Originally posted by Widdle Wuna (Moon Matron):

1920's setting with a heavy emphasis on preventing the world from going to war thanks to conspiracy groups. Remember the Nazis were heavily invested in the occult: Chasing after them over the dunes of Egypt or battling it out in the back streets of Chicago with mob bosses working for them would be so freaking fun. Especially if we had a heavy attention placed on the cthulu-esque aspects that you were talking about in private chat.

Plus I want to play a Flapper with a Chicago Typewriter and a high-capacity drum.

My experience with chthulu is that if it's heavy anywhere then you're probably fucked in the next few moments. Since Lovecraft's writtings are public domain I've read most of them and I'll tell you that both for the benefit of the mystery and horror in the works if anyone ran into an eldritch anything they were straight up fucked then and there or had nothing to do but run. It may find its way in but his monsters were always in the woodworks and behind the scenes pulling strings. Eldritch Horror = DM killing group by falling rocks

I love me some indiana jones and the mummy though, so archeological ventures in egypt sounds cool.

No offense, but I've already asked a lot of people including you about dming. I just want a little push about what settings sound cool and just a discussion about what others would like to play in them. Maybe how I should elaborate what's going on in them as well.

I appreciate the effort you put into your post.

donchu mak tha face at me. I asked for what you were interested in, not for you to act like a nanny cause it's my first rodeo. I expect this to blow up in my face eventually anyway.

I intended to be very involved in player character creation and I don't expect to be playing to just kill them. It's more important to encourage the story of the players and my setting to go full circle rather than just run a gauntlet. For one or two settings I will say that I'd be throwing a lot more combat to try to scare you, but I am more interested in what may appeal to you because I've put a solid amount of work into each and just need a little more before I am ready.


Innawoods: my first project. set in modern day, the players go out to Washington with a friend who long since moved away. This camping trip a reunion of sorts. You watch the stars the last night and then when you get back to town the next day you hear some shit went down on the east coast. Ya'll gotta make your way back home in the east coast or nope the fuck out to wherever. The longer you travel or fcuk around the heavier shit gets in terms of survival and/or combat.

(1920's-1930's game): My second project, which was never properly named. I wrote a lot of lore based on real history, but the main point is that Wilson's fourteen points somehow got pushed such that tensions did not flare up and the nations of Europe spectacularly did not suffer post-war. I'll have to find these notes, of course. The big monopolies, political corruption, conspiracy, prohibition(maybe not), and racism will be your obstacles as your group tries to uncover the mysterious kidnappings of children from the town's slums.

Nautical Punk: A simple game with mainly setting work and little direction. The world is something like Water World, Flapjack, Windwaker, and One Piece in that it's just a whole lot of tropics and water. You'd play, or rather you'd find yourself part of, aboard a small 3-6 man ship that sails around as whatever you like. Love ship, whatever. Pirates, lolokay. Scouting vessal for a larger ship, good. Trying to find an inhabitable island, great. Treasure hunters, fantastic. Point is that money is good and the land is full of unholy horrors. This game's name is from a lack of this setting's proper name. There is no proper name for a ocean/boat themed world like steampunk and biopunk. The closest I found, thanks to Helios or rarara, was whale punk from Dishonored.

What I anticipate my game to turn out like. http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF250-Uncle_Duncan.jpg

I suppose there's nothing more to talk about until I elaborate on the settings and someone else pops in tomorrow? Until then it should suffice to say that only the forum-based settings would have ponies.

Originally posted by Racket (Enterprise Patron):

What do you find the most interesting to run personally?

Each of the mentioned was my baby at one point. The problem I've had for a while is not running my last setting because I wanted it to be perfect whereas the one I would then be working on was under done.

I would probably not do well with the alternate 1920's and innawoods games because they are older projects and not as fleshed out in objective or mechanics.

I am about done with the framework of a game for the group but I am flopping around on a setting currently. I am open to personal ideas but I've already put work into two games based on wuna's forum rp, another innawoods that is basically Rust with starter clothes, one set in a "nautical punk" theme, and a fifth in an alternate timeline 1920's with a minor dip into lovecraft. What do you feel would be fun and what tips would you give me for my first time trying to promote rp in my game?

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((Only the forum games are with ponies. Nautical punk, however, can be adapted for horses.))

Innawoods: my first project. set in modern day US, the players go out to Washington state with a friend who long since moved away. This camping trip is a reunion of sorts. When you get back to town the next day you hear some shit went down on the east coast. Ya'll gotta make your way back home in the east coast or nope the fuck out to wherever. The longer you travel or fcuk around the heavier shit gets in terms of survival and/or combat.

(1920's-1930's game): My second project, which was never properly named. I wrote a lot of lore based on real history, but the main point is that Wilson's fourteen points somehow got pushed such that tensions did not flare up and the nations of Europe spectacularly did not suffer post-war. I'll have to find these notes, of course. The big monopolies, political corruption, conspiracy, prohibition(maybe not), and racism will be your obstacles as your group tries to uncover the mysterious kidnappings of children from the town's slums.

Nautical Punk: A simple game with mainly setting work and little direction. The world is something like Water World, Flapjack, Windwaker, and One Piece in that it's just a whole lot of tropics and water. You'd play, or rather you'd find yourself part of, aboard a small 3-6 man ship that sails around as whatever you like. Love ship, whatever. Pirates, lolokay. Scouting vessal for a larger ship, good. Trying to find an inhabitable island, great. Treasure hunters, fantastic. Point is that money is good and the land is full of unholy horrors. This game's name is from a lack of this setting's proper name. There is no proper name for a ocean/boat themed world like steampunk and biopunk. The closest I found, thanks to Helios or rarara, was whale punk from Dishonored.

(Unnamed Forum Game1): Based heavily around some events in the forum rp, it'll play out with the players as Empire navy/soldiers for the first few sessions, which should then give them some push to find out what happened and fix whatever may be wrong. From there you are free to play what you like as you follow your objective or try to clear your names or w/e.

(Unnamed Forum Game2): Hardly related to wuna's setting, but I at least consider it part of it at least for the sake of having a prewritten world. Anyway, ya'll are either citizens or Empire agents or travellers or whatever who get caught up in a whirlwind of conspiracy as the city's large devil's blood refinement facilities up and explode. Shit gets worse from there as being near an exploded anything that refines stuff is never fun. Find out what happened and fix the problem. The end.


UPDATE 1/30/2014
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The unnamed 1920's setting will be the game. I will make a full lore post outside of this discussion after a name is decided and I have finished learning/giving up on WoD. Game notes and responses will continue in discussion.

I enjoyed it.