!!! Attention Players!!! What do you actually want?

Consult my thread about a possible rule light system that could be altered for modern future or past China. Pick it up make characters and everything in like an hour.
First session I played we all went completely opposite directions and we still managed to get get to the same place following different paths. I did get shot in the face and died but it was easy as.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

which thread?

Feng shui.
It uses 2 d6.

anyway. if we are leaving shadowrun. Sad

i like your idea for a game matt.

feels like it would be a bit like neverwinter knights. i loved that part of the game and being a lord.

elements of game of thrones maybe?
gives the players a little bit of a time frame to set themselves up before the hordes come.

i would like to be a stealthy theif or something. i know this would not be conventional but maybe he is the brother of one of the lords in control of the theives guild or an organised crime syndicate.

i will call him crow. and he will be saboteur. he is sneaky and and a unic. he is the bastard child hence his rebellious nature.
he has a sense of honer he will not kill a woman even if she is savage. he employs thugs and pick pockets the like. children are picked up if they are homeless or show talent.
he is handy with a blade but uses a bow more often. why enter a building to break something, when you can simply burn it down with a few nicely placed arrows?
his people are swift and are quite skilled in parkour. they tend to live on roof tops and in the sewers as they are quick to maneuver.

will this rabble be possible?
if so what is the leash?

angry_dan wrote:: he is sneaky and and a unic.

Do you mean eunuch? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

angry_dan wrote:: will this rabble be possible?
if so what is the leash?

The leash is you have to be an actual eunuch to play a eunuch.

In all seriousness. Matty, if you require any aid in getting this off the ground, any research you need done (historical, or rules), or even if you just want someone to bounce ideas off, i would be happy to help.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

HappyNoodleBoy wrote:: In all seriousness. Matty, if you require any aid in getting this off the ground, any research you need done (historical, or rules), or even if you just want someone to bounce ideas off, i would be happy to help.

Well the two key things i need from everybody is for them to voice their opinions on the idea and secondly to tell me what key elements they would like to see included in the game.

If you have ideas just post them here.

Otherwise this thread will solely be filled with Dan's 400 different character concepts.

At the moment all i have is a thumbs up from yourself and Dan so the game is nothing more then a concept as it stands.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

I guess i can air my thoughts on rule system;

My first thought was champions as it gives us an easy framework to build super heroish characters. Plus and interesting system for the making of magical artifacts and the like.

Due to the points buy system it uses, it would be all about coming up with a concept and then building a character around that.

I could quite easily do some poking around for other systems tho.

While i like the idea of nWoD. To get the right power levels would take digging through a bunch of splat books and picking and choosing what was available and what wasn't. While this may work it could be a might painful.

I could pick a dnd system and just give you a high points buy and lots of money for starting gear but that sounds kinda boring.

hmmmm

If it's dnd I'm the bright wizard. :-P

Also can I get a pdf link for champions?

What my thoughts were for nWoD would be to take a standard human character, and then apply a metahuman archetype to it, in order to get the extra powers the champions of the city state require. Of course with some altering. For example, for the super strong warrior hero, you apply a werewolf template, but dont actually have any transform ability, just give it the strength and agility bonus from the werewolf template. For a super fast, smooth talking hero, apply a vampire archetype to it, without the getting killed by sun bit of course.
nWoD also has a lot of teh political and intrigue, and city states stuff built into, especially if you are looking at the vampire sections.

However, you are indeed correct, the super powers so to speak would of course be built into champions already, as that is what teh rule system is about.
And I do like champions.

I still think gurps would be doable as well, gurps can be used for anything, that is the point of it. However of the three I have mentioned here, I do think gurps would be the most work for you matty.

Another question. Would I be correct in assuming that our rival city states, would have there own champions much like ourselves?

