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@BloodAngel Yeah. I’d say build your setting to make it clear that - especially if you’re setting things on the underground/outsider side - that while society as a whole is prejudiced and that has meaningful effects on people, in THIS neighborhood, people feel empowered to punch bigots in the mouth and dump them in an alleyway.
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@Pyrephox Also, lots of better reasons to hate others than such a simple mind set.
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@Testament said in New Concept:
@BloodAngel Could also just make a custom theme that doesn’t have to be based on anything historical while still retaining the 1920s aesthetic and eldritch horror trappings.
I really support this, because the idea of playing in an era where my character will be sent to a sanitarium for the mental illness of being gay, and where my character has no finances because women need men to cosign financial documents, is not at all appealing.
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@GF Right that is my issue with it, but I like the outsider theme RP. It works well with the Cosmic horror, but I don’t want to punish you in theme for being you or what you wish to play based on sexuality.
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@BloodAngel said in New Concept:
@Pyrephox It’s more I don’t want to get that one asshole, I have seen on another 20’s game that makes being a prick his whole concept. But this is a valid point, and it’s that tight rope I’m debating on while building the concept out.
This has nothing to do with the game. That guy is an asshole. He will find a way to play an asshole on your game, even if you alt-theme it.
Don’t let “that one guy” govern your game.
Not least because I’m with @Pyrephox and thought this shit sounded interesting till the “alt world” suggestion.
(Don’t let us two guys govern your game, either. Make what you want. But don’t make something that’s not what you want in response to a problem player you don’t even have yet.)
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I’d have to agree, make what you want. For me personally, I have little interest in historical games that has a theme around some idea of modernity, but that’s a ‘me’ thing. Which is why I’m usually the first person to suggest a custom theme because I tend to think they’re more interesting and it eliminates potential issues with types of players that, yeah @KarmaBum put it pretty well, that they’re going to be an asshole regardless of what you happen to do.
But again, you make the game that you feel like you would be happy with. That’s the important bit.
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@KarmaBum It’s why I wanted to post about it before I got too far into the project. The points being made, are my current debates and it is the logical ones to have on the time period.
I talked to a friend last night for a bit, we went back and forth with the debate. So I figured why not open it to the community itself, and see what they think is the right movement forward?
So, hence this post and didn’t want it to lead there, but figured it would come up quickly.
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@Testament said in New Concept:
But again, you make the game that you feel like you would be happy with. That’s the important bit.
This is the most important part. No game is going to be ‘right’ for everyone, but a game run by staff who are passionate about bringing the setting to life and running stories in that setting will always draw SOMEONE.
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@KarmaBum Yup. You don’t need to bend the setting. You just need to weed out the bad players.
Don’t let the edgelords win.
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@BloodAngel love love love this.
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@Pyrephox said in New Concept:
@Testament said in New Concept:
But again, you make the game that you feel like you would be happy with. That’s the important bit.
This is the most important part. No game is going to be ‘right’ for everyone, but a game run by staff who are passionate about bringing the setting to life and running stories in that setting will always draw SOMEONE.
My game is a mish-mash of various theme all wrapped around horror elements and post-apocalypse with an overarching weirdness.
I love the theme, I’m passionate about it to an almost unhealthy degree. And that has to be the thing you need to have. You have got to love what you want to do. If you try to please everyone and try to make a theme built for everyone, it’ll end up pleasing no one, especially yourself. And I don’t want that for you, or anyone who takes that step in game-running.
Even if you draw maybe five players to your game and they’re into the stories you want to tell, it will be rewarding. I promise you that much.
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Thank you, everyone! This was very helpful!
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Meanwhile, I’m over here going ‘lean into alternate setting’ because 1) Steampunk were mentioned, and 2) Steampunk Cthulhutech mechs fighting eldritch horrors. With a giant Tommy gun.
… but really only because of that. I’ve already got my Russian Ballerina/maybe magician, maybe cultist idea ready to go.
Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
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100% would play
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@Jennkryst …might be going that way in time!
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Empty Night had this idea of a ‘social contract’ that spelled out what the game would and would not deal with, and what PCs could and could not be, that I really like. It gets at this idea in a really useful way, I think.
https://emptynight.aresmush.com/wiki/policy
I like especially how it outlines what we will engage with that will be a source of IC tension, what we may engage with, but PCs need to either accept that it’s cool, or be opposed, and what is strictly off the table.
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@Tat said in New Concept:
Empty Night had this idea of a ‘social contract’ that spelled out what the game would and would not deal with, and what PCs could and could not be, that I really like. It gets at this idea in a really useful way, I think.
https://emptynight.aresmush.com/wiki/policy
I like especially how it outlines what we will engage with that will be a source of IC tension, what we may engage with, but PCs need to either accept that it’s cool, or be opposed, and what is strictly off the table.
I really like how they laid that out. @BloodAngel you should take a look at the link. The whole thing is a good model but the last section is germane.
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@Tat Thank you it’s a great way of phrasing it! Super helpful!
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Going with Urbs Novum Eboracum of the old gods as the name.
Cause any time I get to use Latin badly for Cthulu makes me smile. Simple like that!
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@farfalla Honestly that was the debate, thank you for the input. I mean it! I’m still on the fence about how to handle it, so any input is helpful.
