@labsunlimited If I were to do Vampire in ND, I’d make it where the game represented the entire state, ignore the factions (so Cam / Anarch / Sabbat for OWoD and the Covenants for NWoD) and just have it where the players are the few Vampires roaming the state, and occasionally they gather in the only Elysium in the state to resolve disputes and stuff. Maybe one Prince for the entire State if you really want some level of organization.

WoD North Dakota would be interesting for some spheres and not for others. It would work well for Werewolf and Mage, but to do Vampire there, you’d have to increase the populations and sizes of the major cities to support Vampires, and by doing so, eliminate one of the unique aspects of North Dakota as a state, namely the relative isolation and small populations of the communities there.

@Jennkryst said in PyReach:

I guess I’m finally finishing that post about one of trans ally and author of Animorphs Katherine Applegate’s other series, Everworld.

I remember that book series. I read the first book, it reminded me of that old Canadian kid’s show The Odyssey in a way, and I didn’t finish the series because the first book did nothing for me. It seemed well written, but it just didn’t hook me.

I remember a game in the late 90s that was set in a weird small town, and if anyone asked if the game was set in X state, the answer was always yes.

@Jennkryst said in PyReach:

EverWorld of Darkness crossover setting

My brain went in several directions:

1. A crossover of Everquest and World of Darkness, where players combine WoD Spheres with Everquest classes in a bizarre gothic punk fantasy world of grindy adventure.

2. A crossover of Everway and World of Darkness, where players make their WoD characters using image cards and then traverse the planes having weird adventures.

3. A crossover setting between all three major versions of WoD (OWoD / NWoD / CoD) where the three realities fight to ensure their world is the one that survives an oncoming cataclysm that will leave only one standing.

@somasatori So when is the soft launch and what California city is it set in?

@somasatori said in Multisphere pressure:

The other meaning of the acronym “CBT”

Classic Battletech?

Yeah, if you search this forum for Seanan McGuire or even go back and search MSB for it, you’ll understand why you’re probably not going to get an answer to that question.

I kind of like how Expedition 33 did it. Instead of New Game+, you just get a bunch of previously locked areas in the world unlocked and new challenges to explore to get even more lore about the game world.

@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?

@somasatori Keep this up and people are going to expect you to start a game.

@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.)

@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.

After reading the Wild Imaginary West quickstart, it really feels to me like the setting is just Monster Hunter in the American West. It doesn’t seem like the game really has much interest in telling other types of stories, but it does feel like it does the whole Monster Hunter thing really well.

I just had a crazy idea to merge two flavors into one great taste.

Dark City

and

The Wild West

I’ll share more when I have it fleshed out but think: Wild West microcosm in a dome floating in space, psychic powers, secret alien schemes…

In the Weird West genre, I’ve heard good things about Haunted West, but I haven’t actually picked it up yet. The book is absolutely massive (800+ pages), it is written with a mechanical system that has three stages of complexity, so you can go from very narrative and story driven to a full tactical simulator of weird western life. (It also has a secret extra chapter of rules & playbooks for playing in the setting using PBTA.) I’ve heard the setting is an interesting alternate history and the selection of supernatural stuff occurring in the game is very wide and allows for a lot of diversity in setting up the antagonists of a given plot.

I would agree that wholesale removal of hate speech is bad because it removes the ability to recognize it, understand it, and safely deal with it when it does arise.

That said, individual games choosing to eliminate that from the scope of RP is totally cool with me, and will probably be the route I take for my games in the future. I’m trying to have pretendy fun times and tell neat fantasy / sci-fi / horror stories. I’m not trying to give minority players the potential to flashback to the small-minded nonsense they deal with in their RL on the regular.

@mietze said in Missed Settings:

I always find it disappointing when people can’t live without the historical -isms, even though I also don’t terribly mind if they’re in there to an extent and people who are clearly really leaning into getting their ooc freak on in regards to that are culled.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the next time I try and run a game, I’m going to include the themes and topics I want, and exclude offensive isms and stuff and if people don’t play because I removed racism or sexism from their favorite setting, I’m totally okay with that.

@Aria said in Missed Settings:

And then I decided that if I couldn’t persuade one single person that we could probably just, y’know, not include 1920s style racism and generally be fine, with less people being offended by the erasure of it than the allowance of it, this was actually a terrible idea and promptly gave up.

You should do it, exclude the racism altogether and all the other historically accurate shitty behavior, and anytime someone approaches you about “WHY NO RACISM?” show them the door.

@Gashlycrumb said in Missed Settings:

Just that. It’s 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. It’s really really easy to ignore the Wraith metaplot and it basically becomes this.