As for the pirate game. While I would prefer some fantasy elements: rare magic, maybe some undead, giant apes, etc, it certainly won't be classical fantasy in any sense. As stated earlier, probably more of a Pirates of Dark Water level of fantasy. You'd still have black powder of course.
As for the feel of the game, well, that depends on the players. Do you all want a cinematic, swashbuckling tale of derring-do on the high seas or a gritty, barnacle-ridden, stab-your-friends-in-the-back then die of scurvy, more true to life pirate game?
I prefer the former, but I can run either.
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The former.
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cinematic. I like the light fantasy. I want to play a monkey like guy who can climb all through the rigging and swing around and stuff.
Note: I don't want to play a monkey, or an ape. I want to play an intelligent humanoid with monkey-like traits (opposable digits on feet, longish arms, etc).
Let me know if that doesn't fit into your plan.
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cinematic. And I want to be the Captain's mistress
I'll settle for a lower ranking officer, I suppose.
Let me know if that doesn't fit into your plans.
Also, how many players are you looking for? I think my husband would enjoy it as well.
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Oh, that character idea does have other skills.
Just in case anyone was wondering.
/me goes and hides
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The former idea gets my vote. Just as long asd the word "Arrrr!" gets used a lot, I'm happy
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The easiest way to organize this campaign (or any, for that matter) is just to assume we're all part of the same crew, with maybe a couple characters recruited more recently (or impressed into service rather than meeting death from our scurvey crew when we savage their ship and pilfer their cargo)
Just throwing out ideas. I want to BE the captain who has a mistress. And I want her to be a dinosaur who looks like Angelina Jolie.
Just kidding. I see my monkey-boy more as a loyal officer, not anything like first mate, but someone who is trusted and dependable and very capable, but not necessarily the best fighter (though that might be a mistake seeing how Greg kept getting screwed). In d20 terms, he'd be a rogue. Decent enough with a sword, but that's not his focus. Just to finish him off, he'd have great observation skills and intuition. Again in d20 terms: high bluff, sense motive, etc.
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I'll exercise my deific authority and make a final judgement: we shall begin a pirate game, and Pleasington shall be the GM, and he and SaintEhlers shall work together on a world that uses Savage Worlds rules and vaguely resembles Pirates of Dark Water.
Pleasington, you pick how many people you want in your game. If there are more interested people who can't get in, we'll start a second game--maybe Star Trek, as that seems to be the next most popular choice, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. After which, or during which, the pirates will burn said bridge.
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Well, unless Fell nixes the game, this deserves its own topic now as we work out the preliminaries.
Post the rest of the pirate stuff in Avast Ye!
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Avast ye indeed.
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So what are we talking about?
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ARRR!!!! BURN THE BRIDGE YE BARNACLE-BUTTED LAND LUBBERS!
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You know Jam if you need a place to run your forum RPG fell can probaly be persuaded to make a topic here for you.
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I'm actually setting it up right this moment. I'm using the avidgamers site, since my friend and one of the players convinced me to. If anyone's interested, it's at www.avidgamers.com/behemoth
Thanks anyway, though.