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Under Rated Role-play Settings

Dameon

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Just curious to what people think are under rated settings for role play. I know there are a lot of universes that don't get much love because they tend to fall into the cult classic genre, they're foreign (and haven't been brought over seas) or they're just the type of setting most people wouldn't consider entering into.

I find a lot of live action Television series don't get much love, mostly because I think a lot of people find it easier to bend a universe, or characters from a universe, that aren't portrayed by live actors. Like I have an easier time thinking of a character for the Comic or Game universe for Star Wars then I do for a character that might walk around the world I've seen portrayed in the movies (Old or new). While I like Supernatural, and it does get a lot of love, it tends to be fan fic Wincest love, much like with the fans of Buffy or Angel. (Although I'm not personally interested in those two.)

The universes of RTS games, or some of the more popular FPS games, or even Fighting Games, tend to not get much interest. Mostly people have a major interest in platformers or RPGs (obviously) for their entry into universes. I find that games like those done by Nippon Ichi set a massive, open world that gives you so much more to work with, without feeling like you have to walk in the shadow of world saving heroes.

For original universes, I don't see very many people doing settings that are Military. Like not just people in combat, but Soldiers posted in other countries, or on peace keeping rounds, delivering goods to war torn, or natural disaster torn, areas. I've always found those situations hold a lot of plot and drama that can stay within the confines of real life and still be incredibly interesting.

Does anyone else feel there are things for stories that are just not done enough?
 
You mean Liiiike... The Dead Space Universe?

Many people overlook that because they think: "Where am i going to have sex on a ship infested with the walking mutated dead?" but i could think otherwise; Since im familiar with the story, and 99% of the backstory, it would be quite easy for me to ploy up a roleplay in the Dead Space Universe as per what Happened before the Events of Dead space took place.
 
Complicated ones, like the Dune universe. It wouldn't be hard to play one-on-one or small group RPs there as non-canon characters because so many people who lived in that universe wouldn't be familiar with everything; the average person living and doing his/her everyday thing doesn't know the deep politics of what's going on on other planets. You'd choose a specific setting and go with that. Unless your character is a Duke or a Bene Gesserit Sister or something like that, all you need to know and understand is the basics. I think most universes that contain a lot of detailed information get overlooked for RP, even though by choosing lower-ranking original characters, you could bypass the difficult parts.
 
I personally avoid such settings as Dune because I have a great love for it and I would not want to soil it.

I'm not much of a fan of taking an established setting and then significantly altering the plot for the sake of someone's ego.
 
Nihilistic_Impact said:
I personally avoid such settings as Dune because I have a great love for it and I would not want to soil it.

I'm not much of a fan of taking an established setting and then significantly altering the plot for the sake of someone's ego.
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Just work harder at avoiding that?

*jazz hands*

I actually find live action series are quite common, which is ... difficult? There is so much information in, say, four seasons. Or even one season of thirteen episodes. Books you can at least mark up and come back to. It's difficult to do that with a DVD.
 
Andour Seibym said:
You mean Liiiike... The Dead Space Universe?

Many people overlook that because they think: "Where am i going to have sex on a ship infested with the walking mutated dead?" but i could think otherwise; Since im familiar with the story, and 99% of the backstory, it would be quite easy for me to ploy up a roleplay in the Dead Space Universe as per what Happened before the Events of Dead space took place.
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Actually, on SL, there's a place called Doomed Ship, which is themed much like dead space. A mixture of dead space, doom3, aliens, and event horizon. And.. sex happens all the time there. xD Whether it's finding "safer" area to stay and make love, or being raped by the various creatures, mutations, demons, and abominations roaming the ship, or hidden in dark places... So it's definitely possible sex could be involved in such a setting, and certainly is an interesting thing.



For me, being an anime fan, a lot of anime universes are underrated. D: Whether it's because people just don't know about it, or don't like anime much, or just don't like particular anime. I love all kinds of anime, but ecchi anime are always fun. Ecchi fighting anime are even better. Ikkitousen, queen's blade. Those I'm sure don't get enough love.
 
Ecchi Fighting? Like...Tenjo Tengeh or whatever it's called?

I actually had the first DvD of that series. I caught half of one episode on TV and decided to check out more episodes. Turns out aside from the actual fighting, there's not much of the series I enjoy. When watched for prolonged periods, the fighting scenes aren't that great or well done, the focus tends to primarily be on the sex, which makes me wonder after a while 'Why am I watching this instead of porn?'.
 
I've only had one RP that ever mucked with established characters, turning it into an alternate universe. It was Elfquest, actually. I did another Elfquest RP, but I think I pissed off my partner by kind of suggesting she let her wolf behave the way, you know, wolves actually behave. It was taken, I think, as trying to play her character, I suspect; we've never talked about it, so I don't know for sure.

I've done one other RP set in the Firefly universe, but not at all related to any established characters whatsoever. Same with Star Wars: entirely original characters, acting in a known setting. Hell, just reading this thread I thought of the travails of a young Fremen warrior and a House Atredies retainer on the run during Muad'dib's war against the Harkonnen: known events happening all around them, but entirely original characters who would likely not even brush with established characters in any but the most incidental manner. That seems like how I would happily do a fandom RP, but I've mostly been asked about characters I don't even know in stories I've never heard of. Damn my not reading all manga everywhere obsessively!
 
Well, in the gay roleplaying community (or at least the bara one) fighting games are somewhat popular but generally only in the Ho-yay trope of like Ken and Ryu or maybe Sol Badguy and Ky Kiske from GG, MAYBE Rock and Mitsurugi from Soul Edge. And lesser known fighters (Darkstalkers, Fatal Fury/most SNK, BlazBlue, etc) are more ignored.

And I see lots of Table Top rps that are ignored or picked up by a SCANT few, which could be because table tops are hitting a slump. I have never seen (outside of my asking) people ask for series like Unhallowed Metropolis (a kind of post-apocalyptic zombie Victoriana-punk setting), Nobilis, Weapons of the Gods, and some others.

Otherwise I tend to see lots of different types of original types but with certain tropes. Post-apocalyptica with mad max or Fallout settings, generic feudal asia, generic medieval fantasy, modern with unpopular boy/girl and popular boy/girl (I see this as mega wish fulfillment but whatever), war with common linked soldiers, NAZIS AND JEWS FOR SOME REASON, and so forth. I just don't think people often step outside of conventional norms for some reason.
 
I always wonder why Nazi/Jew folks never do Nazi/Japanese scientist doing bad experiments.

Seems like it would make for more fun. Or, rather, roughly the same level of bad karma.
 
Kawamura said:
I always wonder why Nazi/Jew folks never do Nazi/Japanese scientist doing bad experiments.

Seems like it would make for more fun. Or, rather, roughly the same level of bad karma.
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Because weaboos like to imagine Japan as a land of purity and awesome where the Japanese have never done anything bad. And heavens help that the Japanese prove RACIST. That'd just be wrong.
 
Had a conversation once where someone said I was trolling for pointing out that there are still women in Korea seeking some sort of response from the Japanese gov't over their whole being forced to work as sex slaves thing.

Good times, good times.
 
Misanthropiclove said:
Kawamura said:
I always wonder why Nazi/Jew folks never do Nazi/Japanese scientist doing bad experiments.

Seems like it would make for more fun. Or, rather, roughly the same level of bad karma.
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Because weaboos like to imagine Japan as a land of purity and awesome where the Japanese have never done anything bad. And heavens help that the Japanese prove RACIST. That'd just be wrong.
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To be fair, the Japanese would prefer to think of it that way, too. Their cultural denial is staggering.
 
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