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I keep buying RPG books. I have loads of vague ideas, no concrete plots and no time to run them.
I've been enjoying running Spirit Of The Century, but it's not quite going how I want it. I think the system has a few issues that aren't easy to fix after the fact. Also I need more of an idea of what my damn plot is. I'm sure I can come up with something awesome but right now I have a nasty mess held together with gaffer tape.
I found Part-Time Gods in a charity shop. Read through it. Kinda cool setting. Decent urban fantasy setting. Seems like a cross between Dead-like-me and Dresden files. The idea is that the PCs have recently received a Spark of Divinity. They are the gods of some dominion. They also want to hang onto their mortal life, and have various bonds to people, groups and places. So essentially this aspect works like a super hero secret identity.
Really fond of the idea of combining soap opera plots and interpersonal conflict with supernatural elements, and dealing with balancing their mortal and divine lives.
Saw Flash Gordon in Orc's Nest, and Flick seemed keen, so I bought it for her. Then stole it from her. This potentially is a lot of fun, with rayguns and space ships and stuff. Not really read this fully. It's a Savage Words based game (not that that I think system matters too much, to be honest). This does require core Savage Worlds which I just bought and have started reading. There's a new version coming out soon.
My thought with savage worlds was that it might be suitable for a tabletop version of Winter In The Willows.
Winter In The Willows was a LARP that I used to play. A furry, post apocalyptic, steampunk LARP. Now, a furry, post apocalyptic, steampunk RPG has something for everyone! And the LARP gave a good idea abut what the various species were actually like.
The setting is loosely based on Wind In The Willows, but with the brutality of nature. Animals need to eat. They need to keep warm. Main source of food is meat. Main source of warmth is furs. Other animals have both. Of course just killing each other would be uncivilised, and the various groups have their tribes, gangs, societies and whatnot who will take a dim view of others killing their respective group for their flesh and their skin. There's the constant threat of foxes, and probably a few birds of prey. The other factor is the dead civilisation - human society that ended around the beginning of the 20th century. There's a load of background here (that I can hopefully prise from the LARP organisers) and it's a pretty well developed setting. Also Burrows and Badgers has miniatures that would probably look suitable for the setting.
So there's the ideas.
I don't seem to have as many actual plots.
What is a good premise for an urban fantasy that gets added complications? Perhaps the complications are something that need to come later. What's a crisis that might unite a disparate group of animals to work together and solve it? What is the current aim in Flash Gordon that isn't going to defeat Ming (therefore ending the game)? I used to be so much better at this.
I'd be quite happy to play these as well, but I don;t think anyone will run them for me. Such is life.
I've been enjoying running Spirit Of The Century, but it's not quite going how I want it. I think the system has a few issues that aren't easy to fix after the fact. Also I need more of an idea of what my damn plot is. I'm sure I can come up with something awesome but right now I have a nasty mess held together with gaffer tape.
I found Part-Time Gods in a charity shop. Read through it. Kinda cool setting. Decent urban fantasy setting. Seems like a cross between Dead-like-me and Dresden files. The idea is that the PCs have recently received a Spark of Divinity. They are the gods of some dominion. They also want to hang onto their mortal life, and have various bonds to people, groups and places. So essentially this aspect works like a super hero secret identity.
Really fond of the idea of combining soap opera plots and interpersonal conflict with supernatural elements, and dealing with balancing their mortal and divine lives.
Saw Flash Gordon in Orc's Nest, and Flick seemed keen, so I bought it for her. Then stole it from her. This potentially is a lot of fun, with rayguns and space ships and stuff. Not really read this fully. It's a Savage Words based game (not that that I think system matters too much, to be honest). This does require core Savage Worlds which I just bought and have started reading. There's a new version coming out soon.
My thought with savage worlds was that it might be suitable for a tabletop version of Winter In The Willows.
Winter In The Willows was a LARP that I used to play. A furry, post apocalyptic, steampunk LARP. Now, a furry, post apocalyptic, steampunk RPG has something for everyone! And the LARP gave a good idea abut what the various species were actually like.
The setting is loosely based on Wind In The Willows, but with the brutality of nature. Animals need to eat. They need to keep warm. Main source of food is meat. Main source of warmth is furs. Other animals have both. Of course just killing each other would be uncivilised, and the various groups have their tribes, gangs, societies and whatnot who will take a dim view of others killing their respective group for their flesh and their skin. There's the constant threat of foxes, and probably a few birds of prey. The other factor is the dead civilisation - human society that ended around the beginning of the 20th century. There's a load of background here (that I can hopefully prise from the LARP organisers) and it's a pretty well developed setting. Also Burrows and Badgers has miniatures that would probably look suitable for the setting.
So there's the ideas.
I don't seem to have as many actual plots.
What is a good premise for an urban fantasy that gets added complications? Perhaps the complications are something that need to come later. What's a crisis that might unite a disparate group of animals to work together and solve it? What is the current aim in Flash Gordon that isn't going to defeat Ming (therefore ending the game)? I used to be so much better at this.
I'd be quite happy to play these as well, but I don;t think anyone will run them for me. Such is life.
