Once in a Fallout roleplay very early in my RP career, I ended having a blue anthropomorphic fox man try and cut up the corpse of my character for his dinner later. This mere seconds after my character had been killed right in front of the fox man.
I almost quit roleplaying because of that.
I swear to god I've seen this story in another thread on here ages ago. Did you used to have a different account on here, or am I going crazy?
Edit: Just re-read it and there is a furby holy fuck.
So this is a story from very early in my roleplay career, back when I was on a crappy fallout fan site (which shall remain unnamed). Anyway, obviously most of the roleplays were Fallout or Bethesda related, and usually had the same four or five people, myself included since it was a fairly small...
I can already see it now.
"Why are you hanging on the roof, Mikhail?"
"Well you see, it's a rather long and horrifying tale, filled with blood and-"
"You saw a cockroach and now you can't get down?"
"... Maybe."
So, about three years ago, I was in a very polotics heavy RP, in which I had a vampire character who was widely considered by the group "Sexy AF" due to the face claim. This is important for the rest of the story.
Anyway, so we're plotting around each other, when one of the guys I'm texting...
Joined a small group on a forum dedicated to a specific video game series, but it ended up being myself, an admitted psychopath who believed cannibalism was alright since he was a furry, and a god modding prick. The cannibalism bit kinda ended it for me.
Outside of that, I joined a really nice...
I will always recommend Artstation. It's like a cross between LinkedIn and DeviantArt. It acts as an official portfolio for artists, so yoi'll find a lot of concept art for movies and games, paintings for various TCGs like MtG and Hex, and really good art by some up and coming artists, all...
Push is great. Underrated film. Pretty sure the powers were based on telepathy and telekinesis. Would love to do something in that setting. Eagle Eye would be pretty good for either a 1×1 or a small group of maybe four people. Kinetica sounds freaking cool.
You're right, but it's still fun to examine them and see how much they have in common.
Compared to previous "travel to another world" fiction (which was pretty much exclusively satire), the Narnia is at least mostly serious about it's depiction of another world with different rules, as seen...
Some other things I thought of (a few of which having been mentioned already), are Narnia, His Dark Materials, just about anything by Michael Crichton or H. Beam Piper, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Narnia is just a fucking classic, and once you ignore the last... six(?) pages of...
The Thundarr the Barbarian TV show and the video game Endless Legend.
Thundarr is campy as fuck, but the basic idea of a post-apocalyptic fantasy setting with some of the ridiculous events happening in super iconic locations is great. Good example was the episode when a group of hiumans were...
Okay, but how? How should they be more original? Do you want to see a version of vampires not often portrayed in media? There are plenty of versions. For example, there is the Malaysian Penanggalan, which is a flying woman's head with trailing entrails.
Or... what? I mean, if you don't know...
To me, vampires resonate with the ideals of the tragic hero or villain, and the symbolism of being such a creature enhances and helps represent the ideas behind vengeance and/or revenge by making the character both figuratively and literally bloodthirsty, while allowing one to explore the...
Personally, I recommend ArtStation. It's Deviantart, but for professional grade art. Lot of people who work on video games or do art for MtG post their art there. Probably one of the best sites I've been able to find.
I think adding your own spin to a setting is fine as long as it's advertised as such. Personally, the real problem is less they're going and adding cyberpunk to Middle Earth, and more that they don't SAY it's Middle Earth with cyberpunk until you start the rp. Another thing is if they go and...