What would you like to roleplay? Out with it, I don't care how dorky it is, I want to know. Be honest. Lets share some things we would love play if it were turned into a solid table top RPG.I think I'd like to play something along the lines of Earthbound (or "Mother" if you'd like). Questing through modern day society as super children would just be fun. It seems easy to adapt as well: Psionics and all. Also Jess (I think that was his name) is sort of like an artificer and Poo is a monk.
Use BESM.
I want to roleplay being a 12 year old girl. Yeah, I know, it's weird.
I want to run a Planescape game where we either go to alternate versions of the Prime Material Plane (a la Sliders or maybe even the Exiles comics). Then use it as an excuse to have the DnD characters run around in Candyland, Chutes and Ladders, and maybe Life.
Jeff.An Earthbound-style RPG is easy enough to run. d20 Modern + psionics + a good sense of humor = Earthbound. Actually, Mutants & Masterminds with a low power level would actually be a better system now that I think about it.It's not a specific setting or anything, but I'd like to be able to just once roleplay a romance. It's just very uncomfortable to do, regardless of the GM's sex. And the other players are going to heckle you, no matter what. It doesn't have to be a whole lot, just two characters realizing how much they care for each other and taking that first step toward true love. It would be a refreshing change from "OH MAN TAVERN WENCHES" or "I HAVE NO MUSHY FEELINGS! JUST SMASHY FEELINGS!"
I want to RP a really fat nine year old boy. Gets winded really easily, insatiably curious.
I've always wanted to play a Dungeon Romp game based around a band of circus freak mutants.
I love rollplaying Khorne berserkers.My character doesnt need to think, but i love leading him down paths of destruction that dont ruin the plot but still sate my bloodlust. Its like dancing on a sword edge every session
top 3:wild west heromagical girlsuper robot pilot
My favorite thing I roleplayed was a 12 year old Genius with Teddybear hommunculi. It was interesting none the less.Earthbound would be amazing as an table top game.The little bit that I've actually played as characters I usually just play as the general know-it-all/cocky-doom sayer necromancer.I'd like to play a really nice steampunk dungeon (one I don't have to DM)
My brother played as a Cleric who was convinced he was the avatar of the GM or in his case the "One True God."He'd pray to the GM constantly and gain spells from him. I wish I could do something like that.
>>752182My favourite roleplaying campaign was a WFRP campaign, playing as an roving Evil based band. A Skaven lead warp-guitarist, Chaos Dwarf on steam powered drums, a Black Orc on bass, Tomb Prince playing his ribs like a piano, Chaos Sorcerer using magic like a synthesiser and Dark Elf on vocals. As dumb as it was, it was a great campaign.
Man, it would be hella awesome to whip up a M&M/d20 Modern campaign centered around the Crazy Stuff (tm) in Earthbound. Emphasis on wacky plot devices like giant iron statues, insane inventors, a man who would become a dungeon later on, (I'd even bring in a Guest DM so he could write out some signs to read and do the interview at the end.)Shit, even just basing it on the actual game and playing through with people who haven't played it in a while / people who are open to some serious hilarity (Moonside!)
>>752194I had a dragon with the Nameless psychosis template in one of my own games. He had gone completely insane after discovering that the Universe and all within it was simple entertainment for people sitting around a kitchen table rolling dice and checking stats in books.Having gone insane, he articulated this as shouting "The horrible, horrible ones above us! Staring into crystals! Crystals written with life and death and love and hate! Always putting words into our mouths!"
>>752201Awesome.
Something like The Lion King might be fun. Different species for different tasks. The object would probably be just defending and aquiring new land. Maybe a rival group or pride here and there. Claws 1d6 bite 1d8? Baboons +4 to heal checks? I don't know.
>>752200I wouldn't want to play Earthbound specifically, nor take everything from Earthbound, but an M&M game in that style would be awesome fun.
