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I was going to run a X Files style campaign, but then all my players just kept making too many X Files references so now its set in an alternative universe where Scully never got assigned to the X Files and something went horribly wrong as a result and Mulder got kicked off. The game hasn't started yet but it should be fun. The cool part of doing this is that it gives me a lazy excuse to just use monsters from the show when I don't feel creative. Anyway the reason why I bring this up is I am having trouble thinking of what would be the best monsters for this besides Tooms and Flukeman. Pusher guy would be too railroady to do since his whole thing is just "you do what he says".
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Feb 18, 2016 04:58
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Use "social awareness art project coming to life and going on a rampage murdering conservatives" from the reboot, see if anyone gets it. Or even better, statues that move when you aren't looking at them. The wikia probably has a more complete list of monsters to choose from.
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Feb 18, 2016 05:09
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PBS Newshour posted:I was going to run a X Files style campaign, but then all my players just kept making too many X Files references so now its set in an alternative universe where Scully never got assigned to the X Files and something went horribly wrong as a result and Mulder got kicked off. The game hasn't started yet but it should be fun. Make Lord Kinbote the big big bad at the very end. And Donnie Pfaster should probably be in there somewhere.
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Feb 18, 2016 05:13
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You need the recurring stoners to be blowing the doors of perception so wide open.
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Feb 18, 2016 05:16
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GutBomb posted:You need the recurring stoners to be blowing the doors of perception so wide open. oh wait no this is the best idea
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Feb 18, 2016 06:42
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Make sure Jack Black gets fried by lightning at some point.
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Feb 18, 2016 06:46
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One of my players wrote in their backstory that Mulder is their Deep Throat so I think this is gonna be good
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Feb 18, 2016 06:47
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PBS Newshour posted:One of my players wrote in their backstory that Mulder is their Deep Throat so I think this is gonna be good You can always troll the SCP / Friday the 13th TV wiki's for one-off monsters and poo poo.
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Feb 18, 2016 07:02
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FilthyImp posted:DT was connected, so Mulder comes off as a kook without the link to the power brokers. Also, his name should be DP/DVDA since he's a porn aficionado. Nah, code names are all about irony so they'd call him The Missionary.
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Feb 18, 2016 07:06
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Sleeveless posted:Nah, code names are all about irony so they'd call him The Missionary. 
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Feb 18, 2016 07:15
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Hey. Another filthy casual watcher here. I really enjoy this season so far, but I've also recently learned that the actual season 10 is comics. Are they in the same continuity as the show now? Are they any good?
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Feb 18, 2016 16:10
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I just caught Babylon. Was the pills a placebo all along, why did the nurse try to kill him, was the terrorist leader supernatural, what the gently caress did the ending with the trumpets mean? The achy-breaky country weed dream was cool, but the rest was a confusing mess. I missed the were-monster episode, but I liked the other two MOTW episodes. My Struggle II can only be better than part I.
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Feb 18, 2016 23:23
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It's odd watching an entire episode, waiting for a twist and then it was just bad muslims all along. And Mulder's trip never seemed to end if the ending was any indication, it just became messier. It's almost like Chris Carter have started to believe in conspiracies and the supernatural.
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Feb 18, 2016 23:54
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I think I might have been more receptive to a scene where Mulder squaredances on acid if it weren't parachuted into a rejected script for 24. Were-monster is the highlight of the season and probably one of the best ever episodes, definitely find it on Hulu or something.
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Feb 18, 2016 23:56
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Yea, I think most episodes have been good and Were was awesome, but someone has to explain to Carter that he needs to stay the gently caress away from the scripts.
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Feb 19, 2016 00:05
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Spergminer posted:I just caught Babylon. Was the pills a placebo all along, why did the nurse try to kill him, was the terrorist leader supernatural, what the gently caress did the ending with the trumpets mean? Yes, because she wanted to avenge all the people that died at the beginning, no, 
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Feb 19, 2016 00:24
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It's confusingly straightforward. Everything they directly told to the viewer happens, it just tells such an unsatisfyingly stupid and pointless story you just continually ask "wait, was that it? REALLY?".
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Feb 19, 2016 00:31
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Spergminer posted:what the gently caress did the ending with the trumpets mean? The rapture is coming.
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Feb 19, 2016 00:51
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Acne Rain posted:It's confusingly straightforward. I think you put it best, no twists at all, pretty uncommon/surprising these days. I recently read an article (from Vince Gilligan maybe?) about twists in modern storytelling. It posited that we have too many these days and it does a disservice to the viewer since we come to expect it all the time. From the very beginning of Babylon I was expecting a fake-out. The guy praying before his sandwich then praying with his friend that words will come easy to him- I thought they were going to have a sales meeting or pitch some idea. The evil nurse was just that, no secret redneck cabal. Those 2 scary arab-looking agents? They were umm.... what were they again? The hope that it would get better with some unexpected twist, coupled with the Trump-tacular episode made it all the more aggravating.
