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    Any ideas for new original fun campy urban fantasy settings?

    I’m looking for new urban fantasy settings but haven’t been able to find much interesting or well supported. Anyone have ideas for inventing your own? I have ideas for a bazillion campaign settings but can’t decide what to pick first, aside from the tone being fun and campy. E.g. the adventure...
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    Urban fantasy game concepts, also public domain

    Because I have enough on my plate as it is, I’ve decided to open this thread for discussing the urban fantasy genre. The urban fantasy genre is in a horrible rut at the moment. There used to be movies, shows, comics, and non-romance novels in the genre, but now it’s entirely the purview of...
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    Wizards, vampires and mutants: my take on “contemporary occult roleplaying”

    I’m a fan of an obscure roleplaying game titled Nephilim. It’s originally a French game, but Chaosium briefly tried adapting it to the US market in the 90s before canceling it. Meanwhile, the French continued through multiple publishers with different ideas for how to handle it… ideas that don’t...
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    In which I brainstorm settings based on dead IPs, to be released into public domain

    There’s a lot of old dead tabletop IPs that I miss, so I’m using this thread to brainstorm new settings that recycle those inspirations. I will release those into public domain so that everyone can use them in perpetuity and they’ll never die because some evil corpo locks them in copyright jail...
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    What underutilized genres/subgenres do you think would be suitable for crpgs?

    The overwhelming majority of crpgs are D&D-influenced. There is a smattering other genres like post-apocalypse, cyberpunk, or space opera. But even these are dominated by a handful of titles or franchises, such as Fallout, Deus Ex, and Mass Effect. What genres/subgenres do you think are under-...
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    Are there any settings like TSR's Star*Drive from 1998?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Drive http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=1543 Star*Drive was released in 1998 as the implicit campaign setting for TSR's scifi rpg Alternity. SD was created to be an ultra-generic space opera setting, not avant-garde or groundbreaking. WotC...
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    Copyrights & Copirates

    Do those other post-apocalyptic games have cryptic alliances and secret societies like the Friends of Entropy or the Knights of Genetic Purity? I’ve tried finding an equivalent of Star*Drive with stellar nations, the Verge, and the Externals, but there’s nothing comparable. And you can’t make...
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    Yet another urban fantasy setting

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQruLAGWqihFp8iiOZAtO1KgLvuyLICW5PQtI8KlDWZbGiT9l934uvAcUsHL1sZ7ThVLyi-Cp4VVNbZ/pub I’m currently working on an urban fantasy setting. Systemless at the moment, since I’m wondering whether I should make a ttrpg at all. It’s not a dark setting...
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    Stormgate

    Frost Giant Studios announced their new game, about a post-apocalyptic Earth where the human resistance fights off demonic invaders.
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    Syntactic magic

    After reading Opening the Dark's syntactic magic rules, I was curious about adapting the idea. (A syntactic magic system is one in which casters can create spells on the fly using a system of "nouns" and "verbs" or "realms", as GURPS parlance puts it. Ars Magica is the classic example. ) OtD's...
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    a vampire-themed systemless setting

    I am currently working on a (currently systemless) setting for romanticized vampires. https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRXShVnJvKRhqFBMhqtBGA2j_AYDVKGXPqAsenH26MGPGdrY8phdsGEfsTtJklKT4ZUabvqZ3w5x7xU/pub
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    Some urban fantasy brainstorming

    I'm working on-off brainstorming for urban fantasy systemless settings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSUikwYQ7h3G7QzlyLRgg4b9R1vSYlRzdUAqJ3BYvaYGh5dU-5eFGtDha5cNH9-I42KLRMT2a96HR88/pub This is intended to emulate stuff like Vampire Chronicles, Dresden Files, Lost Girl, Charmed...
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    New urban fantasy?

    I'm interested in urban fantasy that isn't Shadowrun or World of Darkness. Are there any games with a sizeable catalogue and living community, or am I gonna have to make it up myself? I've checked out some old games like Nightlife, WitchCraft, Nephilim, and Everlasting, but they're not longer...
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