>>752194Yeah, he was a perfect Chaotic Neutral, assisting the GM's plan whenever he could. He'd jump in front of fireballs and take hits for the BBEG and then turn around and axe him in the face beacuse the GM commanded it.He was guaranteed to clusterfuck even the easiest of missions into insanity, but our GM never took advantage of his fanaticism and pretty much ruined his character because he couldn't think outside the box.
>>752206I gave him the Nameless template because after realizing the horrifying truth of his fictional existence he tried to kill off any character or creature who might make reference to him so that he would be forever free of the horrible crystals and their careless masters. He couldn't of course, but he was insane, so he'd try anyhow.
>>752221>> he couldn't think outside the box.Or maybe he just didn't agree that LOL META is instantly hilarious and great.Also, how was wingus obeying the GM's commands by acting like a jackass? No GM in the world wants that.
Normal people with giant robots. The style of play could be anything: Highschool students with alter egos (Power Rangers), ultra serious military backed mechs (Evangelion), or just living life normally until event is randomly rolled up that requires some giant robot action that you just so happen to provide (Megas XLR). The Power Rangers example would be fun and would require the players to invest a bit in bluff for the whole "I'm uh, feeling sick, gotta go!".
>>752227He only meta'd by having access to everything the GM would say, if the BBEG botched a roll and the GM started swearing, he'd assume the guy wasn't supposed to die yet and jump in and save him.I'll pass on the GUNTHER THE SRS PALADIN setting so many GM's want.
>>752194In X-Crawl, members of the One God cult are pantsed, stabbed, prodded, jeered, publicly humiliated and left as a feast for the arrowhawks....at least that's what happened to our One God rogue.
>>752240a) play a characterb) give the character a reason to work with the rest of the group (and not in a "I'm going to backstab you all the second I get the chance" way)c) give the character a reason to fight evil.That's all we want. You can do whatever your pretty heart desires, so long as you do those three things.
>>752198Teh Mars Volta?
Cyber Punk "Jacking In" type of game setting. Roleplaying normal people in everyday life that fight evil or whatever in the digital world/ cyberscape.
I loved the Dinotopia books as a kid. Recently rediscovered them and indulged in nostalgia. I would love to roleplay something like this but before you say "LAWL DND HAZ DINOSAURZ", the important part of the dinotopian world was the attitude and themes that surrounded it. A huge part of the original book was "weapons are enemies to wielders" and trying to solve things peacefully. There's really no focus on combat or martial traditions of any kind - these things just don't exist. I think if would be very hard to preserve the charm of the world and play a game that featured at lease some element of combat. Tricky.
>>752267While the setting presented in this game is specifically for PCs who happen to be "awakened" computer programs, you could easily have each character be the virtual avatar for the "real" character... who could be a d20 Modern character, I guess.
>>752253A. Easy enough, as long as they aren't cookie cutters, WHICH TOO MANY OF THEM ARE. Odd quirks are the one saving grace of a game that has essentially turned into a level treadmill. B. There is a big difference between LOL BACKSTAB UR LEWT IS MINE and having say a rogue being a total dick or a Wizard with Lich issues, that adds for atmosphere.C. Bleh. He exists he has motives that are consistant that can be exploited and relied upon, not my fault if he breaks the railroad some GM tried to set up instead of just letting the game flow.
>>752268Hey! I loved that shit back in the day. But uh, didn't they have something like dinosaur squads for various military shit? Or something like that? Man, I need to track that shit down and read it again.Anyway back on topic:Robots, robots all over the place. eather play as a robot where you can change your parts like upgrade your arms or some shit. closest I got was playing a warforged artificer but that isn't close at all.also giant robots ala armored core.
A campaign set in the world of either Romancing SaGa or SaGa Frontier.I'm sure everyone involved would have to be really blasted for it to work.
>>752280Holy shit, SaGa Frontier has THE best universe I've ever played still. What would kick more ass is if every character you played whether you lived or died all existed at the same time like they did in Frontier, so concievably you could help out your old Alt's in their missions while advancing your own, or even be the assassin that kills your old Alt.
