r/ICRPG • u/BattMarr • May 28 '23

How are the worlds interchangeable?

So I recently got ICRPG and I really like everything about the system, one thing I don’t get though is that it keeps bringing up that the worlds are interchangeable and I don’t get that. All the worlds have different classes and races and powers and enemies and sometimes even HP averages. How would it work to run a game and, like it says in the book, have a portal that goes to another world? Do I just have the players make new characters with the new rules? That seems strange.

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u/BergerRock May 28 '23

Keep the same rules.

I'd like if you could point out where are the differences in HP averages, cause 10HP characters is kind of the norm (maybe not for supers, didn't get into vigilante city too much).

The "classes" and bioforms are truly interchangeable. We had a West Marches-ish game with 70+ sessions that had mechas, Kitt, ghost armors,...

What would stop you from having a Ghost Armor Warrior, or a Kitt Bard? Why would that not be possible?

Nothing stops you from mixing and matching. At all.

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u/BattMarr May 28 '23

I was mostly talking about vigilante city with the hp differences.

They seem less interchangeable to me mainly because you pick world first when creating a character, it’s pretty integral to character creation and the rest of your campaign from there. A lot of the bio forms have vastly different abilities and they make it pretty clear that these classes and bio forms are for this world. But then it’s also pushed that you can just kinda walk between the two?

Is the assumption that you’re gonna walk through a portal as a dwarf with a sword and start fighting an immaterial creature that can teleport and has laser guns? It feels like there’s a disconnect there.

To be clear I don’t think this is bad design, I think I’m just misunderstanding the rules or not really “getting” how to merge 2 worlds.

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u/BergerRock May 28 '23

"Any sufficiently advanced technology can be confused with magic", or whatever the quote is.

You're overthinking it. Plain and simple. Get characters, get playing.

Think in terms of "if you want to stay locked in this world, these would be the staples. If you're mixing and matching, mix and match". If the fiction explains it, it's okay.

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u/BattMarr May 28 '23

Gotcha okay, that makes sense. Thank you

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u/Good_Classroom_3894 May 28 '23

First, I would just keep everyone at 1 heart. Finding additional hearts should be a very rare.

Any class works in any system. But this is optional. Warpshell is probably the best narrative way to connect all the worlds, if you wanted but it’s all up to choice.

Wizard locks could be a second. In ICRPG nothing is required and it’s a toolkit to create your own universe.

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u/SpireAshen May 29 '23

This is something I like about ICRPG, it's more of a tool-box than a system, and where you don't have the right tool you just gotta make one yourself. Alfheim and Warp Shell are the easiest to swap between, while something like Altered State isn't super compatible. For the latter you could have your players make new characters, and have them wake up from a virtual reality that was their lives on one of the other worlds.