MU* Wishlists
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I have never seen multitheme on an oWOD mush really enhance the game. It can work on say…nWOD, but not on oWOD.
Mages in particular just don’t work well with other themes. The problem is usually mage players. And there’s no…reason? to have vampires and garou together.
These games almost always work better as single-sphere games focused on that sphere. Again, for oWOD.
nWOD works well multi-sphere, works GREAT multi sphere, tbh. Its a much better game for a MUSH, imo, though I personally prefer the theme of oWOD.
That’s just my opinion.
You are correct about ‘what ruleset’ regarding dnd, and also why people (including myself) hate 4e. I don’t know what the answer to that would be.
Regarding Star Wars:
I’ve played SW games for 20 years and I’m a bit burnt out on it
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I have never seen multitheme on an oWOD mush really enhance the game. It can work on say…nWOD, but not on oWOD.
Mages in particular just don’t work well with other themes. The problem is usually mage players. And there’s no…reason? to have vampires and garou together.
These games almost always work better as single-sphere games focused on that sphere. Again, for oWOD.
This is part of the ‘scratch off the inherent every sphere hating each other’ I was talking about. Almost every sphere has mention somewhere in one of their books where ‘on the surface, they hate each other. Here are a bunch of ideas for how they actually work together behind the scenes’.
You are correct about ‘what ruleset’ regarding dnd, and also why people (including myself) hate 4e. I don’t know what the answer to that would be.
Theoretically copy/paste D&D lore onto non-D&D rules. Success will vary.
Regarding Star Wars:
I’ve played SW games for 20 years and I’m a bit burnt out on it
Fair.
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@Thionoxial said:
or, for that matter, an actual X-Com mush. But VINTAGE.
Like you X-com call of cthulhu bullshit while pretending to be ordinary people in 1940s noir chicago or whatever.
I got a few likes to the below similar ideas, so there is at least a modicum of interest amongst this crowd.
Ominous said:
A setting in the X-Files, Delta Green, SCP, Control, Triangle Agency, etc. vein. You could even include World of Darkness stuff, but the setting would mostly from the viewpoints of a government agency of “Hunters” and the occasional Mage, Vampire, Werewolf, whatever that decided to work with the agency. The server is mostly PVE as PCs work together on missions they take, but the server could also can go the Paranoia TTRPG route by having some NPCs and PCs belong to secret societies, have ulterior motives, be given contrary secret missions from the Directorate, etc. to keep people a little uneasy and wary. Operations could be investigations into weird shit, neutralization of weird shit (more tactics and combat oriented), covert ops (cause weird shit to happen so we get a funding increase), etc.
Ominous said:
@somasatori said in Missed Settings:
@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?
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@Ominous Someone did something like this once with uh, UFOs? it lasted something like LITERALLY TWO DAYS AFTER OPENING BEFORE THEY ANNOUNCED IT WAS CLOSING
it was crazy
I do feel though that like, a big major city works better than a remote military base, for the same reason everyone always leaves the base on Stargate: SG1, because you need other things going on? Like I think i’ve seen the ‘remote town’ thing before.
It does help with an excuse to always run into each other. It does. It’s a solid base.
I do think its been done a LOT though, and would miss out on 'I’m not with you, but since this is set in 1940s Chicago / Pittsburgh in the 80s / modern NYC / whatever, my character is a mobster/ordinary person who keeps stumbling into this stuff, and plots where things get ‘into the wild’.
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@Thionoxial I am concerned that the side plots that can happen in a larger central hub might distract from the missions. I’m imaging several missions going on at the same time, and missions being multi-scene, multi-RL day affairs.
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Sooooo why isn’t there a Dungeon Crawler Carl MUSH yet?
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@bear_necessities Probably because the people interested in building one are also backers of the upcoming TTRPG and waiting to see if the TTRPG can be converted to a MU.
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@bear_necessities this is what I want to know.
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Plz someone make a Contagion Chronicle game: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/318347/Chronicles-of-Darkness-The-Contagion-Chronicle
I invoke necromancy!
— Holy crap, Contagion looks super cool. I can easily see some sort of spin on this. I am no Storyteller-type nerd, but I may tap at my keyboard with some thoughts as I read through some of the Contagion books.
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@golgoth That’d be great fun to see!
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