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[Andres]

I'd really like to run a suggestion/forum game/RTD but seem to be running into a critical lack of interest from the player base lately.  What would people like to see/play here?

Magical Girl XCOM where upgrades are personally crafted from your kills and achievements rather than researched base-wide.

Yes. So much yes.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

I'd really like to run a suggestion/forum game/RTD but seem to be running into a critical lack of interest from the player base lately.  What would people like to see/play here?

Magical Girl XCOM where upgrades are personally crafted from your kills and achievements rather than researched base-wide.

Yes. So much yes.

I would join that.

[Twinwolf]

If it happens, someone link it.

[kilakan]

Well it won't be me cause while I am extremely familiar with the XCom universe I know not what this Magical Girls thing is everyone loves.

[Empiricist]

Well it won't be me cause while I am extremely familiar with the XCom universe I know not what this Magical Girls thing is everyone loves.

Here's a quick summary of sorts.

Though from what I've heard, it regrettably, involves less genocidal collateral damage than that generator implies.

[kilakan]

Thanks, when I'm not at work and thus able to actually download that I'll give it a look through.  If it doesn't prove too daunting my interest is already piqued with the mention of genocidal collateral damage.

[Empiricist]

I'm not entirely sure what the conventions of the genre are, but I'm pretty sure the Bay12 definition is basically just "Magical child soldiers in weird outfits".

I'd really like to run a suggestion/forum game/RTD but seem to be running into a critical lack of interest from the player base lately.  What would people like to see/play here?

Magical Girl XCOM where upgrades are personally crafted from your kills and achievements rather than researched base-wide.

Yes. So much yes.

I would join that.

Likewise. Especially if the end result is everyone looking like Auron in ER. Except you know, with frilly skirts (or I guess, just Auron once Irony finally forces the uniform regulations through).

[Andres]

Ummm....I'm not interested in weird outfits at all. All I expect and want from such a game are a normal form, a magical form, and magic powers. Detailed form descriptions and (mandatory) backstories are things I don't like.

[monk12]

I'd really like to run a suggestion/forum game/RTD but seem to be running into a critical lack of interest from the player base lately.  What would people like to see/play here?

Magical Girl XCOM where upgrades are personally crafted from your kills and achievements rather than researched base-wide.

Yes. So much yes.

I would join that.

Giving "In the Name of the Moon" a whole new twist.

[Ruludos]

I'd really like to run a suggestion/forum game/RTD but seem to be running into a critical lack of interest from the player base lately.  What would people like to see/play here?

Magical Girl XCOM where upgrades are personally crafted from your kills and achievements rather than researched base-wide.

Yes. So much yes.

I would join that.

Giving "In the Name of the Moon" a whole new twist.

I'm PTW just for this.

[piecewise]

I'd really like to run a suggestion/forum game/RTD but seem to be running into a critical lack of interest from the player base lately.  What would people like to see/play here?

Magical Girl XCOM where upgrades are personally crafted from your kills and achievements rather than researched base-wide.

Yes. So much yes.

I had a similar idea to this, but replace Magical girls with Pacific Rim mecha. Because I'm not obsessed with little girls like irony is~. I get my kicks through murder.

Regardless, I think one of the major things you'd have to nail down to do that is the tone, since that would pretty drastically change the feel of the upgrade system and how it works. Because in most of those shows (I'm not super familiar with the genre, despite my magical girl generator) they don't really get any physical reward from beating the bad guys do they? Like, In madoka they got the little thing to stop them from going nuts, and in card captor they captured the things in the cards, but in sailor moon didn't they just do it to foil a villain's plans or protect something? They didn't exactly butcher their enemies monster hunter style and duct tape the claws to their pretty magical wands or anything.

Depending if you wanna go light hearted, Madoka style suffering, or maybe something altogether different, you'd probably have to really change the nature of the upgrades. With light hearted you could do something card captor or even pokemon like, where defeating a bad guy somehow gave you power over them or some aspect of them. Maybe corrupted spirits that you end up purifying? Maybe Megaman style where after defeating them you just mysteriously learn their ability? Maybe they drop something as they are defeated and that item lets you do it?

