How to justify a setting with ninjas, cowboys, pirates, cyborgs, werewolves, aliens, demons, mechas, war elephants...

How to justify a setting with ninjas, cowboys, pirates, cyborgs, werewolves, aliens, demons, mechas, war elephants, kaiju, wizards, dinosaurs, demi-gods, and sapient bears?

Ever see Pagemaster? That. Or better yet just go full television, and call it Stationscape.

Space-Time-bending shenanigans, collapsed colliding universes, that sort of thing.

RIFTS

I don't need justification for that shit, sounds fuckin tight. It ought to work so long as you keep going full cartoon with it, with NPCs who are of races and classes/occupations that never get explained but exist.

The Saturday Morning Method - Create a character, make their race cool, make their job/class cool, and explain it away later and only if someone really needs it.

Ask the Strike Legion guys.

Or make a superhero setting.

It's the afterlife

You don't need to justify shit, just do it. It's called gonzo, user. It's the best.

>user, how come your setting has all these things?
>Cause it's cool as fuck is why

Touhou?

This.
Also magic and multiverse portals.

Land of the lost type setting. "Sideways" in time

A dick ass god brings all of these things together, stealing them from their respective realities, because they think they're cool.

This dickass God has no motivation other than seeing cool ass shit, so he brings heroes and villains from across the multiverse to compete and slaps them into a world and lets them go at it. Sometimes he fucks around with things to keep the cool shit going, or to reward particularly cool ass shit he see's someone do

Basically, the plot of Rance.

>That's a hell of a show, what do you call this act?
>EXALTED!

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Weird fiction. You can probably fit all that shit into Conan

Perhaps the god is the BBEG and you have to fight him to bring these things back to their realities.

Maybe for a personality he could be like Comic Book Guy.

A child's toybox.

Super hero setting.

Take a lesson from here? Really, all you have to do is make the setting big enough and then really flesh it out so each part makes sense.

This

>that god
>bbeg
He's fucking rad

This.

you could make real life sound ridiculous if you took the weirder bits from each nation.

As long as each element has a relatively natural place in the world and aren't cramped together you are fine

Maybe I should list how Golarion has done those things.

ninjas - Tian xia, aka notAsia. Have trade with notEurope so ninjas can be found across the world.
cowboys - Not exactly cowboys, but the gunslinger class fits quite nicely and the region they're from is a sort of deserty wild west like place devoid of magic.
pirates - Multiple groups but most well known are the Shackles who are based off the coast of northern notAfrica and worship their own pirate (demi)goddess Besmara.
cyborgs - Numeria and its ancient crashed space ship has provided some amazing tech.
werewolves - found across notEurope, but have a much higher concentration within the notNorse/Russian lands.
aliens - Numeria again. Also the setting has detailed many of the planets of the solar system, and their are some dangerous foes who come from the dark places between the stars.
demons - The Worldwound, aka a massive gate to the Abyss where demons live.
mechas - Numeria is still pretty cool
war elephants - The Impossible Kingdoms of Vudra are notIndia and have plenty of War Elephants to gift to any rich visitor or person who wants to use them.
kaiju - The spawn of a trapped god whose only goal is the destruction of all civilization are all over the place. Most are trapped, but they occasionally get free.
wizards - one of the base classes of the game
dinosaurs - notAfrica, and possibly notAustralia, has plenty of places for these things.
demi-gods - There are plenty of these around
sapient bears - There is plenty of magic around and strange happenings to allow for sapient bears.

There are far more fun things to be found within the setting like Ratfolk who practice psychic rift magic.

Its my favorite setting to steal lore from. The devs continually create lots of fun things to import and use for your own settings or just use theirs.

No need to justify, for it's cool.

Oh, you mean Exalted?

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40k ?
ninjas : some assassin cult
Cowboys : colons on a border agri-world
pirates : rogue traders and the like
cyborgs : almost everybody
werewolves : mutants
aliens : you choose
demons : same
mechas : admech/taus
war elephants : feudal worlders
Kaïjus : some aliens lifeforms (tyranids are the obvious one)
wizards : psykers, can be from any cultural background
dinausaurs : Carnausaurss/stegadon/whatever, really
demi-gods : Primarchs / C'tans / demon princes
sapient bears : aliens / chaos influence over regular bears / archeotech made the sentient

these are basic examples, but your options are truly infinite as long as you don't shake the quo status too much.

So, basically, 40k. It doesn't have to be all about space marines.

Rifts.

Pretend it's the '90s.