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

HappyNoodleBoy wrote:: What my thoughts were for nWoD would be to take a standard human character, and then apply a metahuman archetype to it, in order to get the extra powers the champions of the city state require. Of course with some altering. For example, for the super strong warrior hero, you apply a werewolf template, but dont actually have any transform ability, just give it the strength and agility bonus from the werewolf template. For a super fast, smooth talking hero, apply a vampire archetype to it, without the getting killed by sun bit of course.
nWoD also has a lot of teh political and intrigue, and city states stuff built into, especially if you are looking at the vampire sections.

Yeah that seems like a lot of work. Let me break down the work load for that idea;

Read and learn WoD
Have player describe their character concepts
Find suitable powers/rules to represent said chr
Re work powers/rules to suit character
repeat process X times (where x = number of players)

HappyNoodleBoy wrote:: However, you are indeed correct, the super powers so to speak would of course be built into champions already, as that is what teh rule system is about.
And I do like champions.

Yeah Champions the work load would be;

Relearn rules
House rule out any options i feel aren't appropriate.
Supply players with rules
Help build chrs

HappyNoodleBoy wrote:: I still think gurps would be doable as well, gurps can be used for anything, that is the point of it. However of the three I have mentioned here, I do think gurps would be the most work for you matty.

Gurps is defiantly doable. I am a little hesitant when it comes to GURPS tho, as i seem to find that it reads better then it plays.

HappyNoodleBoy wrote:: Another question. Would I be correct in assuming that our rival city states, would have there own champions much like ourselves?

Ow most defiantly.

I like the idea of characters being fantasy super heroic though.

So if you want your chr to be a vampire assassin then we make one and work it into the story, if you want an elven blooded marksmen using a custom built black powder rifle the likes of which has never been seen in this land... lets make it. If you want you character to posses a legendary sword which grants them super human powers... cool! lets do it.

I want there to be more freedom in the character creation. Your characters are meant to be a bit out their and different from everything else. I don't want just ... Dave the really good fighter... i want Dave the War Titan whos blood flows with elemental fire due to a pact he made with the forces of chaos!.

Think ninja scroll, think Homers epics, think weird Japanese cartoons that don't make 100% sense to anybody except guys that fuck pillows with pictures of chicks on them.

Matt wrote:: What elements do you really want to see in my next game?

I like to feel like I can change the world, shifting a grain of sand at a time.
I like detailed characters with unique aspects and mechanics.
I like practicality but fantasy is fantasy and sometimes I blur the line into high fantasy.
I like a story I can sink my teeth into. Something personal to the character.
Overcoming pivotal challenges which reflect directly in the world and story we take part in.

I am in a special circumstance where I don't have distractions like family/kids/sports/a life to get in the way of my game. It's also the only social activity that I afford myself on my only day off. So my motivation level and game availability are usually quite high. I know not everyone is the same. My point here I believe is that I don't mind a heavy forum interaction between sessions but it only works if everyone is on par.

I've played Birthright and enjoyed it immensely back in AD&D days. The political intrigue is what drove the story and I am a fan of political intrigue. That is why I enjoy Game of Thrones so much. I was also getting into the political intrigue Dean was trying to weave into his game.

Medieval games in general are so over-done and cliché that they hold very little appeal to me. At age 14 it was so amazing. Now it is meh.

Some thoughts before I go to worl. cheers

Anyone seen Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex? This series encapsulates all the parts of an RPG that I enjoy. A team exercise with individual initiative, pack mentality and political entrigue in a modern to post modern setting where technology, has lept ahead.

Hornet wrote:: WOD group dynamic. As in possibly werewolf the forsaken where players are a pack.

In forsaken you can aim the game towards setting up pack territory and defending your turf against spirit leaks in the weak areas on the wall between the meat world and the spirit world. You can clear out vampire dens as a pack or help neighbouring packs fight of demons. Or vie for land in turf wars with other packs. I would like a campaign where we have a good mix of characters, like engineer, shaman, hunters, techs etc like in shadowrun but with WOD rules. Combat runs smoothly in WOD and it's not level based.

Hornet wrote:: Deadlands combat heavy.

