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What to work on? (Making a miniature Game)

Started by Catelf, February 04, 2015, 08:26:21 AM

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Catelf

I may be repetitive, i'm sorry if I am.
I'm indecisive, i'm not sorry about that, as I am that because I have so much to choose from that I like.

I'm planning to get a miniature-based boardgame ready, preferably for Easter this year.
I may fail in that, but I do not bother about that right now.

The most of the gaming mechanics is finished but may need some finetuning, but that may be done after easter if need be.
The problem is instead what kind of miniatures to use, and for what setting.
I have a lot of miniatures, and may be able to make some in greystuff myself, so that is not much of a problem either.

The main ideas are these:
* A CoC-like Investigation Horror
* A somewhat classic Dungeon Crawler
* A more Shadowrun-like Mission
* Gangers vs A Corporation
* Soldiers vs Aliens or other things
* Armored Space Soldiers vs .... Other things
* Superheroes vs ... whatever.

The only thing I like less than the others are a too classic dungeon crawler.
I need suggestions and/or good advice on how to decide between things I like.
(No, random decision do not work for me, I have tried.)
I may not dislike D&D any longer, but I still dislike the Chaos-Lawful/Evil-Good alignment system, as well as the level system.
;)
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Link to my wip Ferals 0.8 unfinished but playable on pdf on MediaFire for free download here :
https://www.mediafire.com/?0bwq41g438u939q

Shipyard Locked

Can I suggest malfunctioning killer robots against loyal-to-humans robots in a slick shiny future? :p

Fantasy dungeon crawlers are well covered, CoC is starting to feel a bit glutted. Of the listed suggestions, shadowrun-like missions or corporate vs ganger seem the freshest and most intriguing. I want a miniature in shades and a trenchcoat, dual-wielding pistols in the engine room of a stealth boat!

Catelf

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Quote from: Shipyard Locked;814124Can I suggest malfunctioning killer robots against loyal-to-humans robots in a slick shiny future? :p

Fantasy dungeon crawlers are well covered, CoC is starting to feel a bit glutted. Of the listed suggestions, shadowrun-like missions or corporate vs ganger seem the freshest and most intriguing. I want a miniature in shades and a trenchcoat, dual-wielding pistols in the engine room of a stealth boat!
Thanks for replying. :)

Be careful with joker suggestions, they might actually start me up :D

Seriously, yah, I guess traditional dungeoun crawlers are well covered.
CoC-like ones I haven't really yet seen in the form I had in mind, except the few times I did it myself as a tryout of the idea.
(The idea being to search around for clues on what may have happened, while eventually encountering whatever is hidden in the place, and it may be anything from thieves to a Big Bad that only can be defeated through a weakness found like a clue elsewhere.
Also, unlike Mansions of madness, it is played out as a miniature-based dungeoun crawler with "28mm" miniatures and a GM.)

But, I agree that Shadowrun-like scenarios are possibly the least overdone things ... especially in my version.
...Especially since I might let a Rigger use Drones that looks like those from Robot Wars, and that corporations may have more outlandish defences, like energy suits and mutations, and more.

Being in the engine room of a stealth boat ... that makes me think of both military scenarios (NCIS, Winter Soldier, anything on military ships) and horror-scenarios.

(If anyone wonders about the rules system, it is the one attack = one roll, that I talked about in another thread before.
Essentially, either the roll exceeds target's Armour and cause a wound, or not.)
I may not dislike D&D any longer, but I still dislike the Chaos-Lawful/Evil-Good alignment system, as well as the level system.
;)
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Link to my wip Ferals 0.8 unfinished but playable on pdf on MediaFire for free download here :
https://www.mediafire.com/?0bwq41g438u939q

Doughdee222

Quote from: Shipyard Locked;814124Can I suggest malfunctioning killer robots against loyal-to-humans robots in a slick shiny future? :p

Fantasy dungeon crawlers are well covered, CoC is starting to feel a bit glutted. Of the listed suggestions, shadowrun-like missions or corporate vs ganger seem the freshest and most intriguing. I want a miniature in shades and a trenchcoat, dual-wielding pistols in the engine room of a stealth boat!


Wait a minute. A character dual-wielding pistols in the engine room of a stealth boat is the movie "Tomorrow Never Dies."

Shipyard Locked

QuoteBe careful with joker suggestions, they might actually start me up

No joke, I want more games like that.

Quote from: Doughdee222;814165Wait a minute. A character dual-wielding pistols in the engine room of a stealth boat is the movie "Tomorrow Never Dies."

Shhh, don't report me to the Bond police for liking it! :p I already catch enough flack for thinking Quantum of Solace is not in the bottom 10.