Primal Conundrum

The Unpopular Opinions Thread.

Guardians of the Galaxy was middling. It suffers from one of the worst cases of "our aliens are just regular people with different coloured skin and a costume scalp" seen in recent years.

Looking for some new RP buddies (Full with 7 folks, try this technique out for yourself)

I know I'd be wanting to make new characters, so I wouldn't be going that route.

Looking for some new RP buddies (Full with 7 folks, try this technique out for yourself)

The ideas I've been having lately are predominantly fantasy themed.

I don't find normal school / academy RPs to be interesting, but I recently starting thinking about putting that premise in a location where it doesn't often see use: savage fantasy. I'm thinking of a setting wherein monstrous races such as Trolls, Goblins and Gnolls have reached a certain level of cooperation to the point where there are some anarchic, monstrous cities beginning to crop up. In one of these cities is the first attempt at a school BY the savage races and FOR the savage races. Subjects range from history of the Orcish clan wars to studying the strange, almost unique traditions of magic that the different races have developed. Naturally, fight training would take the place of gym. I don't have a specific plot in mind for that one, but I feel like there are a lot of possibilities open. It's like a violent, inner-city Hogwarts with less supervision and rules. Campus might not be as impressive, but considering that the students have free roam of the town when they aren't in class? Should be enough space for plot hooks to emerge.

I still want to do a vehicle-heavy fantasy game too, like Mad Max meets D&D. Tried that before, learned some things about how not to run a group, would like to do it again and do it properly.

Hmm... other idea I had was an old one, but one I've never been able to try. It's sort of a post-apoc one, though not wasteland-y. Premise is that nuclear war had become a reality on Earth, and many factions were trying to find ways to survive the income destruction. One such attempt was an experimental facility with the goal of realizing time travel in a usable form. They got most of the way to succeeding before a bomb fell near the facility, and the ensuing wave of radiation triggered the incomplete machine, tearing open a ragged wormhole forward in time and sucking in anyone near the event, completely leveling the entire facility in the process.

Cut to the future. Civilization is dead, but Man survives. The travelers from the past find themselves in a world that, in some ways, adapted well to the radiation. Rising sea levels have resulted in huge swaths of the North American interior looking like the amazon rain forest, and the cities are drowning under the mesozoic-looking megaflora. The natives who live in this world have regressed to a hunter-gatherer existence, taking up spears to go forage and hunt in the overgrown city ruins. Though strong, agile, and well-informed about how to survive in their world, the future natives lack any ability to read (though their spoken language remains similar enough to modern tongues to be understandable) or other elements of higher education that are taken for granted in the modern day.
This is the world that the travelers from the past find themselves in. With the hole in time dumping them unceremoniously into this Tarzan-meets-Fallout world, they have to lean on the future natives to teach them how to function in this terrifying new world. The future natives, in turn, could benefit from the advanced knowledge carried by the travelers from the past. Perhaps the city isn't as deteriorated as it first appears, and someone with the correct understanding might be able to still use some of the ancient systems, be they hydro, lights, or something else. Naturally there are threats in this world, the descendants of the few mutated horrors that proved to not only be functional, but actually better suited to this new world.

I don't have a specific goal for that RP beyond daily life and survival, but I like the premise.

Looking for some new RP buddies (Full with 7 folks, try this technique out for yourself)

Think I misunderstood, kinda skimmed and it looked like you guys were talking about chatting through a discord server, I thought you meant voice chat. Either way, I'm not really interested in grabbing Discord, so I'll give a miss on that channel.

@Everyone-More questions for everyone if you're so inclined :)

1. What are your favorite universes within your favorite genres?

2. Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses or one horse sized duck?

3. Favorite character/class to play?

And of course the obligatory:
4. If you could have a super power, what would it be?

@Clanty

1. For fantasy, possibly the Morrowind region of the Elder Scrolls setting. I adored Morrowind. Sci-Fi is a bit harder to pick, but that would either be the setting for Fifth Element or Wildstar / Treasure Planet. Those last two are so interchangeable that they could be in the same canon without having to edit anything anyway.

