Is anyone working on a Blades hack to play as a gang in the vein of Games Workshop’s Necromunda setting? I feel like a lot of the basics would translate over fairly easily.
Is anyone working on a Blades hack to play as a gang in the vein of Games Workshop’s Necromunda setting?
Is anyone working on a Blades hack to play as a gang in the vein of Games Workshop’s Necromunda setting?
Ooh.
A hack for a setting by the most litigious gaming companies known for persecuting fans. Sure! Let’s increase their branding
On the other hand though, a similar setting owned by less evil companies could be fun. The gangs of Mega city One.
I’m not suggesting using the actual IP. Just a game about gangs in a high tech undercity. Necromuna is already a Mega City with the serial numbers filed off (all GW pretty much started as 2000AD with teh serial file doff, as far as I can tell).
I just want to divorce any fan creativity from potential doom asap. Just to avoid future pain 😀
I know this one. Is it, “What is Glow in the Dark?”
Aha! Google+ post by Adam Schwaninger
https://plus.google.com/109333990936576277189/posts/Rt7DdPUgvgp
Glow in the Dark is a little more post apocalyptic than I had in mind, although it probably has some good ideas to pilfer.
Just relax on the fundamental scarcity a bit. Heck, I’ve run Necromunda using Apocalypse World (once, in a one-shot) and it seemed to work fine.
The only problem that immediately hits me is that Blades is not even remotely deadly, whereas Necromunda is extremely deadly. If you were willing to compromise there, it could definitely work.
I think the deadliness of Blades has a lot to do with exactly how the GM approaches the descriptions of violence. Just framing harm as more severe and deadly is probably enough.
Dave Sealy You can make it seem more deadly in the fiction, but within the system, players have absolute control over whether their character dies and relatedly, have the ability to resist any consequences that come their way. Obviously if framing it within the fiction is good enough, then you’re on the right track.
Now if you make a Judge Dredd hack? And I can play Judge Anderson? You have my undivided attention. I’ll second that Mega City One idea.
On that note RIP Steve Dillon http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37743510
bbc.co.uk – Steve Dillon: Judge Dredd, Preacher and Punisher comic artist dies – BBC News
Regarding deadliness, a few simple tweaks are all you need.
Like, make resistance a gamble. It costs 3 stress to resist a consequence, then you roll your attribute:
1-3: You don’t resist it. You suffer the full effects.
4/5: You resist the full effects, but suffer a lesser effect.
6: You resist it fully.
Basically a saving throw. Probably fits the Necromunda style pretty well. Maybe if you have really good armor, the stress cost to resist physical attacks is lowered or removed. etc. etc.
Is be keen on a Megacity hack. Just so I could use the minis from the Judge Dredd wargame kickstarter which turned out to be an even more broken ruleset than Necromunda.