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For Reign, are there any real differences between publications? My flgs has a softcover from 2007 (on Schroedinger's Cat if that helps) and I'm wondering if there's any reason not to pick up that edition for a more recent one.
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The softcover supposedly incorporated what little errata there was. Take whatever printing you like and can get, then get tons of fantastic supplements for free.Lemon Curdistan posted:Does WT essentials included all erratas etc., since I've noticed there's a Wild Talents second edition? If so I might just grab essentials + ORE KC. Essentials is based on the 2nd edition. The bigger book actually does have something of a setting (the Godlike history carried forward), and some awesome talk from Kenneth Hite about considerations for making your own supers setting, which is referenced very slightly in Kerberos Club. Nevertheless, your plan is a sound one.
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I played Fiasco with Greg Stolze and some other people last night. I recorded it. Greg's character was beaten up by a knight's templar and fell in love with a cat burglar which he roleplayed like Zapp Brannigan.
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clockworkjoe posted:I played Fiasco with Greg Stolze and some other people last night. I recorded it. WHAT Edit: Details man, provide details. Squidster fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Aug 4, 2011 |
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Aug 4, 2011 18:40
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He's probably going to provide a recording.
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rantmo posted:For Reign, are there any real differences between publications? My flgs has a softcover from 2007 (on Schroedinger's Cat if that helps) and I'm wondering if there's any reason not to pick up that edition for a more recent one. Not to derail this but what FLGS in chicago? Only one I know that's pretty nice is the one all the way out in Mount Propsect (Games Plus).
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Doc Hawkins posted:He's probably going to provide a recording. In 6 months  (Just kidding bro)
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Fenarisk posted:Not to derail this but what FLGS in chicago? Only one I know that's pretty nice is the one all the way out in Mount Propsect (Games Plus). Chicagoland Games: the Dice Dojo in Edgewater. It's a really great shop run by good people.
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Fenarisk posted:In 6 months lol that's fair but since this is the first game of Fiasco I've recorded I'll put it up pretty soon after gencon. Now I go to the Ennies. Wish me luck.
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Good luck. Road trip! woo!
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On a Stolze-related note, has anyone read his Vampire the Masquerade novels? I enjoyed Godwalker, his Unknown Armies transvestite murder jesus book, but I do sort of hate the World of Darkness. Franchise tie-in fiction is generally apocalyptically bad, but I've basically liked everything else he's written so far. Does anyone know if they're worth the money?
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If you're talking about A Hunger Like Fire and A Marriage of Virtue and Viciousness, I recommend them. If you liked his short stories in the NWoD books, the novels are on par with them, if not better. All the characters are interesting, but Solomon Birch stands out as a complete bastard and I absolutely love him as an antagonist. That said, I'd try to avoid the second book, Blood In, Blood Out. By far the weakest of the trilogy, not written by Stolze, and just an utter mess of a book. If you really REALLY want the whole story, try to find a summary somewhere.
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Thanks Pseduo, I'll pick them up! Incidentally, Stolze has just published a new short novel called Switchflipped. It's very much in the spirit of UA, with a brace of avatars fighting over mystical territory in an unnamed city. Despite a rocky start, it quickly careens into the gibbering insanity that marks most of his work. I'd describe it, but Stolze probably sums it up best: Stolze blurb posted:Before you buy it, I suppose you might want to know what it’s about and, while I don’t want to spoil any surprises, I can say it concerns a lost fiancee, the secret rulers of American automobiles, a woman who is also a building, kung fu, suburban necromancy, romantic infidelity and its fallout, and the icy secret truth behind Tarot card reading. SEND MONEY
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I can't think of anything you really need to know from Blood in, Blood out to read the last Vampire the Requiem Stolze book. Most of the characters that are in both act completely differently in Blood in, Blood out anyways. Where most RPG books assume a lot of familiarity with the source books, A Hunger Like Fire works pretty well as a novel in its own right, and I think it's the better of the two. He also wrote a trilogy of Demon: the Fallen novels in the old World of Darkness, but they are more closely tied to the RPG and they get pretty weird after the first one.
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Sionak posted:Where most RPG books assume a lot of familiarity with the source books, A Hunger Like Fire works pretty well as a novel in its own right, and I think it's the better of the two. Yeah, I played Vampire exactly once in like 1996, and have read absolutely none of the other books in the series, but A Hunger Like Fire gave me no trouble at all, and was a pretty entertaining read.
