Games we want, but will almost certainly never have
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I wonder if anyone still cares about The Magicians.
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@Gashlycrumb I do but it has made for an awful MUSH every time
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Whenever someone mentions The Magicians I get it confused with The Librarian(s) and I feel the urge to watch those movies (and the subsequent TV series) and then make a game out of it. Somehow.
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@Gashlycrumb said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
I wonder if anyone still cares about The Magicians.
I think about The Magicians as a setting for a TTRPG quite a bit - but I also think that the most people who say they want a setting like the Magicians really just mean they want a slice-of-life urban fantasy game. There’s nothing wrong with this, it just isn’t really what the Magicians is about at the end of the day, and I tend to think that most of the most important themes just don’t translate very well to what most people want out of an RP game.
I also think that there probably needs to be room for (if not a focus on) interpersonal conflicts within the characters of the player-base, which requires both a very mature/responsible p-base and a well curated and moderated community with very little tolerance for people that are taking advantage of the social-conflict heavy nature of the setting. Which is probably why…
@bear_necessities said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
I do but it has made for an awful MUSH every time
The MU attempts have largely been unsuccessful. People, it turns out, don’t tend to want to play in an ironic, “magic actually can’t fix your problems you have to deal with your shit” game that’s high in drama and social conflict. And many of of the people that do end up kind of sucking (or being willing to put up with people who suck, because they have limited options for this particular scope of RP).
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@NotSanni said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
I think about The Magicians as a setting for a TTRPG quite a bit - but I also think that the most people who say they want a setting like the Magicians really just mean they want a slice-of-life urban fantasy game.
I think most people who want a Magicians game want a magic school game and … again, that’s not really what the Magicians is about. I agree with everything else you said, and I think the dark interpersonal social drama of the Magicians makes it not a great theme for a MUSH.
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@Pavel said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
Whenever someone mentions The Magicians I get it confused with The Librarian(s) and I feel the urge to watch those movies (and the subsequent TV series) and then make a game out of it. Somehow.
This is literally just nWoD Mysterium, and it’s great.
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i just want a good old L&L mush to scratch my regency era itch gdi
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@Artemis It’s weird that there don’t seem to be several floating around. Brigerton was fun, right? And L&L is probably among the easiest themes to run.
"This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
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@Gashlycrumb fr. I might even take a stab at it myself if I had any kind of time like that rn. Maybe a lot of ppl are tired of l&l? Just gib us arx back :C
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@Artemis It could be that no one is going to try to live up to Arx. Everything else might just be a lackluster comparison. I never played there but I heard people talk about it for years.
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@Gashlycrumb said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
And L&L is probably among the easiest themes to run.
In my experience, L&L is more like the icing on the cake. Arx being (in a very, very, very reductionist view) L&L & Magic & Elves. L&L is set dressing for the so-called real game.
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@Gashlycrumb said in Games we want, but will almost certainly never have:
@Artemis … And L&L is probably among the easiest themes to run.
See, the idea of running a Lords & Ladies game is very intimidating. I think I could open a superhero or modern horror game tomorrow and be fairly confident in running plots, helping players, and all that. But when I think about opening an L&L game? I get all anxious.
And it’s too bad because I’d love to see a Game of Thrones game. The two people I RP with most would also love it. I just find it all very intimidating - probably mostly because I’d be doing all the staffing work by myself, and that’s a lot to handle.
