So, I've got a few game ideas. I thought I'd float the one that interests me the most first. If it's not popular enough, I might go to something else, but here's the pitch:
The game will be set a few years after the film The Secret of NIMH. I'll draw inspiration from the NIMH novels, but the main "canon" will be the Don Bluth animated film from the 1980s. The PCs will all be rats or mice who were subjected to US government experiments to raise their intelligence to human levels, or they will play their descendants, who have inherited this enhanced intelligence. I'm not sure yet whether the PCs will be part of the Thorn Valley community from the film or another community who were uplifted using the same techniques, possibly somewhere else in the US.
The game system will be Genesys, which is the engine of FFG's Star Wars for those who don't know. The movie features some "magic," so I'll need to figure out how to handle that, but most characters will not have access to supernatural powers. PCs will have a Duty to Thorn Valley (or their own community if we decide to go with a different group of rats and mice). Combat will be featured, but will not be a primary focus, since fighting anything larger than rat size is likely to be fatal. A lot of the adventures will involve protecting the colony from threats, whether natural (like birds of prey), human-made (like humans building a new dam that will flood the colony), or rat-made (like a rival colony of rats).
I love this movie and would love to explore the themes of rats and mice trying to create a civilization after being granted advanced intelligence through questionable science experiments. But I only want to do the work of creating the different species and Talents and so on if at least a couple of folks are interested! What' do y'all think?
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