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This is a good list.

I can provide a sort of tropey character list for the genres. Keep in mind, this list is not exhaustive. A mashup of two or more is always fun, too. Also keep in mind this isn't a traditional d20 tracking hit points fighting things trying to survive kind of game. A schoolmarm is just as valid as a Sky Pirate, and will have just as much mechanical impact on the story. Steampunk Character Tropes the Mad Scientist/Inventor, often eccentric and responsible for technological breakthroughs the Gentleman/Lady Adventurer, bored with society and eager to explore the Sky Pirate, a roguish individual who travels the skies

Thanks for being letting me know. Enjoy the other game!

i'd like to pull myself out of the game, i already started a diffrent game with some diffrent people and i don't want to enivtable overwhelm myself by taking on more games then i can handle long term.

We play in whatever world we decide when we start setting up the game. There may or may not be magic. I'd lean away from typical gamified fantasy magic, but really it's up to everyone playing to decide together.

So a Wild Arms type character would work. Minus the magic I suppose, assuming these stories are based on realistic rules. I have a few engineers as well, for some reason. One of the rare times I may have to pick a human if I decided to roleplay, at least as far as I understood this. But yeah, according to what I've seen of some games and movies, I can tell on that side what you're really going for with this.

I might do a degree of that. But it will also at least somewhat depend on who I’m playing with and what they do (especially whether it is a man or woman. I’m open to playing both, but it could be influenced by who I am with and their characters).

By all means, come up with a concept that fits the original short description. Just keep it vague and... concept-y. You could end up connected to a weird organization, or your father could be the big bad guy, or it might work out that another PC fits as your sibling... The best thing to do for this is to embrace the #1 improv rule: "Yes, and..." meaning when someone says, "what if your character is my characters' brother?", instead of saying, "nah," try saying, "Yes, and... our father is the maniac turning people into zombies!" or something like that. "Yes, and..." is super powerful for improv, makes everyone's contributions integral parts of

I'm starting this as a new thread to keep it separate from the interested check. I'm hoping these examples from a game I'm still running on another site will give people an idea of how the game works and what to expect from playing it. Game Setup/Background This game was originally setup as a love triangle between 3 people in the future - a young woman in an arranged marriage, her future husband, and her secret lover. The future husband and lover are best friends. To escape and be together, the lover and woman plan to travel back in time, and the future husband pursues them. Garbage about how time travel works for this game

Also, I started writing up some examples from a game I'm running. It's over here, but it's locked. Any questions or comments, please post them here. I'll answer/explain here, then try to update that thread with the answers so the examples are all together.

To me that's the fun, watching your character concept evolve through Pathways with the other players, watching them become attached to the world, NPCs, other players. Character creation IS worldbuilding and vice versa. It's so integrated you end up making a character that fits specifically into this world and is inextricably tied to it and the other PCs. I can't imagine any of my Cortex Drama characters playing in other games. Magic in this game could be as simple as a Distinction called "Witchcraft" with some definitions of what it means to be a witch, and specific SFX showing how your witchcraft will affect dice mechanics.

Oh god... OH GOD I MISSED ALOT! uh... where the hell do i even start? I opened a spoiler and on my phone it doubled the page size?... *overstimulated noises* For this whats like... the first things i should think about as someone really interested but whos life hit a busy period?

I see. So it's left to be seen still what the setting will actually be. I will be watching for the time being. I still like the idea of a Wild Arms theme (I mean, cow girls with fancy gun skills). I didn't have many but I could probably find something fun with this. But for now, yeah. I will be checking to see what is really decided. A lot of this is pretty new to me and the kind of character I might be allowed to use might differ. :)

Magic is actually pretty common in any sort of "Pulp" genre like Steampunk and westerns just more lowkey. Witches with mysterious works, magical societies, mystic power sources, the obvious inhumans and the like. Could fit in easy but plans and group decisions. I'm so excited for the possibility of this that I'm just de-facto building up my image choices for any sort of character that might fit in.

I haven't seen any shows, but I'm interested in looking at them! If... I can find time... anyway, I'll take note of the names you listed! I've read a few manga though I wouldn't say I've seen enough to be able to start someone else down the same path. What I can do is dump a few names just in case you're curious about what I've liked! Also I didn't realize that all of these featured high schoolers until I sat back and looked at them all... I don't know what's up with that. I guess I look for stuff that's cute, funny, fluffy, and clean with little/no drama, and that somehow led me to them? Anyway none of these are dirty, so that shou

Just so we are clear, you can check my spiritist in my albums. She is a sort of tabletop "class" character with a name so she doesn't have any real details to her except, well, the class she has and what specialty she can use. She is basically like choosing a DND class and making a character out of it. I made a character out of her. THAT IS, as long as it fits the fantasy setting. If the setting is something else, I'll switch. I wasn't exactly thinking about the setting when I made that comment, just a wish to do something with her. I didn't exactly take a look or made myself aware of what setting you're going for. Edit: After reading th

That is one of the more interesting points, I still have to read more on. Keep me from thinking too much about a character ahead of time. Figure out if there is anything that I should consider before that whole process begins, but keep it to the little bit that might be encouraged to pre-decide.

I would caution using pre-existing characters. While we go through Pathways, other players have a bit of leeway over connecting your character to locations, items, NPCs, etc or connecting them to you. So too detailed of an existing character might be problematic, but just general concepts might work, as long as you don't mind adapting it to the world/game we create. Oh, and I have no idea what the max is. I'm going to give it a few more days to make sure anyone interested has a chance, then we'll see what shakes out.

https://www.donbisdorf.com/cortex/players/ListenYokelBreath/ Found this on a basic search but don't know how specific you might need it but it can set up a room and we can see other rolls.

I haven't figure out how to do rolling yet. I'll find a site that will work for Cortex dice, or maybe I'll build my own Or we could do that, which I might opt for because the only price of failure is giving yourself more ability to advance in the future.

I'm able to bow out and spectate if need be or, if @IsabellaRose wants, I can be GM's assistant to keep it to the 8-10 player count.

Based on the 3-5 Isabella originally suggested, I think we are getting around the max for 2 games, but maybe a little more. See what she thinks. Will have to see too if everyone is still committed by the time all the information is given and set up is done, then figure out how to split people up (I have several people I would like to be with, but that is something for Isabella and the group to figure out).

So how many max people can join? I still have that spiritist character I wanted to use somewhere and it seems like the old board game attempt I tried to do didn't go further than just a few posts. As I mentioned in another club I think, I'd still be interested to see how and where this is going for the sake of the experience, I suppose? Plus Spiritist. She's anxiously waiting for a spot.

We use a trust model. Since Miro doesn't offer a die roller that I can see, I suspect @IsabellaRose will have us roll it how we want. Use random.org, a die roller from another site or your phone - hell, get your dice bag out and rattle the bones on the kitchen table. Cortex is fiction forward, it's about creating drama, so the "price of failure" is someone else decides what cool shit happens. But cool shit always happens. Sometimes it's just as much fun to be Tom as Jerry...

João Franco