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Setting My Sights on the Next Parody Line

 Hello. C J here. It’s long been my goal to ensure that older games and gaming ideas survive to the modern day. Through a careful use of parody and renaming everything that moves in my setting’s naming scheme I can keep old games and concepts alive forever. This is goal number one of the Legend Setting, parody things in order to immortalize them. The number two goal is to share magic and spiritual ideas. I’m picky about what goes where and what I deem worth preserving in my source material.

I’m sharing all of this background knowledge about how my job goes because I think it’s time to move onto the next phase of my parody work. Dragon Engine is done for the year and so is Quantum. It’s time to think big and then plan out how to make those thoughts into something tangible. The most well known of my setting parody projects is the game that I made my name on back in my YouTube debut, the Iron Kingdoms.

I’ve learned from this setting the best practices to follow for a steampunk fantasy setting and the original works are so utterly full of detail that I’ve had to allocate two setting regions to the steampunk theme, Eternity and Hunter. Find out more about Eternity and Hunter in the Setting page. My setting region Nebula is based on the dark science fiction tabletop miniature gaming genre and I’ve had to fix that one up about 99 per every 100 ideas I have for it. The original genre was just names of guns and faux Latin nouns.

Through Dragon Engine and Quantum I can take these outdated settings and run them through my setting’s mathematics and systems. No matter how large or small the original work is I can get something Legend Setting themed out of it. If it doesn’t have geography, a workable history, or well named characters I can add those in so long as I have one or two of the three. I can give items new names and crafting recipes in my gems engine.

The furry fandom call this process parody. The one rule I have to follow to do this is that most of the characters need to be anthropomorphic. I also rename everything including the characters and nations but the rule stands. It’s firmly a parody and therefore ethical. Ethics make money. What’s next? Well, I think it’s time to look into the next big game. This one looks like it’ll be around for a long while. I’ll link their website.

https://www.onepagerules.com/

This is a new tabletop gaming company. I’ve been aware of them for a while but not a long while. They have a similar model of parody or reusing generic content to the one I use. They also have free short stories and the core rules of their games are in fact one page each. I might buy all of their setting and faction books when they’re done making them. I might also join their Patreon. These people seem legit. This may be a mutual learning situation. Time to get reading.

Also, I am on YouTube as C J Mcpherson. That is in fact me, the person typing this. There’s one of me. I have contemplated getting a Patreon for my YouTube work but I also want people spending money on my video game instead. I also am known to never check my views on YouTube. Don’t tell me. I do not know my views. I do the job there for enjoyment. Really, I am trained in video editing and I do it when I have feelings I want to share. I got the training for fun as well originally.

Oh, and they’ve got some furry species. These people are savvy.

C J Mcpherson

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