Mixed Setting Or Pure?

[Quantum]

Here's what I mean.

Do you play a pure game setting or do you mix them?

Here's an example, Palladium has the Robotech RPG. It also has Heroes Unlimited RPG. A long time ago I ran a mixed game in which the PCs were actually mutants who served aboard a cruiser in that universe.

So do you mix settings or keep them pure?

 

[ProtoClone]

Right now I am throwing together a mix game of D&D, Spycraft, and CoC. Trying to go for high fantasy vs. mythos in a modern era.

I don't mind either though. As long as it is good I am game.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

d20:

Midnight setting
Freeport
D20 cthulhu

all in a blender

....Whiiiiirrrrrrrrr

 

[Krensky]

Right now I am throwing together a mix game of D&D, Spycraft, and CoC. Trying to go for high fantasy vs. mythos in a modern era.

I don't mind either though. As long as it is good I am game.

As an aside, SC2.0 will handle that without the other two. Look for the Origin of the Species, Spellbound and Fragile Minds PDFs.

 

[scourger]

I've had better luck with games in more pure settings. For example, I thought a 3.0 Shackled City game with jedi (Star Wars), judges (Dredd) and mutants (Omega World) would be awesome. Great in theory. Not so good in application. So, the genre mixing is something I really don't do anymore. I love the idea of it. It's just not so good at the table.

 

[Rechan]

The only situation I could see this working would be smooshing the various WoD books together. Vampire/Werewolf/Mage/etc in the same party.

 

[Rechan]

On a side tangent.

A friend of mine used to live with some really big GURPS fanatics. They had a HUGE shelf of GURPS books. One day, one says "OK I'm going to run a game. See that shelf? I'm going to grab two random books and smash'm together, and that's our game."

So he walks over, grabs two books, and shows everyone.

The books: Cthulu. Bunnies & Burrows.

 

[jdrakeh]

Well, my Borderlands setting for Holmes Basic D&D (see .sig) has heavy elements of High Fantasy, Old West adventure, and Cosmic Horror (though the latter won't become immediately evident until I get the gazetteer finished).