>>752275The closest they came to it in the books by the original guy were "habit partners", humans and dinosaurs who patrolled their specific areas to ensure balance in the ecosystem.I can't speak for the spinoff books based in the same world written by other people, I haven't read many of them.
>>752139this game had the best music
>>752300Heh, I was actually taking about SaGa Frontier 1 rather than SaGa Frontier 2, but I bet the latter would be a hell of a lot of fun to play too.I don't really know that much about the setting of SGF2, though, because I couldn't bring myself to play it for longer than a few chapters. It's a shame, too; it looked to have a really good story for a SaGa game.
Hengyokai or were-whatevers. Roleplaying personalities that reflect the animal the character is or have the power of would be fun. Dog > Cat > Mouse or Badgers > Everything.
>>752157make a damn fine Little Fears PC.I'd like to run the utterly unremarkable. No fated warrior or noble or anything. hell, if I could find a way to make NPC classes not suck. I'd roll a peasant.
Call of Cthulhu, but with all PC's being children. Kekeke.
A game of intrigue and politics of truly epic proportions. Detailed characters, hueg schemes, believable setting and, most importantly, more than enough room for the players to do their own thing.Also, a spirit world campaign with truly fucked up spirits and wonders.
>>752174Dust Devils/Dogs in the VineyardPanty ExplosionBliss Stage>>752234Bliss Stage>>752267Lacuna Part 1These are all games where characters are exactly what you described, providing exactly the kind of play you want.
>>752259...What?
>>752320I was talking about the first. The second one had a story just as important, but three playable characters really bummed me out.The first one was simply amazing how everyone's stories intertwined. Finding out Mei Ling was the demon killing Riki's world was bizarre considering I took her through Red and Blue's campaigns.
>>752350For a fucked up spirit world, I found Werewolf the Forsaken to be an excellent twist (WHATTA TWEEST) on the previous Werewolf the Apocalypse's "Good/Bad spirits." But I guess it's not really wonder filled so I should point out Exalted, for a leedle bit o' both.Fuck I feel like a whore now for recommending games I like.
>>752280Reading that made me instantly shudder thinking of how the magic system would work. And how tweaky Mystics would be as a PC race, especially with the...questionable translation of the game making them out to essentially be immortal vampire hookers with funky hair. Oh, and nine-tenths of them are gay. That would piss players off.Myself, I'd like to play something in Tsukihime-verse. Not so much the abilities as the setting, it had some creepy villains.
>>752382You're dirty.
Maybe a game like Bokurano ("Ours") (1 robot many pilots taking turns (or... a turn...)): Each player creates three characters (they'll need them), each one has to be different and carry a different flaw, randomize the piloting order, the character that is choosen controls the giant robot while those that do not still hang around in the "cockpit" supporting the controller. It becomes pilot vs random enemy giant robot. While the battle rages, special attention must be brought to the city that is the battle grounds; each action, each step could result in civilian casualties (players can get creative with how they save them both inside and out of battle). The time limit is 48 hours after the enemy robot's appearance.If victory is achieved within time limit: Tally up the civillian casualties and collatoral damage and give the players character a score.The character then dies.Characters die after piloting the giant robot whether or not the battle ends in victory. Knowing this, when a character is called up to pilot, it is up to the other characters to make sure that the choosen takes up his or her responsibility as the robot's runner through use of friendships, promises, diplomacy or even intimidate checks. If they fail, the current pilot may run away from battle or even worse, use the giant robot to exact revenge on certain people below.Just Russian Roullet until the last pilot. Lots of drama to be had. Destructable environment with a set civillian population that dwindles with each encounter. Giant robot action.What do you guys think?
>>752386I'll tell you what, Mages wont be Gods that's for sure. And Mystics rather than health have plot armor. If their plot armor falls to zero they are baleeted, otherwise they can essentially die from an axe to the face and come back the same night. However any time Mystic's duel the loser dies instantly.The bigger question is how the hell would you balance Red in his Alkaiser form? Str: 26Dex:22Con: 28Int: 12Wis: 9Cha: 6And that would be at level one.
>>752392Sounds weeaboo.
>>752382Kind of like Exalted but more ... whimsical I guess. I dunno, it's hard to define what it is exactly that I'm looking for but pic very related.What is THE TWIST in new werewolf?
>>752402The spirits are your father.
>>752395Better yet, how does one balance Kylin?Str: 10Dex: 12Con: 18Int: 32Wis: 32Cha: 14Along with a spell-like ability to reverse gravity.
>>752402Takes place in the Miyazaki plane? You can have horrifying callous characters interact with a whimsical, loveable girl?
>>752377Huh, not sure why I thought you were talking about SGF2. Ah well, at least we're in agreement.One of the most fun things about the game, though, to me, was how the four races all leveled up in different ways; I'd love to see a tabletop system handle that kind of diversity. Just imagine a party dungeon-crawling in the Koorong sewer system, the monsters rooting around for meat, the robots grafting whatever rare treasures they find onto their bodies, and the humans and mystics running around slaughtering everything that has a pulse, and all of them coming out many times stronger than when they came in.
>>752406>Takes place in the Miyazaki planeI think that's the closest definition possible.
>>752392While the spirit of bokurano is good, the problem is that it would create an unfun game, because only one character is ever piloting the robot at any given time, which means that all the other players just sit around and stack dice while waiting for the character to die and hope it's their turn.A Bokurano-clone would be cool, but it would have to allow for things to be happening to more than one character at a time.
>>752402Well. It's not really much of a twist I guess :/. It's just that it manages to balance the whole "Nature lalalala" with encroaching urban sprawl by setting up a whole ecosystem of spirits feeding off of whatever energy the mortal plane gives off (The more powerful spirits are self sustaining, but often omnom their lessers).So, you could have a spirit of joy, who suddenly finds his supply (A middle school classroom with a cheerful and kind young woman of a teacher) dry up due to an unfortunate car wreck, he could turn to a heroin junkie, feeding off of the high... And encouraging him to take more doses. And spread it to his friends.As far as the spirit can tell, he's just spreading joy, isn't he?
I have always wanted to play in a game where it is all sky pirates. Something along the lines of sky's of arcadia but with dog fights as well. Lots of explorations and a sense of discovery. I don't even know a system that would be good for it.
>>752350Solution for both types of games IN A SINGLE GAME. Nine Worlds. fucked up spirit world and political intrigue with characters that can do things? That's Nine Worlds.
>>752414While that sounds awesome, I can't even imagine what the hell werewolves have to do with it.
>>752411Two groups? Two on two battles? That might spice things up. At the end, the only survivor is determined by a one on one battle between players. Sounds better?
>>752427Werewolves exist to keep the spirits in the spirit world and non-spirits in the real world. When spirits start crossing over, the werewolves get pissed.I've got a neo-Bonegnawer character (Raku Iron Master) running around who's view on the whole Gaia thing is "it's the spirit of a thing that's five billion years old, has shrugged off ice ages and meteor strikes, and is going to continue existing long after we're gone. Screw helping it, I just don't want it to get angry at -me-."
>>752436That's great, but what does changing into a great big furry killing machine have to do with healing the spirit world?It just sounds to me this would be better done by something like Nobilis.
Metroid meets Lovecraft. Playing as a team of bounty hunters, exploring derelict spaceships in the emptiest reaches of the galaxy and finding untold horrors within...
>>752461FUCK YES YOU ARE THE BEST SCI-FI HORROR RPG EVER
>>752392New Bokurano idea: personal action cards. Pass out note cards to each player, one card for each character the player controls. written on these cards are the courses of action that the character is going to take if he or she is not convinced enough that only taking down the enemy robot is the highest priority. These personal actions could be self preservation, revenge, sociopathic disregard for civillians, the extreme need to not die a virgin, drug use, and so on. It could also include hinderances like crippling depression and lethargy. These cards are flipped after several unsuccessful attempts to provide support for the doomed pilot to be. It could really challenge the RPing skills of the players if the GM writes them, shuffles them, and then randomly hands them out for each character.
