tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19843666872056001582024-03-06T12:00:47.869-06:00Popular EnchantingChristian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-67506364794790924952024-03-06T11:09:00.001-06:002024-03-06T11:54:56.735-06:00Prime Time Mime Time and an Update<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;">So the <a href="https://www.melsonia.com/longshot-city-pre-order-485-p.asp">preorder page</a> is still up for Longshot City, even though March 6 is listed as the release date. Fulfillment isn't complete for Kickstarter backers yet—</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">when it is, the page will change to a regular store page.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The upshot of this is that the book will continue to be set to its pre-order sale price for an indeterminate amount of time. If you missed the crowdfunding campaign, this is your chance to get it at a reduced price before it's too late! <a href="https://www.melsonia.com/longshot-city-pre-order-485-p.asp">Hurry hurry! Buy Buy!</a><br /><br />Here's a new villain for you:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Greasepaint</span></b></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A.K.A. Jack Maraud</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Skill 8</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Stamina 20</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Initiative 4</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Jack has telekinetic abilities that first manifested in Franklin College, where he was frustrated in his quest to become the greatest mime the world has ever known. After an accident led to his expulsion, he turned to a life of crime. He holds vindictive grudges against everyone who refused to take him seriously enough to laugh at him.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">His control over his power is quite limited, as he must mime an object to visualize it clearly enough to manifest a telekinetic analogue of it. If his Stamina drops below 14, he unzips a portal to his hideout, steps through it to escape, and zips it up behind himself.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Telekinetic Manifestations</b></p><ol class="ol1"><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Invisible shield around himself. Jack cannot take damage until the shield takes 4d6 stamina damage. Jack can only maintain one shield around himself at a time. He always does this before anything else.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Invisible box around PC. Lasts until the PC makes a successful strength or energy attack to escape.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Invisible maul. Dissipates immediately after use.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Invisible rope tied around PC, used to pull the PC toward Jack (especially off ledges or into hazards).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Invisible tommygun. Jack discards it at the end of the round.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Invisible chainsaw that can cut through almost any physical material.</li></ol><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Motives</b></p><ol class="ol1"><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To get paid.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To establish his own gang.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To settle a score.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To amuse himself.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To build notoriety as a criminal.</li><li class="li1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To bring his art to the world.</li></ol>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-62697817985305583332023-12-16T03:21:00.001-06:002023-12-16T03:21:20.312-06:00Assault on Blackrock Manor and Baron Mordrek's Vault<p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">I made a couple more adventures for Hero Quest.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xsZix1P1T0J9siz9O4M2F1bqJcyJXVqf/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1818" data-original-width="1288" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIn8lJvcdzpZNVaFQpXIPbGZRkFkmgvuv5mBEFPpF9t4voyE9JeHFqaF0mOx9Wi3UH4uaaXPLNGZBYppL_RtGWEBJRR2FsogFBh8Iu35cE7HbDFTcrkyMAAyzlvMgVhDY4azdzEew5UxFWbdQU2l8uvRTiL-w5GTu-z-fQeM04UPmv4a2n2vEGYuKrQg/w284-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-16%20at%2003.06.44.png" width="284" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Averia Sans Libre; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ppGAS9_tW-azkCh8GCdABcwbO8pxesL/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">click to download</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">They're both written with new characters in mind especially the first one, so if you've already played through the main quest or any expansions you may wanna add in a few dread warriors and mummies.