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Whoever's reviewing Dreamhounds of Paris should save that Doom Patrol panel, or just use others from that arc.
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Giving theatre kids something to play instead of Vampire is an awesome idea.
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Kellsterik posted:The Importance of Being Earnest? The Threepenny Opera? Arcadia? Nixon in China? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child? What's that meta as hell Tom Stoppard play that takes the piss out of Agatha Christie mysteries? I saw it performed and it was really fun. Can the game handle more serious modern family drama like Chekhov, Tennessee Williams (Long Day's Journey into Night), or Tracey Letts (Bug, August Osage County)? Or depressing Beckett plays? Try doing Our Town, I think that's a good one.
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Apr 9, 2017 03:57
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megane posted:After Magritte maybe? Real Inspector Hound, that's it. On second thought, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to use metafictional/postmodern plays for the game. If the fun is in the players playing around with classic plays, doesn't it take some of the fun out of it if the play you're using is already doing that? So instead of Real Inspector Hound, use The Mousetrap or another mystery play, and let the players be the ones loving with it instead of the author? I may be overthinking it.
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Apr 9, 2017 09:51
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Barudak posted:The overlap between "person who wants to play a pilot of a robot mech that fights dragons" and "person who enjoys calculating man hours and weighted averages of metalurgical composition of specific conponents" is literally just the authors of Dragonmecg, isnt it. I keep imagining this as a game Torbjorn from Overwatch designed.
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Apr 10, 2017 06:44
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Does Immortals have rules for voluntary body sharing, like in Sense8 or Drawing of the Three? The old 'oh no you've captured me PSYCH now my body is being controlled by a kung-fu master' trick?
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Apr 11, 2017 01:02
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theironjef posted:We're doing a LARP again (they have to come up every once in a while) and this time it's a fun excuse to dance around finally covering Call of Cthuhlu by covering the LARP version instead. With that, here's Cthuhlu Live. I played that, it was called 'growing up in New England'. Every so often one of us would suggest playing CoC in one of the omnipresent Civil War graveyards or ruined churchyards, but it never really happened.
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Apr 12, 2017 05:06
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So 'Animal Man, but in WW2' is now a viable character concept? Minus the bit where he's vegetarian. quote:Idea started with the Hearthstone item from World of Warcraft which teleports the player back to an inn. Which got me thinking, "What if the party isn't going out and doing these adventures, but telling the people at the inn about them after they're over." Which explains why they keep telling the same story (running the dungeons) over and over; and why, when they get too drunk and blurt out "And then fifty whelps came from both sides and killed everyone!" the party just rewinds back to before they said that. Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is this as a Western videogame and it's awesome. It also explains why the PC meets every single famous gunslinger.
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Apr 13, 2017 00:37
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Dragonmech feels like it's 2 injections of Weird Fiction and one workers' collective mech away from a China Mieville setting.
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Apr 15, 2017 04:58
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quote:The Brown Acid doesn’t have any merits attached to it because it’s a drug. The weakness is you can’t switch without the drug. Fortunately the drug isn’t physically addictive but there are Long Term Consequences to repeatedly abusing ketamine. So they've started using ketamine to treat depression in the real world. What if in the nWoD they're doing the same thing, and it works because of the body swapping. I always find it strange when they introduce brain uploading to an otherwise standard supernatural setting (Hellblazer, X-Files). Shouldn't that become the setting? It's digital immortality & the show or comic treats it like a one-off bit of weirdness instead of something that fundamentally changes society. I do like how you could use both of these for voluntary body swaps.
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Apr 15, 2017 07:45
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Halloween Jack posted:Godlike is downright hostile to flexible, versatile power sets like shapeshifting. You'd want a huge Transform pool, with some hefty Flaws (has to "borrow" ability from nearby animal, can only use ones that make sense) to offset the cost. But Transform costs hella Will points to use. I forgot he could borrow animal powers. I was thinking of a character with a seemingly useless 'talk to and command animals' using all those weird bat bombs and minesweeper dolphins and whatnot.
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Apr 18, 2017 00:24
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The Gambler would be so cool if it was a Last Call poker wizard, or a Deadlands poker wizard, or even Literally Gambit, since this book is already 90s as hell. Also here is a real sentence: He declared that his Juicer wields four tons of force—“enough to lift two Teslas,” he said.
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Apr 21, 2017 09:28
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The Play's The Thing seems like it'd be great in classrooms or other non-traditional RPG venues. English Literature classes to get students to engage differently with the texts, theatre classes as another kind of structured improv game than what's already done, Shakespeare anniversary celebrations like the ones that are on now, that sort of thing.
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Apr 23, 2017 04:28
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quote:For a figure PCs are more likely to fight, we have "The Slayer", who is a grim no-name badass who we're told that he's "one of the deadliest hand to hand fighters in the world". It turns out he's a former rookie cyber-knight named Artorias who was traumatized when he and companions fought an evil elder dragon. He froze and then fled, and then went on to become a dragon juicer in the service of the Society of Sage. Ok so I looked up 'Artorias' and there's a zillion pages of Dark Souls and one sparse Wiki entry. Was RIFTS ever translated into Japanese? This could blow the Souls lore community wide open! (Also those jetpack/mech suits from a few pages up remind me of Nier, but they probably came from Macross originally?)
