World's End

[maddam]

Presenting one and all - my new project. Not entirely sure on the format yet, this is just my ideas.

Me and Geoff are currently working on the alpha build of the rules, then I can really get to grips with the background and plot etc.

What do y'all think as an idea?

Comments

[kingandy]

I don't generally see as psionics fit into fantasy (it's more a sci-fi conceit IMO), but I think they'd work quite well for a character coming from a setting approximating modern-day earth. You'd be an X-Files level psychic or something ... and it's not too much of a step from there to a modern-day psionicist who behaves as, or sees himself as, a superhero. (Though obviously in the comics superheroes rarely have to worry about fuelling their abilities, as magic/psionic systems tend to do in LRP.)

Sticking with a magical paradigm is fair enough, it was something I personally could have gone either way on. I can see a GURPS-type system where you buy an effect (like "Energy Blast") and then tailor it to your character with Limitations and Special Features (like "Requires Vocals" for a magic-user, "Device-Based" for a laser pistol, and "Limited Energy Pool" for both) to determine the final cost. Come to think of it, a lot of superhero or comic-book RPGs have that sort of multi-genre capabcity - you just buy the effects and the source is up to you (except Aberrant, obviously, everybody's a mutant there).

FWIW, though I may seem somewhat fixated on superheroes, I don't intend to turn up in spandex. To anything. Ever.