World of Darkness Megathread: Curse of the Were-Poster

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FurtherReading: Sep 4, 2007

Xinder posted:

I remembered reading a post about this a while ago but wasn't near my computer at the time. This time I got it added to our game server and we're playing with it now. I like it so far. Will be nice to remove the need to remind everyone where the online dice roller is every session.

e: i found its max dicepool. i appreciate that i could run a god level scion game with hundreds of dice using this thing.

Awesome, I'm glad you like it!

You had me confused for a minute since I hadn't hard coded a limit, but I just realized that what you're probably hitting is the character limit for a Discord message!

To avoid pissing off Discord I just threw in a hard limit of 300 now. If that's not enough I can code it so after a certain number you get the number of successes only.

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Xinder: Apr 27, 2013; i want to be a prince

hangedman1984 posted:

Bored and looking for something to watch. Anybody got any suggestions for a movie/tvshow with a World of Darkness "vibe" currently on Netflix?

Penny Dreadful is pretty good, as is Being Human (make sure it's the British version, though, Netflix has both.)

Or watch Stranger Things if you somehow haven't already.

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Rand Brittain: Mar 25, 2013; "Go on until you're stopped."

It looks like the Wraith20 manuscript has now been sent to layout.

Layout will probably be struck by a falling piano.

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sleepy.eyes: Sep 14, 2007; Like a pig in a chute.

hangedman1984 posted:

Bored and looking for something to watch. Anybody got any suggestions for a movie/tvshow with a World of Darkness "vibe" currently on Netflix?

Strigoi is sort of WoD-y.

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Tuxedo Catfish: Mar 17, 2007; You've got guts! Come to my village, I'll buy you lunch.

Oh and He Never Died is fantastic although it's a little on the oWoD side.

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Tuxedo Catfish posted:

Oh and He Never Died is fantastic although it's a little on the oWoD side.

Second.

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Slimnoid: Sep 6, 2012; Does that mean I don't get the job?

iZombie has the feel of a WoD game being run with your friends where everyone is technically in-character but they're still making jokes every so often. Despite the zombie theme it's a pretty solid show and often feels like if someone saw Buffy and went "y'know, I bet I could un-gently caress this and make it better." I think season 3 just dropped on Netflix.

Also, The Void is a fantastic movie and is perfect one-shot material.

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bewilderment: Nov 22, 2007; man what

hangedman1984 posted:

Bored and looking for something to watch. Anybody got any suggestions for a movie/tvshow with a World of Darkness "vibe" currently on Netflix?

You've seen What We Do In The Shadows, right? Because that's mandatory viewing.

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Slimnoid posted:

iZombie has the feel of a WoD game being run with your friends where everyone is technically in-character but they're still making jokes every so often. Despite the zombie theme it's a pretty solid show and often feels like if someone saw Buffy and went "y'know, I bet I could un-gently caress this and make it better." I think season 3 just dropped on Netflix.

Also, The Void is a fantastic movie and is perfect one-shot material.

The first two seasons are amazing, but I felt like something went very wrong in Season 3 - the 'brain of the week' personality changes got incredibly unsubtle, and then there was the D&D episode...

Definitely check out the first two seasons, though. They're a really good modernised Buffy with a lot of heart.

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cptn_dr: Sep 7, 2011; Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies

It's probably not quite what you're looking for right now, but I recently saw the Lost City of Z, and thought it would work quite well as an inspiration for Mage. It really captures the addicted to mysteries feeling. As well as involving mysterious lost ruins in the depths of the Amazon, as the protagonist searches for evidence of a lost advanced civilization. It's basically a story about a Mystagogue and his obsession.

No monkeys that walk as men, though.

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Archonex: May 2, 2012; MY OPINION IS SEERS OF THE THRONE PROPAGANDA IGNORE MY GNOSIS-IMPAIRED RAMBLINGS

Slimnoid posted:

iZombie has the feel of a WoD game being run with your friends where everyone is technically in-character but they're still making jokes every so often. Despite the zombie theme it's a pretty solid show and often feels like if someone saw Buffy and went "y'know, I bet I could un-gently caress this and make it better." I think season 3 just dropped on Netflix.

