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RULESET: Normal or lower SUPPORT: DIY CHARGEN: Quick, possibly involved (see the premise) SETTING: Universal/Neutral The pitch is Groundhog Doomsday. The player characters are supposed to be a group of friends caught in a futuristic city that gets hit by a lot of disasters in the very same day - alien invasion, genetic experiments gone awry, rogue AI, undead awakening, goddamned Godzilla. When they all die, they go back to the start of the day with memories of what happened (and is about to) and some XP (or equivalent) that may be used in skills/attributes (or equivalent) as well as powers. I am essentially looking for a super-hero system that can be scaled down to the level of common people or scaled up to the level of demigods (you know, in case they die so many times that they start to brute-force the problems). The game should be modular enough that players can get stuff between deaths without spending too much time looking at options, but also granular enough for there to be a gradual development of their competence. I am kind of leaning to a house-ruled ORE/Wild Talents with premade powers and hyperstat sets, specially since my group is very familiar with it, but I am open to more ideas.
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So, I've been thinking of using either Mothership or Alien RPG for a horror two-shot. Could anyone walk me through the pros and cons of each system?
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NihilCredo posted:Are there any games that take inspiration from Ars Magica or that, in your opinion, scratch similar itches? Doesn't need to be in the pseudo-historical fantasy setting either. The important 'itches' are: There's Greg Stolze's REIGN, which to be fair is over a decade old at this point. Some clarification. -Troupe style isn't directly part of the mechanics, but can be done by just having different characters for the different levels of play. Not really different from other RPGs on this point though. -It has extremely robust rules for companies that can go from your friendly neighbourhood thieves guild all the way to empires and the conflict and relationships between said factions. -It comes with very flavourful magical and special skills that are part of its base setting, but it also has guidelines on creating your own spells/esoteric skills. It is not really stuff you can use from within the session though.
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