You are a creature that lived, for less than a second, in the screaming, expanding, exploding nothingness of the big bang. You lived in a universe that was less than a meter across and you died. And something weirder than you made a deal, and now you're back and you can shape the slowly cooling and accreting spheres of matter to something that will welcome life and death or will you smother all existence in the cradle. Meanwhile something, some machine, tries to stop you
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Strontosaurus posted:Wolves didn't even exist while Pangaea was around. My hypothesis is that Father Wolf was actually a dino. Please set a Uratha game during the Mesozoic Era. i have used an ancient spirit of tyrannosaurus that spent sixty five million years as increasingly bizarre magath before trying to reconquer its original essence as a monster of the week before
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:i have used an ancient spirit of tyrannosaurus that spent sixty five million years as increasingly bizarre magath before trying to reconquer its original essence as a monster of the week before Tell me more.
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Strontosaurus posted:Tell me more. It was an ancient predator-spirit embodying the tyrant lizard king, it persisted long after the k-t more or less unchanged but gradually took on more and more the essence of pure hunger and predation, and cockroaches, until the 20th century when it found some reconstructed fossils of its old self in the Smithsonian and could start piecing itself back together again from the public imagination version. it ended up possessing the fossils and being materialized by a Mage who wanted an impressive super weapon to use against Those loving Seers in georgetown, before the TF:V pcs hosed it all up and blasted it to bits DOCTOR ZIMBARDO fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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I would play a game of Promethean set in a Borders. It would explain why they shut them all down. It's actually Frankensteins, not a dying distribution model.
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:It was an ancient predator-spirit embodying the tyrant lizard king, it persisted long after the k-t more or less unchanged but gradually took on more and more the essence of pure hunger and predation, and cockroaches, until the 20th century when it found some reconstructed fossils of its old self in the Smithsonian and could start piecing itself back together again from the public imagination version. it ended up possessing the fossils and being materialized by a Mage who wanted an impressive super weapon to use against Those loving Seers in georgetown, before the TF:V pcs hosed it all up and blasted it to bits That's awesome. Why cockroaches?
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They're the ultimate survivors My original plan was, the whole encounter was going to be a lot longer and involve the PCs needing to enlist the help of the ghosts and spirits of the American History museum to stop the shenanigans of this one wacky Thyrsus causing problems in Natural History. Imagine the weary murder-spirits of the guns of the Somme, or whatever horrifying entity lies waiting in Enola Gay over a Air&Space. I canned it when one of the players made a "night at the museum" joke though. DOCTOR ZIMBARDO fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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FYI I'm stealing your cockroach/dinosaur hybrid idea. The only problem is that none of my players would ever be surprised by something like that showing up.
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 23:26 |
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Post how it goes over. Definitely have it possess the skeleton and at least once let it roar at them from the wron side of sixty five million years of death.
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# ? Feb 23, 2015 23:32 |
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It's probably something that will happen in my supers game. They're about to face a master tactician said to be possessed by a primordial war spirit. I don't see why such a thing couldn't be a terrifying bug-o-saur ghost!
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Educator posted:I would play a game of Promethean set in a Borders. It would explain why they shut them all down. It's actually Frankensteins, not a dying distribution model. I read this book.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 00:09 |
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The opening fiction to Dark Eras seems pretty funny in that there's all these different factions trying to take down the bad guy, and then when the mage shows up, the guy is just "Yeah, we handled it, like, millenia ago once. Only took one of us. Our boss says we can't do it again though. But good luck and stuff!"
bewilderment fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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Effectronica posted:I read this book. In the store?
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 01:28 |
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1600s Japan seems utterly played out, but that might be because of watching too much Anime. I could get behind it if it was Tokugawa Era Hunter since that would have tons of potential, but I can't really see the appeal of any other splat in that period. The post-war or pre-war periods of the Japan otoh, seem utterly magical in terms of some of their potential (also because of anime) The golden Age of Piracy is actually around the same time and could also be interesting if it wasn't so focused on the Pirate part of it and maybe more on some of the more important locales like North Africa or the Caribbean. Quite a few more splats would work in this setting though, though Werewolf has their own version in Vikings. Revolutionary America might be interesting as well, but it all depends on the splat tied to it. Wars of Scottish Independence sound relatively bland without more to sell it (also possible amounts of ) and the Mutapa Empire is a complete curveball, but it could be great.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 01:35 |
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I have nothing to add except that I'm really glad I wasn't the only one that felt like Promethean in Home Depot would totally work.