Grimdark magic girls could probably get away with the literal interpretation of this, straight up monster hunter style. Make new weapons and stuff out of the magical body parts of critters, use them to power rituals for magic spells, or maybe feed them to that evil magical animal you made the contract with in exchange for more power.  Imagine one of the girls dragging the corpse of some witch over to kyubey and him just unhinging his jaw and slowly devouring it whole before coughing out some new upgrade.

There are a lot of interesting things you could do depending on the style of magical girl you wanted to use.

[Empiricist]

They didn't exactly butcher their enemies monster hunter style and duct tape the claws to their pretty magical wands or anything.

And that's what's wrong with the genre! I'd feel pretty damn compelled to actually watch one of them if the characters actually did act like a cross between a slasher villain and Auron, duct taping everything they can grab onto themselves until they become moving mounds of severed limbs and loot

You could probably keep the tone light if the opponents aren't sentient, being things like automatons, reality cancer or some sort of hypothetical entity that acts seemingly intelligently through some sort of blindsight-like mechanism. Or maybe so that it doesn't become a killing frenzy where everyone rushes around like a swarm of magical, poorly-dressed piranhas, it could be based off of studying the opponents instead. And by studying, I mean vivisecting. Just fucking binding them and cutting them open on the field while everyone else gives covering fire.

[AoshimaMichio]

And by studying, I mean vivisecting. Just fucking binding them and cutting them open on the field while everyone else gives covering fire.

To give it a really good twist you need to extract power while target is still alive.

[Empiricist]

And by studying, I mean vivisecting. Just fucking binding them and cutting them open on the field while everyone else gives covering fire.

To give it a really good twist you need to extract power while target is still alive.

But of course! A good vivisection should start off with a healthy subject, and end up with a neatly disassembled subject!

This is going to spawn a game along the lines of Mahou Shoujo Von Nost, isn't it?

[Fniff]

Spoiler: Had an idea for an RTD (click to show/hide)

Okay, so
Premise is, you're a teen in a 60s american desert town called A Native American Greets Visitors (Anagiv for short)
But you have an issue
You seem to have turned into some horrible abomination against god after the moon said something so terrible to you it made you have a nervous breakdown
(we've all been there)
but you shouldn't say anything, because that'll raise a fuss
and no-one will like you anymore
and if no-one likes you, then you won't have a date for prom night
which is in a week oh my god
Try to balance being an ordinary teenager with your unnatural hungers

First thing: characters
When you make a character,
you roll first your Costume
(Your social clique and human identity)
either a nerd, jock, goth, prep, hippie, or truant
and then your Issue
(Mutation that resembles classic critters of the night)
vampire, werewolf, ghost, demon, fairy, alien
Then you pick your house on a map of your neighborhood
and answer (somewhat leading) questions about yourself and your neighbors
hopefully that should define your character

Second thing: tension
Some games have health meters
This has tension
Tension is a spectrum between two extremely shitty fates
Being scrubbed
(having your identity reduced to the stereotype that is your costume)
or being broken
(becoming a walking bag of instincts and lusts)
The middle of the spectrum is 0
You get scrubbed at Tension 4 (Rightmost end)
And you get broken at Tension -4 (Leftmost end)
Tension can raise/lower through certain situations
but mostly it's due to overdosing
You can overdose certain rolls
(invoking either your Costume or your Issue, which themes the result
so if you're a nerd you do something science-y, etc, etc)
This gives them a bonus equal to the tension level + 1
(Tension 0 = +1 bonus, Tension 3 = +4)
But then you roll to see if your Tension is raised/lowered
depending on if you invoked costume or issue
You have to get a result higher then a certain number
Which changes depending on the Tension
If you fail, your Tension is lowered/raised
It's tricky, that tension business

Third thing: what will this be like
I'm hoping for a rather trippy RtD (maybe, if this would work better as a suggestion game/roleplay/motion picture/toilet graffiti let me know) that takes cues from such diverse sources
as the comic Black Hole, the RPG Monsterhearts (also a nice helping of Don't Rest your Head), the film Blue Velvet, and
maybe a little bit of the videogame Harvest
I'm hoping it'll be player-driven
[there is a story but I'll only put emphasis on it if the players like it]
What I'm wondering is if anyone would actually want to play this
So, would you?