So yeah my latest setting is a world where all the gods are major horse figures in mythology. Sleipner is head god. Nuckalavee (look it up. That only without the guy jutting out of his back) is the devilesque god. Pegaselia (pegasus is the winged horse from Greek mythology but the kind of monster he was, was never told) is the goddess of the skies. Poseidon (Does have a horse form) is the god of the sea and the most vicious of the main gods due to his constant battle with Nuckalavee who was cast to the bottom of the ocean.
And by extension of the gods being horses this universe is populated by mythological horse species. Hippocamps, Unicorns, Pegasi, Kirin the works.
Now I know what were all thinking. But the original concept for this actually began with my love of Mouseguard (if you haven't heard of it, think J.R.R. Tolkien meets Beatrix Potter) and thus has the same gritty fantasy feel. I won't lie that certain Lauren Faust cartoon that shall not be named (abbreviated CLFCTSNBN from now on) spurred on my horse interest but not in the way you think. Honestly as a person who was a huge cryptozoology nut as a child I was kind of taken back by the huge lack of horse monster diversity in CLFCTSNBN. Where are the hippocamps, the Kirin, and on and on.
So yeah this is more or less a setting to suffice a cryptid buzz....
Who's interested? If you are interested the system will probably be FATE. If so I will definitely be incorporating Wushu. It will also be a build from the bottom up, start small and go from there sort of thing. I can't really think of an entire world and it's history at this point so I think a bottoms up thing might do.
So! Any takers?
As a huge fan of Redwall when I was younger, I am totally behind fantasy starring anthropomorphic animals.
This actually sounds like a cool premise, and I would be interested in this game.
As long as you avoid the whole "tool use without thumbs thing" ... lol.
What are the plots you're going for?
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As long as you avoid the whole "tool use without thumbs thing" ... lol.
What are the plots you're going for?
I'm kind of superseding the whole thumbs thing through psionic like abilities inherent in all the main races. More latent in unicorns I suppose.
As for plots.... Eh. I'm kind of wanting to start out small and build up from there sort of approach. Theres sort of a back history but I don't want to bog myself down with details right now.
Okay, so all of the horses will be mildly telekinetic, so they can move things around and build?
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Okay, so all of the horses will be mildly telekinetic, so they can move things around and build?
Yeah pretty much. It's the only thing I can think of. Unicorns however have a vastly higher magical/psionic ability than the other species.