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blissauthority) wrote2019-02-24 02:14 pm
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Double the Valor pitches, double the fun!
Hello all, I have two Valor game pitches for you come the summer or fall.
The first is the oft mentioned Gakuen Phantasia V: Adventurer's Class, my battleschool setting, now turned to a game. The obvious answer to a JRPG or D&D world full of old wizards leaving behind ruins full of semi-sentient alchemical slimes and Freakin' Owlbears? Form a high school for aspiring adventurers to learn a Class! A class for Classes, if you will (in a game that may have something to say about social class). It's a little bit RWBY, a little bit Dungeons and Dragons, and whole lot of Boku no Hero Academia.
(I get a little bit RWBY, and I don't ever wanna see more inequality, more inequality~)
You would be teammates in an adventuring party group for one of the Five Great Houses of the school, chosen for a combination of being friends and having usefully interlocking talents. You'd need to survive the classes and field trips - in the face of the aristocracy crumbling from democratizing new discoveries of technology and magic, and villains who would hang on to power, no matter the price, including the power of young adventurers they'd like in their pockets...
The second is Persona V: Tower of the Animus, an attempt at Persona with the following twists:
1: Everyone's persona is a legendary or fictional heroine; and
2: The aesthetic is magical girl, and Pretty Cure style fighting magical girl at that; color coordinated teenagers or college kids in frilly dresses punching, stabbing, and Agidyning malevolent Shadows in the face.
You would all be students: either at the fictional Sagittarius High School of Berkeley, CA; of UC Berkeley; or of the fictional Horizon Community College. It's an urban area near Oakland and San Francisco.
The guiding arcana is The Star, and I'd want each of your characters to give me thier Tower moment, when life needed to change or they'd be doomed, for use in making Shadows for them to face. Igor and his buddies Adam and Safie will of course help you out from the Velvet Room, on top of a great tower in the middle of Twilight...
Both of these would start in late summer or fall, and the afternoons or evenings Pacific time I'd have available would be Monday or Friday, possibly Saturday if Valoranger or S&V ends by then. Sunday I'm already running Reach Heaven Through Valor, my experimental PVP Heaven Will Be Mine riff...
Let me know who you are, how to reach you (esp. on Plurk and Discord), which games interest you and when you'd be available! It's possible I could run both, or just one, if interest and timing overlap...
Also, let me know what character concepts you have! One or two broad ones are fine.
Finally, ask me any clarifying questions you might need to ask, and I'll do my best to answer them...
The first is the oft mentioned Gakuen Phantasia V: Adventurer's Class, my battleschool setting, now turned to a game. The obvious answer to a JRPG or D&D world full of old wizards leaving behind ruins full of semi-sentient alchemical slimes and Freakin' Owlbears? Form a high school for aspiring adventurers to learn a Class! A class for Classes, if you will (in a game that may have something to say about social class). It's a little bit RWBY, a little bit Dungeons and Dragons, and whole lot of Boku no Hero Academia.
(I get a little bit RWBY, and I don't ever wanna see more inequality, more inequality~)
You would be teammates in an adventuring party group for one of the Five Great Houses of the school, chosen for a combination of being friends and having usefully interlocking talents. You'd need to survive the classes and field trips - in the face of the aristocracy crumbling from democratizing new discoveries of technology and magic, and villains who would hang on to power, no matter the price, including the power of young adventurers they'd like in their pockets...
The second is Persona V: Tower of the Animus, an attempt at Persona with the following twists:
1: Everyone's persona is a legendary or fictional heroine; and
2: The aesthetic is magical girl, and Pretty Cure style fighting magical girl at that; color coordinated teenagers or college kids in frilly dresses punching, stabbing, and Agidyning malevolent Shadows in the face.
You would all be students: either at the fictional Sagittarius High School of Berkeley, CA; of UC Berkeley; or of the fictional Horizon Community College. It's an urban area near Oakland and San Francisco.
The guiding arcana is The Star, and I'd want each of your characters to give me thier Tower moment, when life needed to change or they'd be doomed, for use in making Shadows for them to face. Igor and his buddies Adam and Safie will of course help you out from the Velvet Room, on top of a great tower in the middle of Twilight...
Both of these would start in late summer or fall, and the afternoons or evenings Pacific time I'd have available would be Monday or Friday, possibly Saturday if Valoranger or S&V ends by then. Sunday I'm already running Reach Heaven Through Valor, my experimental PVP Heaven Will Be Mine riff...
Let me know who you are, how to reach you (esp. on Plurk and Discord), which games interest you and when you'd be available! It's possible I could run both, or just one, if interest and timing overlap...
Also, let me know what character concepts you have! One or two broad ones are fine.
Finally, ask me any clarifying questions you might need to ask, and I'll do my best to answer them...
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so obviously one of the catgirls, the BastimThe Biggest Booms means Spirit is one stat; if they're an artificer and Mechanists this also suggests Mind. But the thing that pushes people away when you defend against them is a (season 2) Guts-based skill... decisions, decisions!
(Heck, who said they were long range spells? You can have a short-ranged but AOE build just fine! Mage tank baybee!)
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Spirit/Guts could be a good combination for mage-tanky schematics, possibly somewhat influenced by Pascal from Tales of Graces (whose big skills were all player-based AoE).
I also was considering a healer/support type (yes I kinda have a Valor pidgeonhole by now) who was a fangirl of a regional dark lord, with the deeper joke being that it's basically a Weird Fandom Culture, with the dark lord basically putting over-the-top supervillainous affectations on a reformist culture to make it oddly more palatable to the societies around it.
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"Supervillanous veneer over a social justice movement" is the most Orcish thing imaginable given the Orcs in GFAC, for the record, and would seriously weird out the locals which is definitely a good thing. (Later on, ask me about races and power sources and stuff in GFAC!)