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Re: other potential ATE, DF, MH OR Action series?
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Also imagine an Animae or Manga line. You could expand the MH line with enemy books or really different setting conventions, like After The Fall or MH: Alians |
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06-29-2014, 08:40 AM | #12 | |
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GURPS Action: Space Opera GURPS Action: Westerns GURPS Action: Swords and Sandals A line that takes an established genre and shifts it up or down the tech levels. |
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06-29-2014, 09:07 AM | #13 |
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Re: other potential ATE, DF, MH OR Action series?
Pulp Action, which in a way they've already started work on with the Pulp Weapons supps, not to mention the Fairbairn martial arts supplement.
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06-29-2014, 09:27 AM | #14 | |
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Re: other potential ATE, DF, MH OR Action series?
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I can't, unless you can also imagine a "movies" line. In my collection alone, there's supers anime, old-west anime, space-opera anime, Action-style anime, DF-style anime, horror anime, soap-opera-style anime, and many, many more. If you meant "over-the-top unarmed-combat stories," that's Martial Arts with all the cinematic options turned on - no need for an entire line devoted to it.
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06-29-2014, 09:35 AM | #15 | |
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One could make a GURPS Action: The 60s supplement, to enable the running of "James Bond"- and "Mission Impossible"-era campaigns. The main reason not to do so is that AEG already published a "Sixties" supplement for their Spycraft 1 OGL game, about a decade ago. (Personally, I'd love to see an 80s supplement, although given how little different 1980 or 1985 is from 2010 it'd probably be sufficient with a long and very well-thought-out Pyramid article.) And a general reson for "starting over" with a separate line, e.g. a "distilled GURPS" for self-contained Space Opera, is that GURPS Action apperently is selling a lot worse than GURPS DF. Otherwise there'd be numerous supplements out by now, not just Action 3. So starting over with a new line and "brand name" would avoid whatever stigma the buyers are seeing GURPS Action as having. I don't think a self-contained Supers is doable, in a style similar to Action/DF/MH. There's too much potential variety in abilities, even if the power level is locked down, e.g. at 300 CP. You'd need a lot of variations over the same themes, blasters of many flavours (fire, radiation, frost, lightning, and so forth) and varieties (long-ranger, rapid fire, broad-beam). GURPS can do that (obviously) but enumerating it and spelling it out to facilitate (and empower) player choice would require an enormous page count. That kind of distillation-of-GURPS might be the best way to deal with the concept of supernormals in a Superheroes setting, though, since it's buying into a unGURPSy tradition of required character creation templates and restricted character advancement options. Given the frequency of radioactive spider bites and gamma ray incidents in some superhero universes, one could even incorporate a minor element of randomness into some template, e.g. if the player picks the Blaster template then the overall theme is set by the template, and the player gets to make some choices, but certain other choices are made for him by dictated dice rolls in the template, e.g. to determine the type of energy that he blasts with. |
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06-29-2014, 09:36 AM | #16 |
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06-29-2014, 09:41 AM | #17 | |
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06-29-2014, 09:51 AM | #18 |
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Re: other potential ATE, DF, MH OR Action series?
Sure. Just tell me what Ranma, Chibi Maruko-chan, Naruto, Marmalade Boy, and Sailor Moon have in common, and we just might have a starting point. Because, frankly, I can't see a common theme, besides originating from Japan.
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06-29-2014, 10:30 AM | #19 | |
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1. Visual style. 2. Being covered by the "Big Eyes, Small Mouth" RPG system. |
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06-29-2014, 10:52 AM | #20 |
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Re: other potential ATE, DF, MH OR Action series?
Well, I can say fairly confidently that under the BESM RPG, every named character from Marmalade Boy would be indistinguishable except for superficial details (from a game statistics pov) such as age and gender.
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