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Soonmot posted:yeah but it's not fair to compare an interactive novel with an action rpg. HotF was nice and atmospheric, but playing the demo was more than enough for me to be done with it. I just said I liked the demo.
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https://twitter.com/TheOnyxPath/status/1300855948076933120
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My Promethean campaign has been going well but man it took...17 sessions for all of my players to leave their starting refinements. I'm running a session tonight that, depending on my player's choices, may turn into a somewhat extended Predator-inspired combat. What are some good ways to juice up an encounter with a hostile, stealthy, intelligent nemesis?
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Y’all gonna finally get to see some of my paid writing work. Titanomachy drops on DTRPG tomorrow, too.
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Mors Rattus posted:Y’all gonna finally get to see some of my paid writing work. No poo poo? That's awesome, congrats.
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ritorix posted:No poo poo? That's awesome, congrats. Yep! I wrote the entire Tengri section and about half of the Anunna section.
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What is Titanomachy, anyway? It's been on the boards for a while.
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Rand Brittain posted:What is Titanomachy, anyway? It's been on the boards for a while. I haven’t read it, since I didn’t work on it, but it is a book on Titans and monsters and how to use them as major antags/doing the Titan War concept that 1e was all about.
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Scion-related, I know the initial release for Origin and Hero had editing issues. Have those all been corrected in the PoD options by now? I'm willing to shell out for new copies if it means they're more understandable. And grats on hitting the big time, Mors. You should celebrate, buy a box of the top shelf macaroni and cheese!
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I think the editing issues have been fixed. I haven't gone back and checked in a bit, tho.
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Mors Rattus posted:I haven’t read it, since I didn’t work on it, but it is a book on Titans and monsters and how to use them as major antags/doing the Titan War concept that 1e was all about. Yeah judging by the kickstarter email I got it's the general antagonist/"Monster Manual" book, which is what people were really hoping Mythical Denizens would be before it turned out to actually be more along the lines of the Night Horrors books. Which, hey, specific antagonists are good but some kind of information about the titanspawn in general might have been more useful at the start of the game's life
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Mors Rattus posted:Yep! I wrote the entire Tengri section and about half of the Anunna section. Anunna as in the Sumerian pantheon? I'm excited to learn more.
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Joe Slowboat posted:Anunna as in the Sumerian pantheon? I'm excited to learn more. Correct. I think folks will like them, or at least like hating them. (They are quite possibly the most arrogant, imperious gods around. Enki’s a cool guy, at least.)
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Mors Rattus posted:Correct. I think folks will like them, or at least like hating them. (They are quite possibly the most arrogant, imperious gods around. Enki’s a cool guy, at least.) I mean, I like that particular pantheon quite a lot, they're an odd and interesting bunch. Not, y'know, remotely aligned with modern morality, but they're just a lot of fun. Plus Inanna killed a mountain with a knife, and that's just impressive.
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I'm enjoying Titanomachy, but keep noticing weird things. In the very first profile for Jörð they keep calling Sif Thor's mother and as far as I know she's never been referred to as such and certainly isn't in Hero.
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Dawgstar posted:I'm enjoying Titanomachy, but keep noticing weird things. In the very first profile for Jörð they keep calling Sif Thor's mother and as far as I know she's never been referred to as such and certainly isn't in Hero. Errata suggestions can be submitted here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevCA7KQY8tir2zT_ghLbV3x1Buh33BQwv26_QQqRpfSdQGnA/viewform
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The Sif thing is an error, as the writer has said on OPP’s forum; it’s meant to be Frigg.
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Frigg is also what the writer said when he discovered the error.
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There's already a Dark Ages Vampire total conversion mod for Crusader Kings 3.
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MonsieurChoc posted:There's already a Dark Ages Vampire total conversion mod for Crusader Kings 3. Yep. Apparently a bunch of CK2 mod makers were given early access to CK3 specifically so they could get to work making mods for it.
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I feel like you could make a genuinely compelling WoD mod in a CK style game, but it would need to hack away 99% of the world and have it set in a single city, with the provinces representing neighbourhoods and districts, and reducing the cast of characters from tens of thousands to a few hundred. That would be a much more intimate and interesting experience that captures some of the flavour of the tabletop in a way that the CK2 mod (spanning several centuries and half the planet) never could.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/scion-demigod-book-3-for-the-scion-second-edition-rpg It’s here!
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communism bitch posted:I feel like you could make a genuinely compelling WoD mod in a CK style game, but it would need to hack away 99% of the world and have it set in a single city, with the provinces representing neighbourhoods and districts, and reducing the cast of characters from tens of thousands to a few hundred. That would be a much more intimate and interesting experience that captures some of the flavour of the tabletop in a way that the CK2 mod (spanning several centuries and half the planet) never could. Just make a mod for the superior version of CK, Mountain Blade.
