What classic tropes would make a great Final Fantasy Campaign?

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Are you prepared to lose around 5 hours of your life?

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>>54595037
>tvtropes
Not even once.

>>54595936
He literally asked for tropes.

>>54594400
The feel of FFI through FFIV can be reproduced by reading Appendix N, and then running 2e.

4 elemental [X]s
Magical plague, possibly amnesia or coma-causing instead of fatal
Magic should be very difficult or rare OR overly common to the point that it's an everyday commodity.

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>>54594400
Acquiring magic power through your possession of certain crystals.

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>>54594400
>Chocobos as beasts of burden and mounts, in addition to or instead of horses
>four crystals, or crystals in multiples of four if there's more than one significant location
>travel to one or more moons
>the enemy organization, likely an empire, having four prominent generals
>an honorable, recurring, partly-jokey foe
>a battle on a big bridge (preferably with said recurring foe)
>airships
>the party gets their own airship
>the airship crashes on at least one occasion
>one or more ancient advanced civilizations

I would suggest some monsters, but they stole all their best monsters from D&D.

>>54594400
Will you have a job system? Side quests?

>>54599564
Thats the plan, starting with the basic ones from 1 and then including some of the more advanced / goofier ones the more crystals they get. Probably will be thin on side content. Campaigns don't go well for me when theres too much to do.

>>54594400
Magipunk

Sentient Crystals

Espers

A fucking airship

SOMEONE named Cid

Fun Cid concepts anyone?

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>>54601620
Best cid.

>>54601807

I'm honestly quite fond of FFXIV's Cid.

>>54594400
Demon Lords, all day every day.

>>54594400
Final Fantasy always follows the same vague structure.

This structure breaks down into parts
>Ragtag gang of adventurers (who may or may not be the warriors of light)
>Crystals that are the key to saving the world. (Often related to summoning)
>Evil Empire (that often uses Magitech)
>Airships exist, there is a man named Cid who is closely associated with them.


From there, it's all about the specifics

>>54599221
>an honorable, recurring, partly-jokey foe
This works on pretty much every kind of campaign

>>54594400
>Final Fantasy Campaign
Final Fantasy isn't one setting.

>>54594400

Some ideas.
>An ancient utopia that was destroyed, forming many different nations/city states and leaving their magitech around.
>A new empire arising from an ambitious ruler, using rediscovered and reverse engineered magitech.
>Magicite is a crystallized form of magic, often used to power said magitech.
>Other nations include a japanese themed land of ninjas and samurai, a dragon worshipping land with dragoons, a magical land called mysidia with wizards.
>Floating islands.