Deadpan29 Wrote:Worm, a doorstopper of a story that does to superheros what Evangellion did to giant robots.Wow, that actually makes it so much clearer why I get Nope-y feeings whenever I think "Some of this fanfic has been pretty awesome, I should check out the original!"
I did that with Evangelion, bought the boxed DVD set, and discovered that I hated the original so much I ritually microwaved the discs one after the next. Still don't regret it, even with a list as long as my arm of other stuff I could have spent that $120 on.
Worm fics, well, I've been checking out the crossover elements, because anything that turns that kind of grimderp awesome is worth a closer look.
Poking around looking at new RPGs (the ones available as free PDFs, anyway, like OpenD6, Dungeons the Dragoning 40,000 7th Edition, Thrash, Eclipse Phase, and (via mechanical translator from Brazilian Portugese, which is occasionally funny but more often baffling) 3D&T Alpha) was what moved me to knock out my own pastiche of a relatively lightweight game core as seen in the YAPPY thread (I should be ashamed... I've fallen to the Dicepool side of the Force...) though several variations on Dungeon Crawl story/system/character ideas have bubbled through my mind as well.
To get back to LilFluff's actual point, as long as you can mesh the mechanics well enough to get the story told, genre mismatch sounds like a fine idea to me.
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