[quote=@DeadBeatWalking] A bit of both. Everything is technically still conceptual, but I'll try to divide what's realistic and exaggerated for now. [b][u]REALISTIC[/u][/b] • Characters can and will die. As a result, I recommend you play two characters; One you're trying to keep alive, and one that might turn out to serve as plot-fodder and die because they're too [s]gold, ponyboy[/s] pure or something like that. • Drugs and alcohol are totally a thing. If you want to play a drunk or junkie, be my guest. • The psyches of characters and their developing relationships will be an important feature! • The RP will be Dark and Gritty®, but not realistically dark. Even though it's the 80's, nobody's getting shot or dying of AIDS, somehow. [b][u]EXAGGERATED[/u][/b] • Characters wear bright colors and silly masks that would, in the real world, impede their vision and get stuffy pretty quick. Epic choreographed street brawls, unusual improvised weapons, etc. • [b]Tasteful Ultraviolence.[/b] In other words, anything can happen as long as it's interesting to read, so don't just go ripping insides out of store clerks to prove you're the toughest guy. The really scary characters will be the ones that don't go chainsawing every Tom, Dick, and Harry • No Guns. Sounds weird, but guns are just somehow [i]cheating[/i], so if there's a gun, it's a big deal. You know those scenes in movies where a hunter shoots a deer or something and the whole forest goes silent and all the chipmunks perk their ears in terror? Like that, but chipmunk masks instead. [/quote] Man, you're one of the few GM's that have actually cracked me up before. Love this so far, character is very nearly finished, I'll PM him to you. I'll start work on another tomorrow (so much shit to do!).