My current Game Madness has lead to the following idea ...
Setting Name: Rock The Night!
Setting Description: Rock band fight the otherworldly creatures
while traveling the countryside.
Inspiration: Saturday morning cartoons: Scooby Doo and Josie &
Pussycats, Movies: Big Trouble in Little China and Vampire$, TV
shows: Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and RPGs: Kult and
World of Darkness
License to Kick Ass: The band members are agents of secret monster
hunting organization each with unique abilities to help them.
Chi Is: Luck, Fatigue, Wounds
Sample Character Concepts: Gypsy Seer Fiddler, Dhampir Bassist,
Pistol Packing Drummer
Typical Tasks: Fighting zombies, Slaying Vampires, Rockin' the House
Suitable Traits: Musical Abilities: Singer, Guitarist, Keyboardist,
Drummer or Special Abilities: Gunslinger, Swordsman, Martial Artist,
Hacker or Race/Heritage: Dhampir, Gypsy Seer, Sorceror
Suitable Weaknesses: Cold Iron, Arrogant, Bloodthirsty
Mooks: Zombies, Ghouls, Gang members, Cultists, Bikers
Nemeses: Vampire, Werewolf, Cult leader, Ninja, Battle of the Bands
Example Descriptions: the guitar screams out its rage, I flick the
blood off my blade, the bullets rained hell down on them
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The world is similar to now, with the following exceptions. The
cities are bigger, taller and darker and towns are smaller and
further apart and separated more by wilderness. Towns are more
likely to have tech from the 70's or 80's. Internet is less advance
and not as wide spread. Even in the cities it is limited more to
the corporate and rich or the hackers than the average citizens.
National news is also limited. Hoping give it a weird mix of old
world feel but still in the current era.