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xsZix1P1T0J9siz9O4M2F1bqJcyJXVqf/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1784" data-original-width="1336" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCfjnN7rXF8s6XHdLwPjf46NVP4ucA2kFChNMkaOiyFwXqNEaMp71hQ1unK1wSTiB47zm3ffuYIuNNLPfN3c-ONGgj_33smtnpChK7irW06nbENCbntzYikYz2P-V5MlltKYU-qV5EZmGQs-A_gT9UbnRagxcJ8nvLg5-Y17VUqj4JPA9Q0eCX_3OBTg/s320/Screenshot%202023-12-16%20at%2003.10.24.png" width="240" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Averia Sans Libre; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xsZix1P1T0J9siz9O4M2F1bqJcyJXVqf/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank">click to download</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-33792005020412453892023-12-02T14:21:00.000-06:002023-12-02T14:21:09.639-06:00Enterprise Justice Solutions #15: He Who Lives by the Deathgun...<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLyh0DOAVUK3AV5OAdQiuvZVkQASEsogr0GGkrbym193wMI2H5-2JauJOxKbirqbs9FWi9-eopdToEfuEANepC4qeqKrz-Ei_VuxYzy9F-rqWRUB37An6_5UtDyuTtsBRXFxHvmlB4UlY319s5wxw1__nvDv33IlLx9JzGsANpc7-yEkqFBbkQUYeqCuw/s3110/Screenshot%202023-11-26%20at%2015.22.03.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1306" data-original-width="3110" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLyh0DOAVUK3AV5OAdQiuvZVkQASEsogr0GGkrbym193wMI2H5-2JauJOxKbirqbs9FWi9-eopdToEfuEANepC4qeqKrz-Ei_VuxYzy9F-rqWRUB37An6_5UtDyuTtsBRXFxHvmlB4UlY319s5wxw1__nvDv33IlLx9JzGsANpc7-yEkqFBbkQUYeqCuw/w400-h168/Screenshot%202023-11-26%20at%2015.22.03.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Averia Sans Libre; font-size: x-small;">click to zoom</span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">This week's crew:<br />Letter of the Law (impossibly wealthy masked vigilante, owns the team's HQ)<br />Deathgun (supersoldier from a future dystopia) <br />Mr. Fox (superspy from a more distant future in which humans are extinct)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">NPC Allies:<br />Singularity (the first and only true general AI)<br />Tara Byte (the world's greatest computer scientist and Singularity's mother)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Mr. Fox and Deathgun had just learned that PenalCorp's warden was another clone of Dr. Sarah Tonin, and were in serious trouble by the time their most hated ally, Letter of the Law, showed up to the scene in his L-icopter.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Deathgun moves the boat closer to the cellhouse where Singularity had located Tara Byte's cell, thinking this would be an easier extraction point. The guard in the nearby tower immediately starts spraying the boat with machine gun fire, heavily damaging it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">On the other side of the island, Mr. Fox was trying to reach the cellhouse on foot, while zigging and zagging to avoid being shot by guards in two more towers. He somehow made it up the hill and around the corner without dying, though he did lose some fur when a bullet grazed his tail. </span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Letter of the Law flew straight past the towers, drawing fire but no hits, to land on the roof of the cellhouse.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">The fishing boat Deathgun was piloting fared less well. Approaching shore under heavy fire, it exploded as Deathgun leapt from the bow, propelled to shore by the explosion in an epic splash page-worthy scene. Hell, maybe even a two-page spread.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">At this point the End of Round token came up, and Artillery was activated. Artillery is a giant combat robot (the one pictured near the bottom of the conspiracy board) that, when destroyed, rebuilds itself stronger than it was. The team has already destroyed it once.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Deathgun tries shooting it, but his gun does little damage against the robot's thick armor. He switches to a harpoon from the fishing boat, hoping to leverage his Superstrength to do more damage. He scores a pretty substantial hit, but Artillery releases tear gas, temporarily disabling the future warrior. It then deployed a trio of combat drones, released from a compartment in its back, before trying to catch Deathgun in an electrified net of steel cables.