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Post by archmagezemoc on Dec 29, 2014 18:39:39 GMT -8
It's kind of a mashup yea, mainly think of the most wacked-out Fallout mashup you can come up with. You would be playing a normal modern day human who has somehow been transported to Endworld. (think of it like a multiverse if that helps?) Your Cosplay mainly decides 2 things for me, since YOU guys decide your group it 50% determines the feel through your power-sets. 50% decides your powers, like if you chose to do a CoD cosplay for some reason you'd all have the abilities of trained soldiers, and yeah, guns. If you picked, say, a mexican avengers spinoff (like my friends did last time we did this) so they had powers based around their characters, so I guess it would kind of be like your class. (GURPS doesn't have classes right?)
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Post by archmagezemoc on Dec 30, 2014 8:47:44 GMT -8
Has anyone tried Hero system? I haven't played it but I've heard from the show (about 6 seasons worth) that Hero is GURPS with a bit more movie magic? That might be more suited to the game. . . Damn, now even more research to do. . .
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Post by sbloyd on Dec 30, 2014 12:57:35 GMT -8
It has been years since I looked into Hero; jazzisblues should be the go-to guy on it. I wouldn't say it's GURPS with more Cinematic flair. I'd say Hero is a game-building toolkit that you can build a Cinematic game with. There's a ton of up-front heavy lifting to do with Hero (unless you can find a sourcebook to lift stuff out of) but it pays off in the end. I'd just cut out the middleman and go with GURPS if I had to choose between them. EDIT: No, GURPS doesn't have classes. It's all skills all the time, point-buy based system.
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Post by archmagezemoc on Dec 30, 2014 15:21:32 GMT -8
Thanks for the input, if they are that close I'll just stick with learning GURPS then. I was planning on learning it eventually anyway lol, but that was helpful.
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Post by jazzisblues on Dec 30, 2014 19:33:14 GMT -8
It's a pretty fair assessment. Steve Long describes it as Cinematic Realism. I do not disagree with sbloyd about the heavy lifting up front either. The hard part of Hero and the most rewarding thing to me is its power to build anything. I can custom build anything in Hero no matter what you want it to do, we can do that. It just takes a bit more up front. Both are great game systems and both are a lot of fun. It's really little things between them that would make me pick one over the other. Cheers, JiB
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Post by newsteinleo on Jan 1, 2015 13:49:16 GMT -8
If you are not feeling very confident with GURPs I would love to GM, and I really like the premise. However, this is your baby and I don't want take it away from you. Also, is this going to be an ongoing campaign or is there an end point somewhere in the future?
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Post by Dragon Maid on Jan 2, 2015 11:28:22 GMT -8
I've read a version of the Hero system and I agree with everything said so far about it. A lot of work upfront to build but man can you make some fun stuff. Since the premise is Cosplay come to life pretty much, what restrictions will you put in place? Should everyone come with a character to be approved or should we be given a list of acceptable choices? A character like Darth Vader or Lilith is, arguably , more powerful than Captain Kirk or Colonel O'Neill.
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Post by archmagezemoc on Jan 3, 2015 1:03:03 GMT -8
Short answer, I would love to play and I'm stoked someone else thinks its also a cool premise. BUT. . . . (yes but huehuehue) Long Answer incoming. Basically I just want to give an actual description of the setting and stuff so you guys can get a good idea. I also enjoy DMing tho so once I type it up you guys can decide between GURPS and 5e hack. My only reservations with GURPS are based in my ignorance of the system. So once I post the description for you if it still sounds good in GURPS then awesome, because I would love to play, and EndWorld is molded by the wills/minds of the people within, so how could I claim ownership anyway The only reason I'm postin this instead of the actual thing I wanted is because I'm going to a dnd party/mini-con tomorrow. I'm co-gming a massive 20man dungeon crawl in 5e. Finishing cutting out the dungeon tiles I needed to make and now just gotta make the random encounter chart to go alongside the dungeon chart. I'll post pics when i'm back, but Crown Royal Black is a smooth criminal. I'm super excited anyone wants to play in the first place, and as of now fridays are good for me aswell.
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Post by newsteinleo on Jan 5, 2015 12:38:24 GMT -8
It looks like we need to have a players meeting, over G+ or Roll 20, and figure out the details. I think the agree time was Fridays at 7:00 PM EST. Would this Friday (1/9/15) at 7pm work for everyone?
P.S. 7PM works fine for me but I can only commit to playing until 9. If we could start earlier, like 6, that would be better. I work 4am to 12pm and we are cutting into my bed time.
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Post by archmagezemoc on Jan 6, 2015 10:34:11 GMT -8
I thought the others could only play up UNTIL 7pm, but I may be wrong. I'll post the thing for you guys today, just got some shit to do in an hour or so then I'll finish it up when i'm back.
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Post by newsteinleo on Jan 6, 2015 11:22:43 GMT -8
Yeah, you are right, I miss read the posts. ending by 7 works great for me.
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Post by archmagezemoc on Jan 6, 2015 15:59:32 GMT -8
So before I get into it, I have fridays off as of now so that'll work good for me too, Our start time will probably determine my wakeup time those days lol. Anyway, into my wall of text, sorry in advance but I hope it's at least entertaining.
