What are some RPGs that have well realized, unique settings that isn't some sort of generic sci-fi or Tolkien pastiche?
What are some RPGs that have well realized, unique settings that isn't some sort of generic sci-fi or Tolkien pastiche?
Jackson King
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Isaac Allen
Illusion City?
Evan Roberts
Final Fantasy 12
Levi Ward
Planetscape Torture
Angel Collins
what's so good about the dark sun setting? from that picture, looks like mad max but with magic?
Benjamin Smith
Post apocalyptic sword and sorcery where there's no connection to the divine so magic pulls life energy out of the planet and the world is a ruined hellscape because dick-ass wizards don't know right from wrong, and everyone hates wizards because of it but at the same time since there aren't any gods putting a limit on that shit wizards are also obscenely powerful, hence sucking up all the life force and ruining everything. Even metal is super fucking rare and precious.
It's a neat setting and criminally underutilized, though they did bring it back for 4th (And I think 5th?) edition tabletop.
Christian Allen
Earthbound AND u losers don't have to like it
Logan Cook
>looks like mad max but with magic
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Ayden Campbell
Wow that actually sounds fun to read. Do you reccomend any novels in this world? or should I just stick to the core books from 2nd and 4th ed?
Cameron Gonzalez
Plan Escape: Tournament is such a god damn good setting, which (iirc) is now dead and will never be replicated again.
I tired to get into Numanuma but it just wasn't the same.
Jacob Adams
The Age of Decadence
Jonathan Bailey
Fallout
Evan Ross
>Planetscape Torture
>Plan Escape: Tournament
>Numanuma
Are you trying to talk about "Planescape: Torment" and "Numenera?" GET OFF YOUR PHONES. I'll admit "Plan Escape: Tournament" is an intriguing name for a game.
Matthew Barnes
Fresh off the boat, faggot?
Adam Murphy
Purposely misspelling Planescape: Torment is an old tradition.
Gabriel Smith
Adrian Bennett
No idea, never read any D&D novels so I couldn't tell you if any of them are any good.
Numanuma's definitely not the same. They both suck pretty goddamn hard when it comes to gameplay, but Planetscape's a more properly fleshed out setting. Numanuma's still a fun setting for a game generally speaking, but the game we ended up getting had a fun story (It's actually one of the more memorable RPGs in recently memory story-wise to me) but a whole fucking ton of sorta pointless worldbuilding. I did play through it and finish it but it is kind of hard to recommend to anyone except for RPG diehards, and even then only if you're of the storyfag persuasion.
Anonymous, please.
Jayden Jones
Look I can't keep up with you kids anymore alright. I can't tell if it's someone posting with an autocorrect mistake or a joke of sorts.
Eli Hall
Superhero league of Hoboken
Robert Hill
For as good as the setting is, the novels are an absolute trash fire. Some of the shit that's pulled would make a first time DM say what the fuck
Jordan Cooper
Is Shattered Lands the only game that's made use of the Dark Sun IP?
Levi Ortiz
>Even metal is super fucking rare and precious
Flashbacks to my half-giant in OP's game constantly breaking his weapons mid-combat, he was fucking cursed I swear. Had to carry a load of spares until I got enough enchanted weapons to go around
Daniel Wood
Nope, Wake of the Ravager too.
Austin Young
Jacob Baker
Wake of the Ravager, basically Shattered Lands with a city hub and bigger, uglier sprites for some reason. I don't think I've even managed to get half way through it without hitting a game breaking bug, the game is a disaster
Easton Green
Worth playing if I liked Shattered Lands?
William Parker
can you elaborate on the whole magic pulling life energy out of the planet? is it like a limtied resource? or just like today's pollution making the world a worse place overall? can you suck the life out of somebody to cast a bigger spell or something like that?
Ryder Carter
WotC keep using Planescape shit in 5th edition D&D but they've decided to be stingy as fuck with content releases and we probably won't get an actual new edition Planescape setting book ever.
Luis Watson
Charles Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden
Michael Jackson
Utawarerumono
Aaron Cook
I'd be happy with a non-shit Truenamer class.
Caleb Scott
Morrowind
Elder Scrolls may have started out ripping off Tolkien in a lot of ways but it comes to its own here.
Zachary Russell
>Elder Scrolls may have started out ripping off Tolkien in a lot of ways
Only Oblivion, t b h.
James Morris
Steampunk Tolkien deserves to be mentioned as well.
Andrew Hernandez
Skies of Arcadia... though the graphics are rather dated at this point.
Connor Moore
stop killing games
Anthony Richardson
Xavier Torres
im running tomb of annihilation right now, bretty gud, amazon jungle mixed with dinosaur shinanigans and voodoo necromancy snake people and shit
we're not in baldurs gate anymore yall!
Sebastian Roberts
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