1) Something like a full on, rule of cool driven parody RP of the likes of Chuunibyou is something I wouldn't mind playing at all, and crossed with Black Rock Shooter it would already provide a lot of elements that fit together neatly with the concept.
2) Man, that just sounds like fun. No kidding it does. I'd play it.
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1) If I could only figure out how to multi-quote on this damned forum... Anyways, I think I may have a solution to deal w/ Lantz's earlier objection regarding an in-universe "goal". Really, it's something rather simple: someone IC will be [REDACTED].
2) That noble, solitary figure/ Of this lonely warrior/ Smash that furious blade in!/ Make the era shine, Turn the future gold/ GAROOOOOO~
...Ahem. So, I've come up w/ some ideas for if we do cyberpunk or a lighter variety of it (danke, Burnout). I've noticed I spoke more of GARO's titular Knights last time, so I suppose it's only fair I devote some space to the Priests. In GARO's canon setting, Priests are nowadays the primary support infrastructure for the Knights; once upon a time, though, Priests were the only line of defense against the Horrors, until someone decided that there should be a function-specific caste solely dedicated to actual combat. Hence the Knights, and their unique possession of Madou Armor.
W/ the ushering in of the Knights came in another change: canonically, only men could become Knights, while either gender was eligible to become a Priest. As far as I can figure, the reasoning is kinda-sorta like the case w/ the yakuza's schtick of NO GIRLS ALLOWED in organized crime: you want tough Knights, and yada yada yada biological predisposition yada yada.
It's really just a thing, like how magical girls of their respective genre are the only ones who can have, well, magic. (FUCKING BULLSHIT, but then there's Nanoha, which was okay for a while, until YURI TRAIN HAS NO BRAKES CHOO CHOO.) And yes, this did come up as a significant plot point in GARO's canon, in at least two ways.
Anyway. Priests also receive extensive combat training, though it may or may not be a universal thing; many of the canon ones introduced, though, have been seriously hardcore motherf'ers, and that's counting the women alone. The lack of Armor is the key divider, b/c again, WoD Werewolf-tier. That said, Priests are basically the only true mages of the setting; they have access to tons of arcane knowledge to apply, even if strictly spells-wise we see something rather limited. Also, by the 3rd season we see Priests making use of magitek familiars called Goryuu (or something like that, WHATEVER, GEEZE), which may still not be nearly as powerful, but they can be hella versatile.
Oh, and just as Knights are iconic for their Armor, Madou Swords (not always a sword, shut up), Madou Lighter (seriously, shut up), and familiar-as-talking-jewelery, Makai Priests are distinguished by...a magic brush. SHUT. UP, it's still awesome.
3) First of two other ideas I've got, since I went looking back through the previous three pages. If we went for a superhero RP campaign, I'd kinda like to try something more in the vein of
Tiger & Bunny's setting and one. Y'know, where superheroes are active b/c of something much more understandable than abstract ideals/motivations that comic writers are inevitably gonna contradict or warp into the new status quo every time there's a reboot or CRISIS. Yeah... Kinda had a tentative plot setup, which took cues from the comic version of Wanted.
4) Second new idea is MECHA. Dear lord, dat mecha~<3 Ahem, right, focus. Uhhhhh... Okay, so, I'm going for something that's kiiiiiiiinda low fantasy in genre, which the mecha afficionados among you might be able to recognize in such examples as Vision of Escaflowne, Break Blade, or Aura Battler Dunbine. Anyone who knows my irc channel when I'm in the mood for talking OCs will know that MANY other series are also gonna be taken apart for inspiration, so I'll spare you that (FOR NOOOOOOOW).
I can say that I'm gonna be taking this premise through the Drakengard filter, so yeah, mecha will be kept serious business (fuck yo GATTAI), and we'll be seeing something like Drakengard's Pact mechanic. Relevant b/c you will not have access to computers; this also means no BEAMU, and no technicolor explosions from a thermonuclear powerplant being breached YET DOING VARIABLE DAMAGE, WHAT UTTER BS, TOMINO WOULD BE SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE IF HE WERE DEAD.
'But Sol, I need my AI waifu to help me pilot!' you say? Hmm, let me think---NO. NOOOO. You will pilot golems made of psychoreactive mineral and WOOOORMS, you will sell your sell and make a Pact w/ your ungodly gestalt, and you will like it!
