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Setting begone!

Started by BarefootGaijin, December 19, 2013, 06:18:29 AM

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The Traveller

#15
December 19, 2013, 03:04:20 PM
Quote from: Shipyard Locked;717114Hehe, these days I rarely use an existing setting without injecting more anime/JRPG into it. I like the weird flavors I get when Robert E. Howard crashes into Final Fantasy, and Outlaw Star is a pretty good example of the wilder sort of Traveller campaign.
Yeah I think if you take out the standard anime tropes what's left behind can often be a decent setting. Mullets, big shoulder suits, schoolgirls, inappropriate porn music during combat scenes, mysterious albinos, people scratching themselves between their shoulderblades, that sort of thing.
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artikid

#16
December 19, 2013, 03:28:40 PM
WOD, urban fantasy in general

dungeon crawler

#17
December 19, 2013, 04:05:36 PM
All "property" games like Star Wars and Star Trek as they have little to no room for my overactive imagination. I can play in a game using such a setting but I have trouble running one go figure.

AaronBrown99

#18
December 19, 2013, 04:35:29 PM
WoD, if only because I remember trying to GM the original V:M, and inevitably the gameplay focus became the exact opposite of the game's stated theme.

It was never about "personal horror", it was always about "my gosh these people are such angst-y douchebags."

Maybe that was just the Vampire part, not necessarily the setting.
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therealjcm

#19
December 19, 2013, 04:45:35 PM
Quote from: AaronBrown99;717151WoD, if only because I remember trying to GM the original V:M, and inevitably the gameplay focus became the exact opposite of the game's stated theme.

It was never about "personal horror", it was always about "my gosh these people are such angst-y douchebags."

Maybe that was just the Vampire part, not necessarily the setting.

Huh, I always had a bit of a problem with the mismatch between stated intent of the game and how it wound up playing - but in the completely opposite direction. Our WoD games always wound up heading in the trench coat katana direction that was 1 step below Rifts on the gonzo meter.

crkrueger

#20
December 19, 2013, 05:00:14 PM
Quote from: therealjcm;717157Huh, I always had a bit of a problem with the mismatch between stated intent of the game and how it wound up playing - but in the completely opposite direction. Our WoD games always wound up heading in the trench coat katana direction that was 1 step below Rifts on the gonzo meter.

Yeah it always seemed to happen when you mixed rulebooks with each supernatural species using its own rules.

Man were those campaigns fun though.
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therealjcm

#21
December 19, 2013, 05:04:44 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;717163Man were those campaigns fun though.

Yeah, it wasn't until the internet that I found out I was wrong to have fun with palladium games, or shadowrun, or mixed rulebook WoD. :D

crkrueger

#22
December 19, 2013, 05:06:34 PM
Quote from: therealjcm;717165Yeah, it wasn't until the internet that I found out I was wrong to have fun with palladium games, or shadowrun, or mixed rulebook WoD. :D

If those are wrong, I don't wanna be right.
Even the the "cutting edge" storygamers for all their talk of narrative, plot, and drama are fucking obsessed with the god damned rules they use. - Estar

Yes, Sean Connery\'s thumb does indeed do megadamage. - Spinachcat

Isuldur is a badass because he stopped Sauron with a broken sword, but Iluvatar is the badass because he stopped Sauron with a hobbit. -Malleus Arianorum

"Tangency Edition" D&D would have no classes or races, but 17 genders to choose from. -TristramEvans

BarefootGaijin

#23
December 19, 2013, 05:20:07 PM
The beginnings of the ultimate bad taste mashup.
I play these games to be entertained... I don't want to see games about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home.

therealjcm

#24
December 19, 2013, 05:32:43 PM
Is this going to end with Mr Rogers in a blood stained sweater committing sepuku on a pile of bodies?

Steerpike

#25
December 19, 2013, 05:43:02 PM
I find most of the faux-medieval quasi-European vanilla fantasy settings out there hopelessly boring: Kingdoms of Kalamar, the Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance.  Mystara gets a pass because of the Hollow World angle.  They all feel like crappy post-Tolkienian knockoffs with nothing really weird or unique or compelling about them.  I find actual play in those settings tolerable, but the settings themselves are dull as dirt for me.

Azeroth also bores me to tears.

Nentir Vale/Points of Light and the whole 4th edition cosmology can just go die, please.

thedungeondelver

#26
December 19, 2013, 06:18:28 PM
It's unfortunate that my post comes after Steerpike's because I respect his opinion and I don't want him to think I'm trying to troll or snark at him.  With that qualifier in place:  "weird" fantasy.  I've got no patience for carcosa, etc.  All are bad Lovecraft pastiches with heavy additions of the same shit that got laughed out of print from FATAL.
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#27
December 19, 2013, 06:24:43 PM
Quote from: Benoist;717078Anime everything.

I dunno.

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Ronin

#28
December 19, 2013, 06:34:15 PM
Quote from: therealjcm;717079Any fantasy setting with magic item shops.

Sooner or later the players have the following realization: Hey guys, why are we raiding these dangerous dungeons, lets break into magic item shops!

I never thought about it like that. Fuck I wish the players would try that!:) An adventure or campaigned like that I think could be a blast. Kind of the Italian Job mixed with D&D.:)
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BarefootGaijin

#29
December 19, 2013, 07:28:48 PM
Quote from: Ronin;717190I never thought about it like that. Fuck I wish the players would try that!:) An adventure or campaigned like that I think could be a blast. Kind of the Italian Job mixed with D&D.:)

Images characters casting Nahal's reckless Dweomer instead of "Knock" just to blow the bloody doors off.
I play these games to be entertained... I don't want to see games about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home.
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