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What setting/property should D6 go for?

Started by Joey2k, April 14, 2016, 08:17:17 PM

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Tahmoh

#30
April 16, 2016, 01:29:19 PM
Trion owns Defiance alongside syfy and i cant see them being interested in licencing the universe out to a tabletop game that would instantly prove far superior to their trainwreck of a game(the show has been cancelled)....Dark Matter and Killjoys i could see working well though, or heck Farscape should be cheap these days or Babylon 5

Premier

#31
April 16, 2016, 01:42:32 PM
Quote from: 3rik;891922What kind of settings would be fitting for d6 in terms of granularity, range, chance of success, power level and deadliness?


Does it? AFAIK Firefly is a Cortex+ game. And Serenity was Cortex.

Could be. Honestly, I can't tell the difference between the two (three, whatever), which suggests to me they're doing a bad marketing job at communicating their identity to me, the potential customer.
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Krimson

#32
April 16, 2016, 02:35:50 PM
Quote from: Premier;892192Could be. Honestly, I can't tell the difference between the two (three, whatever), which suggests to me they're doing a bad marketing job at communicating their identity to me, the potential customer.

Cortex Plus might be one of my favorite systems and yes you are right. Margaret Weis Publications has totally dropped the ball with support for this system. Apparently there is a Kickstarter impending for the Action and Heroic flavours but I'll believe it when I see it.

Back to the topic. Crimson Skies was mentioned. I would immediately buy it. Another setting that could be nice is Ringworld.
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Ronin

#33
April 16, 2016, 06:39:12 PM
Crimson Skies would be way sweet.:)
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Shawn Driscoll

#34
April 17, 2016, 12:01:32 AM
If the D6 system was good, it wouldn't need a setting to get players to buy it.

Christopher Brady

#35
April 17, 2016, 12:41:25 AM
Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;892280If the D6 system was good, it wouldn't need a setting to get players to buy it.

Man, you are such a bitter man.

So what you're saying is that any system that comes with a setting sux?  D&D, HERO System, GURPS, Savage Worlds, Palladium, Dragon Warrior, Runequest...  All these and more are terrible systems?

Really?  Seriously?  Wow...  Just...  Wow.
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crkrueger

#36
April 17, 2016, 02:57:55 AM
Quote from: Christopher Brady;892285Man, you are such a bitter man.

So what you're saying is that any system that comes with a setting sux?  D&D, HERO System, GURPS, Savage Worlds, Palladium, Dragon Warrior, Runequest...  All these and more are terrible systems?

Really?  Seriously?  Wow...  Just...  Wow.

Since when did HERO, GURPS and Savage Worlds come with a setting?  They're all generic toolkit systems.
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Christopher Brady

#37
April 17, 2016, 04:09:57 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;892294Since when did HERO, GURPS and Savage Worlds come with a setting?  They're all generic toolkit systems.

Champions, Fantasy Trip (I believe the name was) and Deadlands, were all the precursors, or intended settings, for those systems.
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urbwar

#38
April 17, 2016, 05:29:26 AM
Quote from: Technomancer;892069Would it be crazy if they teamed up with SyFy and put out stuff for all the cool SyFy series like Dark Matter, Killjoys, Defiance, The Expanse, even Z Nation?

Since Dark Matter is based on a comic by Dark Horse, and The Expanse is based on a series of novels, I doubt SyFy could license those 2 properties out. Killjoys would be nice, but I wouldn't mind seeing them come up with something on their own.

Maese Mateo

#39
April 17, 2016, 07:56:37 AM
I'd prefer them to create their own settings/games inspired by Z or X peroperty rather than a straight game for Z or X property.
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cranebump

#40
April 17, 2016, 08:22:21 AM
Maybe they could do some of the old amazing engine stuff. Bughunters, Magitech, Kromosome, etc.
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