There was that Legally Distinct Not-Really Zombies game set in Canada where people got infested with worms instead of your usual virus and/or Last of Us Fungus. But it was tricksy.
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RE: Missed Settingsposted in Rough and Rowdy
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RE: Missed Settingsposted in Rough and Rowdy
Would a zombie game discussion go in Game Gab or Helping Hands?
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RE: Your first game?posted in Game Gab
@Ominous I PLAYED ON CROSSROADS MUSH!!! I actually went to the LARP they did <.<
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RE: Missed Settingsposted in Rough and Rowdy
I helped run a Zombie game awhile back because it really was a dream setting of mine. The reality was the constant threat of ZOMBIES EAT U combined with a lack of meaningful systems for resource gathering kinda made the whole thing get old rather quickly? Like, either you are fighting zombies, or youāre running from zombies, or youāre talking about how scared you are because you just fought / are going to fight zombies, and itās just a rinse & repeat.
Thatās the issue with a lot of themes, IMO. The setting seems cool, but thereās just nothing to do.
My missed setting? Cowboys.
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RE: Missed Settingsposted in Rough and Rowdy
@MisterBoring said in Missed Settings:
@Hobbie said in Missed Settings:
āwhy has no one made a Magic The Gathering MUSH?ā
My guess at an answer is: Because everyone on the game would throw a fit if they didnāt have a Planewalker Spark.
You could go two ways with that.
- Every player character is a Planeswalker.
- No player character is a Planeswalker, just use the Omenpaths like everyone else.
We can tack my personal loathing of FCs on to #1 and say that āonly player characters are Planeswalkersā so NPCs remain as such, aside from the occasional GMPC for plots and the like. Or, you go with #2, and Planeswalkers are these exceedingly rare Unknowable Things that are something like final boss territory. Whilst I prefer #2, for the sake of actually getting players, #1 is better. People like being super speshul.
Then thereās the system. Do you create something new based on abilities within the setting thatās more RP-oriented and using coloured/colourless/no mana? Or, do you go full ham and transpose the actual MtG card game in? My ego right now demands I fully code the card game and Iām having to argue with it that itās too much work right now lol.
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RE: Missed Settingsposted in Rough and Rowdy
@somasatori said in Missed Settings:
Numenera
I loosely looked at this because itās simple dice, powers just descriptors and all. It is a neat setting, you can build up dungeons and maps as people expand out from a central city (and newcomers arrive to). Each ruin can also be re-explored by people with new powers, so if someone who Employs Magnetism has gone through Ruin 4b, but was not accompanied by someone who Possesses a Shard of the Sunā¦ maybe there is a passage that can only be opened with SunBeams or whatever. Also fast travel unlocks and vehicle artifacts and stuff. I didnāt get super far, but the brainstorming is there, I will help add to the mix if other people want to do the thing. There arenāt really rules for player conflict, so that might pose issues. Things can be figured out later.
@Solstice said in Missed Settings:
Iāve spent the better part of the last year utterly gobbling up everything in Brandon Sandersonās Cosmere (Stormlight Archives, Mistborn, Warbreaker, etc.) catalog, and I am so freaking sad that there donāt seem to be any Cosmere-based games.
Having an already-established world with a well-thought-out magic system that you can do tons of interesting things with?
It would so be my jam, right about now.
My only problem is I want all the other Cosmere Investiture systems published immediately, to minimize the need for HRs, but I guess we could deal with fan-made material until things get published.
@MisterBoring said in Missed Settings:
Exalted (Iām not the biggest fan of Exalted, but still, where are the Exalted MUs?
It exists, and Volund has made the code open source, so itās possible!
@Raistlin said in Missed Settings:
Star Trek
We have that brainstorm in that other thread, Deep Space 69 for the pun but also āoh no, Romulus Star going to blow up, there is another Class (???) star that previously looked like it was going to blow up, but didnāt, we must study it to learn how to save Romulusāā¦ DS69 being set near unexplored space but also fighty area? More thinking can go in to this.
@MisterBoring said in Missed Settings:
LARP RULES WOD
Not just large group of players, but events in real time. Iām on record pushing thisā¦ not just WoD LARP, but any LARP rules.
@MisterBoring said in Missed Settings:
All of my favorite zombie media is just really interesting human drama and analogues to real world societal stuff punctuated by extreme gore.
Thatās because this is the proper way to do Zombie Drama, and exactly why Romero has said Shaun of the Dead is his favorite Zombie film.
@Ominous said in Missed Settings:
I am surprised there hasnāt been a primitive fantasy setting, a tribal culture trying to survive amongst the fantasy monsters and the ruins of previous civilizations. Though this would probably need to be more RPI-ish because itās begging for coded survival mechanics, like hunting, fishing, cooking, weapon crafting, clothing making, etc.
Would play.
As for whatās on my listā¦ I know L5R has had MUs, but I still want it. The brainstorming continues, but Mummy on CoH (I donāt have a problem, honest) has done a fair bit of distracting.
Something else that has been distracting and would also make for a neat MUSH setting? BATTLETECH(/Mechwarrior Destiny). I havenāt worked out how to make it happen, because the travel times are a big problem. Maybe if itās all in Solaris or another Gladiatorial system. Either that, or people part of different mercenary companies. Or a single company doing a campaign. But yeah, big stompy robutts.
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RE: Missed Settingsposted in Rough and Rowdy
@Gashlycrumb said in Missed Settings:
Just that. Itās a haunted town or something and some PCs are ghosts and some are not, and the ghosts do annoying ghost things and the living people are annoyed or frightened, or confused because they think somebody is not a ghost when they are, or vice versa.
Strangely this is the exact plot of the last tabletop Wraith game I ever played in. Itās really really easy to ignore the Wraith metaplot and it basically becomes this.
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RE: Your first game?posted in Game Gab
@KDraygo said in Your first game?:
If I recall correctly, I got into MUSHing in the mid to late 90s and my first game was SW1. This kicked off because I had finished reading the Heir to the Empire Trilogy (Thrawn trilogy) and I started reading more post movies Star Wars novels.
Oh man. I really enjoyed those books.
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RE: Your first game?posted in Game Gab
@DrQuinn said in Your first game?:
āthis placeā was a RP room. I want to say like Red Dragon Inn but I think thatās wrong
I was on one of those AOL chats first too! I didnāt think that counted, but yes. I donāt know if it was ever formalized or structured, and I donāt believe I was at Red Dragon Inn but it was something like that. I was also maybe 12 years old.
I missed all of WoD though. Just had no idea it existed and then it justā¦it just sounded bad, guys. You all tell so many horror stories constantly, so I donāt feel like I missed out!
WoD calls to its own
