Gone With the Blastwave - a series of comics about soldiers trapped in the ruins of a former city. If you have some local areas with old abandoned buildings, it’d be a setting.
Wizard of Legend or Ziggurat - games in which you are a mage trying to complete a challenge to prove yourself worthy as a mage. Set up puzzles and challenges in some out of the way areas, maybe an NPC proctor to guide them through the tests, etc.
Receiver - A setting where you are a survivor of the Mindkill, an event that destroyed reality and left only those who trained themselves to be ‘Receivers,’ capable of retaining their identity in the face of obliteration enough to be reborn again and again to face the robots with guns sent to eliminate them, collect tapes that remind them of who they are and their training as Receivers.
Korgoth of Barbaria - Conan the barbarian but as a comedy
Stalker/Roadside Picnic - Books by the Strugatsky brothers. An event has created areas where the rules that govern reality no longer can be trusted. The stranger you meet might be your oldest friend, your father from before you were born, or yourself in a different hat. The path that runs East then turns left 30 degrees and now leads you Northwest.
Not exactly niche but there’s also ‘True Detective’ Something about a Lovecraftian detective LARP sounds cool if you could have some fun with it.
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Gone With the Blastwave - a series of comics about soldiers trapped in the ruins of a former city. If you have some local areas with old abandoned buildings, it’d be a setting.
Wizard of Legend or Ziggurat - games in which you are a mage trying to complete a challenge to prove yourself worthy as a mage. Set up puzzles and challenges in some out of the way areas, maybe an NPC proctor to guide them through the tests, etc.
Receiver - A setting where you are a survivor of the Mindkill, an event that destroyed reality and left only those who trained themselves to be ‘Receivers,’ capable of retaining their identity in the face of obliteration enough to be reborn again and again to face the robots with guns sent to eliminate them, collect tapes that remind them of who they are and their training as Receivers.
Korgoth of Barbaria - Conan the barbarian but as a comedy
Stalker/Roadside Picnic - Books by the Strugatsky brothers. An event has created areas where the rules that govern reality no longer can be trusted. The stranger you meet might be your oldest friend, your father from before you were born, or yourself in a different hat. The path that runs East then turns left 30 degrees and now leads you Northwest.
Not exactly niche but there’s also ‘True Detective’ Something about a Lovecraftian detective LARP sounds cool if you could have some fun with it.