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The Lost World

Started by Dumarest, July 03, 2017, 10:18:24 PM

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3rik

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July 19, 2017, 06:48:02 AM
The Mexican wrestling heroes are basically low-powered superheroes. A supers game should be able to do it.
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Dumarest

#46
July 19, 2017, 09:05:52 AM Last Edit: July 19, 2017, 09:16:38 AM by Dumarest
Quote from: 3rik;976626The Mexican wrestling heroes are basically low-powered superheroes. A supers game should be able to do it.

Nah, totally wrong feel.

Edit: no, you're right, I thought about it while showering. What recommends Lucha Libre Hero is it's wealth of background and setting material, which is truly impressive, and the fact that it has premade wrestling "powers" and gadgets and nice examples of heroes and villains such as you would find in Santo, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Tinieblas, and other movies. Any other game would require a good deal more work by the referee, but yes, it could likely be done as long as you minimize over-the-top powers and understand that luchadors are not like American super heroes in many ways. No secret IDs, just for one instance; Santo is Santo all day long.

Voros

#47
July 19, 2017, 11:53:45 PM
Quote from: 3rik;976626The Mexican wrestling heroes are basically low-powered superheroes. A supers game should be able to do it.

You're avatar is my favourite scene in any luchadore film.

Willie the Duck

#48
July 20, 2017, 11:48:03 AM
Quote from: Madprofessor;975276I could never grok this setting.  I mean the whole point of a "Hollow Earth" is a kind juxtaposition, turning everything on its head.  It's a great contrast to real earthy or pulpy kind of stuff.  But Mystara's Hollow Earth is like "there's not enough fantasy in my fantasy." I'm not saying its bad, but what's there that you can't have in your fantasy world already.  I just don't get it.

Quote from: RPGPundit;976331It's true, Mystara was already a fairly weird setting, and Hollow World was for making places that were too weird to be found on the surface world.

But to me, that was awesome. It was just fantastic unusual fantasy cultures.

Hollow World was also set up for surface types to be discovering 'lost civilizations.' It also had this weird cultural inertia effect thing where characters from culture A got benefit ABC couldn't use weapons and armor XYZ because it literally wouldn't occur to them to do so, and if they started acclimating to these foreign ideas, then they would lose the ABC benefits. I thought it was a nifty idea at least.


To the OP, if you haven't seen it, check out Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (I have no idea how hard it would be to find now). It was a nice, campy, late 90s tv series. Kind of a Stargate for cliffhangers. I don't remember if it was actually good or not, but it was entertaining.

3rik

#49
July 20, 2017, 08:12:48 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;976641Nah, totally wrong feel.

Edit: no, you're right, I thought about it while showering. What recommends Lucha Libre Hero is it's wealth of background and setting material, which is truly impressive, and the fact that it has premade wrestling "powers" and gadgets and nice examples of heroes and villains such as you would find in Santo, Blue Demon, Mil Mascaras, Tinieblas, and other movies. Any other game would require a good deal more work by the referee, but yes, it could likely be done as long as you minimize over-the-top powers and understand that luchadors are not like American super heroes in many ways. No secret IDs, just for one instance; Santo is Santo all day long.

Your "powers" would be wrestling moves and maybe some extra agilty, strength, dexterity beyond that of commoners.
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daniel_ream

#50
July 21, 2017, 02:12:34 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;976331Hollow World was for making places that were too weird to be found on the surface world.

And yet which all seem to resemble pre-medieval historical cultures with the serial numbers filed off.
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#51
July 23, 2017, 09:59:40 PM
Quote from: daniel_ream;977161And yet which all seem to resemble pre-medieval historical cultures with the serial numbers filed off.

That's part of the charm.

Anyways, not all. Yes, there was the Aztec Empire run by Mystara's version of the Drow, and the Ancient Egyptian Kobolds. But in between was the Mexican Orcs in Sombreros. And somewhere down south the super-high tech but utterly useless elves (an inspiration for the Hipster Elves from my own DCC Last Sun campaign setting).
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