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Xelkelvos posted:Wars of Scottish Independence sound relatively bland without more to sell it (also possible amounts of ) Paging one Mr. DigitalRaven, Mr DigitalRaven to the thread please
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 01:52 |
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Kickstarter posted:Wanted to let everybody know that we'll be adding Reward Tiers tomorrow, Tuesday the 24th, at 3pm EST US that allow backers to pledge for expansions to existing chapters as well as other new Reward Tiers that allow backers to either pick a Dark Era chapter from one of the ones we've already put into polls, or to even suggest a new Dark Era and matching gameline subject to editorial approval. And there goes my money.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 02:04 |
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If you weren't already quite sure that Rich Thomas knows his poo poo, you ought to be now.
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Kellsterik posted:In the store? No. I bought it as an ebook and did a little dance to help ensure the death of Borders.
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I'm very curious as to how exactly the reward tiers would work. It might just throwing an extra bucket of money into the kickstarter to get '90s Home Depot Promethean written, or there could also be a chance to ask for certain setting/mechanical options to be included like alternate Changeling courts or Vampire bloodlines.
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:It was an ancient predator-spirit embodying the tyrant lizard king I'm actually doing something similar for this for my Hunter game, only it's an Earthbound from oDemon, specifically the fallen angel who designed Tyrannosaurs, and was worshipped as a Predator God for some time in history. Currently they are behind a shadowy media/industrial conglomerate in Boston, the most prominent part of which is T-rex Electrex. The Earthbound itself inhabits a fossilised skull, and has taken to using small stone-carved reconstructions as relays or temporary bodies when necessary.
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Luminous Obscurity posted:And there goes my money. I think it's time for TG to pool their money and get Home Depot Promethean officialized.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 09:41 |
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Home Depot Geist instead. It'll basically be Reaper.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 10:21 |
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IKEA mage.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 10:39 |
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Nah. Twisting maze that you're never quite the same from after you do manage to finally find the exit? Ikea is much more Changeling.
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Dave Brookshaw posted:Nah. Twisting maze that you're never quite the same from after you do manage to finally find the exit? Ikea is much more Changeling.
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Yawgmoth posted:If I had to choose between Ikea and the Hedge/Arcadia, I would choose the latter every time. At least I get something out of being trapped in that nightmare realm of suffering and torment. My local Ikea's always been a fairly straight, hassle-free experience. All complications are inserted by my mother and sister taking 15 minutes to browse Every. Single. loving. Section. Also their chocolate bars and chocolate crisps rule and I will fight you on that .
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Kavak posted:My local Ikea's always been a fairly straight, hassle-free experience. All complications are inserted by my mother and sister taking 15 minutes to browse Every. Single. loving. Section. Their reindeer salami is fantastic and I will not fight anyone who disbelieves me as that means all the more for me.
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:They're the ultimate survivors I bet this game was cool.
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Dave Brookshaw posted:Nah. Twisting maze that you're never quite the same from after you do manage to finally find the exit? Ikea is much more Changeling. Just make it a crossover game with the God Machine trying to open up it's own portal to Arcadia via Swedish home furnishings and the rest writes itself. Also Promethian/Geist Circuit City
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 17:11 |
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Let's get this one out of the way and just say: Vampire Hot Topic.
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Vampire-run museum.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 17:33 |
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Please stop teasing us with these great game ideas. Post recrutment threads for them instead.
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Attorney at Funk posted:I bet this game was cool. It was a lot of fun with a cool bunch of players!!
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MonsieurChoc posted:Vampire-run museum. 'A Bite at the Museum', you say.
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# ? Feb 24, 2015 18:13 |
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New polls are up, everybody go vote for Africa! To hell with Pirates in Home Quarters.
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Luminous Obscurity posted:New polls are up, everybody go vote for Africa! Voted for Africa, but of course pirates and samurai are jointly taking the lead
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Flavivirus posted:Voted for Africa, but of course pirates and samurai are jointly taking the lead At the time of this post it is near-equally Africa and Pirates at 26/27%, with only 30% voting for Samurai. I guess I can be thankful for the only two largely lily-white options being in the no-chance zone.
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Gerund posted:At the time of this post it is near-equally Africa and Pirates at 26/27%, with only 30% voting for Samurai.
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Gerund posted:At the time of this post it is near-equally Africa and Pirates at 26/27%, with only 30% voting for Samurai. Samurai and pirates are at 30% while Africa languishes in third place with 24%
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