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Feb 19, 2016 01:47
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Rincewinds posted:It's odd watching an entire episode, waiting for a twist and then it was just bad muslims all along. And Mulder's trip never seemed to end if the ending was any indication, it just became messier. It's almost like Chris Carter have started to believe in conspiracies and the supernatural. The original series was like that with the cult Waco-style shootouts, in a sense. The Field Where I Died had a bunch of supernatural stuff, but it still ended with drinking the Kool-Aid as 90's cults liked to do. I felt meh on both episodes with their linear progression for the cult/terror cell, but it made for a good backdrop to tell a more intriguing B plot. Neu-Scully was entertaining to watch make the same young Scully faces, while Neu-Mulder was much more beefy than I remember Mulder (probably the suit cuts, there was that speedo shot so I know that my memory can't be right) I haven't read a lot of the chatter, but it felt like a backdrop pilot to a new series which, honestly, I'd watch. The last episode will be a good read for how they fit the roles.
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Feb 19, 2016 02:07
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Small Potatoes is a really good episode. Darrin Morgan and Duchovny do some great acting it. Crazy that Morgan was as good acting in a motw role as he was writing eps. Season 5 premiere is kinda bad. I swear that 75% of it is loving voiceover.
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Feb 19, 2016 02:57
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He was the Flukeman too.
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Feb 19, 2016 03:04
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Man I forgot that Detective Munch was in an episode. That's pretty loving insane if you're a TV fan in general.
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Feb 19, 2016 06:45
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God drat I love these episodes. The first one was only eehhh but even then it was pretty cool. All of them since have been awesome fun time cool. They need another 10 seasons or until they die.
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Feb 19, 2016 06:49
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Sleeveless posted:You never know, until Breaking Bad happened Vince Gilligan's big non-X-Files achievement was Hancock Hancock was a better story about bigotry than Babylon.
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Feb 19, 2016 06:52
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Postmodern Prometheus is...weird. "Written and Directed by Chris Carter" Oh.
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Feb 19, 2016 09:02
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Longbaugh01 posted:Postmodern Prometheus is...weird. its a pretty good episode, i wonder what has happened to chris since then
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Feb 19, 2016 10:13
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There's actually a fake Canadian Chris Carter, maybe the real one, who used to be pretty good in X-Files and Millennium, got replaced at some point by this impostor. I thought this episode was pretty much like the premiere - an entertaining trainwreck. Not good by any measure, but pretty hilarious anyway. I didn't mind that there was no twist, the issue is that all the ideas didn't come together coherently.
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Feb 19, 2016 10:34
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I think Carter is ok to good when doing fairly straight Mytharc or MOTW episodes on his own, but starts to lose it when trying more esoteric variations. Anyway, watching the second Pusher episode right now. Good so far. Pusher is like the closest I've seen on X-Files to a real comic book supervillain. Which is funny considering he's just kind of a loser with a serendipitous brain tumor, but I guess that's what makes it great. Edit: *X-Files episode starts in Maine, in a grocery store, and with a creepy kid* "Hmm...ok" "Written by Stephen King" God drat It. Longbaugh01 fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Feb 19, 2016 |
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Feb 19, 2016 10:57
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What was up with those DHS agents?
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:its a pretty good episode, i wonder what has happened to chris since then It's oddly hand-waving of sexual assault, but yeah it's a fun episode.
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Feb 19, 2016 16:20
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On the positive side, at least justice Scalia won't be around to cite "Babylon" in one of his terrible supreme court opinions.
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Feb 19, 2016 18:23
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jumba posted:On the positive side, at least justice Scalia won't be around to cite "Babylon" in one of his terrible supreme court opinions. More likely "Babylon" is cited as an argument for legalizing Magic Mushrooms.
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Feb 19, 2016 18:25
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So is this next episode the last one for now? Who wrote it? 
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Feb 19, 2016 19:02
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crazy cloud posted:So is this next episode the last one for now? Who wrote it? Yes. Guess.
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Feb 19, 2016 19:23
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Everyone who hated Babylon should go watch the Carnivale episode of the same name. It's so good.
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Feb 19, 2016 19:37
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Am I the only one that thought the were-lizard episode was just god awful? Like is it really that funny that the dude is named Guy Mann? The whole thing seemed like it was a fan written episode or something and then in the end the were-lizard didn't even have anything to do with anything it was just kinda there in the background for Mulder to investigate. The most interaction it had with the actual crimes behind the plot of the episode were 'it ran by while they were happening.' I don't get it; I really liked Humbug, I really liked War of the Coprophages, I really liked Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose but wow Darin Morgan just did not do it for me this time.
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Feb 19, 2016 22:01
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reported for not liking rhys darby
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FishionMailed posted:Am I the only one that thought the were-lizard episode was just god awful? 
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