ITT: Settings you really want to play in

I enjoyed it. But I expected it to be pretty bad in the first place and I was craving the inverse of urban fantasy.

I want a Godzilla meets Evangelion game. And I know I could use AdEva, but I've got nobody that wants to play it.

Hellgate London?

>yfw you count how much ammo and battery life you have left

>i expected shit to taste like shit so i wasn't disappointed when i started eating it

To each his own, i guess.

Sounds interesting. One campaign we are the daemons that destroy the world.

The next campaign we're the humans fighting back to seal the gate, escaping from monsters that can't be killed.

Grunts actually had some interesting ideas, but man that ending just sucked.

Every village has a giant that protects it. If that giant dies a new one will be born into that village.

Cities might have multiple giants, or even a Titan if they're large and important enough.

Your party is a group of giants that are villageless, either due to famine, disease or just bad luck.

So all adventurers are just homeless giants?

There's a in game reason for Murderhobos!?

Even if it did, it never went with them anywhere. It's just as full as cliches as stuff it's "parodying", except every cliche is just reversed.

This is true. The only decently executed part of the novel are the orcs themselves while the rest of it falls apart pretty badly. Even then, the attempted parallel between the orcs and the United States army didn't stick, I felt like I was reading an early story about the 40k orks more than anything.

The 'fail weapons' plot point was an interesting one though. The way they handled that specifically was neat.

Ancient Babylonia/Sumeria
Steampunk without reddit tier cancer
MORE WHALEPUNK

Every adventurer is a failure as a giant?

Sometimes shit happens. How the heck is a giant supposed to stop that hurricane? Or that disease.

However yeah, adventurer giants would be seen as failures. Useful failures but still failures

>yfw a big part of the campaign is finding ways to get more ammo

hell adventurers are just a few missed meals away from banditry. Homeless Giants more so.

They'd need a village's resources as a support structure.

>the fantasy world has no gunpowder ingredients or analogues
>no alchemy either
>the party must create one by trial and error, perhaps even using magic or magical things

>this takes years, so they are forced to adapt to the locale, learn new trades
>they apply their unusual perspectives to said trades to great effect

The effort doesnt yeild combustible propellant firearms, instead telekinesis magic railguns

That would be called Cryptomancer cryptorpg.com/

The twist?

You aren't the first people to come in and start mucking around in that world.

Honestly?

The manga with this premise was totally shit.

It put me off the premise wholesale - it's just too masturbatory and autistic.

>manga
>not autistic
man i love animes but you gotta acknowledge some shit

So think of it as a guide on what not to do.

The idea behind GATE is pretty good. The problem was the guy who wrote it couldn't carry it beyond his own shortcomings.

I remember reading a Veeky Forums made version of the story a while back that was much better, and less masturbatory, than GATE was. While we we mucking about in the other world with our advanced tech, the dark wizard who made the gate in the first place (you didn't think this happened on accident, did you?) has already infiltrated our side of the gate using invisibility, mind control, and all sorts of dark magic. By the time we even realize he is here he already has a major foothold in our world and has started experimenting with magic to take control of our technology away from us. You know that kind of magic in the disney short, the sorcerers apprentice, where the brooms are animated to sweep the floor themselves? Imagine that, cast on your guns and missiles and pointed back at you.

Pretty much. It's not an idea I'd be averse to now, but I'd definitely want to deviate far and away from 'folks with modern technology come in and kick everyone's asses'.

I would legit play this. You must protect little 'uns. If you dont have little 'uns to protect. Find little 'uns to protect!

Varriation on this: scifi space ship warping into an alternate universe (or somthing) and crash landing in a fantasy world

The Fantasy World is just the backdrop for clandestine military operations. It's a dangerous place filled with warriors, magic, and monsters, but if your best of the best can get to the part of that world that corresponds with a nuclear weapons storage facility or some other important location in ours, they can get inside and do some real damage.

My intuition tells me there is an immense amount of Mass Effect fanfiction with this premise.

>Implying that if this was written by an American it would be any less masturbatory.

This is literally the premise for the Star Ocean game series

>JSDF Rangers beating Spetsnaz GRU and Delta Force isn't less masturbatory somehow.

Then why not just run a campaign about clandestine military operations?

That sounds like a hilariously stupid use of an alternate dimension full of magic, other cultures and resources.

That's like Fedex inventing time travel so they can use the technology to send packages back in time so it arrives at the destination before the package on your end has actually left the mailbox.

Because you want it to be in a fantasy world, duh.

>implying that's not an awesome idea.

