Non Crafty Settings for Crafty Games....

[Mister Andersen]

Beyond Good & Evil. There is such a huge galaxy out there to explore

[spinningdice]

I've got a small stack of notes for an IK game, they were on Schtuff (a wiki site), but Schtuff became part of pbwiki, and even though I transferred it over, I can't remember what I called it and can't find any e-mail referencing it.

I've got it all as text files if you're interested in seeing it - I decided I'd wait until ClassiC Fantasy races and a couple more volumes of Spellbound were out before I looked at it again.

A setting I'd like to see (is obscure) Scarlet Traces - it was a 2000ad comic set after H.G. Wells War of the Worlds. England gets to retake it's empire using Martian technology recovered from the spacecraft, it's pretty much steam-age, but with a heavy slant of heat-rays and tripod walkers - thick green smoke coating everything (and a hidden conspiracy of sustaining a wounded alien using human blood, so he can teach them the secrets of their technology).

[Antilles]

morphball antics aside.

A morphball would probably be a straight up gadget, or maybe a heavily gadgeted vehicle of some sort... Anyways, I'd love to play in a Metroid RPG, so you should definately work on it .

[Morganti]

morphball antics aside.

A morphball would probably be a straight up gadget, or maybe a heavily gadgeted vehicle of some sort... Anyways, I'd love to play in a Metroid RPG, so you should definately work on it .

Metriod Prime: Pinball is one of my most favorite DS games...

Prime: Hunters introduces lots of super suited folk.  all of the suits are powered armor, with an alternate mode.  Depending on how much of The Shop is converted already, you can build Samus using those rules in 1.0, in 2.0 its probably even easier, you just add the various qualities as pre planned upgrades.  (with the always amusing loss of all cool powers on the planet you are exploring, though to be fair she doesn't have cool powers at first)

[stu2000]

If we're talking about settings from funny books, I'd love to see Cenosure (sp?)--the hyper-dimensional city from Grimjack. It was extremely wierd, with highly variable laws of the universe overlapping and shifting. But Grimjack stories were always very . . . crisp--with a strong feeling that all the gonzo craziness actually adhered to a strict set of rules. It fired the imagination.

This would be perhaps inappropriate for SpyCraft, but I'd love to see some kind of Kroft Superstars Sourcebook, with stats for Marshall, Will, and Holly, Sleestaks, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Isis and Shazam, Bigfoot and Wildboy--all that great stuff.

The Six Million Dollar Man--not a bionic/cybernetic sourcebook, but the actual 70's Six Million Dollar Man--would be an excellent, authentic setting. I can stat up Bigfoot easily enough, but I'd struggle a little with Maximilliam, the Bionic Dog . . .

[Morganti]

Speaking of Metroid.

Some notes I jotted down after devouring wikipedia about the subject

World of Metroid
A Campaign Setting Powered by Spycraft 2.0
Based on the Metroid Game Series by Nintendo.

Two Agencies

Glactic Federation
Space Pirates

Heros and Villans
Samus Aran
Mother Brain
Ridley
Kraid
Metroids



Weapons and Armor

Undersuit
Basic Force Field
Basic Life Support

Powersuit
Enhanced Upgradable Force Field
Vaccum Sealed
Weapons Systems
Beam Types
Missile Types
Bomb Types
Movement Systems
Morph Systems


If i was writing an actual product, i would set it just after fusion, where Samus retires from active hunting and instead becomes a "Control" training the next generation, while helping the Galatic Federation to design a powersuit based on her old Chozo tech, sending teams of hunters in, rather than the lone wolf, to hunt down the space pirates.

[Minion]

I've got a small stack of notes for an IK game, they were on Schtuff (a wiki site), but Schtuff became part of pbwiki, and even though I transferred it over, I can't remember what I called it and can't find any e-mail referencing it.

Would I be right in saying its new home is at http://fullmetalspycraft.pbwiki.com/?

Lothdyn, the guy who supplied some of the cultural talents, is part of my gaming group. I was watching your IK stuff with great interest, since IK Spycraft might just be the greatest idea ever conceived by anyone ever. Ever.

[glimmerrat]

The Keep: The book by F. Paul Wilson is a classic - i picked up the comic recently too! The film however, is awful. You know the Glaeken's sword? Not in it. The fight with Rasalom at the top of the collapsing tower? Not in it.

As for non-crafty settings.. *coughDunecough*

[MilitiaJim]

Has anyone looked at doing a Mutant Chronicles conversion?

Man, I hadn't even thought about that.  Though MC was very, very gritty.  You could do it, but it would require ALL the bleeding and auto-threat-attack things.

[OverNinja]

Has anyone looked at doing BattleTech conversion?

[glimmerrat]

Someone talked about statting mechs as vehicles. Then you could rename Wheelman to 'Mech Jockey' or somesuch. World on Fire will allegedly have a Master Class called 'Ace' so that may be worth looking at.

[OverNinja]

I'm content to wait for C:S for Mechs, but Elementals can be converted rather easily using the 2.0 power armor conversion (Toad being Class IV vehicle).

[spinningdice]

Would I be right in saying its new home is at http://fullmetalspycraft.pbwiki.com/?

Lothdyn, the guy who supplied some of the cultural talents, is part of my gaming group. I was watching your IK stuff with great interest, since IK Spycraft might just be the greatest idea ever conceived by anyone ever. Ever.

Thanks for that! While I've got most of it on my PC, I'd done a little tinkering that was only on there since. I now have it safely bookmarked...

I actually intend to run through Witchfire with Spycraft at some point. I have 3-4 people that haven't played it yet (or have only played through little bits of it).

[ThunderMonkey]

Has anyone looked at doing BattleTech conversion?

Yep...

In fact, I even have it on my list of things to do. I had started at one point. (I'll find my notes again to see if I got anything down). However, I got hung up on the title mechanic from Mechwarrior. I did develop something of a new Wealth statistic for titled nobility.

[Aziraphale]

I've been running a campaign that originally started off as a conversion for dotHack. It ended up mugging various ideas from various other settings such as TRON and Get Backers. Only the bastardisation of dotHack remained once I started running it in it's second incarnation.