Also, The Void is a fantastic movie and is perfect one-shot material.

Seconding this. iZombie is fantastic and is basically Vampire meets Geist. The main character even describes herself as "hunger incarnate" at one point.

Are there any other VTR-ish series out there on Netflix?

Archonex fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Aug 3, 2017

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Cool Dad: Jun 15, 2007; It is always Friday night, motherfuckers

Comedy answer: Hemlock Grove

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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:

Comedy answer: Hemlock Grove

It's certainly the most accurate TV series version of WOD: Gypsies I guess.

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Blockhouse: Sep 7, 2014; You Win!

Xinder posted:

What would /Zero Gil even be in the context of CoD? Because with how op he was, I'd assume like maybe gnosis 7 or 8 mage at the very least.

going back to this from a few days ago, I'm not sure how you'd make Still-Alive-in-Babylon Gil work in CoD at all because he was never a mage while alive.

Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Aug 3, 2017

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Xelkelvos: Dec 19, 2012

The Dark Eras 2 KS is a little more than 2 days from completion and is ~$1500 from the next stretch goal which is currently looking to be the Necropolis of Hawara now.

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Xinder: Apr 27, 2013; i want to be a prince

Blockhouse posted:

going back to this from a few days ago, I'm not sure how you'd make Still-Alive-in-Babylon Gil work in CoD at all because he was never a mage while alive.

not by Fate lore, but if you're trying to use Fate Gil in CoD you could get away with just making it so he was. it would hardly be the largest stretch you have to make.

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Blockhouse: Sep 7, 2014; You Win!

Xinder posted:

not by Fate lore, but if you're trying to use Fate Gil in CoD you could get away with just making it so he was. it would hardly be the largest stretch you have to make.

I think the inherent problem is every Servant fits better in Scion

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nofather: Aug 15, 2014

Blockhouse posted:

I think the inherent problem is every Servant fits better in Scion

Not really. In Mage they'd be Goetia. Or you could even go straight up and make them ghosts. There's a legacy devoted to taking the artifacts and powers of legendary characters in Summoners, having them actually summon the ghosts would be a nice update for second edition. But Goetia fits better. They're the memory of a legendary person. If you wanted to go farther you could make them Aeons, who are already represented by things like Mordred and Lilith and Azazel, Set and the three Furies.

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Rose Bailey presents Danielle Lauzon, on dhampir:

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Half-Damned for Vampire just finished its post-editing development phase, and is entirely in the art process now. So today, courtesy of Vampire developer Danielle Lauzon, I�d like to present a day in the life of a dhampir.

A typical day in the life of a dhampir will look very different for a dhampir deeply immersed in the All Night Society, compared to one who instead spends her nights hunting monsters. And for those who know nothing of their heritage and nature, things are different yet again.

Dhampir in the Dark

Dhampir have carved out their own place in the nocturnal world, though they always stand apart from � and the covenants often place them beneath � Kindred. Most statuses Kindred can achieve are also achievable for dhampir, with the notable exceptions of joining the Invictus, along with a few specific roles in the Circle of the Crone and among the Sanctified.

That said, dhampir face their own problems, chief of which is their reputation as murderers and renegades. Relatively few dhampir hunt vampires (though proportionally more often than mortals, their low numbers mean dhampir hunters are still few and far between), but these few, along with their depictions in myths and pop culture, have earned the dhampir some measure of wary respect from their wholly damned family. A dhampir among vampires has a threat profile higher than it should justifiably be, and that means he must watch his back constantly, or someone might just stick a knife there.

That said, a large portion of these dhampir have a patron in the form of their Kindred parent, affording them some measure of protection. So long as they stay on daddy�s good side, any strike against the dhampir is an attack on the vampire, which discourages excessive adventurism. Of course, this protection comes at the cost of independence, as these dhampir mostly have their whole lives regimented by their parents, who after all had them for a reason; at the very least, they must run errands fairly frequently.