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The clearly superior option is a Dwarf Fortress mod so that you can gently caress poo poo up in fortress (prince) mode and then wander around in the wreckage in adventurer (neonate) mode. Patch notes: The CSV table for psychology was off by one value so that's why everyone has been diablerizing each other instead of sleeping during the day.
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Project Update: The rechecks are all wrapped and, with one exception (the spirit entries, which are a whole other deal), the dataset is now finalized. The simplified version is also ready to go once it's split into appropriate time period subsets. I'll share a few snippets as we go but save the bulk of the resulting charts for the final publication, which will be available PWYW on the vault with the big book of WoD graphs, the data set itself, hopefully the barebones timeline, and extras on vampire feeding patterns, the implications of Kinfolk heredity patterns, and a couple of sections on how to actually use all this nonsense to either 'fill in the gaps' where the world as published differs from the world as represented or to just do your own thing. The deluxe timeline will have to wait until 2021 since it requires me to write a history of the entire world that weaves all this poo poo into it which is... A Task, to say the least, especially since I went to law school and became a legal philosopher so I specialize in a level of pedantry and precision almost totally incompatible with the level of 'gently caress it, good enough' required to document the history of the entire world in less than 60,000 volumes.
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I have been reading Titanomachy this morning, and I really like it so far. Definitely one of the coolest monster manuals I have ever seen. Everything is mostly quick and very usable, and the stuff outside the endless lists of enemies are also a delight. Mostly, I am glad the Hecatoncheires both have stats and are the absurd Bad-Asses they are in mythology.
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Loomer posted:Project Update: The rechecks are all wrapped and, with one exception (the spirit entries, which are a whole other deal), the dataset is now finalized. The simplified version is also ready to go once it's split into appropriate time period subsets. I'll share a few snippets as we go but save the bulk of the resulting charts for the final publication, which will be available PWYW on the vault with the big book of WoD graphs, the data set itself, hopefully the barebones timeline, and extras on vampire feeding patterns, the implications of Kinfolk heredity patterns, and a couple of sections on how to actually use all this nonsense to either 'fill in the gaps' where the world as published differs from the world as represented or to just do your own thing. The deluxe timeline will have to wait until 2021 since it requires me to write a history of the entire world that weaves all this poo poo into it which is... A Task, to say the least, especially since I went to law school and became a legal philosopher so I specialize in a level of pedantry and precision almost totally incompatible with the level of 'gently caress it, good enough' required to document the history of the entire world in less than 60,000 volumes. I am unreasonably excited to see all of this, especially given that the release of The Project might end the earth.
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Joe Slowboat posted:Anunna as in the Sumerian pantheon? I'm excited to learn more. The latest update had a look at some of them - Ishtar, Marduk, Ereshkigal and Enki.
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I cannot tell you how happy I am with the pantheon shield/symbol they went with.
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Is there a public location I can see those at? That’s a solid four to get a sense of how Scion’s handling the Anunnaki.
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The update with the preview of them is publicly viewable, though the manuscript section containing the rest will need you to be a backer when it goes up.
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Mors Rattus posted:The update with the preview of them is publicly viewable, though the manuscript section containing the rest will need you to be a backer when it goes up. They’re pretty fun! I liked the note of a me for establishing an orbit around the Earth. Would you be willing to tell us what their special power is, the way the Theoi have Metamorphosis? I’m very curious because I assumed it would be the mes. Is it melam, the divine garment?
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I love that they don't care that they have multiple true creation myths, just as long as their pantheon comes out on top in the end.
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Joe Slowboat posted:They’re pretty fun! I liked the note of a me for establishing an orbit around the Earth. I didn’t write that bit, but it’s not directly taken from any specific religious thing. The name we went with was Shuila and the concept is essentially divine authority. Anunna Scions and Gods are able to declare themselves in charge of whatever they feel like, basically, and it’s very hard to argue.
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Makes sense given their deal as “extremely old and extremely self-important” in Scion. I’ve got a pseudo-Sumerian/Babylonian mythic fantasy setting for home games, so I’ve been mucking around with knowingly semi-accurate but hopefully fun articulations of concepts like the mes, melam, ni, and the cosmology of the Enuma Elish creation story in particular. (Also the players might run into Gilgamesh at some point.) E: actually is Utnapishtim a canon NPC in Scion 2e?
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We didn't write him up, but I'm pretty sure there's at least a reference to the guy in there somewhere. Certainly if I ran a game, he'd still be around and alive somewhere.
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