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Making It All Come Together : A Multiverse Discussion

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Making It All Come Together : A Multiverse Discussion

Tips: 0.50 INK Postby Deathscythe Hell on Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:49 pm

As the title says, this thread itself I would like to discuss how fellow GMs tend to build their multiverses or make them work well within their games.

I understand that this opening post is rather bare, but let me pose the first question for discussion:

How do you as a GM set the stage for a Crossover-style RPG?

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Re: Making It All Come Together : A Multiverse Discussion

Tips: 2.00 INK Postby lostamongtrees on Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:11 am

I always decide which world the player-characters are going to start in, and define the baseline for what is considered "normal" there. Before introducing characters from other verses I want to make sure the environment is lore-wise equipped to interact with them based on the overall story. For interactive measurability, I use humans as my control.

A few key questions I ask myself:
  • Is Multiversal travel considered something that happens here, or is it very strange and unheard of? If you popped out of nowhere in town square, does it cause panic? Or is there a spot designated for this sort of thing, like a port or a room?
  • What are the atmospheric conditions of this place, and is there anything special in regards to survivability to take into account. Gravity, air quality, those sorts of things.
  • Language. Is it the same, different, and how are we overcoming barriers? My solution to this is to always have a babelfish esque item easily achievable early in the game. "Lost in Translation" is only fun for so long.
  • Culture - who inhabits this world, what do they eat, what do they believe?
  • World Scale - Did they just pop into an unfamiliar planet, realm, city, etc?
  • Techno-leveling and PHYSICS - this is important. What is the level of tech, how is it powered (mechanical, combustion, magic), what is deemed impossible here based on physics etc, and is everyone on the planet on the same level?
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