X-Crawl! I had a copy of that! I kind of half-forgot half-suppressed it because it was one of the things that were lost in the house fire, but that setting (running on less crappy rules) wold be a great one for a Crawlfic, if only because it messes with expectations for a modern world, or a fantasy world, or an urban fantasy world, all at once. Taking it a level further by giving the character a "Class" that's mostly fluff and the rest kayfabe while running it in a system free of class and level restrictions would just make it all the better. Then when the SI thinks he's got this stuff figured out, Emperor Reagan has a stroke and is replaced by (insert name here) who cracks down on the social progress of the last few generations and hit them with the Venusian/Belter rebellion from the Sol Invictus setting in Mekton Mecha Manual 1. Suddenly all X-Crawlers have been drafted into the Legions to defend the Garden Jewel of the Empire against the Provincials (Venus and the Belt, having already usurped the Martian governor) that most modern gamers' sensibilities will align with much more than the ass that wears the crown - in mecha, which even if they include a "scale personal magic up to mecha size" system the character has not been built to pilot at all.
Sheperd: At that point, you're dodging the issue of genre mismatch completely, and just smacking down all opposition with your order-of-magnitude greater power level. Which is also great fun if there's enough of a hatedom to appreciate it, but isn't what I took the intent of the suggestion to be about.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Sheperd: At that point, you're dodging the issue of genre mismatch completely, and just smacking down all opposition with your order-of-magnitude greater power level. Which is also great fun if there's enough of a hatedom to appreciate it, but isn't what I took the intent of the suggestion to be about.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows