I woke up with the word "shadow boxers" in my head. Only instead of being what a boxer does when training, it turned into a sect of martial-artists who fight demons from beyond space and time.
Darkness Fighter = Shadow Boxer.
Then I had the brilliant (?) idea to mash that together with my "Old Masters" idea (an idea I had for a movie a few months ago). The movie is about a bunch of septegenarian martial artists stuck in retirement communities who band together to save the granddaughter of one of the old masters.
So look for InSpectres: Shadow Boxers in the near future (?). 70-80 year old boxers, tai chi practitioners and swordsmen taking up the call to battle the Forces of Darkness.
I'd play it. But then I've played a crotchety, 70 year old, wandering weaponmaster in Tribe 8.
Young people today, wouldn't know a heroic rescue if it clobbered them over the head.
Matt
Quote from: MattYoung people today, wouldn't know a heroic rescue if it clobbered them over the head.
That's kind of the feel I want. Umm..."Grumpy Old Men" meets "The Matrix" I s'pose. :) One thing I want to add to the system is a "malady descriptor" -- where the character has got some kind of medical condition as a result of advanced age...it only slows him down a little, but it provides some comedic potential.
I dunno. Hmmm.
Instead of "cards," the metagame system will involve some kind of Yin/Yang thing where yer given/penalized dice for doing things that correspond to a Yin/Yang die roll. Or something.
Oh, and lots of cool Chi abilities that eat dice (kinda like InSpectres' "weird agent" rules).
Sounds cool. Reminds me of my very old noodle street vendor kung-fu master Feng Shui character.
Har-ryu-ken!