I won't be running this one due to lack of interest.That title is a bit of a mouthful, and I didn't even include the Strange as I don't own it (yet).
I thought it could be interesting to try and run a Numenera, Cypher (Generic/Predation/Gods of the Fall) mash-up. They all use basically (if not entirely) the same system so I could deal with a character created in any of them.
The premise behind it is largely based on Predation, though a player wouldn't need to be familiar with it (the blurb is below). An attempt to reopen a time portal has succeeded, but not in the way that was hoped. There now exist connections to not only other times, but other dimensions. The situation as a result has gone from bad to worse.
Welcome to the Cretaceous. Our ancestors won’t climb down from the trees for another 66 million years, but here we are now. Time travel seemed like a good idea. Exploring the ancient world. Building. Creating an entire society here in the jungles of our primordial Earth. Until those SATI guys messed it all up.
We’ve got gear. We’ve got guns. We’ve even bioengineered a few dinos to our liking. And that’s good, because we’ll need it all to survive. History says there’s an asteroid headed our way, and there’s no one left alive who knows how to get back to the future.
There was a time when gods walked the world. Their magic pervaded the earth and the sky. From their mystical realm of Elanehtar, they brought plenty and pestilence. They judged the living and the dead. Their rule was absolute.
Then Elanehtar fell to earth like a vengeful star, sparking cataclysm and plunging the world into a dark age. The gods are gone, but their works remain—scattered and broken. The world struggles under the yoke of murder, slavery, and corruption. Dark things have squirmed free of their divine prisons, and even the afterlife has become a realm of nightmares.
But a power has awoken against the darkness. A divine spark struck in the hearts of new gods-in-the-making. You have this spark—the seed of godhood within you. Can you restore what was broken before the world vanishes forever into darkness? Can you claim a place for yourself in the heavens?
So would anyone be interested, or would it be too far fetched and poorly thought out?
In terms of game details I am thinking I would make it sandboxy and try to accept most/all characters and somewhat focus it around a single town (with journeys elsewhere for groups of characters). I would not be worrying about balance between characters. I would likely rate it overall as Extreme (the Nightland does not sound like a pleasant place), and I would want players to be comfortable with Non-consensual, though of course I would do my best to tailor things to individual players as much as possible.