Parentless dhampir have more freedom, but pay for it in danger. They have given up a bit of safety for a great deal of liberty, but that safety is vital for survival in such a dangerous environment. For this reason, independent Society dhampir usually cultivate strong friends, often trying to find a coterie to fit into or enough minor vampires to lean on to secure their places.

Dhampir also prize mundane resources � money and secular power can buy a lot of conventional security, and are also tempting for Kindred. And being able to provide things some vampires want or need, such as rare films or drugs at a reasonable price, can buy some measure of loyalty from vampires who don�t want to see their valued supplier run dry of goods because they ran dry of blood.

Dhampir at Dusk

Though those dhampir who hunt their full-blooded kind are a minority by far, the dhampir vampire killer is a frightening prospect. To the Kindred, it recalls the stories of the 70s California Eagle Killer who left behind a feather with every headless Kindred body, and Pyre Jack, who burnt his vampire cousins on the stake throughout Birmingham�s 1910s � or even the legendary Blood-Stained Cavalier who menaced newly-founded St. Petersburg�s nocturnal population, mortal and vampire alike, in the 1700s.

Some dhampir hunt like normal humans do, fighting with a group of like-minded sorts, while some hunt solo, relying on their own cunning as well as Breaks and Malisons to provide the needed edge over their Kindred quarry. Whatever the case, dhampir hunters draw upon their tainted blood often and early, either from natural inclination, or from having learned the hard way how close a thing their chosen path often is. They stand with one leg in the daylit world and one leg in damnation, trying to turn their monstrous side into a weapon while also fighting against its influence.

Known dhampir hunters not only face the fear and hatred of the Kindred, but are viewed askance by fully human hunters as well. To have vampire blood in one�s veins is to be part of the darkness that hunters are trying to put out, to be impure and potentially dangerous � in short, to be a monster. And perhaps that monster is useful, and perhaps that�s enough to make it a compatriot in the struggle. But then again, is it worth the risk? Most hunters consider fellow hunter groups containing dhampir to be inherently compromised �cancer cells� because of their presence, and not many dhampir can honestly say they feel safe in the presence of their comrades-in-arms.

Some dhampir have formed a group called the Boogeymen, focused on hunting vampires using their innate corrupt gifts. The name comes from the fearsome reputation a dhampir hunter can enjoy among vampires, and is symbolic of the irreverent, sometimes reckless, tactics they use. To be a Boogeyman leads to a short life expectancy, keeping the group�s numbers low. Each city generally has at most one cell, and its members can usually be counted on one hand, with the total number of cells probably numbering roughly a dozen. The group operates in a �honeycomb� structure, with independent cells which keep in touch via highly secure online channels, forming more of a movement than a true organization. This allows the Boogeymen as a whole to survive despite the elimination of a cell by their Kindred enemies being a fairly frequent occasion.

The Boogeymen�s lack of respect for their trade and their enemies is mirrored by their lack of respect for themselves. Redemption is a common theme in Boogeyman ideology: vampirism is the ultimate sin and evil, and being tainted by Kindred blood makes them into monsters and inferior beings. They accept mortal members as well, but in a distinctly secondary and somewhat patronizing role � mortal lives are fragile and precious, to be protected and placed on a pedestal.

The Boogeymen also willingly provide help and support for independent dhampir hunters, though association with other hunter groups is often enough to make them cut the connection.

They are loud, proud, and rowdy, and not too concerned with making absolutely sure they have the right target. To them, hunting is basically an extreme sport bound up with psychological issues surrounding redemption and inferiority, and that redemption can only be found in dying for the right cause. No Boogeymen parties are quite as raucous as their wakes.

Dhampir in Daylight

The mortal lives of dhampir can seem quite similar to their fully mortal relatives and friends, but the taint of darkness has a way of making its presence felt. Even a life entirely untouched by anything else still takes on a decidedly vampiric shade, as dhampir are troubled people at the best of times.

