I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about.


(*grins*  I'd make fun of you, my friend, but I'm even more predictable)

*Laughs*

You don't think we're stuck in a rut, are we?

A rut?  Heck no!    We both just know what we like.    *grins*

One cannot force ones Muse, after all, eh?





(ok, i'm off to bed.  I'll check in later)

practically any scenario can work if it's interesting to the parties involved and the writers collaborate well together.

The game was originally set up so that we would all have characters in the real world as a basis and then the various scenarios would splinter off from there.  I liked this system when I took over the game as it lets the players have a base line with which to mess with.  We don't have to jump into other worlds to do the transformations either.

Here's what I was toying around with.  I was working on an idea where the characters slowly change in the real world and have to deal with the consequences, much like what Greg had written.  It would be fun to see how characters families and friends deal with what's happening to them.

I was also working on a loose framework for the game, a mythology if you would, and I was going to use the first scenario to set up the mythology or an explanation of what is going on.  It would be a loose framework of course, since I don't want to limit what ideas we come up with.

For my part, here is what I have been toying around with,

1) Sci-Fi - Characters find themselves on a space colony or colony ship and must assume the identities of colony members.

2) Historical - The characters are recruited to go back in time to recover some historical artifacts by assuming the identities of locals.  For Example, trying to retrieve Egyptian artifacts from the Titanic before it sinks.

3) Modern Day - The characters get caught in some sort of explosion/Accident in a remote part of the world.  They must change in order to survive.  For example, having to become half-animal to survive.

4) Modern Day - The characters are asked to take part in an experiment where they will be changed and the results recorded.  Perhaps something goes wrong and they have to deal with the consequences.

5) Anime - Characters are pulled into a popular anime and must find a way back.  For Example, they are pulled into some schoolgirl with pokemon world.

We've already done one ;identity change' thing, sort of. That said, Scifi could be interesting possibly.

# 3, 4 or 5 could be cool, too. I like Magical Girl.

Especially Epic magical Girl (see Nanoha)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFxFhxrfBzQ

Sci-fi could be fun.

Anime would be lots of fun too. Some favorites of mine are (and some of these are probably not well known due to them being older): Tekkaman (both Space Knight and Blade), Bio-Booster Armor Guyver, Ronin Warriors, Gatchaman, Takegami: Guardian of Darkness, Record of Lodoss War, Fate Stay The Night, Naruto, Claymore....

Whew! Do you think I put enough out there? :)

Hmm... My prefered Series-es -- understandably, a lot of these won't work so well :)

Slayers (too D&D to follow this)
Claymore (^^)
Fate\Stay Night (^^)
Full Metal Alchemist
Code Geass
Death Note
Nanoha (Any one of them :) )
EARLY Bleach (Before ~ Episode 60)
Kannazuki no Miko
Strawberry Panic

I was also very satisfied with the Tales of the Abyss anime they put out.

I will state I'm not particularly a fan of Naruto.

Bard, any of those ideas sound good to me.  If we do anime, I'll need some pointers there. I'm not really up on the different series.

I'm not a huge anime fan myself - I'll make an exception for Detroit Metal City, though that probably wouldn't work all too well for our purposes either.

In general, if we get pulled into a different world again, I'd prefer something where we can come up with our own characters instead of entering an existing canon.

I love Slayers. Saw it ages ago and loved it. The movie was good too.

Never seen Claymore but heard of it

Never seen Fate\Stay Night but it was by the guy who made Odin Sphere so that'd be great. LOVED Odin Sphere.

Never seen Code Geass

Death Note is friggen awesome (if slightly gay)

Never actually watched an episode of Nanoha but I hosted a game with a player who was a huge fan of it. Posted links to some parts of it. here's what I rebutted with:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6epvDqAslY

Never seen Bleach but EVERYONE talks about it.

Never seen or heard of Kannazuki no Miko

Never seen or heard of Strawberry Panic


My absolute favourite anime is One Piece. I breathe that thing.

Hmm.. which game was that, because that may have been me XD

I'm afraid that among my many character flaws, I'm not much into anime.   At least, I haven't really taken the time to look at anything recently.

I did see the live action Death Note "trilogy" and was very impressed.

I'm up for trying anything, though, if the group wants.  Historic stuff sounds like fun, although being "a slightly different human" isn't something I'd want to do, unless it were jazzed up a little.
(assuming a different gender/race or becoming a famous person might be intriguing, though)


I could probably be inspired by just about anything.   Our beloved GM's creativity and the freedom we're allowed has done wonders for my Muse.

An idea I'd like very much to try struck me today. This may or may not play to everyone's tastes, but it could certainly be written to do so.

The idea is that the characters are all involved in a drama/musical/dance production. The particular play they're performing is an ancient one, possibly one lost in a huge european library for hundreds of years. The play is cursed. The performers begin to fall under the spells and effects of their chosen parts, for instance, one who is to play a sentient cat might find themselves genuinely beginning to think like the character, or transforming into a feline creature. One who plays a damsel in distress might begin to fall in love with whoever is supposed to play her rescuer), and so on.

I also like the idea of being compelled to continue the performance despite these, or not caring or noticing the changes, possibly even to the point where the dances/songs on stage come out naturally, hard to keep from performing them...


It's a vague idea, but THOUGHTS!?

I think that was suggested before, albit on a movie set. Still, that'd make High School Musical so much more entertaining in my opinion.

I think it'd be funnier if the people didn't start acting like the parts they were playing, but rather other people's parts. Like the girl who's supposed to play the damsel starts acting like the brave knight or the evil villian acts like the kindly old uncle.

I personally just love the idea of a Big Bad Necromancer, sitting in a chair with a pipe just watching old television.

That could be pretty interesting.  I'd love to hear more.

Playing a part without being aware it would probably work better in a TV show then a Rpol game, but being aware of being forced to "play against type" could be a good foil for roleplaying.

That idea sounds good to me so far.  Having the roles bleed into real life could be fun to play around with.

Yeah that could be immensely fun. Just stick the Elvish ones in a sci-fi convention and we all should be OK :D

This sounds good. Maybe some of the people that take on parts could come from the audience and the stage crew?

So, several years ago, I played a TF game here on rpol that was a little silly and a lot of fun.

The basic premise was simple: a group of friends sit down for a night of boardgaming, only to discover that the game one of them has brought is cursed.  Random transformations occur with each turn, and players are prevented from leaving the table until a winner is declared.

There is an actual "random events" table that players use as they move their pieces around the board.  They can also store up "TF points" which they can use to effect the outcome of their rolls or the rolls of other players.

Would there be interest in such a game?  We could run it here, or, if we would like to do it outside the continuity of this game (since it is meant to be a light-hearted lark rather than part of a continuing story), I'd be happy to set up a sister game to this one.

Sounds like the Game of Change from CYOC. I'd be in for that.

That sounds like it would be a blast to play. Count me in!

Sounds like fun!

I'd be interested.   If you want to try it, I'd love to join in.

Well, it looks like we have a quorum.  Would people prefer that the game be included as a thread in this game, or would you prefer I create a whole new game to be our sandbox?

 My instinct is to start a new game for the following reasons:

1) I want to keep things simple for our dear GM!

2) The silliness involved in the game seems contrary to the more mature play style in evidence here.  If these games are all part of the same continuity, I hesitate to throw a spanner into the works.

3) In a game where portraits change regularly, I would get easily confused running multiple characters or switching back and forth between the various incarnations of D Zhang.

So, those are my thoughts, but I'm willing to be persuaded to keep it all here in one tidy TF package.

If we do move to a new game, I would regard it as ancillary to this one: you must be a member of this game to go play in  the new sandbox.