So, EndWorld to me is basically like a parallel universe, or maybe a demiplane somewhere, the specifics don't matter. What matters is that it is a planet about 5x the size of Earth reportedly (some ingame lore, idc, could be infinite). On this planet, EndWorld, there exists like a dark/gritty reflection of our realm including our stories, video games, movies, whatever. People are born, grow up, and die in EndWorld, they are referred to as 'Worlders'. The players always start as normal modern day humans (in local\in-person games we always played ourselves. ) who are all part of a gaming group or something and "die" in some supernatural\weird event which effectively transports them to EndWorld with whatever is nearby. Although in the original few games it started with the group playing a game of dnd (in-game narrative) all the players "pass out" while playing, whoever was DMing is missing when the group wakes up. The players would then find out either the room or the whole house they were in had been magically transported to somewhere in EndWorld.
The laws of reality in EndWorld are more loose than in normal reality, it is informed by the willpower/beliefs (kind of like the matrix, I know i'm faster so I do move faster, people believed agents were invincible, which made it true) which creates a world where physics works more like in the movies or anime or something. The games always been based off a dnd-d20 system hack so far, because that's what I've known\what the group played. Early games we would all pick a homebrew class or prestige class or something and we would slowly "manifest" these powers. Later games the players would make a basis of a character and tell me what their "legacy\spirit-animal\avatar" would be and what kind of powers that would entail, then I would build a class to progress into those powers. So we've had everything from pokemon trainers to "Gloop" (an ooze master who absorbed things kirby style), to a Bleach style shinobi (which was very cool), to a psionics, to werewolves. We've had just about everything, and that hasn't been limited to the players. They've fought insane cannibals, animated meat golems, dragons, demon bulls, zombies/ghosts, aliens, USSR-analogue militants, government spies, mechs from aliens-style loader mechs to Armored Core style. The one thing I could say unites them all is deadliness, but not in the actual character death sense, as in people are knocked out / suffer physical wounds and are hindered but still capable to keep going. But at the same time it's very heroic where an individual (granted he was psionic) jumped through the air off a car garage and punched an enemy helicopter into the building across the street. So let me leave it off with a couple quick game examples.
PCs were playing as themselves, (horror/resident evil/cthulhu theme) and stumbled across an old tattered notebook detailing an old british explorers research into learning Full Metal Alchemist style magic, they then proceeded to battle a demon who had been possessing people and keeping them in a local school, where they then battled shadow-beasts and cultists through the halls before getting to a massive brain-slug thing in the basement where they battled tides of undead while one of the players used the notebook to banish the creature, freeing the people in the building above and sending back the undead and demons.
The PCs were playing themselves in an action/post-apoc themed game, they fought a company of evil slave traders with guerilla tactics and tricked a tribe of lizardmen into going to war on the slavers. One player who had been gaining hardcore monk/unnarmed combat powers and fought a pair of T-rex-lizardmen as another PC playing the dude from Prototype fought a mech toe to toe before knocking it back into a mineshaft.
PCs playing themselves again (horror/28 weeks later theme) and battle hunger-maddened survivors through an abandoned metropolis in search of me (I was DMing, game started with me getting separated from the group). They battle through the hordes of undead before moving to the rooftops / raised train tracks. They eventually encounter a W40K Khorne style berserker/rage tribe of cannibals and proceed to fight through them. Until they fired up the train car they were in, leading the train into a trap where it was speared from the sides and suspended and they made some very poor decisions leading to a whole slew of explosions and the train car falling.
The most recent game we hacked dnd5e, the PCs were playing as themselves, Fallout-ish theme. For their theme they decided to start as a "Cosplay of The Mexican Avengers" (literally just the movie avengers with a mexican bandito theme T__T lol ). They explore a ruined city for a day or two before encountering a group of militant Aryan bikers who've taken over a police station (think fallout gang). They sneak in and take out the 2 guys inside right as the rest of the bikers returned. They proceed to hide in the basement, where they are quickly found, a gunfight ensues and the PCs break into a stretch of barred/locked hallways which is where the biker gang had trapped a Gargoyle which proceeded to demolish the bikers as the PCs, battered, escaped out into a garage where they stole a truck and tried to escape. Leading them directly into the solid granite Gargoyle, they ram it doing about 1/2 it's remaining hp, but as no one put on seat belts they went flying. They unload the rest of their spells and ammo into it as it gets up and almost kills one of the players. The player pulls the 2 grenades on his chest and martyrdomed the gargoyle, the survivors drive off into the sunset and the horrors of EndWorld.
If that sounds like it would work in GURPS I would absolutely love to play in EndWorld, I've never gotten a chance lol.
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Post by newsteinleo on Jan 7, 2015 8:17:45 GMT -8
so here is what I am thinking if I am running this setting. A group of friends decides to attend a new cosplay convention where the attendees are all required to be in costume. During their attendance of the convention, the characters will get pulled into the Endworld. Once in the Endworld, the characters will take on additional skill and attributes based on who they cosplay as. Each player is going to make a 100-150 point character that is a human, then an 50-100 point overlay that has skills and attributes based on who they cosplay as. We should get together and talk, I created a google hangout for this Friday. Google Hangout
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Post by Dragon Maid on Jan 7, 2015 9:01:14 GMT -8
My adorable grandma is leaving Friday, so I probably won't be able to gt on this Friday(depending on time). Family comes first, so no hard feelings if I miss out. I just hope I won't loose a spot in whatever you decide, everything discussed sounds super fun and I would hate to miss out gaming with you gents.
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Post by archmagezemoc on Jan 7, 2015 22:04:16 GMT -8
If you can't make it I don't see why you couldn't make a character and then adjust it to fit the group or whatever, missing 1 session (with like 3 days advance notice) Isn't a big deal I don't think.
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