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In anticipation of a game I'm going to be running, one of my players sent me an Avatar path he made, The Sage. Looking at it, I think he just wants to play a Bibliomancer without actually playing a Bibliomancer, but he's pretty excited and I want to try and help him. If anyone could take a look at his setup and tell me whether or not it's out of line, that would be rad. I'm a pretty new GM.quote:Attributes: The Sage is the embodiment of the search for knowledge, the desire to acquire information. The focus is not the use of that data, however, but more being a repository for it, though the Sage is certainly capable of acting on what she knows. At best, the Sage is a powerful force against the darkness of human ignorance; at worst, she jealously hoards his knowledge away, or uses it to hurt others, as in the old stereotype of the mad scientist. At first glance, I'd say it seems a little, I dunno, on the nose? Here's all the criticism I've come up with yet. 1) What sort of information would a Sage ever turn away from? Are you talking like, 'things man was not meant to know?' Because there's honestly not a whole heck of a lot of that in the universe. 2) Would you say this path is different enough from the Bibliophile to merit the distinction? 3) Your second tier of power seem a bit weak. Being able to save yourself a few hours in the library seems a bit... I dunno, lame? 4) Your third tier is pretty justifiable, but 'find what she wants' is very nebulous. Could this skill only be used to find information, or could you also use it to find an object you needed? On the forth tier, I like the concept, but what happens when someone asks you a paradox or some question to which no one has ever known the answer? The first tier also seems overpowered to me, but looking at the other Avatar paths, I guess it's more or less in line, right?
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The sage sounds a little old fashioned to me and that's a good thing because it can mean two things: 1. The archetype is actually a variation of some other path like "The researcher" or "The scientist." He's got a tough future ahead because as he grows in power he'll be threatening the established order. The other possibility is that the Sage is actually ascended right now, that makes him one of the few remaining defenders against an upstart who wants to ascend as "The Scientist." If any of his powers end up being too powerful, feel free to give him a penalty for being outside of the mainstream of consciousness. The only sages I can really think of are the Tech Gurus who write those humongous books about Perl and SQL.
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Hey Dinosaurs... in SPAAACE! is now a kickstarter. I'm a backer, why aren't you? I totally getting a origami velociraptor. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gregstolze/dinosaursin-spaaace
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Super minor, but I just noticed that Godwalker on Amazon retails for $3.33. Beautiful. ^^^ The art in that video is amazing. Yeah... I'm probably going to have to chip in on that.
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Ulta posted:Hey Dinosaurs... in SPAAACE! is now a kickstarter. I'm a backer, why aren't you? I totally getting a origami velociraptor. I just dropped $15 on it, I'm getting a patch!
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I'm getting the book and the origamiraptor. That's gonna be awesome.
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Picked up stratosphere. All I need now is Post Modern Magick and Break Today and I'll be out of UA books to get.
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Do you actually have a physical copy of Jailbreak? If so, I hate you.
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Oh, no. I generally don't get adventure modules for the games I play so I wasn't try to get those.
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I was thinking about Unknown Armies last night and I realized that it's totally reasonable that a Bibliomancer might be illiterate. It's not about the words, it's about the BOOKS!
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It would be a weird person that couldn't read but thought books where the premier power of the universe. Exactly the kind of weird that should be in UA.
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TheTatteredKing posted:It would be a weird person that couldn't read but thought books where the premier power of the universe. Not really - their very inaccessibility is what makes them sacred artefacts of power. So yeah, prime UA material.
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The 1%-50% power is pretty darn good. The ability to secretly draw information out of other people just by touching them? So all you need to do is shake hands with the head of security at a building you're trying to infiltrate and you know how to shut down all the security systems. I'd swap it with the 50-70% power -- that way, you're also staying with the UA trend where the first avatar power you get is generally something that can be written off as not immediately supernatural. I think the taboo as written is a good way to push plot hooks at the player, but it doesn't work as well at alienating the character from the normal world as many other taboos -- take the Masterless Man taboo, where you're never allowed to settle down in one place, or the Savage, where you're not allowed to use modern technology. It's also sort of generic: you can read it as "never turn down the ability to be a better sage" rather than something which restricts his behaviour. Maybe "never leave a mystery unanswered" -- the sage who shrugs his shoulders and walks away from a situation rather than investigating further is weakening his connection to the archetype.
