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Aria

The same as above, but leveraged towards The Strange and some other Monte Cook projects as well. Even stripping away the Cypher system altogether, things like The Strange or Old Gods of Appalachia seem like they’d be great MUSH fodder and you could probably do OGoA with something like FS3 given that the main characters are rarely supernatural themselves. Some of those other radio play style podcasts would be cool as well: the White Vault, Magnus Archives (also a Monte Cook project), and so on.

I was, at one point, actually actively working on an Old Gods of Appalachia game with the full intention of using FS3 and then stealing some of the inspiration available to me in the OGoA game system. (There is a published one. I backed it on Kickstarter awhile ago.)

My plan was to set it in a mining town to allow us to both mix the eldritch horrors aspect along with some of the politics of the labor movement so players could contrast the ancient horrors beneath the earth with just, y’know, people? Kind of the way 28 Days Later has zombies but those soldiers are also just as scary and threatening?

The thing is, the first person that I brought the idea to was like, “But what about the racism, Aria?!” and I was like, “Well, if I’m asking players to imagine a world in which the bones of the earth are full of unknowable monstrosities older than mankind itself, maybe even older than the world itself, I’m pretty sure I can ask them to imagine a world that’s just not inherently shitty to people of color.” And they were like, “But people will be confused without the racism because of historical accuracy.” And then I pointed out a whoooooooole bunch of examples of coal miners in Appalachia banding together across racial lines and they were still like “BUT PEOPLE. HISTORICAL ACCURACY.” and I took that to mean “BUT THE RACISM.”

And then I decided that if I couldn’t persuade one single person that we could probably just, y’know, not include 1920s style racism and generally be fine, with less people being offended by the erasure of it than the allowance of it, this was actually a terrible idea and promptly gave up.

Tez

Bujold’s Vorkosigan books, but mostly that’s a surprise to me because @Tat and I looked at doing it but never really got it rolling.

I’m tagging you everywhere today, Tat. Sorry.

bear_necessities

@Gashlycrumb said in Missed Settings:

Cowboys? Do you mean a western? There’s one going.

Where?

Jenn

@bear_necessities

I kinda loved that Zombie one, though.

Tez

Moved some posts before Ashkuri kills me

Ashkuri

@Tez YEAH YOU BETTER

Raistlin

@Solstice said in Missed Settings:

…Cosmere…

I’ve actually just received the Stormlight material from the Cosmere RPG Kickstarter! Very excited to dig into it.

somasatori

@Aria said in Missed Settings:

My plan was to set it in a mining town to allow us to both mix the eldritch horrors aspect along with some of the politics of the labor movement so players could contrast the ancient horrors beneath the earth with just, y’know, people?

I know what you meant here, but my mind immediately went to noting that Rusty’s Rules are definitely horrific enough to carry a game.

Gashlycrumb

@bear_necessities Crap, I lied. It’s ‘Dry Gulch’ on Ares, but it’s listed as ‘In Development’ and has been for quite a while.

Really, Westerns seem like a very easy setting to run. It’s weird that there are not more of them. And now I’m tempted to make one just 'cause.

bear_necessities

@Gashlycrumb said in Missed Settings:

Really, Westerns seem like a very easy setting to run. It’s weird that there are not more of them. And now I’m tempted to make one just 'cause.

DO IT I DARE YOU.

Gashlycrumb

@bear_necessities Hehe! Where do you want it set?

Jennkryst

@Gashlycrumb said in Missed Settings:

@bear_necessities Hehe! Where do you want it set?

In the WoD. As a joke. (Unless…?)

bear_necessities

@Gashlycrumb every time I set out to do something in the Western world, I either go Wyoming or Colorado.

somasatori

Out on the pampas in Argentina would be a cool setting. Gauchos tend to have similar stories to American cowboys and Mexican vaqueros, but also would probably not grab that Americana vibe that most folks are going for with a Western.

Jenn

@Gashlycrumb

Star Crossed did it briefly but well as a shifter based wild west thing.

Personally, I’d say Texas, along the Rio Grande.

Gashlycrumb

@bear_necessities

I live in Colorado, which makes that kinda easier.

@Jenn said in Missed Settings:

Personally, I’d say Texas, along the Rio Grande.

Yeah – very different setting. Really, there might be Mining Town westerns vs. Cow Town westerns, or towns with both. Alas, there’s not a lot of places to graze cattle near Leadville, which has a fun history. (Somebody said, “Hey, you know that black stuff in the tailings of your lead mines? That’s silver.”)

KarmaBum

But not historically accurate cowboys.

More like Wild Imaginary West - https://runefoundry.com/products/wild-imaginary-west-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOooAEp1NVTXF0ZeDBoSmAawCkPK1_tbzkyC8kqVi8MVvUz60WwxQ

somasatori

@KarmaBum WEIRD WEST, HELL YES

Roo

@Floof said in Missed Settings:

Something inspired by the Temeraire series.

Funny thing is, is that I’ve read that the Author admits to have been a regular on PernMUSH back in the 90’s. So would probably be quite OK with a MUSH being made.

Gashlycrumb

@KarmaBum I agree totally and would love to see that.

Have you watched that guy’s youtube mini-building channel? I thought "I want that as RPG setting’ before he announced its release as a game.