>>752473Hm. That would let the other players do something while they weren't in the pilot seat. I like it.
>>752461Sweet mother of Christ, that is a fuckwin concept.
>>752484Seconded. It must be fleshed out.
>>752442>That's great, but what does changing into a great big furry killing machine have to do with healing the spirit world?Because there are big, mean spirits out there and being able to RIP AND TEAR is often the best way to chase them off. They're hunters, infested with a wolf spirit.They're not healing the spirit world, they're picking off the idiots/weak/sick spirits that go where they don't belong.
>>752501What system would this work best in? Some kind of terrifying love-child of Call of Cthulhu and Spelljammer?
>>752425I agree fully. Skies of Arcadia is still one of my favorite RPGs and my favorite game for the Dream Cast.
>>752512Not to get off topic, but Lord Licorice, are you the one with the thread archive site?
>>752524That would indeed be me.
>>752512That sounds like it could work. Something humanistic, not abound with aliens and such. Maybe humans are the only known sentient species across the stars, making these horrors all the greater.
>>752426Do you have a rapidshare?
>>752532Could I have a link please?
>>752510Ah. I think the conceptual problem I'm having is werewolves = corporeal and spirits = noncorporeal.
>>752533The cold loneliness of space. The isolation and fear of the boundless unknown. Humanity finally develops the ability to travel the stars, only to find out there is *nothing* out there. We are *it*, that humanity has found, no matter how far they stretch out seeking contact.And then some of the probes come back. And something is *wrong*. Ships that were lost for a time return decades, centuries later, crewless. Outposts and cities on habitable planets on the 'rim' of human civilization lose communication, Roanokes of the far future. Bounty hunters, paid mercenaries that let no one and nothing scare them, armed with the most powerful bio-suits and weapons humanity has created to date, go to search for answers where no one else dares to tread.Fuck, where's my copy of Event Horizon?
>>752535Sure:http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html
>>752542They're a mixture of man/wolf-SPIRIT, not man and wolf. At least in WtF.
>>752543Event Horizon. Fuck yes. This is the greatest setting ever.
Capital Ship battles. I've never seen a system that can do Capital Ship battles right. Put the players in command of their own small ships, looting or completing missions for bigger ships and eventually fleets, controlling the politics of entire systems. Lots of intrigue, space battles, boarding action, the occasional planetside mission.
>>752556Battlefleet Gothic?
>>752543Gunbuster sans-giant robots. Sort of.
>>752552With power suits.This sounds like it would be a great game for combining low-level M&M with CoC's sanity rules.
>>752552Argh, damn you, clock. The best idea I've seen ever and it's 5am. Oh well, this thread is archived now (and will update automatically) and I'll make a new thread tomorrow even if this one is lost. Because this is too awesome to let go.
>>752563My goal this week is going to be reading through M&M and CoC, then, since I haven't.
>>752543Event Horizon, though awesome would be hard to for a lot of players. EH requires fear and screaming while players love to be tough as nails. It would be great if it could come together.
>>752558Can it handle three dimensions, and redirecting shields, and ramming, and targeting specific parts of ships?
>>752563OH, another great idea. The technology on which power suits are based, the neuro-mechanical interface... well, let's say that it wasn't entirely a human idea.As you lose sanity, your suit also mutates, giving you new advantages and disadvantages. Perhaps it begins to fuse to your body, changing you into... something else.
So, an Event Horizone-esque setting, featuring low level powered suits and starring a group of Astrological Salvage Experts - searching for abandonded and destroyed ships to salvage anything they can from them but ended up discovering Things Man Was Not Meant To Know?
In WFRP I'd love to play a rich Imperial socialite who worshipped Nurgle. Trying to raise a cult in that kind of social setting would be fun as hell, and Nurgle is totally the wrong chaos god for a young, rich, popular guy to be worshipping. It could be epic.
Some deeply pathetic part of me wants to play a campaign set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I've even thought up a way to convert Benders into D20. I know...I know...
