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Random game ideas.

Posted by eggellis
eggellis
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Tue 26 May 2015
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Random game ideas

So as the title says I've got a few ideas for games but I'm not a good GM.  Hopefully I can find a kind soul who would use one of my ideas and let me play. A few notes:


I'm not going to state a preferred game system for all of these because a) I'm not sure what the best system would be, b) I don't want to scare off a prospective gm who has a certain ruleset in mind, or c) both. I will add a list of games I'm familiar with at the bottom. I would happily play one of these games in a system I've never used before as long as its something I could get my hands on and the gm is fine running with a newbie. You may have gathered that I'm not into freeform, I like to have at least some crunchy stuff.

There isn't much story in my proposals, just the bare bones.  Again, because I don't want to stifle anyone who wants to take on running one of these, but also I'd rather not know whats coming as a player.

Some ideas have an inspiration listed, note that I don't necessarily want a game of (insert movie,show, whatever here). They are just there to give an idea of where I'm coming from.

Finally, for all of them I imagine a group of 4 or 5. I like playing with others but 10 or 15 players is too many for me.

Wrestling is serious business
Inspiration: Kinnikuman/Ultimate Muscle, G Gundam.
My idea here is fairly open so I'm going to  list the important aspects then give a (weak) example or two.  If you have an idea that uses  the important parts but doesn't resemble my example, great.
1. The fate of the world is decided by a sanctioned combat of some kind.
2. The combatants are superhuman/robots/aliens/humongous mecha pilots.
3. The fights have some rules but not governing the participants fighting styles. It would be boring if everyone boxed for example.
4. This doesn't necessarily need to be an anime-esque game, but it seems like it should be.

Example 1:  Five evil aliens come to Earth's Superhuman Wrestling League(SWL) and challenge them. The SWL gets to choose their five best to pair off with one of the aliens for a match. If the aliens win best of five matches they will enslave the Earth.

Example 2: In the year 5000 technology has developed to the point that every person on Earth can build very sophisticated robots on their garage. A large corporation is holding the first annual robot fighting contest. Anyone can enter and the winner gets one wish.  However, the companies motives may not be what they seem.

I want to point out that even though the concept is 1 on 1 combat heavy I don't  mean to imply that I'm looking for an arena-type thing. I would like some role play to go along with the roll play.


Fantasy Crossover

Inspiration: Project X Zone, Capcom Vs. series, really any large intercontinuity crossover
I read a lot of fantasy novels. I think it would be fun to have one of those games with worlds merging and an evil plot and all that. Except instead of video game characters the players would be representatives of fantasy settings. That's basically it.

Virtual Reality
Inspiration: The Matrix(but not much)
For this one the players would be cops/secret agents/members of the resistance in which there would be parts of the game taking place in the "real world" and parts in some kind of virtual reality/computer simulation/video game. For some adventures the pc's would deal with things as regular people then others they would have to jack in to a computer to have a more super powered day. It may even be neat to use two game systems to keep things completely different.

 Musical Holy War
Inspiration: This: Music Pantheon
Preferred System :Pathfinder
I really recommend checking out the link above. This game is set in a fantasy world with a few unique traits. In this world magic is powered by music. All spellcasters don't need to be bards, but all verbal components would be sung. The gods are all musicians who played so well they have ascended. Electrical instruments have magical counterparts in this world and all the deities are fantasy versions of real musicians.

There is an evil dictator of some kind who is trying to stamp out music to keep people under his/her thumb. Our adventurers would be followers of the gods trying to stop said dictator.

Non-typical Pokemon
Inspiration: Pokemon of course
Preferred system:PTU
Basically I want to play pokemon but I'm not interested in the gym challenge. Something using the PTU Game of Throhs book would be more my speed. Really anything that resembled a more typical rpg except with pokemon would be cool though.

Here's two very simple ideas I'll toss in.
1. Humongous mecha, I love em and any game using them is cool.
2. Some kind of game set in modern day in which the heroes seek out mystical creatures to stop. Like D20 Modern's Urban Arcana setting though it doesn't have to be exactly that.


Rules I'm well versed in:
Pathfinder
D20 modern/future
Mutants and Masterminds 2E

As you can see I have mostly played D20 based games but here are some books I own but haven't found many/any chances to use.
Scion Hero
Big Eyes Small Mouth 3E
Apocolypse Prevention Inc.(not the savage worlds version)
New World of Darkness

Like I said though, I'm willing to learn something new if one of these gets any interest.  Thanks to anyone who reads all this.
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