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I have an idea I stole from some guy's apocalypse world game of a gang that raids museums and has a crazy mix of medival and ww2 arms and armor. You can have them ham up with acting the part if you want.
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I've got a silly one shot con idea of running a game in the Hollywood Hills with a bunch of pregen celebrity characters. Ala This is the End. I need ideas for jobs and complications. Some ideas have been:
Can I get some ideas from the thread?
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Notch is alive in his bunker mansion. Kill him and secure the mansion for a new enclave of rad-feminist game designers. After 5 years, there's only one score left taking: the pawn shop. When celebs need cash, they drop off Oscars, Superbowl rings, and other priceless artifacts. Get it. One of the few enclaves left standing is a weird cult center that shall not be named. Someone in the Recession wants a cult member extracted and deprogrammed. Metal Gear that poo poo or go undercover in the cult.
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Aug 15, 2017 07:24
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Escort Werner Herzog as he makes a documentary about the Crash.
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A couple of Taker crews I've jotted down: Whiting and Sons are a small family outfit that operates on a similar model to GILF, targeting morgues, funeral homes and other places where the dead were gathered. They also run a profitable side business offering funerary services in enclaves. They don't like to broadcast it but the Left Behind crew are all varying degrees of Shepherd with a couple members teetering on the edge of becoming Meek. In the Loss this is as profitable as you'd expect and so the crew runs lean and is sometimes more than a little desperate. If used in a campaign I could see them slowly adopting more of the Meek view and becoming more of a hazard to others. The Whalers have a boat with a huge harpoon gun on the prow. They have yet to actually kill any whales; whether this is because of a lack of opportunity or a personal choice is up to you. Either way they're looking for ways to justify the expense of the gun which can lead to some ridiculous scenes if they're the competition for a job.
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Aww all those taker crews are really serious and well-thought out instead of a bad pun name or some insane gimmi--ThreeStep posted:The Whalers have a boat with a huge harpoon gun on the prow. They have yet to actually kill any whales Perfect!!
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https://twitter.com/HebanonGCal/status/903720096975204355
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Wishing I'd ordered physical, or that I could change my BackerKit responses.
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Sep 1, 2017 22:05
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you should be able too if you do it quickly I think. they made a 48 hour warning on the subject
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Subjunctive posted:Wishing I'd ordered physical, or that I could change my BackerKit responses. I think you still have like less than a day to do that.
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ThreeStep posted:The Whalers have a boat with a huge harpoon gun on the prow. They have yet to actually kill any whales; whether this is because of a lack of opportunity or a personal choice is up to you. Either way they're looking for ways to justify the expense of the gun which can lead to some ridiculous scenes if they're the competition for a job. idk if the setting canonically includes zombie whales, but I don't see any reason it shouldn't
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Sep 1, 2017 23:11
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This is a great post/av combo. I'm looking forward to getting mine.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I think you still have like less than a day to do that. I can't figure out how! I'll keep poking. E: ah! I had to cancel my order, terrifyingly. Much better, thanks. Subjunctive fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Sep 2, 2017 |
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Very glad I backed this the month before it came out. Legitimately didn't expect a game with such a cliche premise to be the most engaging and gripping series of interconnected systems that have substantial crunch while remaining delightfully flexible that I've seen since Blades in the Dark. When I get the proper PDF, I'm going to bug the ungodly poo poo out of my friends and acquaintances to let me GM it because God I really love how it's a practical economics lesson. Like for real, if I had to run *any* game for my right wing shithead relatives, it would be this because maybe they might get some of the points.
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Yeah, we were food-or-heat poor when I was really young, and some of the dependent mechanics really landed with me. A bit uncomfortable, tbh, but in a good way.
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We used to joke that "we aren't dirt poor. ... We can't afford dirt." Book looks awesome. I hope I typed that credit card info correct. Would suck to lose this over a typo.
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Kommando posted:I've got a silly one shot con idea of running a game in the Hollywood Hills with a bunch of pregen celebrity characters. Ala This is the End. So Hollywood is right in LA, getting to job sites will be trekking through some dense suburban city. What could be some legs that would take place in LA. Is it likely a skyway of ladders and rope bridges would be there? I've narrowed the possible jobs to 4. Arnold wants fuel for his tank. Problem, it's hydrogen powered. Go to JPL and get some. Adam Sandler is still making movies, someone has started a Kickstarter to hire some Takers to stop him. Archivists want the original Revenge of the Sith script before some rival archivists get to it. Bill Murray wants to play one more round of golf. Twist, there's a closure job out on him.
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clockworkjoe posted:After 5 years, there's only one score left taking: the pawn shop. When celebs need cash, they drop off Oscars, Superbowl rings, and other priceless artifacts. Get it. The script one resides within this pawn shop museum of knick knacks, several hauls worth of props and mementos that are utterly useless except to collectors. Leonardo Di Caprio is hungry for Oscars. As many as you can carry. And the enclave cult is Adam Sandler and entourage. The client turns out to be Rob Schneider.
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One bus line remains, and it's neutral territory for humans. They may have to help defend the bus, clear a path, get fuel, put down someone who violates the neutrality covenant.
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Could you have more than one tough spot? Say you've got a Latent character whos Black Math belief got them bit...
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Kommando posted:Could you have more than one tough spot? Why not? Just remember that some Black Math sects kill latents on sight as infection risks.
