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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:A note: I think the reason Zaire is named after a (defunct) nation instead of a city is that, in its paranoia, it has hidden itself away so that nobody knows exactly where it is. Just somewhere in the former African Union nation of Zaire. Zaire derives from nzere, the Kongo word for the river known as the Congo River, so it kind of makes sense that a resurgent pan-African union might want to return to that name. For what it matters Reign of Steel was published in March 1997, just before they changed the name back to DROC later that year.
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# ¿ Jan 8, 2016 02:58 |
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 20:01 |
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LatwPIAT posted:(The book also suggests to the ST that they should put on a Chinese accent when roleplaying one.) What the gently caress, did they suggest the ST pull up the corners of his eyes too? God drat.
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2016 08:21 |
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Fossilized Rappy posted:The only exception is the enigmatic Groom Lake facility near Roswell, and no Steel Disciples that have gone out that way have ever returned (spoilers: we never actually learn what's up with Roswell). For what it's worth, Area 51 (at Groom Lake, and presumably what they're referring to here) is about 900 miles from Roswell, NM. The closest big city to Groom Lake is in fact Las Vegas. The two sites are related in UFO mythology but not geographically.
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 22:20 |
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Mors Rattus posted:In Nomine: Everything Under Heaven I always had a tough time keeping those two concepts distinct, because they were both "musical terms starting with dis- that you get when you aren't as good/bad as you're supposed to be". I kind of wish they just had a single system for tracking that kind of damage rather than making dissonance to Discord a one-way transfer.
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2016 05:42 |
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LatwPIAT posted:I'm somewhat ignorant of the sorry state of US teen homelessness and violent urban living conditions, but the tone I've been getting from M20 is that living on the streets and living in The Bad Part of Town is this mythologized and romanticized thing that involves an incredibly violent lifestyle where hand-to-hand and armed fights are commonplace, and everyone has graduated the School of Hard Knocks as amazingly cool badasses. And maybe it's like that. I don't live in the US. It's not. LatwPIAT posted:But the impression I get is that this is more of a glorification that over-emphasizes certain elements of what actually living in poverty is like, rather than an accurate representation. It is.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2016 04:40 |
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Young Freud posted:Wait, wait, wait, how do you know this? Is there a chart somewhere that theorizes the growth of cultured tissues? I think GURPS Bio-Tech has that. The Ultra-Techs might too.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2016 19:39 |
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Count Chocula posted:Who does the art for In Nomine? It's cool. Guy named Dan Smith, who did a lot for SJG in the 90s. They look like hammered poo poo colored like this though. If I remember right Smith's originals for In Nomine were all greyscale and this coloring was done by someone else.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2016 05:26 |
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Cythereal posted:I like the idea of In Nomine, and am filing it away as an idea to give a shot in the future if I can get a hold of the book(s). They're all available digitally if it works for you: http://www.warehouse23.com/products?utf8=✓&keywords=In+Nomine+&x=0&y=0
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# ¿ Jan 19, 2016 02:19 |
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theironjef posted:
Excellent, and I was glad to hear that there were a couple of mechanical jewels bobbing in the slime of the game. Have to imagine that art is pretty heinous, though!
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# ¿ Jan 20, 2016 04:40 |
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I know one of the big changes is that the original was a much more pointed parody of Catholicism. Even though it's treated as the one true religion in the original (all other denominations / faiths are wrong), you have things like Jesus being the boss' son who's only where he is via nepotism. Supposedly a lot of the stereotypes and jokes don't translate well but it's surprisingly hard to find information on it. Someone split a thread off to review just In Nomine a couple of F&F ago (I think it was Mors Rattus) and in that thread there was a link to a bunch of PDFs of the French books. Actually found it, here you go: http://www.xxiemeciel.com/ins_ebook01.php
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2016 05:52 |
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Nessus posted:I assume any statblock for Lucifer would permit him to be challenged only in the realms of legal argumentation (with great difficulty) or musical performance (slightly more attainable). Anything else is contrary to the lore. I don't think either God or Lucifer ever gets statted at all in this game. edit: And I'm OK with that.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2016 03:50 |
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I'm trying to think how you could structure an In Nomine campaign to have the title "Forgot About Dre" and have it make some sense.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2016 05:26 |
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Mors Rattus posted:I actually agree - my favorite campaign seed tends to be 'Haagenti and/or Kobal Redeems, Jordi Falls'. Jordi always struck me as bait for Werewolf players.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2016 20:28 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:They're on DriveThru and IPR. Hard copies also on Amazon and some stores stock them as well.
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2016 19:40 |
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Option A, you have to see the character templates for this setting.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2016 22:55 |
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Mors Rattus posted:Superiors 2: Take 2 God drat it SJ Games, you're better than this.
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2016 19:09 |
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Zereth posted:That's fine. I mostly just waned to make sure Midjack was aware it existed! Oh, I own it and the entire rest of the In Nomine line though it's been quite some time since I've looked through them.
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2016 20:57 |
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That angels subscribe to earthly faiths at all always strikes me as really weird. What would an angel need Christ's sacrifice for, they already have a place in heaven and it's just a code of conduct and ethics at that point. Sure, story wise it makes sense for the angels to support religions and maybe even have favorites for people to follow. Maybe the authors thought it would have been just too cynical if the celestial patrons of the faiths didn't actually buy into them.
