What original theme interests you?

[shit-piss-love]

I’m definitely not the target audience for any of these but I am intellectually curious about how the Angels and Demons game would play out. If everyone is an angel or demon and the game focuses around interacting with humans in order to fulfill their goals, it sounds like most meaningful action will be executed against NPCs.

[Jennkryst]

@Cobalt Gotta keep pumping out those greenhouse gasses so we can retain as much heat from the colder solar output. Who knew that climate change would somehow save the world?

I’m just flailing silly dumb ideas because I absolutely want to make a climatologist from the before times… the long-long-ago, trying to figure out if there is any way to stop turning everything into an iceball.

Edit to add - Habitable planets and red giants… or red dwarves… are not typically around them on a galactic timescale. 60 years is a blink of an eye, earth can be gradually becoming tidally locked and become an iceball, but not for another million years, so won’t affect gameplay. The planet can maybe be kept warm with greenhouse gases, but oh god the different spectrum of sunlight is a killer.

I have way too many ideas from this, I might just overconfidently volunteer for plotstaff shenanigans lets goooooo

[SpaceKhomeini]

Damn, modern-day soap opera getting no love.

Shameful.

[STD]

Honestly, I liked the modern day soap opera idea a lot. It was a toss-up between that and the Mall at the End of the Universe. I ultimately chose the Mall because what interested me about the soap opera one was ridiculous storylines about evil twins and financial malfeasance, not the behind-the-scenes stuff of actors doing work. So that’s like half the setting that I had no real interest in.

Not mentioned in the list, but damn would I like some kind of Spycraft MU. Everyone is an Agent or works for the Agency. More 1960s crazy mad science trying to take over the world with frickin’ mind control lasers than modern slick spy stuff.

[Jennkryst]

@STD Spycraft obligatory Demon the Descent when

[Aria]

The Angels and Demons theme reminds me of In Nomine, which I used to play with my high school bestie. So nostalgia wins for me.

For the Divine Mall Limbo, would that overlap with Keys too much? I ask this not to poo-poo the idea (obviously the idea of portal-hopping, play-anything in time has been very successful for them considering the popularity of the game) but because I wonder if that will end up bothering you over time.

[bear_necessities]

I can’t seem to vote in the poll for whatever reason but I’m going to go with ‘none of the above’. For one, most of these themes seem incredibly similar to games that already currently exist. Angels & Demons seems to be a ripe place for problematic behavior if you don’t have the time & energy to monitor for creepers. And while Divine Mall Limbo sounds like a kinda funny movie concept, what exactly would your characters do?

[Hobbie]

@STD said in What original theme interests you?:

Not mentioned in the list, but damn would I like some kind of Spycraft MU. Everyone is an Agent or works for the Agency. More 1960s crazy mad science trying to take over the world with frickin’ mind control lasers than modern slick spy stuff.

I would be 100% down for a '60s-era pulpy spy thriller game. Lean hard on the zany concepts played totally seriously.

But then again I’d love a Danger 5 MUSH, so

[Cobalt]

@junipersky said in What original theme interests you?:

I’m on a Supernatural kick atm, so of course I voted Angels and Demons. That said, I can see icky af behavior emerging with the sing song excuse of “but omg in a demon I’m SUPPOSED to be bad tehe” - and you deserve a break after that shiz on The Pack.

I was actually throwing the idea around of doing an invite only adult-themed w/ metaplot game, but decided it would be exhausting to have to vet everyone.

I’m really sort of interested in the Angels vs Demons idea, but I’d need to find some people to help me with it so I’m not playing whackamole all by myself, lol.

I’d also probably have to put in big, bold letters everywhere that the game would be sex positive-- as long as sex is consensual and doesn’t break some other ban it isn’t anything that would be considered “bad”. God doesn’t care about sex. That was human’s influencing his words.

@shit-piss-love said in What original theme interests you?:

I’m definitely not the target audience for any of these but I am intellectually curious about how the Angels and Demons game would play out. If everyone is an angel or demon and the game focuses around interacting with humans in order to fulfill their goals, it sounds like most meaningful action will be executed against NPCs.

A current thought is that when people are approved they will be assigned an NPC human that they can interact with and somewhat control, but will need to work with staff for permanent changes.

