So I’m sure we’re all excited for at least one of the alternate settings, but has anyone considered making one of their own?
I’ve got some rough ideas (rival families and guilds in totally-not-Florence chief among them), but I’m not sure what mechanical work actually goes into such a thing.
Until I get a chance to really play and get a good feel for this system I probably won’t attempt my own setting. That being said, I think that the model is flexible enough to accommodate a lot of cool ideas, with more or less effort.
You could have a bunch of different political parties in a legislature; warring city-states/civilizations (á la Sid Meier); clans of various horror tropes battling for supremacy (vampires, werewolves, witches, etc.); members of different sports teams competing against one another… lots of potential there.
I would love to see one like the Expanse, with the Wasteland being space between planets. You go almost use the playbooks as written, changing only the Landmarks.
Luke JW I recently finished watching all the way through both seasons of The Expanse, and now I’m reading my way through the books. Brilliant suggestion!
I also just realized that Legacy could be used for an L5R or 7 Samurai-style game with different families/clans. That would be pretty great since one genre I feel PbtA is sorely lacking is Asian Fantasy and/or Chanbara.
J.T. Dimino Something you might want to look at: The Sword, The Crown, and The Unspeakable Power is a low fantasy politics PbtA game that crowdfunded earlier this year, and I believe they’ve said (since each group creates their own setting) there will be explicit support for non-Western settings.
Cool! I’ll check it out. 🙂
If licensed settings were a thing, I would love to see Lazarus. However, Green Ronin just licenced that.
Ah pity – then again reading through Legacy it basically works with Legacy as-is? You’d just be using the play variant where you’re all members of the same family, and would sideline the more monstrous/supernatural elements of the post-apocalypse.
That’s my thought too. Just such a great fit.
Someone one day mentioned the idea of modern day conspiracies vying for power and influence through their agents. A idea that I’d love to explore.
I like the guild idea if it’s paired with the type of fantasy found in Ravnica or Eberron.
Douglas Santana I would pay good money for that.