½+ (Half-Plus)
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lesyayLooking for a tabletop featuring people that change gender, turn into animals, suffer from madcap magical items gone bad, and engage in all sorts of zany martial arts battles? Then look no further!
Based on Ranma ½, played in FATE Accelerated, I bring you Half-Plus (½+).
The basic premise: in modern Japan, teenage martial artists begin to explore the meaning of their own lives as they face curses, magic, martial arts rivals, sudden engagements, and more. Wuxia and martial arts tropes abound, magic makes its presence more and more known, and several people can turn into animals or change gender often against their will.
The inter-character drama is just as important, if not more important, than the martial arts fights. EXPECT DAYTIME SOAP OPERA LEVELS OF INTERCONNECTED LUNACY.
It's also going to be generally encouraged to explore character identities, whether its gender or sexuality or just what it means to be yourself.
This is an interest check and brainstorming plurk. We're still looking at a year out, or thereabouts.
Q&A TIME
Q: FATE Accelerated? I thought you were looking at a bunch of other systems!
A: I did, and I couldn't find anything to make battles as snappy as I'd like, or could handle out-of-battle scenes very well at all. That said, using FATE Accelerated isn't set in stone, if you have a suggestion for a better system let me know.
Q: I don't know anything about Ranma!?
A: That's not really a question! But that's fine. Just know that it can bounce between emotional and comedic, but often swings more comedic than not. And while the original touches on real issues surrounding gender or similar, the fandom tends to go a lot deeper into that sort of thing, and I do want to bring that to the tabletop scene.
Q: I don't know anything about FATE Accelerated!
A: Not even a question mark this time...? Well, it's fine. I (and likely some fellow players) can help you through it. And an advantage of FATE Accelerated is that it's a pretty simple system, too.
Q: Should I comment to this post with something to show my interest?
A: Heck yeah dude/dudette/nondude! I got a form and everything!
1. What name/alias do you go by?
2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.)
3. Character concept?
4. Anything you want to see in game?
5. Projected availability for Spring/Summer 2022?
6. Link your favorite nostalgic anime op/ed!
Based on Ranma ½, played in FATE Accelerated, I bring you Half-Plus (½+).
The basic premise: in modern Japan, teenage martial artists begin to explore the meaning of their own lives as they face curses, magic, martial arts rivals, sudden engagements, and more. Wuxia and martial arts tropes abound, magic makes its presence more and more known, and several people can turn into animals or change gender often against their will.
The inter-character drama is just as important, if not more important, than the martial arts fights. EXPECT DAYTIME SOAP OPERA LEVELS OF INTERCONNECTED LUNACY.
It's also going to be generally encouraged to explore character identities, whether its gender or sexuality or just what it means to be yourself.
This is an interest check and brainstorming plurk. We're still looking at a year out, or thereabouts.
Q&A TIME
Q: FATE Accelerated? I thought you were looking at a bunch of other systems!
A: I did, and I couldn't find anything to make battles as snappy as I'd like, or could handle out-of-battle scenes very well at all. That said, using FATE Accelerated isn't set in stone, if you have a suggestion for a better system let me know.
Q: I don't know anything about Ranma!?
A: That's not really a question! But that's fine. Just know that it can bounce between emotional and comedic, but often swings more comedic than not. And while the original touches on real issues surrounding gender or similar, the fandom tends to go a lot deeper into that sort of thing, and I do want to bring that to the tabletop scene.
Q: I don't know anything about FATE Accelerated!
A: Not even a question mark this time...? Well, it's fine. I (and likely some fellow players) can help you through it. And an advantage of FATE Accelerated is that it's a pretty simple system, too.
Q: Should I comment to this post with something to show my interest?
A: Heck yeah dude/dudette/nondude! I got a form and everything!
1. What name/alias do you go by?
2. What's your plurk username? (Or other social media contact.)
3. Character concept?
4. Anything you want to see in game?
5. Projected availability for Spring/Summer 2022?
6. Link your favorite nostalgic anime op/ed!
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Date: 2020-11-25 08:35 pm (UTC)2. What's your plurk username?
3. Character concept? Okay but I kind of want to do something with a newbie martial artist girl(?) who's half-alien. Like her alien mom fell in love with an earth man or woman and settled on earth. Maybe alien mom's a shapechanger? And my girl has shapechanging too, but it doesn't always come so naturally, so she's trying to learn tai chi so she can get more in touch with her body, because sometimes she'll get stuck in an assumed form in the worst, most awkward way. (And I say 'girl' and 'she' because that's what she was assigned as at birth, but I suspect she's actually genderfluid.)
4. Anything you want to see in game? TINY OLD PEOPLE. Why is everyone over the age of eighty so tiny? No one knows.
5. Link your favorite nostalgic anime op/ed! I cannot choose
I must have these both
2022 Availability!
Date: 2021-09-12 08:14 pm (UTC)Mondays: After 4:30 PST
Tuesdays: After 4:30 PST probably? *
Wednesday: No good while Soleil is still going on, post-Soleil after 4:30 PST
Thursdays: After 4:30 PST
Fridays: After 4:30 PST
Saturdays: Completely free
Basically my Sundays are busy with other games and I need to keep the daytime during the week free for substitute teaching, but otherwise some fairly consistent free times.
*I'm doing some playtesting with a friend in October on Tuesdays, but I think that'll be done by 2022