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Pikavangelist
Nov 9, 2016

There is no God but Arceus
And Pikachu is His prophet



My current Shadowrun campaign has Aztechnology (as well as the Path of the Sun) being controlled by servants of the Horrors as part of a plan for them to return ahead of schedule, with "they won't turn good, they'll just do normal megacorp evil instead of magical apocalypse evil" being the result of the plans failing and the Horrors losing their ability to influence Aztechnology.

I like it as a way to justify why that corp is the way they are while also framing the Path as an all-but-literal colonization of the original Aztec faith, but there's no way I'd extend that scheme to the rest of the world. Cosmic horror can be a fun sidetrip for the setting, but a single overarching villain for the entire world doesn't work if you want to maintain the "corporations constantly backstabbing one another while ordinary people are crushed underfoot" thing that makes the adventures work.

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Pikavangelist
Nov 9, 2016

There is no God but Arceus
And Pikachu is His prophet



Finster Dexter posted:

Maybe don't look at any of the published metaplot stuff currently coming out. :shepface:

Being exposed to it in this thread was what led me to make the post I did.

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