In a vaguely dystopian far-future sci-fi setting, a boarding school for the children of the elites with paramilitary after school activities.



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Quote from: Brand55;1048517. . . . I've been running East Texas University . . . .

This was going to be my suggestion. Regular university + supernatural shenanigans.

Gotta admit, the assassin's school that competes with rival schools is kind of neat, too. Honestly, I'd make it a general rogue school since I don't care for playing evil characters, but the setup could still be really similar.

Quote from: Pat;1048435...or space cadet school could lend itself to all kinds of mischief.

Makes me think of Ender's Game. That could be cool - but it would be blatant railroading by the school.

One of the starting points of my Lords of Olympus campaign appeared to be like a 'wizard school' but was really a training academy for the children of gods.

Fighter School
Thief School
Monk School
Adventurer School

Quote from: RPGPundit;1048430So, if you were to set an RPG campaign in a school, and it couldn't be a 'wizard school', what type of school would it be?

I'm betting the second most popular choice would be 'school for superheroes/mutants' in the X-men style. But does anyone have any other creative ideas?

I'd enjoy running a Tom Brown's Schooldays type game as a prelude to a long-term campaign (mostly to introduce Fraser's version of Flashman to use later.)  No magic, no powers, just upper-class schoolboy awfulness.

In my Setting Hachi:Blue, the city state of Mirai is run by an artificial intelligence named Maitreya, who also poses as a school teacher oh so cleverly named Treya Mai. Using time travel technology, she has improved herself over timelines and eventually found a way to enhance people by activating the genes that allow for psychic abilities. Her timeframe for manipulation is less than 20 years, which means most of the espers she has created are in their teens or younger. These agents are immune to the symbiotic effects of non baryonic Dark Matter aliens who live in a world overlapping the game world, and who can only interact with it through the use of a host. The aliens are dismissive of the threat of human created technology because hubris. She uses some of those agents, students at Nikola Tesla Secondary, to hunt down and destroy as many of those aliens as possible. The aliens are analogous with "Gods" and "Angels" and two factions are in a proxy war with one another. Those two are recognized in mythology as Enki and Enlil. I originally ran the campaign with my hack of Cortex Plus heroic but lately I've seriously considered putting it together using Cepheus Engine, or possibly my own potential dream system which uses the Cortex Plus add two dice pool system, only using d6s, a good amount of Cepheus Engine, and Success/Failure tables based on the recursive Menzter Monster Reaction table. Now if work will stop giving me overtime I could attempt to start writing it.

Some kind of Kung-Fu School could be interesting.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1049113Some kind of Kung-Fu School could be interesting.

It is interesting, but I've done that so much I think my group needs a break:D!

If my daughter asked, I would in a heartbeat run a My Hero Academia "school based" RPG.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;1049125If my daughter asked, I would in a heartbeat run a My Hero Academia "school based" RPG.

I don't read the mangas like the kids do, but that's a superhero school, right?

Quote from: RPGPundit;1049448I don't read the mangas like the kids do, but that's a superhero school, right?

Yes. But it's in a world where 80-90% of the population has superpowers of some sort, so it does end up being something other than a manga/anime version of X-Men, despite obviously being inspired by it.  Plus - quite a few 'heroes' are in it for the glory & the pay-check (which goes higher with more popularity).

Ah I see East Texas University for Savage Worlds was already mentioned.

Basically college Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Quote from: Charon's Little Helper;1049453Yes. But it's in a world where 80-90% of the population has superpowers of some sort, so it does end up being something other than a manga/anime version of X-Men, despite obviously being inspired by it.  Plus - quite a few 'heroes' are in it for the glory & the pay-check (which goes higher with more popularity).

You'd have to do it right if you ran it, though, with random rolls for Quirks! Roll high and get a nigh-unbeatable combo of elemental abilities, roll low and your head is a cactus. It's the only way to stay true to the source material.

Quote from: Brand55;1049460You'd have to do it right if you ran it, though, with random rolls for Quirks! Roll high and get a nigh-unbeatable combo of elemental abilities, roll low and your head is a cactus. It's the only way to stay true to the source material.

Not if you start with the default of already being students.

That's like saying it's only true to the source for Warhammer Fantasy if you have a chance of rolling up as someone who died of disease in childhood or is the village idiot.