Angels and Demons will be created with a Divine or Infernal Goal. This will be a major thing that will require a lot of work to do, that will allow them to return victorious to either hell or heaven.

They will then a ban, which is a string of actions that once done they will either ascend or fall.

Angels would be in three hosts: Messengers, Guardians, and Warriors.

Their divine goal will be related to the type of angel they are.

The same goes for demons, who will be in one of the following hosts: Deceivers, Corruptors, Destroyers.

Players who want to can be assigned to the same NPC human. And can RP out cooperatively the back and forth from attempting to corrupt or redeem/save their human.

[Artemis]

@Cobalt hundred percent angels and demons. oh my god yes i am instantly obsessed.

[icanbeyourmuse]

@Cobalt said in What original theme interests you?:

@junipersky said in What original theme interests you?:

I’m on a Supernatural kick atm, so of course I voted Angels and Demons. That said, I can see icky af behavior emerging with the sing song excuse of “but omg in a demon I’m SUPPOSED to be bad tehe” - and you deserve a break after that shiz on The Pack.

I was actually throwing the idea around of doing an invite only adult-themed w/ metaplot game, but decided it would be exhausting to have to vet everyone.

If you want to do this you could just invite your friends/people you have had good experiences with. There is no reason you need to let every which person on because they asked to join. If it is a deal breaker for them to not be able to have X friends with them, they can make the choice not to join.

[Wizz]

@Cobalt said in What original theme interests you?:

So say an angel has a ban of “must not kill an innocent”, and they accidentally crush an innocent human while fighting a demon. They “fall” and become a demon.
A demon, on the other hand, would have a ban of “must not render aid without payment” and they save a human from being killed by a serial killer and don’t ask for payment in response, they “ascend” back to being an angel.
Then they also have a goal that will get them allowed back into their paradise. Something like for an angel: “redeem a truly selfish soul” or for a demon “corrupt a truly selfless soul”.

This is a cool idea! What happens to an angel or demon who flips on accident but wants to return, do they get a reverse ban they’d need to break or are they stuck? If it’s something reversible, what are the consequences for someone who deliberately flips back and forth frequently? Or someone who comedically trips back and forth on accident all the time? Lol.

[Polk]

I voted Soap Opera.

I never watched them. But I know they could get pretty barking mad, and I love me some barking mad as a player or GM.

[STD]

@Hobbie said in What original theme interests you?:

I would be 100% down for a '60s-era pulpy spy thriller game. Lean hard on the zany concepts played totally seriously.

But then again I’d love a Danger 5 MUSH, so

Oh yeah, definitely play it straight. More ‘Our Man Bashir’ than Austin Powers.

[Pan]

@Polk said in What original theme interests you?:

I voted Soap Opera.

I never watched them. But I know they could get pretty barking mad, and I love me some barking mad as a player or GM.

Don’t must Mu*'s end up being part soap opera? Love triangles, crime lords, romance, secret relationships, extramarital affairs, genuine hate, having kids, and if you are lucky and it’s a game with rules to do some action, you might ALMOST do something related to that actual ruleset.

[Pavel]

I love the idea of Angels and Demons… but I also hate the idea of certain other people who would love Angels and Demons for all the bad reasons…

[Cobalt]

@Pavel Yeah, 100% get that. I’ve still got some moving to do before I can think about putting something down, but once we get moved over I’m going to grab my In Nomine book to sort of glean some ideas from.

And maybe put out feelers see if anyone wants to help me build it. If not! On to the next idea.

[Gasboy]

Kudos for bouncing back pretty quickly. Hope your move goes well!

[CuriousGamer]

@Cobalt Angels/Demons might be a particularly difficult slope, as with anything involving religion you have your cool people - but there are the extreme people and you might have to address some level of homophobia, transphobia, or well any other phobias and such.

While the majority of players are likely fine, after all we’ve had shows like Angel and such now. It only takes one weirdo to ruin a day.

[Cobalt]

@CuriousGamer if I need to ill post this image on my theme page.

And I may take the Facebook group approach of in the app put a list of things you gotta agree to a list of questions along the lines of:

You agree not to be sexist, racist, homophobic, or transphobic OOC and not to push storyline involving these elements onto the game.