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The "Wizard" was apparently an archetype at some point but had been toppled, probably by "wise old man" or "sage", or maybe the Mystic Hermaphrodite. The powers given for the sage sound more like "librarian." Would Yoda have the power to access any library? To really come up with a good "Sage" try to think about what powers Yoda and a neckbearded Unix guru might have in common. Scraggly, long or white hairstyles are all symbols of the sage. They are often hermits. They are sought out and respected for their knowledge. One thing that Sages must have is rare knowledge. They don't necessarily have to be the best in the world, but they'd better be at least as good as the best in the area. This sets up an idea for a taboo. A sage's powers don't work when they're not at the top of the pyramid in their specialty. There's room for more than one at the top, several sages with comparable knowledge in their fields can channel the sage with no difficulty. The taboo comes in when the sage is obviously outclassed. The sysadmin at your company might be channeling the sage when he knows more about networking than anyone around, but if a specialist is hired on for some optimization, the sysadmin might start having trouble using his powers. I'm thinking a 1-50 power for a sage might be that he can give cryptic or confusing advice to solve a problem in his area of expertise. If you consult the aforementioned sysadmin and he tells you to unplug both ends of your ethernet cable, switch them around and plug them in the other way, it will solve the problem. An old experienced surgeon might recommend an unusual surgery to a doctor who comes asking for advice about a difficult case. The limits to this power is it's a one time thing, you can't solve all networking problems by flipping cables, the weird surgery might not work on the next similar patient. This power is limited to the sages area of expertise.
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The "wise old sage" archetype also never seems to dispense information freely. He is usually sought out by the hero who may or may not have to prove himself to the sage. If the knowledge is given to lightly it is no longer rare.
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He may not even need to know anything at all himself. Think of a reference librarian.
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Or a shaman who consults the spirits. It seems to me that the specific type of knowledge isn't important but rather the flow of knowledge from one person to another.
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TheTatteredKing posted:The "wise old sage" archetype also never seems to dispense information freely. He is usually sought out by the hero who may or may not have to prove himself to the sage.
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Pope Guilty posted:He may not even need to know anything at all himself. Think of a reference librarian. Yes, but a true sage doesn't go fetch the book and hand it to you. He'll lead you through a dark cellar holding a dim candle. He'll find the gigantic tome you're looking for and lay it out on the reading table where he opens it coincidentally to the line of prophecy that is relevant. He'll then clear his throat and read to you. If you go back to that library and retrace your steps with the lights turned on you'll find that you had made an absurdly circuitous path through the tax law reference books, the tome of knowledge was a misfiled Scandinavian-English dictionary. The line of prophecy isn't anywhere in the book and when you think back to the night before you remember that the light was so dim that you couldn't actually make out any of the print on the book.
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I like the idea of an illiterate Bibliomancer - it seems like the right kind of UA weird. A truly impoverished character crawling from the slums of Detroit ( lowest literacy rate in America! ) might associate book-ownership with eccentric wealth. Feral children, immigrant refugees... I'd say they'd make a better NPC than PC, though. One interesting protoexample could be Sequoyah, an illiterate Native American who singlehandedly developed a written language for Cherokee. He didn't speak a word of English, didn't consult with any linguists, but replicated the ancient development of language from pictographs to syllabary in little more than a decade. - Language badass Xand_Man posted:Do you actually have a physical copy of Jailbreak? If so, I hate you. You are cordially invited to JealousyTown, population: you. 
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Squuuuuiiiiiiiidster!!!
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You guys are making me realize that I don't know where my copy of One-Shots is. I really, really hope it didn't get lost when I moved. 
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Tonight is the finale of the UA game that me and some internet friends have been in for the past couple of months. I think I'm gonna have to crosspost it in this thread and in the Best Experiences thread because it literally is the best gaming experience I've ever had. Greg Stolze you are the man.
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Taboo: The Sage can't do anything with the knowledge, not directly. An even rougher taboo would be not knowing the answer to a question you're asked (that's celtic myth poo poo right there). And it should definitely, like Warriors and Pilgrims and Kings, be limited to a domain. Only THE SAGE up in the Strat is the sage of everything, all the avatars are The Sage of Something.
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