I want a deadlands campaign with problem solving and actual role play involvement but I would love a power balanced rivalry where a lot is sorted by combat strategy. Say we are a group that works smoothly together with a history of cooperation and some established trust, and we have at our disposal a number of NPCs that can be used to aid us in our shootouts etc, where combat strategy is the name of the game. Lets try and keep the sessions for the dice rolls and actions and forum time purely for planning strategy with no wandering time that can play out.

Hornet wrote:: I would cum blood if you ran one of these.

I would masturbate with vigour under intensely elevated blood pressure until I ejaculated whilst haemorrhaging.

Physicist wrote:: Anyone seen Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex? This series encapsulates all the parts of an RPG that I enjoy. A team exercise with individual initiative, pack mentality and political entrigue in a modern to post modern setting where technology, has lept ahead.

Love ghost in the shell. Played Stand alone complex on PS2 would like a game like that.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

hehe fuck you JD and Shmus im back to square one now...

Im starting to think the best idea might be my, sit the group in a room till they agree on something they all want to play.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Matt wrote:: hehe fuck you JD and Shmus im back to square one now...

Im starting to think the best idea might be my, sit the group in a room till they agree on something they all want to play.

By this i mean, coming up with an idea that please everybody in some way is looking to be hard.

i think i can speak for everyone when i say.

MORE BOOBS!!!!

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I like the idea of characters being fantasy super heroic though.

So if you want your chr to be a vampire assassin then we make one and work it into the story, if you want an elven blooded marksmen using a custom built black powder rifle the likes of which has never been seen in this land... lets make it. If you want you character to posses a legendary sword which grants them super human powers... cool! lets do it.

I want there to be more freedom in the character creation. Your characters are meant to be a bit out their and different from everything else. I don't want just ... Dave the really good fighter... i want Dave the War Titan whos blood flows with elemental fire due to a pact he made with the forces of chaos!.

Think ninja scroll, think Homers epics, think weird Japanese cartoons that don't make 100% sense to anybody except guys that fuck pillows with pictures of chicks on them.

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This round I'm going to use my powers to... Turn JD into a chicken!

Seriously though... This part is full of win.

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A game where I don't have to do anything between sessions where I can just turn up, kill some time with friends and the go home? This guy... he gets it.

Unless he was being sarcastic, in which case he doesn't get it at all.

Matt wrote:: ]By this i mean, coming up with an idea that please everybody in some way is looking to be hard.

I'll fix my statement then.

Quote :: A team exercise with individual initiative, pack mentality and political entrigue in a setting that is easily relatable.

Thanks for your input Patty! You know me well. tongue

Patty wrote:: If you said "no terrible irish accents" Shamus would probably not come.

Patty, this simply isn't true. I can also do bad Essex accents, decent Glasgow accents, inconsistant Welsh accents, offensive asian accents, Russian sounding german accents. I can do Jordy and Cockney accents but sort of both at the same time, I can do a flawless Australian accent, I can do a Yorkshire accent although admittedly sounding like nanny Ogg. I can do a mediocre south African accent. I'm offended you think I would stop at one bad accent.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Ok lets see if i can map some of this out. I am going to write down the "elements" and then put names next to them. If i put the name in green it is an element they like where as red means they dislike it.

Fairly simple? Don't forget if you see something you don't believe is correct post it up and if you want to add something post that up too.

Spoiler:

Edit:
Update for Patty
Updated for Ryan

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

So you guys see the info i have gathered. I'm not sure what to make of it. What do you think i should look at running next so everyone is happy?

you can add my name in green to the following:

Ability to affect and change the world: JD
Detailed characters with unique aspects and mechanics: JD
Good character based plot: JD Patty
Forum play: JD A_Dan Patty
Medieval setting: JD
Hi Fantasy: Patty
Grim Dark: Patty
Sci fi: Patty JD
Games with mysteries to be solved: Patty

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Fuck it, i think i will do this idea.

Matt wrote:

Spoiler:

I am struggling to come up with something better, so unless anyone is overly opposed or has a better idea i will start doing the leg work.

If you have any suggestions to make please feel free to add them here.

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