Hyboria+Mushroom Kingdom=IT WON'T GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
Sigh.
Don't ask me why. I know it's ridiculous. I know it's a stupid plan. I know I couldn't get my players to play it, or play it right, or even for me to run it right.
But...
It crept back into my head again. Super Mario Brothers done at 11 through the "epic" lens. A world where humans are a short race. A world where you're sucked into a place that's Wonderland through the eyes of Conan. A place where a warhammer is the common melee weapon. A place where a gorilla, a plumber, and a mushroom-man sorceror is a common party, fighting off ten foot tall lizard men in large bulky armor, or sky gods, or terrible things living in secret caverns deep in the earth. a game where a standard weapon is something that covers you in flame and allows you to shoot napalm from your hands (screw that "spitball"), and that if you're lucky, you can kill ANYTHING for ten seconds.
Like a plane made entirely of wood. Like a bridge crossing the channel. Like an emperor of San Franciso...it would be so beautiful...
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Re: Hyboria+Mushroom Kingdom=IT WON'T GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
It's no stranger than an idea I had for a game. Take all of the worlds from the Mario games (Mushroom Kingdom, Dinosaur Land, Sarasaland, etc.) and link them all through Star Road, Dark Tower style.
It's what I get for reading the Dark Tower books and playing Paper Mario during the same space in time...
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Re: Hyboria+Mushroom Kingdom=IT WON'T GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
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I think I'm in love.
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Would Koopa be Tsattoghua? Or would he and his lot be serpent people and worship Set?
And the mushroom people, how about Lovecraft's Elder Things?
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Re: Hyboria+Mushroom Kingdom=IT WON'T GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
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Originally Posted by Maijin Drew
It's no stranger than an idea I had for a game. Take all of the worlds from the Mario games (Mushroom Kingdom, Dinosaur Land, Sarasaland, etc.) and link them all through Star Road, Dark Tower style.
It's what I get for reading the Dark Tower books and playing Paper Mario during the same space in time...
Full of win.
We need to figure out a system for this, and a way to not force every group of PCs to have an Italian plumber in them. Hey -- I said force, mind you. I just don't want my gaming group to think someone has to be Mario or Luigi.
So, er...I'm thinking Spirit of the Century, maybe?
-B
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Re: Hyboria+Mushroom Kingdom=IT WON'T GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
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Originally Posted by Odie
Full of win.
We need to figure out a system for this, and a way to not force every group of PCs to have an Italian plumber in them. Hey -- I said force, mind you. I just don't want my gaming group to think someone has to be Mario or Luigi.
So, er...I'm thinking Spirit of the Century, maybe?
-B
Never played SotC, and have no idea what the system is.
Finding a system for it is the main obstacle I have for starting the game...
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