Referring to my coming games in August, I have plans for the occult investigations Divine Blood game, the Masks game and the Just a Game playtest short-series.
As I said in this link: https://plus.google.com/106241934410359097878/posts/JqnxZV8SzPz I was going to get some opinion on the theme for the more comedic/action Divine Blood game here are some options that I’d like to see what people are interested in:
Run my Day at the Fair one-shot and build two follow up scenarios to that. The focus here is a high school fund-raising hair where the students are trying to deal with someone going through some supernatural puberty issues, keep a smarmy reporter from discovering/blowing the existence of the supernatural to the public and also have the best damn booth in the fair. This has a a list of 24 characters that can be used as NPCs or pre-gens. I’ve also run the initial scenario several times. Only about 7 of the NPCs are actual psychics/supernaturals, only five them actually realize it and only three of them are actual non-humans. If someone wanted to run another of the various non-humans available, I can work that up. One benefit of this, other than that it is an established scenario, is that it allows overlapping circles of supernatural communities and mundane communities that normally don’t interact. A down side is it is low-power and combat would be limited to high-school rough-housing mostly. (I can also stretch out the scenario to have the first session being the fair being announced and the last session being the fair itself…the scenario is designed to be adapted that way.)
Bunyip Report – what started at a bit of tongue-in-cheek segment of the Darwin Sentinel, a small Australian newspaper, the general owners were unaware that a number of non-humans were staffed in what they considered to be a silly segment that was somehow popular. When the paper went to the internet, the Bunyip Report became something of a world-wide bit of tongue-in-cheek news for much of the supernaturals in the world. The players would be a small group of amateur civilian reporters (little to no combat ability even if non-human), probably all supernaturals, looking to submit stories to the website. One benefit of this is it’s easier to have a wider range of supernaturals, including those that can’t pass for human. One downside is that Gods and Demons would be excluded as characters that can be played.
Sorcerer Academy – The characters would be teenaged humans and non-humans attending the secret academy of one of the Familiies that is generally on the side of the angels (metaphorically speaking). This would mean they are being trained as warriors or investigators, but they are still teenagers. One upside is that these are supernaturals trained for battle so we’ll have fight scenes. One down side is that Gods and Demons wouldn’t be involved here as with the Bunyip Report. In the game, the sorcerer families are very human-dominated, but having non-human students just adds another level of drama so almost all of the mortal non-humans would be fair game.