What to play?

Hey everyone. Sorry for rushing ahead like this and already creating a game for this xD I’m just very excited about starting up this game. I’m still pretty new to this system but I just love Cortex Plus and I always need more drama in my life (as long as it’s just fictional drama of course)

Before we do anything else, we should discuss what kind of setting we are looking for. Tracy already suggested a bunch of settings that I’m just going to list here. We can talk about which ones we’re more interested in and which ones not as much and then maybe have a vote at the end.

Suggestions were:

Superheroes,
lords and ladies at the royal court,
a cyberpunk crew working all sides against the middle,
monster teens,
the crew of a spacecraft,
a gang of intrepid supernatural investigators,
or at a magical college

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Personally, I’m not into the royal court idea. Everything else would work for me. I’m always up for superhero games and I also like the monster teens idea (which is very similar to supers, I guess). Supernatural investigators is also cool (and again similar to superheroes. I really seem to have a niche there). Space crew sounds interesting to me as well but I’m having more trouble thinking of how the drama would work there than I do with other settings.

If anyone has ideas besides those already mentioned, please share them. Also let us know which of the already proposed ideas you like or don’t like.

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As for GM-Duties, I’m a fan of switching that responsibility around between different episodes/adventures but I’m also fine with having one static GM, whether that is me or someone else.

Rotating GM responsibilities sounds ideal.

I liked the superheroes, cyberpunk, spacecraft/sci-fi, and supernatural investigators best. I could probably be convinced to partake in magical college or monster teens, if that's what the group is up for; both seem rife with dramatic potential. Honestly, I could even do the lords and ladies one, depending upon the storyline.

I was very interested in the lords and ladies one because I was hoping to test the Kingdom as a Character rules from the Cortex Plus Hackers Guide. Your House gets its own stats and takes stress and makes rolls based on what's happening in the game, so it's like playing two characters, because you still get to play as a member of that house. We could probably hack it further to be something modern or futuristic - corps in a cyberpunk setting? planets in a sci-fi setting? I don't know. It just seemed interesting.

I'd LOVE TO PLAY SUPERHEROES. I freely admit to being hero obsessed. If we did Monster Teens I'd like to define our own monster rules so we weren't just stuck with the classic tropes. Perhaps vampires are really only psychic vampires, or werewolves can turn outside of the lunar cycle, or whatever might make it interesting and feel more original. But if anyone suggests sparkly vampires I will find out where you live and visit sweet justice upon your blaspheming face. j/k :) but really. no sparklies.

For the crew of the spaceship, I was imagining something similar to Firefly meets... something. I don't know. I imagined a crew of misfits in space taking odd jobs, picking up passengers, maybe even having a companion or someone aboard. The sci-fi setting is rife for drama, especially if we include cool transhuman concepts like AI, digital replications of human minds, AIs and digital copies of human minds downloaded into bioengineered bodies, physical cybernetics and jacking new skills and abilities via skillsofts or something... we could explore all kinds of interesting, reality-bending, dramatic situations. Is that really my boyfriend that downloaded into that super hot bioengineered copy of my ex-husband? What if we download him into 3 different bodies - which one is really my boyfriend? What if he downloads into a female body? Gah! What if I fall for the AI inhabiting my boyfriends body since his mind was erased? Wow I love these possibilities! We could do all those in a cyberpunk setting, too, I think.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamber

Nine Princes In Amber

I never read the Amber series.

While it is clearly part of that pulp era it is a good read.

I've never read the books either.

I don't think I've ever even heard of that.

For scifi, I could also imagined something Star Trek themed, probably more DS9 than TNG but that could also be interesting

I have to admit Sci Fi is usually a weak point for me but I would be willing to give it a shot.

I could see a space station- keeps people local while still having the ability to travel elsewhere, multiple locations with the planet, station, and ships... so no one has a strong feeling in any one direction?

That mind upload body swapping bit sounds interesting. I do like stories that explore the meaning of life, identity, and self. I'm good with leaving it in the hands of tracy as the instigator or bowl as the gm.

I've set up a poll in this thread now with every option that has been mentioned. Everyone can vote for as many options as they like for now (well, you can vote for 7 out of 8 at most. There has to be some decision made).
Once everyone has voted, we'll see if we have a winner. If not, we'll have a second vote with only the highest ranked options.

We are currently at 6 players in this game. I've received another request to join the game by Hiddenfan.
What do you think, should I accept them or will that make the group too big?

My gp broke down yesterday. So i’ll repost :) i’ve Never done techy futuristic games, so cyberpunk or sci-fi would be interesting to try :)

In the mean time, I remembered an old setting back from the uni days, which could work with most AI, fully automated futuristic and smart IoT cities (both dystopian or space works). Basically, the PCs lived in a self sufficient "bio dome" which is an artificial copy of a living cell (and all its chemical stuff). You can have plots from the city "DNA mutating" and stuff goes wrong to simply having discussions of whether or not to explore the new planet they are approaching.

I voted, Gamers Plane was down for me last night.

After I saw it I am hoping Transhumanism Though I am very interested in the subject not sure how well it translates to rp format.
Though I do like Eclipse Phase and Savage Worlds versions.

I guess transhumanism as a theme can be implemented in a lot of those other ideas. Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Superheroes, maybe even Monster Teens or Supernatural Investigators could all deal with those topics in some way