It all begins in the teenage years. Already difficult enough for most kids, the dhampir finds herself developing strange powers and dark moods that just don�t fit with what her peers are going through. The powers might seem neat at first, but eventually, she begins to realize that her conscious control over them is limited.

When her mother dies in a car accident, the young dhampir can feel it deep in her blood. She knew it before it happened, she knows it before she is told, and that argument she had with her mother last night? The one where the kid said she wished she�d never been born and she wished that her mother was dead? She knows things occasionally just happen around her when she wants them to � did she kill her mother?

Ominous events surround a dhampir even when fully adult. Things don�t turn out quite right, she gets what she wants but not how she wants it. Sometimes, she can feel something deep and dark inside her stirring, something monstrous � to a dhampir, the idea that everyone has a dark side is much more direct and immediate, and that dark side is terrifying.

Dhampir tend to end relationships and lose jobs. Even the best-adjusted dhampir every so often snaps and does something stupid, and afterwards, for the life of her, she can�t remember why. It was pointless, out of character maybe, and she didn�t want to act that way before or after. It�s like possession, lashing out for no reason and every reason because something else took over for a bit.

Adult dhampir with no idea of their heritage tend to suspect something. They�re not quite normal, but they have no idea why. Their �symptoms� only vaguely match certain conditions, but if they try to get treatment, it�s entirely worthless. Therapy can help, but when the therapist has no idea what�s going on with his patient, it only goes so far.

Dhampir who know of, but reject, their ancestry fare slightly better. They at least know what�s wrong with them, even though they can�t do much about it. A few resources exist for dhampir to cope with their rare state, online and in the form of dhampir therapists who help others of their kind through the rough spots, but these are hard to find and by necessity hidden and obscure. A dhampir needs to be clever and resourceful, or be in touch with other unusual sorts, to find these things. Most never do.

The dhampir blood does not breed true, and creating a family can sometimes be difficult both in terms of keeping partnerships and raising children. Often dhampir choose to be child-free for fear of messing someone else up as much as they are. Sometimes two dhampir will try to make a family together, but the rarity of two being in the same place at the same time makes this unlikely in the extreme.

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Xinder: Apr 27, 2013; i want to be a prince

I started vaguely explaining some Geist powers to one of my newer players and she got really excited because they're just like her Jojo anime apparently. Then she got me excited too so I went and got Dark Eras Companion so that I'd be able to have a direction for a Geist game. Roanoke Colony seems like an excellent setting.

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Yo yo yo drop everything it's Scion Chargen and the Netjer

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If you'll be at Gen Con, so will I - stop by the booth for a demo of Scion: Second Edition! I'll also be running a few games of it here and there at the con, so feel free to talk to us about it, and definitely stop by the "What's up with Trinity/Scion?" panel to hear more the impending release of both games.

# ? Aug 3, 2017 23:11

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Xelkelvos posted:

The Dark Eras 2 KS is a little more than 2 days from completion and is ~$1500 from the next stretch goal which is currently looking to be the Necropolis of Hawara now.

I knew WoD nerds hated cool poo poo, but yeesh

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BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE

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Having passed $55,000, we get to add a new era... and you picked the Necropolis of Hawara (1604-1204 B.C.E)!
Up next, we've got another tough choice... choose wisely, for the poll will be up soon!

Empire of Mali in West Africa 1360-1390 C.E.
Founded by King Sundiata, the vast Mali Empire was formed after several smaller kingdoms were consolidated and lasted from 1230 to 1600 C.E. At its height, the empire stretched from the Atlantic coastline, past Timbuktu, to the edges of the Sahara Desert. Ruled as a monarchy, the Empire of Mali was multilingual and multiethnic, with Islam being the dominant religion. This period is a time of turmoil. Following the death of the legendary Mansa Musa in 1337, the empire suffered from a series of short-term, faulty reigns. With the empire's security and prosperity at stake, the creatures of the Chronicles of Darkness are on the move.

