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Re: Setting Poll

[(Anonymous)]

1. Fantasy - 7/10, classic stuff; swords, spells, magic, dragons. it's fine. overdone in media and rp but fine. i'd love it if games went a bit harder on factions and breaking social norms with consequences in these kinds of games. maybe with more adversarial npcs who think pcs with their weird clothes and powers and slang are witches, etc. something different.
2. Sci-Fi - 10/10, preference for more fantastical with space travel, aliens, time-travel, advanced tech, etc. you can also cheese it and slip a lot of sub-generas under the sci-fi banner so there's lots of wiggle room for diversity. much easier mechanically for rp too, i think.
3. Historical - 4/10 in media, 8/10 in rp. i was never a history person, find it quite dry and boring in most presentations, but i'm starting to appreciate it more in a dwrp sense since our games have historically been oversaturated with the other three settings. i like historical eras that are more removed from modern times to make them more interesting by comparison (edo period, ancient egypt, victorian era, american wild west, etc). figuring out how to successfully integrate these things into the typical dwrp framework (should it be an AU game, should you get a magical network device even if it doesn't fit in the setting at all, etc) is what makes or breaks a lot of immersion for me.
4. Contemporary - 2/10. boring for me, will need a good supernatural twist or be very gritty to get my interest. overdone in rp.

Re: Setting Poll

[(Anonymous)]

Oddly enough, I find myself the opposite regarding history. I am a history buff, I love seeing it in media, but doesn't work for me on RP unless it's an AU with another setting entirely (kind of like the world of Strangereal for the Ace Combat series, in that it uses different nations, but mostly the same technology). It's mostly because I associate DWRP with crossovers and the fantastical, so putting them somewhere mundane doesn't do it as much for me. I can understand where you're coming from regarding this setting being rare in RP, and therefore attractive to you, though.

I heavily agree with you on sci fi and contemporary, though.

Re: Setting Poll

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

yeah i agree with you there! especially for dwrp--even historical settings i still vastly prefer there to be some supernatural, fantastical twist in them. ancient egypt where the gods are real, edo period with a lot of l5r influence with oni and ki powers, victorian era with castles and eldritch horror, wild west with steampunk tech and lycans and cults. stuff like that is ugh chefs kiss. don't see enough of it. barely see ANY of it!

all that probably technically fits under the fantasy or sci-fi banner though. maybe a 5th poll option for "fictional history" ?