RPG Mashups!

[prufock]

Inspired by this comic (http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1673#comic) as well as movies such as Cowboys and Aliens, I think it would be interesting to build a list of genres for random RPG mashups. I'm not sure how well it would work in practice, but it would probably stimulate some strange game ideas. I wonder if we could get a list to 100. You would randomly roll d100 twice, and combine the two results into one weird game.

1. Cowboys
2. Stone Age
3. Pirates/Waterworld
4. Victorian
5. Steampunk
6. Cyberpunk
7. Desert
8. Space Opera
9. Medieval (low/no magic or fantasy)
10. The real world, 21st century
11. Reality show
12. High-magic, high-fantasy (base D&D)
13. Speculative sci-fi (what I'll call "high science")
14. Fantastical sci-fi (ie Star Trek)
15. Paranormal
16. Detective story
17. Classic "monster movie"
18. Zombie apocalypse
19. Superheroes
20. Post-apocalyptic
21. Lovecraftian
22. Wizard academy (or any "school" setting)
23. Ninja
24. Samurai
25. Kung-fu
26. Rock band/musical
27. Fairy tales (ie Grimm stories)
28. Erotic
29. Slasher film
30. Thriller/suspense
31. Religious
32. Comedy
33. Romance
34. War
35. Time travel
36. Alien invasion
37. Cartoon/children's (ie Dr. Seuss)
38. Robots!
39. Exploratory/sandbox/pioneer
40. Kaiju (giant monsters attack!)
41. Alternate history/parallel universe
42. Spy/espionage
43. Undersea adventures
44. Sports
45. Meta (RPGs that know they're RPGs)
46. Treasure hunters
47. Political
48. Revenge story
49. Criminal capers
50. Anthropomorphic animals
51. Non-anthropomorphic animals
52. Ghost story
53. Absurd/ridiculous fiction (ie Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland)
54. Absurdist fiction (ie Catch 22)
55. Lucha Libre/Wrestling
56. Survivalist
57. Mecha
58. Courthouse drama
59. Tactical Espionage Action
60. Aviation (planes)
61. Tragedy
62. Two-fisted adventures (think Indiana Jones or Doc Savage)
63. Realism (kicks most of the pairings on the nuts)
64. Virtual reality
65. Swashbuckling
66. Activist
67. Science (fiction or otherwise)
68. Psychological
69. Farce
70. Parody
71. 80's action film
72. Dadaist
73. Documentary
74. Existentialist
75. Anime
76. Deconstruction
77. Era of Classical music (to be paired with 71. "I'll be Bach!")
78. Metal! \,,/
79. Outbreak
80. Prison escape
81. Old-timers/Veterans returning to action
82. Inter-dimensions/Inter-planar
83. Video game characters
84. Disaster story (ie Armageddon, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow)
85. Amnesia story
86. Tournament
87.

Quarter of the Half way there Just 20 14 more to go. I'll update as people add new ideas. I generated one mashup using just the first 20 seeds on a d20, and got Victorian-era zombie apocalypse!

I think we're starting to see some overlap in genres (ie, "musical" can encompass classical music and metal), but we aren't at 100 yet, so they all stay. Such themes would need a sub-table just to cover the different possibilities.

[eggs]

Cool. Just going off some more of the big genre pieces:
26. Survival
27. Spy
28. War
29. Caper
and let's say
30. Lucha Libre
:smalltongue:

[Raimun]

57. Mecha
58. Courthouse drama
59. Tactical Espionage Action
60. Aviation (planes)
61. Tragedy
62. Two-fisted adventures (think Indiana Jones or Doc Savage)
63. Realism (kicks most of the pairings on the nuts)
64. Virtual reality
65. Swashbuckling
66. Activist
67. Science (fiction or otherwise)
68. Psychological
69. Farce
70. Parody
71. 80's action film
72. Dadaist
73. Documentary
74. Existentialist
75. Anime
76. Deconstruction
77. Era of Classical music (to be paired with 71. "I'll be Bach!")

Also:

78. Metal! \,,/

[Andorax]

Funny you should mention that.

Took in the latest Spiderman movie last night, and the one thing I came away from it that I didn't share with my dear wife (who is also a gamer)...


...are my plans for revenge by a deeply hidden cabal of lycanthropes somewhere in the Eldeen Reaches to somehow construct an eldrich machine and transport it to Flamekeep, causing it (once activated) to infect most of the population with lycanthropy.

[prufock]

We're up to 80 here! Are we running out of ideas? Some are sort of overlapping, but I'll leave them for now.