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Apr 25, 2017 04:14
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The most Joycean RPG is Unknown Armies, since Avatars are normal people reenacting mythical archetypes, just like the characters in Ulysses (there are even charts with their mythological correspondences to Humors/Numbers/Colors etc). I had an idea for a campaign where Dublin-based Bibliomancers & Cliomancers fought to preserve Dublin exactly as it was on Bloomsday, the date Ulysses takes place, but it might be too niche. And China Mieville somehow started his brilliantly weird worlds by playing standard D&D, but I'm not sure how.
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Apr 27, 2017 00:37
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The Purified sound like a class for NPC mentors - your Ancient Ones or Obi Wan Kenobis. They sound less dynamic to play than the other Immortals.
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May 4, 2017 03:04
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Mors Rattus posted:The Tzimisce are great conceptually. I always think of Jedah from Darkstalkers as a Tzimisce. 
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May 7, 2017 03:31
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All I can picture is Grimoire Weiss from Nier, floating around & talking smack.
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May 21, 2017 04:19
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gradenko_2000 posted:Fantasy Alex Jones seems like a cool character concept to try and kick around. http://www.publicmedievalist.com/pizzagate-cults/ There's an article on medieval conspiracy theories.
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Jun 8, 2017 06:41
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Joe Slowboat posted:I'd just like to chime in that 'Dr. Moreau's Most Lovable PMC' would be a pretty great campaign concept in anything but Rifts. Pugmire meets Mad Max, what's not to love? Grant Morrison's We3? http://comicsalliance.com/we3-comic/
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Is Daeren or someone else going to finish the Powerchords review? It sounds horrible and problematic, but I still believe in the mystical, trancendent power of rock and roll. I’ve been trying to turn it into RPG form for 15 years (anyone want my notes on a Hold Steady/Unknown Armies game or my Springsteen/Gaslight Anthem/Mountain Goats/THS/Ezra Furman/Tom Waits/Nick Cave Monster of the Week settings. Time of Mysteries has two rock and roll style adventures), based on things like Scott Pilgrim and Wild Zero and Phonogram. I have a whole idea for heroic rock and rollers fighting dance music cyborgs. There’s Starchildren:Velvet Generation, a glam rock RPG reviewed here, and someone was working on a mythical blues based WOD game (I played a blues musician in Mage). You think there’d be more metal games based on the overlap with them and RPGs. So any material would help my own ideas, even if that’s full of sexual assault and liking KISS. I want to write a PBTA hack based on the power of rock and roll (the write up complained about the lack of hip hop, my game would go further & not acknowledge any musical styles outside of rock, punk, and indie, tho I suppose I should make options for them but I have no knowledge of them at all). Dance music would probably work like Banality in Changeling, dulling the mind and the senses. Power would be based on authenticity and fire. I’m not sure about obscurity, since artists like Springsteen still have some of the power, but popularity would hurt it. I was gonna make an Unknown Armies school based on wanting music to be both more and less popular. You need your obscure records. I can suggest as an alternative My Jam, a music based LARP based on Monsterhearts. You pick a song, and when that’s playing you have power over everything. It’s set in a high school dance and has an amazing set up and splats. quote:You will be playing Robert Johnson Memorial High School students attending the [current season] dance, for whatever reasons high school students go to dances. Some of you are here to dance, some of you are here to hang out with friends, some of you are here to cause trouble, and some of you are here because you have nothing better to do. But all of you are also here because music is magic. I love this because it symbolises exactly how music makes you feel! No matter how bad things get, if I put on No Surrender or This Year, i’m powerful for those few minutes, I can do anything! The relationship establishing mechanic is amazing: it’s gently caress, Marry, Kill. quote:Cool. Now you’re going to reintroduce yourselves, maybe letting the other players know a little more of your character. Then you’re going to engage in a time-honored method of establishing truths about interpersonal relationships: by playing gently caress, Marry, Kill. I like this, it’s simple but evocative of the high school setting. The Splats are great because they embody the different ways of relating to music without boxing you into a genre. quote:Melancholy This is so evocative and encompasses so much powerful music, from The Smiths and Springsteen but also Sad Boys/cloud rap/emo rap/gothboiclique. You could do some terrifying stuff with Nick Cave songs. It also emphasises the high school roll of the outsider and how, as Meat Loaf sings, if you hold on to a chorus you can make it through the night. quote:Fanatical The rest of this post pretty handily demonstrates what this mindset looks like from the inside. We are, as the Bouncing Souls once sang, the the true believers, and we create entire religions and cosmologies devoted to our favourite bands in song. quote:Chill I don’t really understand how you’d play them, except for comedy stoners, Deadheads, or vaporwavers. But that’s cool. That’s for the players. And I understand people listen to music that way. quote:Hype Another splat that I don’t intuitively understand, but definitely one that’s needed for role playing and dynamics. Especially since it’s a LARP and you’re actually playing these songs, the other players would probably love their music. It also fits the high school setting. You have massive nights, every song is right... quote:Aggro Another very easy to understand subculture, since so much teenage music is built around this. In a LARP setting they’d have to work hard not to get too aggro and upset people but it’s perfect for the setting. The character sheet is just a series of questions. For example, the Melencholic: quote:Name: Pronouns: I try to present myself as: The first four are universal, the last 4 depend on the splat, and they do a good job of getting you into character, tho i’d like some PBTA style moves. All in all, My Jam is a cool idea i’d love to run, but I still think we need more rock
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