Tried to run a game like this but it turned into generic medieval fantasy because nobody knew shit about Greek legends.

>JSDF Rangers beating Spetsnaz GRU and Delta Force isn't less masturbatory somehow
In defence, JSDF was fighting on their own ground and knew that enemy was coming, while both Spetsnaz and Delta was led to belie that there will be no resistance.
Bad intel/being sold out by politicians doomed them.
Still GATE is masturbatory to autistic levels.

Start held promise, crumb stomp battle at the start was expected, as medieval army can't really charge against fortified positions.
Then it goes into harem shit with gary stu protagonist and enemies are idiots that can't adjust their tactics, also allies are also useless and need rescue by said hero.
Plus no one ever used magic against JSDF. Empire have magic city within it's borders yet do not use any of wizards. That might have been interesting, how magic can change warfare but no, only wizard in show is part of MC waifu harem.

Except they don't usually warp into alternate universes to find a fantasy planet, they just get dropped off on low-tech planets.

So you want Pacific Rim?

Now are these Giants, big dumb giants or standard people who happen to be 12feet tall or so?

Orion.

It's so full of interesting and exotic things, cool monsters, cool concepts, cool machines, cool weapons, cool characters and cool outfits.

It's like chinaboo Dune with hot girls.

Although it'd probably be annoying to learn a bullshit pseudoscientific interpretation of taoist magic just to be able to understand what's going on.

Now that you mention it, yeah, pretty much.

Unless the UN or an expy is the protagonists, you'll run into the same trouble as GATE, so stop complaining and write something better.

I'm fond of the way GURPS does it and how stealing from Stargate SG1 is probably the best way to do it. You can only carry as much gear as can fit in a HUMVEE (is it spelled right?) and you are going to have to survive before you can be extracted.

Beyond the Last Redoubt there is only horror and death.

One short campaign. That's all I want. Why do none of my friends like the show or game?

and chuuni space vampires

Worry not.
I have a gigantic pizza cutter.

>Police officers transported to a fantasy world
>Have a handgun +1 magazine
>They're pretty much ridiculously powerful wands of fiery death +6
>30 rounds total
>Not even the greatest artificers in the land could create more charges
>Have to learn how to fight with that world's weapons, in their style, with a gun strapped to your hip just in case
>Group agrees you'll need the guns to kill the bad guy
>Run out halfway through
>Kill them with gear gathered through their adventures
>No way home, decide to settle down in this new world
>Pass gun along to child by fantasy wife
>Kid invents gunpowder

am i the only one imagining Ecaflip as more Mithra-like, but brown instead of furries?
I mean, i don't really care if they're furries or not, but delicious chocolate catgirls are too rare to pass up

>be modern-level military troops
>get teleported into fantasy world
>except this world is on early-mid 1900s level of advancement
>a bunch of dudes with guns are met not with religious awe, but with greedy interest

That's why you pick something like the Norwegian defense force or the KGB

Spanish/portuguese colonization, exploration and conquest of the Americas, Africa, India and South East Asia.

I would love this one too.

I would play the fuck out of an Orion campaign, I'm so glad Veeky Forums has discovered it.

>Steampunk without reddit tier cancer
This. I really like the idea of 19th century technology amplified, but I hate the "le top hat kooky adventure XDDD"

sounds fun

Just advertise your setting as, literally, an alt-history victorian game. Most steampunk fans are too dumb to know that steampunk is based on an actual historical period, you will not have any problem unless you're brittish.

>nuking sauron
U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

Just read about this and holy shit, I need this book.

any setting
I have no friends and am a poor loser

I'd even play fatal

Boulet is dope

>Did this Campaign
>Resident autist whined when Dragon's were otherwordly fey monsters immune to mortal bullets and America was an ashland ruled by Immortal Firedrakes

I PLAYED IT IN SHADOWRUN FOR A REASON!

>flamethrower vs the spirits of the forest
>gobos rush from hiding spots on worgs only to be cut down by machine gun fire
>mines and other explosives used to booby trap dungeons
>late night Spec Ops raids on a wizard towers
>joint task force raid on a druid cult thats been growing some magic weed plant. No wolf familars survive thanks to BATFE intervention
>Russians fighting dwarfs over "clay thats rightfully ours"
>CAS brrrrrts seige towers as artillery fire rains from the court yard of a caprured castle onto an attacking orc army
>Iron Maiden blasting "Run to the Hills" as Mechanical Infantry roll through a village

>fukkin when????

Isnt this just the Ring of Fire Series?

A giant pizza cutter, you say?