Golden Age of Science Fiction, 1938-1946 C.E.
On the heels of pulp fiction, the first Golden Age of Science Fiction allowed the science fiction genre to blossom in the public eye. Science fiction represents possibilities, and in a wartime era readers can't get enough of Isaac Asimov, Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, and Jack Vance. Though these stories are works of fiction, it is often said that all tales have kernels of truth. In the Chronicles of Darkness, experience the Golden Age of Science Fiction as you never have before, through the eyes of its creatures.

Early Medieval Ireland 750-850 CE
Following the Irish Dark Age until the beginning of the Viking Age, this era marks the introduction of Christianity and Latin literacy. The latter part of the period gives way to illuminated manuscripts, such as the Book of Kells, and Viking raiders who attack the coastline of Ailech and the rest of Ulster. In the Chronicles of Darkness, its denizens are used to the changes in leadership, but worry Viking raiders will discover their lairs and attack at will. This is an era of faith and fear, art and blade.

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Kaza42: Oct 3, 2013; Blood and Souls and all that

Mors Rattus posted:

Yo yo yo drop everything it's Scion Chargen and the Netjer

Everything about this just makes me wish we had these people make Exalted 3e

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Terrorforge: Dec 22, 2013; More of a furnace, really

Mors Rattus posted:

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE

Oh man, I'm glad the Necropolis won, and these also look super interesting. The Empire of Mali could always use more spotlight, but I'm probably gonna go with the science fiction thing on account of mad science being cool and fun.

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I'm fine with either Mali or Ireland and haven't decided how to vote there. I kind of actively don't want Golden Age of Sci Fi because I've been reading about that time period lately and, uh, I have no particular desire to deal with pre-WW2 America and its fascination with the fuckin' Protocols.

E: like there is literally no way to talk about that time period and not deal with poo poo like Henry Ford and the anti-war efforts and their virulent antisemitism.

Mors Rattus fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Aug 3, 2017

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Terrorforge: Dec 22, 2013; More of a furnace, really

Mors Rattus posted:

I'm fine with either Mali or Ireland and haven't decided how to vote there. I kind of actively don't want Golden Age of Sci Fi because I've been reading about that time period lately and, uh, I have no particular desire to deal with pre-WW2 America and its fascination with the fuckin' Protocols.

E: like there is literally no way to talk about that time period and not deal with poo poo like Henry Ford and the anti-war efforts and their virulent antisemitism.

The... Protocols..?

...... of the Elders of Zion?

Yeah okay lets not.

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Yeah, Henry Ford published the English version in his personal newspaper, having funded their translation, during the years before World War II. It was a thing.

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LatwPIAT: Jun 6, 2011

I'm confused, is it a Classic SF setting, or a WWII-and-a-bit setting? Because the name implies the former but the writeup implies the latter and WWII is kind of the elephant in the room in that time period...

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As a note, in fairness, 38 is after Ford made an apology and retraction but, uh, it was out there and formed a solid core to the anti-WW2 peace activists.

E: And the time period would be both. They are inextricably bound together.

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Xinder: Apr 27, 2013; i want to be a prince

Mors Rattus posted:

I'm fine with either Mali or Ireland and haven't decided how to vote there. I kind of actively don't want Golden Age of Sci Fi because I've been reading about that time period lately and, uh, I have no particular desire to deal with pre-WW2 America and its fascination with the fuckin' Protocols.

E: like there is literally no way to talk about that time period and not deal with poo poo like Henry Ford and the anti-war efforts and their virulent antisemitism.

yikes. good thing i wasn't interested in that period anyway.

i can't decide between mali or ireland though. both seem very good.

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Cool Dad: Jun 15, 2007; It is always Friday night, motherfuckers

I completely do not understand the Golden Age of Science Fiction one. Like, is it going to be monsters hanging out with Heinlein and Asimov? Were there a lot of books about vampires, werwolves, and wizards in classic science fiction? I guess it could be a setting for Promethean and...maybe Demon or Changeling? But even so it's weird to me to base one of these on guys writing tangentially related fiction.

