Anyone familiar with malifaux or through the breach RPG?

I think the Genesys System suits it very well.

not to happy with their RPG system and the card mechanic etc.

This is not helpful at all... but my only exposure to the game is the miniatures. My wife loves to buy and paint the miniatures, but has never played the minis game. She just really enjoys the aesthetic.

How dissimilar is the tone of the game from CoC?

1 hour ago, kaosoe said:

How dissimilar is the tone of the game from CoC?

Very.

The genre of Malifaux is weird west/steampunk-y with focus on neutral/neutral evil factions vying for control over resources.

The tone is weird horror, but where CoC is cosmic/existential horror tone. Malifaux is far more 'down to Earth' as it were. In CoC humanity are playthings, or insects in the grand cosmic scheme. In Malifaux humanity is one of the larger threats the setting face, in fact some would argue that the various human factions are the antagonists of the setting. There are body horror tones, and things that bump in the night in Malifaux, but the things that go bump in the night take a vested interest in humanity, and humanity does the same to those things that bump in the night. The things that bump in the night are not unknowable cosmic entities; they're often definable creatures which are analogues to animals in the Malifaux dimension.

A very brief Malifaux backstory: Humanity found a way to portal into a horror dimension where they mined some rocks called soul stones that are used for magic. The human factions set up a city on the other-side of the portal called "Malifaux". Various factions of humans are trying to gain control of the city and thus the mining of the soul stones, while fighting the denizens of the other dimension that look like monsters, demons, goblins, etc. Because power for power sake and all that.

That sounds pretty interesting.

during playtest, I experimented with a weird west setting that might be useful here. Once I get some time to sit down and read the final product, I'll see if I can spruce up my setting bits and post them up here. That might be of some help.

18 minutes ago, kaosoe said:

That sounds pretty interesting.

during playtest, I experimented with a weird west setting that might be useful here. Once I get some time to sit down and read the final product, I'll see if I can spruce up my setting bits and post them up here. That might be of some help.

That would be great as I'm working on my Six-Gun and Sorcery-style campaign world and any help would be ... er... helpful.

I will also be in the process of world building and was thinking of having the setting be steampunk/wild west. Malifaux was the first thing that actually came to mind.

What is it that you are wanting to know about the setting?

16 minutes ago, RedSkull said:

I will also be in the process of world building and was thinking of having the setting be steampunk/wild west. Malifaux was the first thing that actually came to mind.

What is it that you are wanting to know about the setting?

Oh I was just wondering if anyone was thinking about using genesys to convert malifaux content

33 minutes ago, widomknight said:

Oh I was just wondering if anyone was thinking about using genesys to convert malifaux content

I think I will give it a try and about doing some conversion. Just have to go and dig up my Malifaux rule book.

As I create I'll post up the progress here for review and suggestions.

Its worth noting that malefaux uses a deck of cards as a randomizer instead of dice, but reads the numeric value and the suit of the card drawn separately, creating a multi-variate result not dissimilar to the narrative dice. Now, of course, it uses this multiple results differently, but a malefaux conversion might be able to draw on that similarity to capture some theme.

No idea if through the breach does anything similar.

Yes Breach uses card suits for effect variantions, thats why i think Genesys would work so well. Advantages and Triumphs would take the place of card suits for variant effects.

Hello! Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I was curious if any had given any further thought to a Malifaux setting or Through the Breach conversion in Genesys? Thanks!