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@MisterBoring I don’t actually know anything about Monster Hunters, but - based on the name - that’s probably a fair assumption.
Most of the material is focused on the mechanics of forstalls, weapons, monster abilities, hunting grounds, etc. And the whole thing came out of episodic YT content that was basically a guy describing a Monster of the Week.
There’s more to the world when you get into the goals of different factions, but the TTRPG is very much designed around groups going out and hunting monsters.
If a person was trying to set up a western sandbox, I wouldn’t recommend this IP at all. But if a person was interested in having focused or episodic adventures, this is a great place to start.
@MisterBoring said in Missed Settings:
Wild West microcosm in a dome floating in space, psychic powers, secret alien schemes…
This doesn’t excite me the same way. I love Dark City. I love cowboys. I don’t love them combined. But it’s a “different strokes for different folks” situation.
A Dark City game would be dope, though.
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@Solstice said in Missed Settings:
I’ve spent the better part of the last year utterly gobbling up everything in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere (Stormlight Archives, Mistborn, Warbreaker, etc.) catalog, and I am so freaking sad that there don’t 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.
There’s an actual RPG for this. I haven’t looked into it cause I’m in the middle of the series and I don’t want spoilers, but this was also on the top of my list for settings/games I’d love to play.
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@KarmaBum said in Missed Settings:
A Dark City game would be dope, though.
You could easily do a Dark City themed game really using any system that had mechanics for horror and psychic powers in it, and just sort of handwave the abilities of the actual aliens.
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@Warma-Sheen said in Missed Settings:
There’s an actual RPG for this. I haven’t looked into it cause I’m in the middle of the series and I don’t want spoilers, but this was also on the top of my list for settings/games I’d love to play.
Having just finished playing in a short run (6 games) of the Cosmere RPG (GMed by someone who regularly rereads the novels) with my tabletop group, I can say the following non-spoiler critique of the game:
It really really requires you to have a very good working knowledge of the novels or you’re just going to be confused a lot. Our group had a wide range of familiarity with the Cosmere setting ranging from never read anything Sanderson has written to people that have read all of his books multiple times at this point, and the takeaway was that only the people with the most working knowledge of the setting actually enjoyed it the most. Most of us stumbled through the cultural aspects of the story and just chose to focus on finding and defeating the bad guys and the mechanics of combat rather than trying to be part of the world.
(My knowledge of Cosmere is next to none, and I made a character that was super useful but mechanically monotonous.)
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@Warma-Sheen said in Missed Settings:
@Solstice said in Missed Settings:
I’ve spent the better part of the last year utterly gobbling up everything in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere (Stormlight Archives, Mistborn, Warbreaker, etc.) catalog, and I am so freaking sad that there don’t 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.
There’s an actual RPG for this. I haven’t looked into it cause I’m in the middle of the series and I don’t want spoilers, but this was also on the top of my list for settings/games I’d love to play.
There’s actually two! One that came out after Mistborn Era 1 finished and is kind of FATE-lite (if memory serves, you only get +1 for every aspect you tag, but they are automatically tagged, you don’t have to spend points on them? I haven’t read it in a while because…) and the new Cosmere RPG that the kickstarter will finish delivering to me any day now, I’m sure.
@MisterBoring said in Missed Settings:
It really really requires you to have a very good working knowledge of the novels or you’re just going to be confused a lot.
I mean, sure, but that’s also the thing with any setting. I tried to dump Shadowrun players on an Astral Quest into the Codex Alera and everyone was also confused. Play Star Wars with any
Grey Jedi Enjoyerchild whose never seen it, and they will boggle at why Force Lightning is bad if all you’re doing is using it to charge a battery.Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
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i miss superhero games that were, like, actually using comics and the Marvel or DC or, whatever universe and not just a really vague idea of comics but mostly movies plus thirty different cartoons from 40 years ago and maybe this book i read and what about this one video game and and and and
anyway there’s a dumb comic i love called IDES OF BLOOD and it’s about Julius Caesar conquering Dacia because vampires are real and then there are openly vampires everywhere in Rome and that should be a WoD game
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@Prototart said in Missed Settings:
anyway there’s a dumb comic i love called IDES OF BLOOD and it’s about Julius Caesar conquering Dacia because vampires are real and then there are openly vampires everywhere in Rome and that should be a WoD game
You mean this?
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no in this Caesar returns from the dead as the reborn Dracula and fights a Praetorian vampire by turning into a werewolf-werebat-weresnake and stakes him by throwing a crucified prisoner, it’s definitely oWoD
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@Jennkryst said in Missed Settings:
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.
Tricksy how?
For my own contribution, I would love to see a Dystopia Rising MU. I loved the hell out of that LARP when I was young and could run around the woods all night.
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@InkGolem said in Missed Settings:
@Jennkryst said in Missed Settings:
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.
Tricksy how?
In my experience, the head ST disappeared at a critical time in player retention, and the rest of us had nearly nothing to RP about. If something was going on behind the scenes, I was oblivious to it.
I don’t remember its name, and it seems nobody else knows it either. The game closed in less than 2 months.
Game-runner of Silent Heaven, a small-town horror MU.
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@Jumpscare The game-owner was Tek with a new handle on. The game went under a few weeks after they were outed for lying to everyone.
- Are you Tek? https://brandmu.day/topic/53/mu-peeves-thread/1490?_=1760278262487
- “I wasn’t lying; I just wasn’t telling the truth.” https://brandmu.day/topic/53/mu-peeves-thread/1512?_=1760278262489
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@KarmaBum said in Missed Settings:
@Jumpscare The game-owner was Tek with a new handle on. The game went under a few weeks after they were outed for lying to everyone.
- Are you Tek? https://brandmu.day/topic/53/mu-peeves-thread/1490?_=1760278262487
- “I wasn’t lying; I just wasn’t telling the truth.” https://brandmu.day/topic/53/mu-peeves-thread/1512?_=1760278262489
Oh, thank you for finding that! It explains everything.