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2016 19:56 |
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Count Chocula posted:Does Yves not have one of those 'different ways to play him' bits? You could do The Absent-Minded Librarian, Peter Falk from Wings of Desire (the nicest man in the world), The Enigmatic Puppetmaster or Literally Just Borges/Destiny of the Endless. I'd be inclined to make him genuinely nice. Too many angels are assholes. Mors Rattus posted:Superiors 3: Destiny's Child
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2016 20:57 |
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Hypocrisy posted:I feel the opposite. The archangels have pretty much all been decent sorts, at least to humans if not each other. The most hostile ones would seem to be Michael and Dominic and even that feels pretty tame. I guess a bunch are mad at Eli too but all of the archangels accepted his angels when he left. Jordi is an almost complete peckerhead to everyone and I don't think anything ever really improves him.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2016 21:49 |
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Simian_Prime posted:I can't really blame him. He's the angel who's entrusted the animal kingdom to humanity, and, well... So what if he does? He has little interaction with any of the other Archangels besides "HIS ACTIONS MAKE ANIMALS SUFFER, gently caress THAT GUY" and already hates humans for pretty much the same reason. I guess he could encourage wild animal attacks or or something like that if he was the Prince of Beasts, which would at least give him something to do besides be the patron angel of Werewolf players. Edit: I agree that it would be interesting to have one of the Archs check out but they should be one more engaged with humans.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2016 22:21 |
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PantsOptional posted:Unless they made more Superiors books that I don't know about, what we've already got is all there is. That's it. He doesn't get anything else besides a couple of nature preserve Tethers and "Jordi is mad because someone ate a steak" level mentions in the Night Music books, so judge away.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2016 22:48 |
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Count Chocula posted:
Legalization alone wouldn't trigger it since there's a Demon of Alcohol but no mention of a corresponding Angel of Spirits, but you can do whatever you want in your game.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2016 13:33 |
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Count Chocula posted:But as written the only way to avoid Hell is to mostly be some straight-edge Henry Rollins warrior type - I know we have Novalis and Eli but they seem like afterthoughts. So who is really going to end up in Heaven and enjoy the delights of the awesome library and the...other places? How many people don't overeat, don't lust, don't do drugs, etc? The only logical thing is either a. Overthrow Heaven, like in a bunch of the media the game is based on or b. Reform Hell so the Demons work with humans to get the Essense. They tell you right in the core book how fictional humans reach the fictional afterlife in this fictional setting. If you reach your Fate (the worst thing that you could do or be) you go to hell. Touch your Destiny (the best you could do or be) and go to heaven. Do both or neither in the same life and get recycled for another try. The examples they gave aren't Mother Theresas or Hannibal Lecters, either, so you don't have to be extreme on an absolute scale of morality, just do the best or worst you personally can.
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# ¿ Feb 2, 2016 14:01 |
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Nessus posted:Speaking of ol' , didn't the In Nomine commentary on him say that his Destiny was to become a great artist and his Fate was... well... Yes, it said exactly that.
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2016 05:09 |
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Lilith.
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# ¿ Feb 4, 2016 04:37 |
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Litheroy
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2016 06:54 |
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Kurieg posted:Yeah that's a thing that happened in the "Elminster - The Making of a Mage" Novel. wikipedia posted:Ed Greenwood wrote Elminster: The Making of a Mage as a hardcover novel in just 16 days,
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2016 00:00 |
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Keep the Superiors train rolling.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2016 04:19 |
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what does your heart tell you
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 05:49 |
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theironjef posted:This isn't really about RPGs but I had to tell someone that we just got a real podcast setup. We are no longer both hunched over the same old Snowball mic, we have a sound board and stabilizers and pop filters and everything! System Mastery is a real boy! Awesome.
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# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 07:17 |
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unseenlibrarian posted:Which means that Christopher Lee may have been one of Dracula's handlers. Checks out.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2016 04:12 |
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Kavak posted:Cotton Mather Did Nothing Wrong.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2016 04:24 |
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Nessus posted:Regarding the "too much treasure," I believe it was from the days when people had characters and they went around to multiple different campaigns The only thing more insane than the fact that anyone agreed to allow this in the first place was the amount of gear and level fraud that went on when it did.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2016 05:45 |
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Nessus posted:Isn't that the whole idea behind things like "living realms" and the various adventure paths and other organized play stuff for Pathfinder and so on? I mean, doesn't really turn me on, but there seems to be a demand.
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# ¿ Feb 17, 2016 07:03 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:Next, we learn about The Victorian Majestic Charter. The Charter was hastily created shortly after the Victorians went over their bridge, both as a means of controlling this new colony and as a desperate attempt to get the Victorian economy moving again (since there's no way for them to get any kind of external resources back home). Majestic Twelve, cute.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2016 23:03 |
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Everything ethereal really seemed to get short shrift in the core In Nomine and it's nice to see it get expanded so much in this book. Though it really seems like the Ethereal is this whole other game that only touches the rest of In Nomine in a couple of places and honestly could just straight up ignore Heaven and Hell and be better off for the removal.
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# ¿ Mar 24, 2016 02:06 |
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Doresh posted:The funnier - but highly unlikely - alternative is that he owns a bunch of figuarts and hugging pillows of "himself". This is now canon.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2016 18:08 |
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Bieeardo posted:That's really what strikes me as weird about the whole thing. I was expecting a big digest of Mage, like the other x20 books had, not a Revised style rewrite. I was expecting moose cocks; we're all being pleasantly disappointed.
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2016 05:16 |
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 20:01 |
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ahahaa I have a copy of this.
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 02:47 |