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Ok, now I've got a new system to talk my gaming group into trying on One-Shot Night. Specifically, Reign. I've got an idea for a campaign, too: The 'PCs' are in fact a set of low-level organizations. Each player designs their Company first, then designs 3 individual characters to act as 'faces' for that organization - at the moment, I'm thinking something like a social face, a mental face, and a physical face, each one reflecting the specific goal and/or nature of their Company. Then, as various situations arise, the campaign is about these three organizations interacting in their rise to influence and power. Thoughts about the viability of this idea are appreciated, as would be any suggestions on how many points to give the players for their company's Qualities (I'm leaning towards 7, with a ban on starting with any Quality above 4.)
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Jenx posted:Compared to the work Stolze has done with Unknown Armies and REIGN, the stuff in Spherewalker is nice, but hardly matches up to the standards set by himself in his later career. Soo, am I just mistaken, did I just ended up being affected by the hype, or is Spherewalker really just not all that amazing as some people make it out to be? Well, you yourself said it: it was one of his earlier efforts. At the time, it was pretty amazing - nobody expected it, because nobody really knew who he was. But now, of course, we have Reign, we have Unknown Armies, we have A Dirty World (my personal favorite of the ORE games) - so Spherewalker isn't as spectacular now that we know he can do some amazing things and actually write mechanics to support them.
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So has anyone else noticed that the core systems of UA 3rd are surprisingly adaptable, setting-wise? Like, I can see how with some minor tweaking, you could strip them out of the 'urban fantasy' genre and pop them into a 'weird post-apocalypse' genre or even outright fantasy - it'd need to be a somewhat grounded fantasy, and you'd need to come up with new magickal schools/archetypes (though a fair few of the archetypes would work as-is, too, which I suppose is kind of the point of them). I'm talking specifically about the meters/general skills and the identities, which frankly are pretty portable to just about any setting.
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May 12, 2023 08:52
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mellonbread posted:I did that a couple weeks ago. It's easy enough when all you have to do is balance a handful of pregens against each other. Building a whole setting specific spell list with new schools would be a lot more work. Yes, that's how divine magic works in 99% of games that feature it. The gods don't care what you think or believe, just what you do in the moment.
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