It's a fucking crime that they never did anything else with that world.

Nowadays I'm just happy that modern Bioware hasn't touched it, though.

Moderate post-apocalypse. An era where salvage, scavenging and recycling has prolonged the remains of the old world almost for as long as they can. Guns are less and less common outside of specialists and clan-dynasty's devoted to manufacture.

Your mad max or waterworld. Either would be fun to explore

*I* want a Godzilla meets Evangelion meets Pokemon game where operators must raise and train their baby Kaiju to fight space angels to protect the earth.

FedEx could charge people out the ass for that. Your package literally can't be late.

This is actually just Street Fighter II but with walking down a dirt road instead of an airplane and also probably large waifus.

>large waifus.
Always has my vote, but they've got an interesting idea otherwise, and honestly a street fighter RPG sounds kinda fun

Defense implies that something could plausibly happen given the right circumstances. The proficiency of Eastern forces compared to Western SOF varsity teams is minimal to the point of hilarity, and this applies to those who support SOF and provisions of intelligence too.

The idea of CAG being bamboozled by fucking Japanese because it "wasn't what they were expecting" is ludicrous, they aren't overconfident Navy SEALs yelling for QRF after things go sour, they're literally the best in the world and the specific involvement of dumbass politicians or poor intelligence has only ever caused a few casualties with an overall casualty number in their favor at most.

It doesn't really matter of course because who cares what some nip writing a shitty autistic manga thinks, but it's still really sad and pathetic. I legitimately feel sorry for the military supporting outcasts in Japan, and I wish we could undertake a program to uplift and improve the Japanese military, maybe make it more socially acceptable over there in the process. The current head of USPACOM is even half-Japanese.

It sounds fun but then 3/4 of the party has to sit and wait while 1/4 of the party 1v1s somebody.

Make sure there's 4 opponents so everyone can pair off?

>Each location has a squad of excatly four champions

I'm just saying that at some point you have to abandon certain parts of the concept.

I read a story like that which was okay. The fantasy world was pretty low magic with only humans and the occasional rare witch casting magic, but did have flintlocks.

>mad max

Sweet. Now I can put my surplus V8's to use.

All I need is gas.

This.

Yeah the guy who wrote it was a kind of a fucker and it really is obvious if you read the LN.

Still
>Not liking the part where they go Apocalypse Now on filthy savages
Come on user, how can you not want to curbstomp the injustices of a medieval fantasy world with the full might of a first world nation?

Someday, I'm going to run an all druid game. All players will have to follow a strict code to get BAKED AS FUCK, as the nature lord commands. Shenanigans ensue

Because its fucking meh at best and you deserve to die alone and unloved for liking it?

Fucking neat.

Then he drops all pretence of playing fair, goes full Maia, and the resulting angelic deathmatch spills through the portal and kills everyone.

Amethyst is what you are looking for. They've had D&D rules for 3.5 - 5th, a 13th age supplement, and a Savage Worlds supplement.

I just had a bizarre idea.

Imagine a setting where technology advanced humans, attempting to crack FTL, accidently into dimensional travel instead and create a portal to a fantasy realm.

They want to explore it and study it and figure out how magic works, but out of some warped version of the prime directive they don't want to reveal their advanced technology to the populace and introduce them to planes and guns and shit. If we destroy their culture and change their views of how the world works, we might destroy whatever it is about them that lets them use magic before we single out how it works.

So we send through soldiers in power armor doctored up to look like fancy knights, carrying weapons we can disguise as things that fit into their worldview. Carrying giant swords and axes with ease due to power armor, building in weapons that we can pass off as magic.

They see our soldiers as superhuman with strange abilities, but they already accept the existence of such things in the form of heroic individuals or magic dudes. Our explorers walk around in armor designed to shrug off lasers and railguns, now pitted against arrows and swords.

>Full Maia
>When he is stuck in EYE form.

Yeah he aint got the power left to do that at that point. It was why he wanted the One Ring back so bad.

"Oi, you shortie! Stay away from our women! We don't need your kind around here. Now leave, before we start singing Randy Newman's Short People!"

Looks like we got a mountain tough guy over here. Sing Randy Newman to my face, not online, and see what happens!

Have them be hunted by a bunch of NOT!Cops paladins.

>go home and be a family waifu
>i'm the strongest waifu in the world
>you must defeat my radiation breath to stand a chance

1920's style (Mobsters and Gangs) planescape setting. XXXX many years after all current D&D settings.

Ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, Roman or Greek steampunk alt-history would be pretty awesome.

yer god-damn right!