I don’t even need the Polynesian names I just want a village of robot people who don’t understand the world they live in
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in reply to @Scampir's post:
I have had the conversations on Discord but what I need is to play a bit more OSR and also not be working on my FitD game!
When I first started GMing for my friends it wasn't actually a game with rules, it was just completely verbal, on the schoolyard. Action and response. I remember one of the times we played this verbal D&D we did a Bionicle-themed one. Have you tried writing down the game like this: "Alright pick which Bionicle guy you are. Ok, sick. You're on a mountain..." and go from there.
yeah right now I guess I'm trying to figure out where the game pitch is within the premise. Like ok you're on a mountain but is this a game where we the players are tourists in the world or would we have more fun with some kind of quest?
So my take on this is that i think that pbta and fitd wouldn't really jive with me because pbta is built around immediately having characters interact with the fiction in unique ways and fitd excels when it's in the score framing. Therefore I suggest OSR because there's not really a lot to pretending to be a robot guy? And you could do a sick hexmap on an island.
yeah i've never played with them but i mean, they're gameboards and that invites my play curiousity
I think hexmaps would actually work really well with Bionicle. Fits, thematically.
yeah isn't the bionicle script in hexagons? I think i learned to read that once.
In Metru Nui the script is written with hexes, but on Mata Nui it was written with circles.
also you should look at the "Bionicle: Quest for Makuta" board game which has hexcrawl elements.
in reply to @Scampir's post:
I think pretty much nonstop about how to get more Bionicle into my tabletop roleplaying. I think that the original quest for the masks of power was incredibly inspired. I love the idea that each one tested the Toa and taught things like teamwork or out-of-the-box thinking.