Gimmicks for Games

[thedarkfiddler]

So, I tried making this thread on /tg/, and it didn't really take off. Perhaps with a more focused community it will do better, however. This thread is a place for people to dump, discuss, spitball, and come up with ideas for games using the system, the stuff that separates the adventure your players will have or the world it will take place in from the adventure and world of the shows and games. Stuff like Digivolution (Control Spires, Spirit Evolution), Digivices (DigiModification, D-Terminals), and campaign concepts.

Here's two ideas I had, that I think could work together really well:

Digivice: The Digivices the players receives are heavily modified smartphones. Similar to Digi-Modification, they can gain powers from Digimon they befriend and areas they visit; the players can give them to their partner Digimon for a small boost in power, or use them themselves to enter the fray alongside their Digimon. Giving your partner a Fist of the Beast King might give him an extra two dice for attacks, but using it on yourself might give you a six-die attack. Using the boost from the Death Volcano might give you or your Digimon a great resistance to fire-based attacks. How you gain the powers can vary a bit too; perhaps you get apps you can use (limited by the memory of your Digivice), or perhaps you gain them from Digimon you're friends with a some sort of Digital Social Network.

Campaign: Sort of a digital The World Ends With You; the players aren't Digidestined, and the Digital World, for once, doesn't seem to be in grave peril. You're there for a second chance at life; you died, you see. How do you earn it? Team up with a partner Digimon and travel around the world, and be seen as a hero by the people who live there. If you can be known as a hero, you'll be given back to the real world, to continue living the life you had. Of course, you're not the only one given this chance, and not everybody wants to leave this strange, world full of adventure.

[Digimon Emperor]

This is one I've been saving for a while. Digimon has always had a little Lovecraft in it (More so in some features than others):

Campaign: Today is a field trip as part of your middle school biology lab at Derleth Middle School in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The bus driver is listening idly to radio, in which it seems that another anthropology teacher mysteriously died up at Miskatonic University, the college around which the town is built around. The bus continues to roll towards Innsmouth, you head through a tunnel when everyone's phones start to emit this high pitched whining. The bus goes through the tunnel, though the DigiDestined find themselves standing in the middle of a strange old growth forest, rather than the bus, holding strange looking things instead of phones. Once they meet their Digimon allies, they soon encounter the Dark World and its terrible secrets.

Digivice: The D-Fate is a strange looking thing, circular and looks sort of like an eye, only the screen makes up the horizontal, box-shaped pupil. As long as you have it, you and your Digimon can ward off the subtle corruption of the Dark World and can take you back home to Arkham at random intervals.

Uses the Sanity special rules, as well as Life Goes On Without Them.

Life Goes On Without Them - If someone were to die in the Digital World or even the Dark World, their friends and parents back in the real world forget about them, as if they never existed. "Andrew, who?" they'll ask. "I'm sorry, but we've never had a child," they'll respond. The D-Fate will choose someone new to drag into the madness.