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In the 1930s, paranormal investigators are recruited to a clandestine government agency devoted to acquiring supernatural and eldritch artifacts in a world-spanning arms race between Nazi Germany, the USSR, and the USA.
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World travelling mercenaries inflict violence and harm, and overthrow multiple governments to stop a 19 y/o from sacrificing the world to revive his dead girlfriend directed by David Cronenberg.
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Jul 8, 2021 07:08
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Books on City Bylaws are basically the Necronomicon in terms of the human lives they destroy on a daily basis
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Jul 8, 2021 07:15
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From their floating islands the Guild control the Outlands with superior magitech, while down here gangs, warlords and cults fight over their leavings.
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Jul 8, 2021 08:07
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Robot Rebellion spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first battle against the oppressive Human Hegemony.
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Jul 8, 2021 08:57
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:Books on City Bylaws are basically the Necronomicon in terms of the human lives they destroy on a daily basis Intriguing!... Tell me more.
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Jul 8, 2021 16:21
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Freelance workers act as IT for the Multiverse Source Code
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Jul 9, 2021 00:04
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I run the cool versions of the Forgotten Realms that aren't in 5e.
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Jul 9, 2021 00:16
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We are trying to sail home, but (much like the fellow in the poem) have instead sailed into some extremely strange waters.
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Jul 9, 2021 00:23
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DrSunshine posted:Intriguing!... Tell me more. In my setting Cities are basically dark hellish nexuses, each governed by a powerful entity known as The City Fathers(think Prince in vampire, its not gendered) that feed off the general ennui, frustration from bureaucrats, irritation at your neighbors and horror that comes from living in a city. It comes to them not unlike Garmanbozia from Twin Peaks. Most of the city fathers are quite insane by any standard, but they were humans once. By-Law officers are given rulebooks which people claim is 'like a spellbook' but really they are the key to changing reality within certain limits. - think a HOA leader with the teeniest tiniest penis and near dictatorial power over their cul-de-sac. These cities are massive for the 'normal' tech level, which is a myriad of generic medieval civilizations dotted around the world map, each awed and wondering about the massive walled megacities nobody goes into or leaves. This started as a satire of lolbert hyperbole about oppressive bylaws and I had players getting thrown into stocks for not having adventuring licenses etc and its turned into people being flayed alive for not having their shed painted green like it says in the bylaws I just changed. All laws are enforced by obsidian orbs replacing your eyes monsters that turn into cropws when not needed. Just a seemingly endless sprawl of cobblestones, houses, shops, neighborhoods. bodies stacked in every corner. the city burns from riots one night and everyone just picks up their poo poo morning and goes "at least i dont have to lick a king's boots" and rebuilds. People in Great Cities are so alien to people on thr outside they may as well be from a different galaxy. Then theres the great city thats just a dreamworld. And the one made of trees that only grow from living humans. or the ant hive one. etc etc etc. TheDiceMustRoll fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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Jul 9, 2021 12:58
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The Holy Roman Empire has gone to space, and they don't like it very much.
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Jul 9, 2021 13:20
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TheDiceMustRoll posted:In my setting Cities are basically dark hellish nexuses, each governed by a powerful entity known as The City Fathers(think Prince in vampire, its not gendered) that feed off the general ennui, frustration from bureaucrats, irritation at your neighbors and horror that comes from living in a city. It comes to them not unlike Garmanbozia from Twin Peaks. Most of the city fathers are quite insane by any standard, but they were humans once. By-Law officers are given rulebooks which people claim is 'like a spellbook' but really they are the key to changing reality within certain limits. - think a HOA leader with the teeniest tiniest penis and near dictatorial power over their cul-de-sac. These cities are massive for the 'normal' tech level, which is a myriad of generic medieval civilizations dotted around the world map, each awed and wondering about the massive walled megacities nobody goes into or leaves. This is like Terry Gilliam's Brazil but as fantasy. I love it!
