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MisterBoring

What about turning the West Marches into a game somewhat inspired by The Last Ship? The main section of the grid is a large naval vessel with plenty of room for people to spread out and do their social RP, but the plot bits come when the ship moors somewhere, and the grid extends to include a chunk of land, or another abandoned ship, and the PCs organize to go deal with the ST plots and find resources. If the ship isn’t moored somewhere, the exits are just removed and the players have to stay on the ship.

Pyrephox

@Ominous I would LOVE THAT so much. There was a game that briefly tried something like that set in London, but it never quite launched. But yeah, a society of spooky investigators, whether it was ‘official’ or not, would be great if you can find a way to keep the ‘missions’ coming, knowing that 80ish percent of players will not run anything.

Jennkryst

@MisterBoring said in Missed Settings:

If the ship isn’t moored somewhere, the exits are just removed and the players have to stay on the ship.

This is smol boat/helicopter erasure!

Ominous

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@bear_necessities said in Missed Settings:
Take the guiding principles behind a West Marches game for this: make the standard town area be your home base where people get refueled and are generally safe. The plots and scenes run by GMs/Keepers/player-STs-if-you-allow-PrPs are where the danger comes in. All of the in-town stuff is handled by players and any player ST reps you have, the only staff involvement in plot stuff happens when you assemble investigatory teams to search out the Mythos lore. You wouldn’t be running a town MUSH, the players would just be doing their social RP and whatnot while you occasionally (weekly or semi-weekly basis) come in to run mythos stories.

This is what I was going to say. In my vision of the game, the base the agents are stationed at is like Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project, Groom Lake (Area 51), or something. The base is the town and has facsimiles (bars, restaurants, a theater, etc. staffed by soldiers or their family members) and no one leaves except for missions, until they and their family, if any, are “decommissioned”. Mages, vampires, werewolves, etc. can’t be decommissioned; well, they can, but the agency uses the sun, silver bullets, etc. instead, which probably adds to the uneasiness people have around their supernatural allies. Just how allied are they, when there is no opt out option?

Evilgrayson

@MisterBoring Stargate was a fantastic setting for similar ideas. Lots of RP in the base, occasional scenes further afield, and missions to the planet of the week.

dvoraen

@Evilgrayson said in Missed Settings:

@MisterBoring Stargate was a fantastic setting for similar ideas. Lots of RP in the base, occasional scenes further afield, and missions to the planet of the week.

Stargate is practically an excuse for “theme park” RP of a sort, where you just say: “This world is like <theme>!” When I thought about it that way, I was like: “… Why haven’t I seen more Stargate games?”

Jennkryst

@dvoraen said in Missed Settings:

Why haven’t I seen more Stargate games?

Because the show ruined the perfectly good plot potential as laid out by the film, I will not be taking questions at this time.

Gashlycrumb

@dvoraen said in Missed Settings:

Stargate is practically an excuse for “theme park” RP of a sort, where you just say: “This world is like <theme>!” When I thought about it that way, I was like: “… Why haven’t I seen more Stargate games?”

Ha. What if all the PCs are in a holodeck simulation, or a a horrible wires-into-your-brain VR system, or something in between. They’re dropped around different ‘Westworld’ type theme-parky things, possibly deadly ones 'cause there’s a touch of ‘Saw’. Who will survive, and at the end, which characters who were picked up along the way will turn out to be real brainwashed people who think they’re from the Old West or Pompeii or whatever, and which will disappear forever?

Ominous

@Ominous said in Missed Settings:

A setting in the X-Files, Delta Green, SCP, Control, Triangle Agency, etc. vein.

And of course Forged in the Dark already has a system for it.

Cobalt

If I had the wherewithal I’d love to make a game in one of these settings;

Portal Fantasy: Magic powered beings fighting monsters inside of gates/portals/etc. Think Solo Leveling or Inheritance by Ilona Andrews.
Angels/Demon setting game, In Nomine, Lucifer, etc. I once had an idea for a game where people where either angels or demons and everyone who app’s a character was assigned a human NPC they either had to save or corrupt. But never got very far with it. Group apps for pairs could share the same NPC.
Generic Space Exploration. Star Trek, Space Opera, etc. Not focused on a colony or survival but just exploring space and making new discoveries.

But I’m old and tired.

Cobalt

@Jennkryst said in Missed Settings:

@Jumpscare Aaaaaalaaaaabama, Alaska, Arizona (I almost marked this because I forgot Reno was in Nevada), Arkansas, ~~California~~ (Several), ~~Colorado~~ (Sheltering Skies, Shadowrun Denver, others), Connecticut. ding-ding-ding Delaware, ~~Florida~~ (I played on an oWoD game in Florida before I made it to CoH, but this was years ago), Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, ~~Illinois~~(surely there’s been Chicago, right?), Indiana! Ding-ding-ding…

If you ever do anything in Alabama, I have a shot ton of pictures of downtown Birmingham from when I was gonna make a modern urban fantasy game there, I’d be happy to fonate to you.

Ominous

@Cobalt said in Missed Settings:

Angels/Demon setting game, In Nomine, Lucifer, etc. I once had an idea for a game where people where either angels or demons and everyone who app’s a character was assigned a human NPC they either had to save or corrupt. But never got very far with it. Group apps for pairs could share the same NPC.

A Nobilis server?

MisterBoring

@Ominous said in Missed Settings:

A Nobilis server?

I would love to see this, but at the same time, feel like the flighty nature of most MU Players, wouldn’t that just fall apart almost over night? I could see it as a 100% roster game, but if it was all player created Nobles & Imperators, I don’t see how you survive the churn rate most games have.

Cobalt

@MisterBoring Nah, I’d do in nomine. Or something custom. And while furloughed Cobalt has time to do things… Furloughed Cobalt also has times for Legends ZA.

Yam

I’ve been plugging away at a framework that includes In Nomine, but with a chronicles of darkness hat, because I enjoy angels and demons and Pyrephox clued me into the system.

But faction RP is not for the faint of heart, and I’m a pretty soft yam. I keep imagining my dear friends getting displeased by the imbalance of it all. <<;

Cobalt

@Yam No Yam, I won’t be lead into temptation.

(Oh god, the temptation.)

Jennkryst

So there is this program called MegaMek where you can do Battletech fights, and the people who maintain it are also working on a browser version that can maybe possibly be linked to either MU-side tracker of who owns what, or possibly to one of their other programs, MekHQ, that also tracks repair time and NPC/Characters who work on what, it’s fine.

So with all of that in mind, of course my brain skips away from Battletech back towards the less crunchy/more narrative Exalted: Essence rules (further complicated because the Infernals Kickstarter is starting up in a few days).

L5R is still on the list somewhere, the three are fighting for attention pretty regularly now, so for now I just poke at Ares code to try and make it go.

MisterBoring

@Jennkryst said in Missed Settings:

Exalted: Essence

I was so happy when Essence came out. I like Exalted as a setting, but omg are the mechanics of base Exalted so overly complicated.

Jenn

@Cobalt

Do. It!

Jennkryst

@MisterBoring Overly complicated is fine, my issue was more the huge disparity between your Solar Tier and your Terrestrial Tier, which Essence does a pretty good job of closing down a bit.