>>752577Check out the forums on http://www.giantitp.com (The Order of the Stick website). Someone has written up pretty solid rules for bending, including elemental bending classes.
>>752575That is doable. Tome Of Corruption especially would make it a cinch.
>>752577Fighting firebenders today, fighting firebenders tomorrow, firebenders, firebenders, everywhere you look, firebenders, OH CRAP AZUL-
>>752577Thats alright, I too would like to play in the Last Airbender universe. Let it all out, this is what this thread is here for.
>>752574I posted >>752461and then wandered off to /v/ for a few hours. Then came back to this.Holy shit. Please let me know what you guys come up with. I've always wanted to run or play this game but I only know D&D 3.5e, and I've never DMed a horror game.
A fucking Genestealer. OMNOMNOM
>>752597I'm just trying to think of what setting to use. The Cthulhu insanity system will make an appearance, probably using Spelljammer/Shadowrun/AFMBE for the core.
>>752602Yeah, I discussed this with a friend who once ran CoC d20 for us (albeit very poorly) and we agreed that a sanity system is a must.
Honestly, Bunnies and Burrows sounds like it could be kind of fun. Also, Redwall. I'd like to try a Redwall table-top.
Can you imagine how fucking scary Metroid Fusion would be if you weren't using a 2d perspective? Fuck, that game would be fucking scary in first person.
>>752645Metroid 2: Return of Samus is the prime example of how 2d can be scary as fuck. God damn, that game...
>>752645Exactly.
>>752648The sound effects and music were the creepiest thing in the Metroid games. I had nightmares set to that minimalist background music from Super Metroid for years.
I'd like to play a game set in a world populated by humans and anthros. Then I'd throw in the pods from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Why not just play one with the pods? Well, I'd do that too. So why throw in anthros (furries)? 'cause I'm weird.I'd also love a crossover with Final Fantasy IX and Half-Life 2. Have the Combine open up a rift and invade. Elvaan and Humes would be "Synthed" into Combine soldiers, Galka would be wiped out, and Tarutaru would be coverted into power batteries for various Combine technologies (all that MP!).I'd also love to play a nice "The Thing" RPG. I've read one detailed game-setup for it. It'd be lots of fun, though you'd have to make sure that any players who were imitated didn't let on about that OOC to anyone.
>>752650I'm off to bed, but I just have one thing to say...Metroid 2, the crazy tense siren WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING music and the Metroid you find turns all OMEGA and fucking SHOOTS LIGHTNING AND MOVES FASTER THAN YOUR BULLETS! Fuck, that game was scary.So in closing, atmosphere can make a normal encounter scary as fuck.
I always wanted to roleplay Half-Life 1. Just have the PC's be Scientists, Office Staff, Technicians, Janitors, and Security Guards. Then they have to work together and try to escape Black Mesa. Enemies and obstacles would of-course be things from the game. Toxic and radioactive spills, fires, collapsing walls/ceilings, merciless Marines and Black Ops, and of-course hungry aliens.I've also always wondered if some less fanciful scenarios wouldn't be a bit of fun. Say some games modeled after Poseidon (the original) or the Towering Inferno. Or having the players take on the rolls of random people in San Francisco after "the Big One". Maybe a good old fashioned plague sweeping the Earth and the players have to survive by avoiding catching the plague as well as escaping all the chaos that grips civilization during the height of the epidemic. They'd then have to find some way to maintain a living afterward. The littlest things could get people killed once the "worst" was over, like say coming up with appendicitis but having no doctor around.
>>752669That sounds like it would be fun. The team work in the first Half-Life was somewhat lacking (thought it was great at the time) considering obstacles were something only Freeman and his suit could handle which would actively force you to kiss your companions good-bye. Just how simple the objective is, getting out of Black Mesa, and how difficult all these different parties make it for you makes for a great RPG setting that I'd like to play as well.Towering Inferno and Poseidon type games could be entertaining as well though it seems that they'd be nothing more than a series of climb checks, jump checks, heal checks, and level pulling. Maybe some combat could spice things up?