2. One horse-sized duck. It's hard to split your attention against multiple attackers, but I could probably really duck up an opponent in one-on-one combat.

3. I find myself often gravitating towards the more brutish characters, though I'm not sure if that's because I like playing them or because I rarely see anyone play them as actual brutes.

4. Flight, or failing that super jumping. Gotta get that altitude.

Looking for some new RP buddies (Full with 7 folks, try this technique out for yourself)

If we're doing voice stuff, I'm out. Sorry.

Looking for some new RP buddies (Full with 7 folks, try this technique out for yourself)

@Deserted Favourite campaign? Probably the Evil campaign we did years back, though that was likely because we had a great group dynamic. Basically, there were two players, myself and one of my close friends, and each of us ran two characters. I think we might have even made them gestalt or something. We set out with the ambiguous goal of gaining power, and we wound up using a combination of murder, drugs and mind control to organize a monopoly on the arms industry for a large city-state—we wound up being the only supplier to the guards / local military, and basically anyone who wanted to buy so much as a knife had to go through us. From there, we used our influence to gain access to ruling individuals, who we carefully and over a long period of time warped the mind of to leave our group in a position of greater power.

There was no concrete goal and the campaign never really ended, but we had some great times. My characters were a yuan-ti sorcerer or wizard, I forget which, and an extremely brutal Lizardfolk cleric who greatly enjoyed frontline combat.

Looking for some new RP buddies (Full with 7 folks, try this technique out for yourself)

@Deserted I think I played a single session in the past year or so, ever since I moved back West from Montreal I haven't put in the time to get a tabletop group together. I used to play endless amounts of D&D back during highschool when I had time and everyone was nearby, but these days? I've got boxes of D&D books sitting in storage.

Looking for some new RP buddies (Full with 7 folks, try this technique out for yourself)

@Deserted I'm mostly concept and setting design! I have a very strong grasp of art theory, my dad was an instructor in 3D art at the school and my mother is a painter so I grew up around that stuff. I can do some basic scripting, mostly to prototype my ideas in gamemaker, but my art skills are fairly meh. TBH, if I had a good artist handy, that would open up the options for making several games.

I haven't actually written anything in ages, but I want to get back into writing. Last time I was sitting down to write something to show to other people, that was probably when I was writing MLP fanfiction under a pseudonym over on FIMFiction. For whatever it's worth, one of the things I wrote there got top slot in the featured stories box for like a week, so apparently people quite enjoyed it. When I get back into writing stories, they're likely going to have a savage fantasy bent to them.

Looking for some new RP buddies (Full with 7 folks, try this technique out for yourself)

Congratulations on your daughter! I'm certain that she's adorable.

I'll repay your little bio with one of my own. I'm 27, living out on the West coast of British Columbia. Single, working as a tester in the videogame industry. Don't want to remain a tester, my goal is to end up doing design work for games. It's what I went to school for after all—that, and creative writing.

As far as movies, I'll admit to being a bit out of the loop myself! Last thing I saw in theaters, I think, was Deadpool, and before that it was probably Zootopia. I don't really know what all is coming out in the near future, but I'm going to be watching that Star Wars: Rogue One thing pretty closely (It's dealing with the plotline from the Dark Forces videogames, which I grew up playing!) and I'm expecting that I'll like Moana when that comes out.
As far as videogames, I'm looking forward to a few. The new WoW expansion comes out towards the end of next month, and Dishonored 2 is still on the horizon. FIFA also comes out late September I believe, so with any luck I'll have a lot of free time after that date if I get laid off like I'm expecting.

Looking for some new RP buddies (Full with 7 folks, try this technique out for yourself)

I like this idea! Having a dedicated group sounds like the smart way to RP. You can count me in! It'll also be a lot easier to drag myself out of a posting slump if I know I'd be letting down my friends rather than some rando strangers.