Quote from: thedungeondelver;1049985Jedi academy would be a Wizard School though.  And not just a little bit.

More like space ninja school:p.
The degree to which those two are different is still to be determined;).

Quote from: thedungeondelver;1049985Jedi academy would be a Wizard School though.  And not just a little bit.

It would be closer to an order of kung-fu monks than a wizard academy.

So lightning, force choke, force grab, mind control, astral projection, telekinesis, none of that shit counts as magic to you.

I think he means thematically or flavor-ly

No one can reasonably say with a straight face that the force is anything but magic (just like psionics). But Jedi are still jumping around and doing backflips and fighting with swords. Adventures in Jedi school are going to look as much like adventures in faux-Shaolin monk or ninja-school as it is going to look like Hogwarts.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;1050549So lightning, force choke, force grab, mind control, astral projection, telekinesis, none of that shit counts as magic to you.

All of it is stuff you learn at the higher stages of kung-fu training, at least according to wuxia stories, so no, it doesn't need to be wizards:)!

Quote from: thedungeondelver;1050549So lightning, force choke, force grab, mind control, astral projection, telekinesis, none of that shit counts as magic to you.

Well, no not exactly. Not "western"  magic, at least. They work more like Wuxia stuff, Chi-powers.

What about a Monster Hunter academy or school?  Teach the next generation to hunt down and kill things that go bump in the night...

Quote from: Pyromancer on July 11, 2018, 05:01:34 PM
In a vaguely dystopian far-future sci-fi setting, a boarding school for the children of the elites with paramilitary after school activities.



https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151049/Vacation-with-the-Space-Battle-Club

Isn't that essentially the premise of Final Fantasy VIII?

I've always been a fan of "Top Gun" style training schools for various complex vehicles; aircraft, Mechs/power armor, spacecraft, what have you.

Where it works really well is when the normal formations for such things involves a roughly player group sized team (ex. Battletech's Lance/Star, two 2-man fighters, battle armor squad) since that naturally plays to the PCs as one pre-designated squad who is assigned to work together for the duration of the program.

Then, if you're ever having an off-day as GM, you can assign them to an inter-team competition and let them be the opposition to each other.

I still recall fondly the old Robotech Advanced Training Program adventure module that had a whole variety of scenarios to put the players up against... including things like a head-to-head cat-and-mouse through one of Macross' aircraft carriers and a scavenger hunt against other teams.

These days I'm thinking it might even be more fun to run something where the PCs are the instructors having to teach raw recruits... ironically, finally losing to the recruits in the scenarios is the PC's win condition.

A school for rogues would be cool. Different clubs and school organizations could be different kinds of rogues: so there's a ninja club, an acrobat club, etc.