Though its dorky, I'd like to play a Digimon table-top. Preferably, like the 2nd season, where the kids were able to zip in and out of the digital world. There's something appealing about the whole, "Quick! Get to the computer lab!" thing.
>>752713>Towering InfernoThat's it. I'm statting up Burning Rangers and running a one-off adventure for it this week.
>>752719I am ashamed to admit that I've always wanted to play this myself.
>>752725I've got this, though I don't know how well it works.
>>752713I too like this idea, even transplanted from the halflife setting the concept of having players play as a group of relativley helpless scientists trying to escape from a facility where terrible events are unfolding is a fun idea, scientists using their wits and knowledge of the environment to escape black ops kill teams and aliens/monsters is good in any universe.
>>752174I also want to be a super robot pilot
I want magical girls done in the "personal horror" genre.
Although it wouldn't work, I've always wanted to play a game based on a band, or a racing RPG. Something animu-ish.Not a band who also fights monsters, but one that mostly plays music. But there's no way to do that besides, "I roll my perform. 14+8, 22." "DC was 20, your band rocks, you get money and bitches and your next concert sells out. Roll to see how you play that one."
>>753108You could fleshen it out. You could have a list of songs (each with a different DC) broken down into a series of riffs, choruses and such (again, each with a different DC for each player). Or you could try playing Guitar Hero 2 and corking the results from that into a useable result.
>>753114Or you could say that how well you do at a concert depends on how you're feeling, so the idea would be to resolve personal issues between concerts, and depending on how those issues got resolved, that would influence the concert. Although I'm not sure if finally forgiving your dad for whatever ought to make you a BETTER guitar player or a worse one.
>>753118Oh, that is a great idea. Character development influencing trials. Fucking brilliant.
I've always wanted to roleplay something akin to a cross between an Eversor Assassin and Doomrider, with bits of Techpriest thrown in.
http://www.cthulhurising.co.uk/For the guys making the Metroid/Cthulurising thingThe "cold tower" secario is very similar to "The Thing"
Thread, RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE>>753191Fucking awesome, thank you for the Cthulhu Rising link. Now I just need CoC itself. What are the main differences between CoC and d20 CoC? Are they identical (insofar as fluff and concepts) with differing game mechanics or are they made by two different groups altogether?
>>753743You pretty much got it thereFluff and concepts are very similar (sanity points,skill based, etc)I think they're by the same group and they just converted it to d20 so more people could play it
>>753743as for CoC its-self this might be useful to you http://www.chaosium.com/forms/coc_quick_start_color.pdf
Something with the Bioshock setting. A good 40k game would be nice. A Deus Ex RPG could be epic..
A game that handles nanites properly.
>>752461i was thinking the same thing, but more DOOM less Metroid
Something based off Wolf's Rain would be kind of fun. The illusion of being human but actually being a wolf, going through society normally untill you physically interact. Sounds like fun though the combat system will always be bite bite bite.
>>754218In before furfagIn before weeaboo.
Oh, I want to fucking RP through the Homeworld single player campaign.Do you know how awesome that would be?
Steampunk Traveller. Take the Traveller universe set during the first expansion of terrans and make everything steampunk. I actually want to do this some day but have never got around to it.Anywhere But Here. An idea gleaned from RPG.net which was inspired by the novel of the same name. Basically, some guy invents a Hyperdrive that costs $200 to build. He releases the plans on the internet. Mass exodus of earth ensues because you can mount the hyperdrive on a car and jump to other planets. It was summed up as "Rednecks in space."Transhuman Space. If you havn't read this book I recommend it. I've wanted to do a special agent type story with it. Heavily influenced by Ghost in the Shell and Appleseed.Technomancer 2100. Take GURPS Technomancer and advance the timeline 100 years. Magical FTL ships explore the universe. Low-tech fantasy type worlds mixed with higher-tech worlds. The antagonists are racist elves that use bio-tech and think they should be the only ones with FTL.
