This idea’s mulling over my head for a while. I was figuring of making a Mecha RPG set during the French Revolution.

The basic ideas are:
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[*]The story is set one month after the public assassination of King Louis XVI and his wife. The killer of the two is a masked man by the name of Jacques, leader of the Jacobins.[/*]
[*]It’s also set in an alternate universe where France built giant mechas the size of buildings called Navirezes, though they only used them for navel travel.[/*]
[*]The Jacobins hijacked some of them and converted them to war machines used to terrorize all of France and plant the seeds to bring about the Reign of Terror.[/*]
[*]On top of that, clergymen begin to speak of a curse that is about to be born: A curse that Joan of Arc placed on the English when she was burned at the stake. The curse would be that in the future, select few French will develop powers to control the elements known as Revolutionaries and that the first one would be born from the fires she died from.[/*]
[*]The reason they say this? Jacques had been reportedly been setting fires with no more than a simple hand gesture on his own Navirez. [/*]
[*]Sure enough, reports come from all over France that certain people have begun to manipulate certain elements around them. Some have joined Jacobins, believing the English have corrupted France in their hundred year war and others fight to save France from the Reign of Terror. [/*]
[*]With war fast approaching, France’s navy converted what Navirezes they had into their own war machines and have begun to select people to pilot them to fight the Jacobins.[/*]
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Ideas that aren’t set in stone yet:
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[*]If the RPG will just have one faction or two factions like my previous RPGs.[/*]
[*]The tone of the RPG (I’m thinking Awesomeness overpowering Darkness, if that makes sense… As in think more Gurren Lagann and not Evangelion).[/*]
[*]Whether to make the PCs all Revolutionaries or just have it be a rare thing (like, only one Revolutionary for every five normal humans).[/*]
[*]Whether to allow for historical characters like Napoleon to be playable in the RPG or to allow for fictional characters like Charles Darnay to be playable in the RPG. Might not go for it, since for the former, it might have so many nails dug into the horseshoe that history’s pretty much fucked from the word go and the latter because I don’t think I want to make it a crossover.[/*]
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The idea’s a work in progress, hence the interest check.