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Meanwhile, Mr. Fox made contact with Singularity, who has just figured out to reactivate the drones that tried to kill Mr. Fox last session. These drones were sent to engage the ones controlled by Artillery, while Singularity accessed the electronic lock system and cleared a path to Tara Byte's cell block on the top floor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">On the verge of death and unable to breathe, Deathgun tries to escape the tear gas and fight, but Artillery finishes him off with its flamethrower. Leaving the charred skeleton where it lay, the robot sprinted up the hill and leapt to the roof of the 4-story cellhouse, where Letter of the Law was still trying to get in through a maintenance door. He put his tools away and drew his twin laser tonfas.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">A squad of armed guards entered the cellhouse with Mr. Fox halfway up the stairwell. Taking fire, Fox asked Singularity to release all the prisoners on the lower levels, and the guards were overrun before they got to do much else.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">On the roof, Artillery fired a rocket propelled grenade at Letter, but missed. Letter struck at a key point on the already-damaged robot, which collapsed into a sparking heap.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">After a fairly awkward introduction, Mr. Fox convinces Tara Byte to follow him up to the roof, where Letter is still beating on the broken robot, screaming "I! HATE! YOU! DAD!". Apparently he's got some things he needs to work through. Leaving the ashy remains of their fallen companion behind, Mr. Fox, Letter, and Tara Byte escaped the island and the ensuing prison riot in the L-icopter. </span></p>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-29211110857654542472023-11-28T11:56:00.000-06:002023-11-28T11:56:17.450-06:00Enterprise Justice Solutions #14<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtRtCtADPWkVtGWI_BZeR2cja6xPvls45edCgyIc18vjsIPqd-4a0I5W81T2zE4wS8xJR7ZT_Q87Brwclm9LfPQdrRzYxUR1zW7-5WcSCCiQKnp7_j6EMEVR2UrHFG-jyuiviYO2xrfC-xssZnSvMaDk9CU6Vc7TU1EkflW04jqRMudNByB59toIzsHSY/s3972/Screenshot_2023-11-19_at_14.31.09.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1864" data-original-width="3972" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtRtCtADPWkVtGWI_BZeR2cja6xPvls45edCgyIc18vjsIPqd-4a0I5W81T2zE4wS8xJR7ZT_Q87Brwclm9LfPQdrRzYxUR1zW7-5WcSCCiQKnp7_j6EMEVR2UrHFG-jyuiviYO2xrfC-xssZnSvMaDk9CU6Vc7TU1EkflW04jqRMudNByB59toIzsHSY/w400-h188/Screenshot_2023-11-19_at_14.31.09.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Averia Sans Libre;">click to embiggen</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre"; text-align: left;">This session's crew:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Mr. Fox (a superspy from a distant future in which humans are extinct)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Deathgun (a supersoldier from a different future in which A.I. has enslaved humanity)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Zachary Tooth (a size-changing test pilot who hates Chance Ryder for fucking up his family fortune)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">I'm skipping a play report for #13 because the first half of the session was planning a prison break and the second half was "acquiring" a fishing boat. The less said about how that part went down the better honestly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">So this session began with Zachary turning on the news to see a high-speed nautical chase underway, with several police boats in pursuit of a fishing boat that looked exactly like the Orca from Jaws. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVuTSdAz8z3xR5ajO9QgyN5V4ReJhfDndxA_rMvWZvKPNsq0-Ol2m7P1Vh0ettmJo0zd52j4WARPyt7Uw-R0XM-kOsIMJ61li-whyy8LluzSeQCl0ZlKyXTQdVg4PnylocMbwwJnhhFXB4GanZdB0KPuSN0IBFtbvnTmZrxnCYtR1ck8RIjP7BV17nesU/s1920/jaws-movie-screencaps.com-11834.jpg.ba12726b406b1d3ebcd3dc1789096cb1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1920" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVuTSdAz8z3xR5ajO9QgyN5V4ReJhfDndxA_rMvWZvKPNsq0-Ol2m7P1Vh0ettmJo0zd52j4WARPyt7Uw-R0XM-kOsIMJ61li-whyy8LluzSeQCl0ZlKyXTQdVg4PnylocMbwwJnhhFXB4GanZdB0KPuSN0IBFtbvnTmZrxnCYtR1ck8RIjP7BV17nesU/w400-h170/jaws-movie-screencaps.com-11834.jpg.ba12726b406b1d3ebcd3dc1789096cb1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">The helicopter-borne news camera zoomed in on one of the suspects and pointed out that he appeared to be wearing a quite elaborate fursuit. Zachary didn't know who Mr. Fox was, but he did have reason to suspect that Fox was somehow involved with Dr. Sarah Tonin, an underling of Chance Ryder. His interest piqued, Tooth jumped into his helicopter (he's still rich, just not RICH rich anymore) and headed toward the harbor.