EDIT: I also dispute that Mors' assertion that you can't talk about this era without mentioning antisemitism and WW2 protests. After all, my southern US public education managed it.

Cool Dad fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Aug 3, 2017

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Terrorforge: Dec 22, 2013; More of a furnace, really

Mors Rattus posted:

Yeah, Henry Ford published the English version in his personal newspaper, having funded their translation, during the years before World War II. It was a thing.

I'd heard he was an antisemite, but holy hell.

Xinder posted:

yikes. good thing i wasn't interested in that period anyway.

i can't decide between mali or ireland though. both seem very good.

I don't really see the appeal of Ireland. Probably because I'm ignorant of the relevant local history. What makes it interestingly different from the well-trodden viking or Arthurian settings of the same-ish time period?

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Xinder: Apr 27, 2013; i want to be a prince

Terrorforge posted:

I'd heard he was an antisemite, but holy hell.

I don't really see the appeal of Ireland. Probably because I'm ignorant of the relevant local history. What makes it interestingly different from the well-trodden viking or Arthurian settings of the same-ish time period?

I mean, there's plenty. But at the same time you just reminded me that we already got Arthurian times and that's a bit close. I think I'll go with Mali instead.

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Medieval Ireland was a bloody fuckin' mess is what. The 800s would be pretty drat early in Irish medieval history. The English are only just showing up on the island, the Irish clans are fighting each other constantly, the High Kingship is well and truly up for grabs. This is a society with a deep, abiding respect for law, and a long tradition of beating the poo poo out of each other and stealing cattle, with no conflict between these things. It's a time when the manliest thing someone can do is recite poetry from memory, followed by going out there and leaping across a river naked.

The Irish mythohistoric stuff of the period is loving insane and, among other things, features one of their mythic heroes gaining ultimate knowledge via tasting a talking fish.

Like, Ireland historic myth is loving wacky.

# ? Aug 3, 2017 23:57

Xinder: Apr 27, 2013; i want to be a prince

Mors Rattus posted:

Medieval Ireland was a bloody fuckin' mess is what. The 800s would be pretty drat early in Irish medieval history. The English are only just showing up on the island, the Irish clans are fighting each other constantly, the High Kingship is well and truly up for grabs. This is a society with a deep, abiding respect for law, and a long tradition of beating the poo poo out of each other and stealing cattle, with no conflict between these things. It's a time when the manliest thing someone can do is recite poetry from memory, followed by going out there and leaping across a river naked.

The Irish mythohistoric stuff of the period is loving insane and, among other things, features one of their mythic heroes gaining ultimate knowledge via tasting a talking fish.

Like, Ireland historic myth is loving wacky.

The Irish pantheon was one of my favorites in Scion.

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Axelgear: Oct 13, 2011; If I'm wrong, please don't hesitate to tell me. It happens pretty often and I will try to change my opinion if I'm presented with evidence.

I'll be honest: I have a MIGHTY NEED to run Jules Verne-inspired games. I have an Isle of Dr. Moreau concept just waiting for Deviant, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth inspired one of my Mage games to have a quest to hunt for a mysterious asteroid that fell into a volcano.

The Sci-Fi of the 1940s was the spiritual successor to that stuff, and the era's fascination with The World of Tomorrow fueled a lot of great art that taps the High Weirdness side of CofD that usually gets ignored entirely (except in Demon). Was this a time of truly colossal social and racial inequality? Absolutely. But the Era doesn't need to focus on that, especially if it's more fantasy than reality, like Sundered World.

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Xinder posted:

I mean, there's plenty. But at the same time you just reminded me that we already got Arthurian times and that's a bit close. I think I'll go with Mali instead.

Some months ago I asked around for ideas and resources for a Songhai Empire-inspired fantasy setting and got absolutely nothing, even from the history and religion threads, so I'm right there with you.

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