Come Build Some

So, I am involved in a thing called Wednesday Night Games, run by this bloke

We are at the zenith-death_throes-nadir-apotheosis of a Rolemaster sci-fi game that has been running since Iron Crown Enterprises pressed stylus to clay.

I am a bit of an interloper in this game, only been there a couple of years on and off, but three of the six players are redwood originals and as far as carbon dating of the chairs can tell it's been running a decade..

Next session may in fact be the last of it's kind and the GM has been seeking input for the new campaign. I'm not sure if he wants setting suggestions but I'm giving them anyway. All this is a bit presumptuous of me but hey :p

I've started a few campaigns over the years and I went hunting for "The" method. I found F.A.T.E.
It has a cooperative/inclusive setting generation method. Everyone put's up ideas, GM going 1st. GM still has veto and the way I ran it, basically amends each idea. "Interprets" would be a polite word for it.

http://www.faterpg.com/

All the parts under http://fate-srd.com/fate-core/game-creation are steps in that co-op process. I reckon it might work.

And the system in it's latest incarnation is "pay-what-you-want" for those of you living on the ramen noodle lifestyle

The other thought bubble I had was this setting called "Primeval Thule". I missed the kickstarter but it's PDFable from drive thru rpg. It sounds awesome, like it might tick a few boxes. Cthulhu and horror below the level of paranoia seems popular :). The biggest issue might be that it doesn't have a lot of "science" as far as I can tell. But the premise of starting off when humanity has just invented the wheel sounds pretty cool. Cities are newish and dens of corruption. Civilisation hasn't quite happened yet.

It also has the advantage that nobody will know it more than anyone else. It is described as "having just enough detail" in this review on rpg.net. It does have 4th ed and pathfinder rules baked into the campaign system but that doesn't actually sound particularly relevant.

What say you?