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Jul 9, 2021 14:12
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i have many settings - its 1910s fantasy germany post apocalypse, but gayer than usual - its 1910 everywhere but gayer than usual - its peaceful alt timeline 1940 but gayer than usual - its a noir city of eternal night where private detectives are the only real justice, but gayer than usual - its star trek but gayer than usual - its the future space regency which is post-scarcity because of cute robots, but gayer than usual
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Jul 9, 2021 20:50
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New one I'm about to start. Fighting capitalism in cities in the body of a titanic beast, that is necromancied to always move in twilight to avoid the deadly effects of the inhabitable climate.
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Jul 9, 2021 21:05
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DrSunshine posted:This is like Terry Gilliam's Brazil but as fantasy. I love it! ive never seen brazil and I probably should since that is the seventh person to tell me that.
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Jul 9, 2021 21:08
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In an isolated valley in the Forgotten Realms, there is a mysterious petrified giant, taller than the tallest mountains, whose vast stone corpse has become a thriving forested habitat for magical creatures, and is rumored to bestow riches and glory beyond all measure to adventuring parties that manage to summit the peak.
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Jul 9, 2021 21:25
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The unreliable players from our gaming group have fallen under the sway of Tsathoggua cultists, ultimately led by Gary Gygax, who seek to do away with the old world and replace it with a perfect lazy gamer adventure world
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Jul 10, 2021 01:46
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Late-stage capitalism is hell, be gay and do crimes.
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Jul 10, 2021 01:48
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In a 5E campaign, deep beneath the earth, orcs, githyanki, duergar, etc. discover an aeons-old city where the evil gods that normally rule their natures hold no power, causing them to become ... just folks.
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Jul 11, 2021 20:52
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A pretty straightforward spaghetti western, but with mutants and laser guns and robots so that people might be interested in playing it.
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Jul 12, 2021 15:51
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Everyday the sun will rise until noon, then reverse back into the east in this time trapped world of six hours.
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Jul 12, 2021 16:52
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As the colonies of the Denebula system fall into civil war, a team of petty criminals tries to solve a murder.
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Jul 12, 2021 17:16
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Magically-powered mecha with parts salvaged from a long-lost civilization are transforming the face of war as a Fey aristocracy clash with one another over matters of honor while all of fairykind is simultaneously engaged in a larger conflict with a mysterious and alien invading force.
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Jul 14, 2021 03:38
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Boba Pearl posted:New one I'm about to start. After having session 0 this has changed. It is now "80s Shadowrun in the belly of a dessicated titan."
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Jul 14, 2021 06:32
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How it started: "A group of criminals are sentenced to dredge ancient treasures from the graveyard of the Gods." How it's going: "gently caress Time Wizards, man."
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Jul 14, 2021 17:11
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Many world forms as gods spoke in their divine font of creation, until one god broke the rule and cause chaos to all by using two sentences.
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Jul 14, 2021 20:50
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D&D, but I steal plot points from Dune and Berserk.
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Jul 14, 2021 20:54
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Psychic FBI agent decides to kick down the masquerade with a bunch of weirdos he met in a Maine and ends up so goddamn important he winds up dragging the world kicking and screaming out of a time loop, started by a prior iteration of himself, into a revolutionary new age that shatters the status quo of the world, with all the chaos and upheaval that entails.
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Jul 15, 2021 11:37
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Fantasy Late Medieval Europe with some other cultures to add flavor.
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Jul 19, 2022 09:18
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This might be cheating a little, as these are gently painted sample settings/campaign starters for the game I've been working on for the past year, Downforce. But the thread is as good opportunity as any to workshop my elevator pitches, right? If it's somehow not obvious from the following summaries, the game has a singular focus on cars racing each other.
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Nov 22, 2022 21:22
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a small nation founded by a mercenary band of necromancers tries to construct a fair society on the back of undead automation, the nearby states blockade it while engaging in secret export of corpses to the nation in exchange for immortality treatments for their leaders. its got a few main avenues for adventures: - spooky school times in the necrotechnik institute where people learn the various arts of necromancy - spycraft type stuff bc its partially inspired by cuba during the cold war - blockade runners, importing important supplies or even people from the nearby countries seeking medical treatment from the necromancers. - classic monster hunting, protecting people from naturally occuring non-sentient undead and helping out with research of them
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At the college at the center of the multiverse, whether you're a goth, a prep, or a jock, you've still got to complete your adventuring homework by Monday morning for your lich professor or else!
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