Over-the-top Science Fantasy FATE Core
I've been looking to try out FATE for a while now. I've got experience running numerous games for my friends, but they aren't interested in FATE and I've only run one other game on RPOL.
I was hoping to find a handful of players who would enjoy learning to play FATE together. I've got the Core book as well as the System Toolkit and the Adversary Toolkit.
The setting would be The Dragon-Empire - a totalitarian feudal empire that spans the cosmos, where the lower class masses can't hope to resist the super-powered aristocracy.
It's an over-the-top outlandish 'kitchen sink' science fantasy wonderland of inconceivable technology and incomparable sorcery.
For inspiration, look no further than The Metabarons, movies like Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor (especially Ragnarok), Hellboy, Sucker Punch, 300, Dune, Star Wars, Valerian, The Fifth Element, tabletop games like Warhammer 40,000, Exalted, Shadowrun, CthulhuTech, and video games like Gears of War, Dante's Inferno, Darksiders, and God of War.
The tone of the game will be serious, desperate, and, yet, optimistic. There are terrible evils perpetrated by the Dragon-Emperor and his minions. The forces of the Dragon-Empire are unknowably vast and overwhelmingly powerful. Despite this, there are still those who will fight against tyranny and oppression.
The players would be former members of the aristocracy who decided to use their powers for good or low-born serfs who have recently acquired, discovered, or been cursed with some heretofore unknown power. They will strive to make the cosmos around them better place and may also try to plan some large-scale revolution.