Game Proposals/Interest Checks
So, I wanted to check some interest in a game idea I was toying with.
Basically it would be a game set in a medium fantasy world. Magic and all the trimmings albeit less common than some typical fantasy settings, but not by much. While there will be cinematics, a lot of the interactions of the characters would be quite gritty. The level of cinematics would be on a sliding scale also - that's to say, common people will be common and larger than life characters will be considerably less so.
The goal of the game is to pull in some concepts from the age of sail and to give the whole game something vaguely pirate-esque.
A lot of the common tropes of shows such as Black Sail and games like Monkey Island (perhaps with less comedy, i guess unless the characters are built to reflect it) will be present in the game and there will be ships, powder weapons and kind of colonies. The premise is much the same as the real world era, which is that a number of kingdoms are competing for territory and resources on a new continent but with more disparity between technologies, cultures and goals.
As for characters, I'm pretty open about what kind of people are involved but I'll probably enforce certain things that will allow the characters to be somewhat interactive with each other and be connected to the rest of the world rather than just being a 'lone individual that basically has no real world effect'. While that is said, there just needs to be a critical mass of characters that will drive story and be able to enable the actions that can affect the gameworld.
In addition, I would prefer to have players build characters based initially on concept before writing out a full 'character sheet'. This encourages descriptive and diverse characters rather than just trying to min-max the badassery you're going for. As such, i do expect there to be point differences between characters, but hopefully it'll drive the game further. An example would be a player wanting a ship, or some status in a colony being integrated into the concept without people having to worry about having enough points to put in leadership or other appropriate skills.
Feel free to PM me with interest if you dont want to post here.