Well, first I’d like to say that the fantasy one would have an extensive stat system, so I’d have a few activities to raise your stats early on. Then I’d have a choice about your occupation before the war. And then your relationship status, but if you’d prefer to leave romance out of it, that will be an option too.
@Zane_Hiam
Would rising in rank be an element? Or would it be more narrowly focused?
Probably not. Sorry.
No need to be sorry. Just thinking through what kind of concerns beyond surviving to tomorrow would be important.
First or second one for me.
No problem. Thinking about maybe having the stereotypical good ending where the king knights you and you live happily ever after.
I would play the second one but with mutations not “magic”
You could still make people shoot lightning just give some kind of pseudoscience explanation for continuity’s sake. Then you could also throw in all kinds of mutations like third arms and cyclops eyes and wings.
That could be very satisfying.
why dont you combine the first two ? into small series, Essentially you are at war, then enemy unleashes secret weapon which causes apocalypse, and you awaken somewhat 50 years later ? post appocalyptic medieval turned into post apocalypse fantasy, could be interesting.
Elemental powers is directly connected with nature and life! This is for good guys!!! I accept only malevolent types of magic with only porpose to dominate and destroy everything! So i will never bow to the nature and life!!!
Maybe I’m biased but nature’s plenty malevolent. If you controlled water, you could possibly drown someone from the inside out or do something like blood-bending from Avatar eventually maybe. Plus there’s fire, which okay light and bla bla, but you could create a streak of destruction with it easy. And ice? Look at the evil witch queen from Narnia, she was all about ice. Except instead of leaving your victims alive to eventually defrost and fight against you, you could shatter them into a million pieces. Very satisfying.
And on and on. You could rain down death from the heavens with lightning. And what’s God end the world with in the bible? A great flood. When he does it again, he’ll use (idk if this is factual; just common whatever) fire. Nature, nature. Go down the whole gives life but can take it away like that road. Elemental powers are for everyone.
Nature is wild not good or evil! Nature is both life and death but heroes prefer naturals powers for this connection with life, in their opinion this is good! So i need power from evil to contracarate life! Darkness and chaos is only two possibilities for what i want.
That was sort of my point. That it’s not good or evil. It can be either or w/e you want. Also wild and chaotic sound pretty similar to me. But you want what you want.
Nature powers is for everyone?! I am everyone??? I am not a common mage or a pathetic hero to wield such a common power!!!
@Zane_Hiam
So game one will have Somme Trench/Marine Raiders like plot with a common soldier MC in a world somewhere between Sabres of Infinity and Lords of Aswick?
It could work if you are an expert on medieval warfare (or knows one to advise you) and adds some twists to the setting to distinguish it from many other fantasy works.
Number two sounds like the most unusual setting of the three. “Shadowrun meets Fallout” seems to be a promising concept, but it might be better to either make the elementar powers a result of radioactive mutation instead of magic OR make the whole apocalypse not nuclear but magical.
Number three sounds exactly like The Fleet but with Human vs. Aliens instead of Aliens vs. Aliens. I would like to know more about this one, but so far it seems like the other two have more unique settings.
I also like @CaesarCzech’s idea of a medieval fantasy postapocalyptic setting.
@gkex The whole point of the second one is to make the magic as illogical and over the top as I want.
@pyla8 Yes, that’s exactly what I was going for.
@Abyss No, you’re the only one with such powers.
@WulfyK I’m getting my history major right now and righting my thesis on the seven years war, so I should be fine.
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I vote for the first one.I’ve always been a fantasy fan even if it doesn’t include magic.
As for the gun part that I saw you were discussing,maybe you could include a few ‘old’ guns here and there,so the sword won’t be that useless.
Yep, that’s pretty much gonna be the first one.
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