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Maybe we can combine ideas. I know almost nothing about WH40K, but I am open to taking your ideas for it and mashing it up with my modern surreal horror setting.

The reason I want to do a modern setting in found footage style is it is one of the only genres where we can have blurry photographs as the art and it looks like it fits. It's much faster to make, I would guess (but I am not against having artists draw something either).

Maybe having the feeling of 40K modules in a modern setting could help with the discordant out-of-context feeling that fits this jam. We reference factions with tons of lore, replace space orks with something like a drugged up gang living in an abandoned gas station, and that could be a very interesting setting.

What do you think?

Also, what sorts of skills do you have? Are there parts you would like to work on? It sounds like writing parts of it might be up your alley?

Eldnyng29 days ago

I’ve actually been interested in incorporating contemporary technology into a project like this, less analog and more digital (DVD instead of VHS, and so on). What if the lorebook was a reprint of an older 40k-inspired game? So the modern setting and photographs are the “restorers” way of filling in the missing pieces, explained away as using an old TTRPG they found as a base for their new game. There’s probably a few ways to blend these two ideas together.

In terms of project skills, I’m an experienced writer. I’ve worked with Decker and Twine, and have practice in HTML/CSS from hand-coding websites.

David South28 days ago

Your ideas seem quite interesting!

I am not sure how well a 40k style sci fantasy setting would work with the design goals of this jam entry. It seems like that could make it hard for the book to feel cohesive.

So I think that's probably not the direction I would like this project to go. But if you have other ideas and would like to still participate in this jam entry, we can try to figure out something that works! Otherwise, I hope you find a group that makes your idea, it sounds cool and I hope to see it as one of the submissions!

Eldnyng28 days ago

That’s totally fine: I’m not married to the 40k idea. But I am still down for writing as I’ve worked on an urban horror/liminal mystery-style story before. What idea specifically do you have about the modern setting? A more cryptids angle or something like the SCP Foundation?

David South28 days ago

Basically anything that could be in one of the found-footage V/H/S series of movies would fit. That means rat monsters, freaky weirdos who live in the sewers, people who had their organs replaced with 90s old tech and are somehow alive, forbidden knowledge written on the walls of an abandoned building, all these would be great.

I want to detail weird locations, events. RPG mechanics that almost make sense. Similar to Godhusk, we could have several different potential endings based on which factions were helped, which items found, choices made by the player characters, etc.

Eldnyng28 days ago

That sounds amazing, I love the V/H/S movies, and found footage is my favourite movie genre/medium. As the jam is for a TTRPG that doesn’t exist, will we just be creating the setting/world, or are you hoping to pepper in context-less obscure mechanics about the game that cannot be played because, well, there is no game?

David South27 days ago

Both the setting and we will also include mechanics referencing a game that doesn't exist. So we might say "Bladehand - stats: Bloodlet 5, Path: Carnivore, Difficulty 12, Aggression Category: N". Here is an invite to the discord: https://discord.gg/7UrWTBB5
I would like to hit the ground running tomorrow!

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