>>754441Unfortunately, no player will ever be able to instill so much helpless horror into their voice as the Mothership when you come back to your home planet in Mission 2.The way you can hear her try to keep that souless, mission briefing reading voice while the tragedy seeps into it subtly is a work of art.
I like Anywhere But Here. Did we ever decide what prevents people from dropping massive rocks on planets with the hyper-engine?Although I have to admit that MY personal fantasy would be to mount that puppy onto a yellow vespa, not a car.
>>754467Assuming of course he doesn't want to play as a Taidanii. In which case he's the one who pushed the button in the first place.
>>752157"I've got the conch!"
>>754450Idea 4 is a straight rip of Tabula Rasa
>>754478Oh, you mean that guy whom you capture after that mission and who, quote unquote, "did not survive interrogation"?
>>754479Kill the pig. Cut his throat. Spill his blood.
>>754495Well he had just nuclearating ever single animal, person or place that you have ever known. The fact that he lasted long enough to give any sort of informations pretty impressive.Sans the guys getting shot at whilst in cryo of course.
I always wanted a game full of wonder and nontolkien fantasy, something like Kirby's Dreamland, but without the extra cute denizens.
>>754535And why NOT have extra cute denizens?
>>752226Consider this idea stolen.>>752669I tried this once or twice. Make sure your players know and like Half Life or at least like dungeon crawls. Otherwise it will fizzle.
>>754472Nothing but GM fiat and/or players who are not trying to be dicks and fuck the setting up. Personally, I would let them be terrorists and just let them suffer the consequences in game.
>>754549Because then people would be screaming WEEABOO WEEABOO WEEABOO WEEABOO. Plus its hard to take it seriously.
>>754558But anyway, I really like the Hyperspace jump capable Vespa concept. You'd finally get some use out of those aviator goggles you're required to have.
My Gaiafag girlfriend is currently preparing an roleplay set in Gunnerkrigg Court.
I would like WWII high fantasy... elven snipers with springfields and nazis on dragons.
CoC style game, but with more focus on possession (I suppose like The Thing, as was suggested earlier). Having read this thread, I want very much to combine it with Metroid :PEspecially if "possession" did include hideous physical mutation, but wasn't visible if you had your suit on.
normally, I would hate on gaia but Gunnerkrig Court is fucking awesome. seriously, I love that webcomic.
>>753108A year or so ago Dragon magazine put together this d20 band-shenanigans RPG. Think Scooby Doo or Patridge Family or some other campy 70s show. Character classes are band roles; the singer, guitarist, bassist, drummer, keyboardist, etc. Playing music is handled like a "combat" against the crowd, with one character taking the lead for a round/song and the others enhacing the leads' strengths and covering their weaknesses.Also included goofy-ass Scooby-Doo-style chase rules. When in doubt, find a hallway full of doors.
>>754620It was called Hijinx. Not that good IMO. Nowadays I would keep the art and use WUSHU.
Okay, here's an idea that can work for just about any setting and system, but I'll use D&D as a default:All of the characters are very powerful and experienced adventures (around level 10 or higher) who have been travelling together as a party for a few years now. Along the way they've done all sorts of epic things like slaying dragons and saving kingdoms. They're not the best in the world, but they can and will handle most adventuring challenges with relative ease. On the way they've learned much about themselves and each other, and have intricate relationships. This will all be established before the game even starts.Now put them out of action. Maybe they've decided to retire, at least for now, and move into the city (or a quiet little town, whichever they prefer). The actual game will be at least 3/4 roleplaying, and almost all of the challenges will bo social. Sure, you may be a half-orc barbarian who can kill owlbears with your teeth alone, but do you have what to takes to win the heart of that elf girl next door? Can a wizard who's spent half of his life studying magic hold onto any actual friends when they don't need your help?Protip: Make sure that the players are smart or they'll abandon it all and run off on adventures the first chance they get.
>>754687This sounds like it would make a better webcomic or something than an actual roleplay. Then again my group doesn't really have the attention span for what you describe.
>>754687This sounds like a crazy 80s sitcom.