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Kommando posted:Could you have more than one tough spot?
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Sep 26, 2017 01:11
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Some Nordic Markets have got their books. 
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And in the States
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You can now buy Red Markets in print and PDF if you missed the Kickstarter! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/product.php?productid=20533&cat=0&featured=Y
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And in Canada! It’s a beefy book.
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Got my copy two days ago and drat this thing is heavy. Glad to have it though, much easier than flipping through the PDF which was kind of making my tablet's PDF reader struggle a little. Been spending the weekend generating contracts.Jeb Bush 2012 posted:idk if the setting canonically includes zombie whales, but I don't see any reason it shouldn't A bit late, but one of the Abberant types is "the Blight infects and doesn't kill an animal." Vector whales sound terrifying, up until they beach themselves or something. Though I wonder what a casualty whale could do...
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It is seriously huge, you could probably use it to fight your way through the Crash. I must say I'm impressed at how easy it is to flip through. Usually once you get passed the 325 or so page mark books this large become unwieldy, but this doesn't have that problem. Great job on your binding choice, or whatever it is that made that happen, guys because it works really well. Also it's real purty.
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did you guys get any kind of notification when your books shipped? I'm starting to wonder if there's a point where I should worry about a package getting stolen
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:did you guys get any kind of notification when your books shipped? I'm starting to wonder if there's a point where I should worry about a package getting stolen I just got mine yesterday, but didn't get a notification that it shipped. It shipped out of a fulfillment center in Nevada, if that matters any.
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All US copies were shipped from Indie Press Revolution. All international copies were shipped out of a UK fulfillment service (don't remember the name). What's everyone's favorite pieces of artwork in the book? I love the truckers on page 141 because of the level of detail in it and I know who the truckers are based on.
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The cowgirl rescuing the baby probably. She reminds of an old neighbor of mine, and every time I see that pic I want to write up a character sheet for her. The big pieces that make up the section starts all seem like they would make fairly good posters as well.
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Yeah the section-heading art is by far the best because it's very reminiscent of good political art and propaganda posters.
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The Empties Abberant example art. The messed up park scene is great.
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Got mine. It could probably stop some bullets. Took it to a friend's place to flip through and mentioned the looting rules. "Hah, I'd start pulling gold teeth." "Gotcha covered" *Shows art of someone doing exactly that." Got a good laugh, he wasn't expecting that.
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Hostile V posted:Yeah the section-heading art is by far the best because it's very reminiscent of good political art and propaganda posters. Yeah, I'll talk to Caleb about making posters of it or something.
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So many good pieces of art it's hard to choose. Definitely one of the selling points of the book, they really get across the setting. Can't pick one, so my top two favorites are the Loss-Recession border (pages 120-121) and the art for the Ganglia because the longer you look, the more screwed-up things you find. Anyone want to share enclaves they've come up with? I'll start with two: Things Got Worse is centered around several suvivialist bunkers underneath and around a junkyard just outside of town. They've survived multiple near-death experiences since the Crash, ranging from Vector outbreaks to food poisoning. The survivors have become increasingly hardened and isolationist with each disaster and few visitors are allowed into the enclave itself, being admitted as far at the meeting space/kill zone right outside the junkyard gates. Those that breach the fence find themselves in a maze of rusted-out cars, carefully hidden traps and a guerilla population that views the outside world as actively trying to finish the job it started five years ago. The Glow is based around a university's jury-rigged research reactor. They occupy the reactor and several adjoining campus building where they trade steady power for food and water from their neighbors. While the enclave tries to paint themselves as bringing light to the Loss, they're barely holding on as scarcities of supplies and space cause tempers to flare up. Making matters worse is the divide between the "Faculty" of staff and students who first fortified the area during the Crash and the larger population of "newcomers," survivors from nearby failed enclaves who found shelter in the Glow's brick walls. Many of them have been here for at least three years but are treated as second-class citizens by the staff who hold their failing reactor's continued operation as leverage.
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The Waffle House was probably the only company without a military contract that didn't so much as flinch when the blight came. Up and open before the bridges blew it is one of the oldest continuous operating enclaves in the Loss, and specializes in exporting products from over the wall, offering safe haven to any travelers passing through, and not to mention golden brown breakfast pastries. They have a close working relationship with LHT, various freelance blockade runners and smugglers, and some of the larger mercenary groups. If you need something moved from point A to B, the latest and greatest in Recession technology, or a hot cup of coffee and a gallon of gas then stopping by here is probably your best bet. Please inquire with Management about their franchise opportunities.
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girth brooks part 2 posted:The Waffle House was probably the only company without a military contract that didn't so much as flinch when the blight came. Up and open before the bridges blew it is one of the oldest continuous operating enclaves in the Loss, and specializes in exporting products from over the wall, offering safe haven to any travelers passing through, and not to mention golden brown breakfast pastries. They have a close working relationship with LHT, various freelance blockade runners and smugglers, and some of the larger mercenary groups. If you need something moved from point A to B, the latest and greatest in Recession technology, or a hot cup of coffee and a gallon of gas then stopping by here is probably your best bet. Please inquire with Management about their franchise opportunities. I assume you are familiar with the Waffle House Index? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index Also, Red Markets is now on DrivethruRPG https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226794/Red-Markets-A-Game-of-Economic-Horror Please review it if you can!
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