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Nov. 16th, 2009 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teh_kittykatSo The Girl and I were thinking about getting the band back together.
I used to GM a Megaman-based multiversal game on LJ. Eventually rp started conflicting with work (and, indeed, I was rping like 4-5 hours a night and going craaaaaazy) and I had to pry my hands off the crack. The game actually managed to survive a few more months before caving, and in all it managed to outlive the average lifespan of an LJ rpg. (18 months of really active play is nothing to sneeze at) It was a happy time.
I also really miss getting to do awesome story-based rp. Playing on RP servers in WoW just ain't the same. And while I've kept up playing out stuff with The Girl, well, there's stuff you can do in a two-person rp and stuff you can't.
I've been slowly pecking away at worldbuilding stuff for a new campaign setting. The Girl's been helping a bit. And since we've both developed an unhealthy fondness for Astro Boy in addition to our Megaman addictions, we've been trying to figure out a more inclusive list of possible fandoms to draw on. (And it would be cracky. Just saying.) It's a generally SF setting with a huge element of robotics, cyberspace/VR, and transhumanism mixed liberally with a bit of high-tech frontier town. No plans to connect the setting to the Nexus or have it be a Nexus-based game, just because I wouldn't want to end up having to deal with fallout from plots happening elsewhere.
I would be interested in feedback on what fandoms might be cool for a setting like this or what characters people who also miss rp would be interested in playing. (we've already settled on allowing all the Mega Men, Astro Boys, various robot movie type fandoms, and Reboot.. I'm of two minds about Transformers or Gundam even though both pretty heavily feature different types of robot. Maybe some Big O action? I just don't want giant robot fights to erupt since they could take out the entire setting pretty easily and I'd rather make people have to work to destroy the setting! I'm also debating just throwing it open to any SF sort of fandom and let Bob sort it out.) I'll probably be posting a lot of development stuff over the next few days, if only to have some backups of the material.
The game itself would have to be on LJ-- I don't have any illusions about the general rp community moving off LJ anytime soon.
I used to GM a Megaman-based multiversal game on LJ. Eventually rp started conflicting with work (and, indeed, I was rping like 4-5 hours a night and going craaaaaazy) and I had to pry my hands off the crack. The game actually managed to survive a few more months before caving, and in all it managed to outlive the average lifespan of an LJ rpg. (18 months of really active play is nothing to sneeze at) It was a happy time.
I also really miss getting to do awesome story-based rp. Playing on RP servers in WoW just ain't the same. And while I've kept up playing out stuff with The Girl, well, there's stuff you can do in a two-person rp and stuff you can't.
I've been slowly pecking away at worldbuilding stuff for a new campaign setting. The Girl's been helping a bit. And since we've both developed an unhealthy fondness for Astro Boy in addition to our Megaman addictions, we've been trying to figure out a more inclusive list of possible fandoms to draw on. (And it would be cracky. Just saying.) It's a generally SF setting with a huge element of robotics, cyberspace/VR, and transhumanism mixed liberally with a bit of high-tech frontier town. No plans to connect the setting to the Nexus or have it be a Nexus-based game, just because I wouldn't want to end up having to deal with fallout from plots happening elsewhere.
I would be interested in feedback on what fandoms might be cool for a setting like this or what characters people who also miss rp would be interested in playing. (we've already settled on allowing all the Mega Men, Astro Boys, various robot movie type fandoms, and Reboot.. I'm of two minds about Transformers or Gundam even though both pretty heavily feature different types of robot. Maybe some Big O action? I just don't want giant robot fights to erupt since they could take out the entire setting pretty easily and I'd rather make people have to work to destroy the setting! I'm also debating just throwing it open to any SF sort of fandom and let Bob sort it out.) I'll probably be posting a lot of development stuff over the next few days, if only to have some backups of the material.
The game itself would have to be on LJ-- I don't have any illusions about the general rp community moving off LJ anytime soon.