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Meanwhile, rather than engage the police in a firefight, Fox and Deathgun decided to try to lie their way out of it. They allowed themselves to be boarded and told the cops that they were ATF agents tracking down a source of powerful and highly illegal energy weapons. When there turned out to be a laser pistol (Mr. Fox's) hidden below decks (where Mr. Fox had hidden it), the cops let the pair go but confiscated the weapon itself.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Once the cops had dispersed, Zachary Tooth approached in his helicopter, set it to hover a good distance above the fishing boat, and jumped down onto the deck. He grew to twice his size as he fell and landed ready to fight. Once Deathgun and Fox explained that they don't work with Sarah Tonin and in fact have been actively fucking up her operations (and those of her many clones), Tooth decided to help them with the prison break instead.<br /><br />They approached PenalCorp Island from the direction of open ocean. The boat's CB radio crackled to life, warning them that they would be fired upon if they did not reverse course. The team claimed they had a life threatening medical emergency on board, and the only hospital they had any chance of getting the patient to in time was the prison hospital on the island. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">After a brief pause they were instructed to approach shore and drop anchor. There was a squad of armed guards covering them from the beach as a pair of drones carrying a stretcher picked up the "patient" (Mr. Fox, with a shrunken Zachary Tooth hiding in his clothes).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Fox ran off when the nurses started trying to take off his "fursuit" and realized there was nothing wrong with him. The guards on the beach tried to arrest Deathgun, who of course opened fire. Several airborne combat drones were launched to pursue Mr. Fox. Zachary, pretty much left to his own devices in the confusion, emerged from the pile of Mr. Fox's clothes with a thumbdrive which contained a copy of Singularity, the first true generalized A.I., on whose behalf the team was here trying to free his mother/creator Tara Byte.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Tooth quickly uploaded Singularity at the nearest terminal and the boy quickly spread throughout the island-wide network, deactivating combat drones and searching through records to find Tara's cell. He discovered that the prisoners were being shuffled around in a way consistent with some biological experiment, and revealed that the warden was none other than Dr. Sarah Tonin. (well one of her anyway)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">To be continued…</span></div>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-90791427670604798692023-11-27T11:35:00.001-06:002023-11-27T11:35:11.610-06:00Hero Quest 1<p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">There were three kinds of games I got into as a youngin that were adjacent to traditional TRPGs before I ever heard of D&D. CYOA books and the slightly more advanced (as in they had game stats) Lone Wolf Series. Interactive Fiction games like Zork and the other text-based adventures produced by Infocom in the 70s and 80s. And a board game called Hero Quest.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">If you aren’t familiar, this guy will tell you all about why it's great:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cx8sl2uC46A" width="320" youtube-src-id="Cx8sl2uC46A"></iframe></span></div><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">This is the recent cash-in Hasbro used to launch their own crowdfunding system:</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1LuWkyhHqEaJKu906nOH2ra2ZnS7AXzBRPqa8XqIqmxew1NB8wZHt3DjCUxgqojPOlfWgyD7T_91MKsO0EmayLek4lGLDCAYX-dHArrCDX7wYoOjzQJLi3iI8iH9AGZthTHH3VGsj3i8OF6Qpv6OzRMDbyQt9VseJyyNg5fW3C0eiTapnkGzT6pk8iAQ/s2000/81caYz83JzL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1LuWkyhHqEaJKu906nOH2ra2ZnS7AXzBRPqa8XqIqmxew1NB8wZHt3DjCUxgqojPOlfWgyD7T_91MKsO0EmayLek4lGLDCAYX-dHArrCDX7wYoOjzQJLi3iI8iH9AGZthTHH3VGsj3i8OF6Qpv6OzRMDbyQt9VseJyyNg5fW3C0eiTapnkGzT6pk8iAQ/s320/81caYz83JzL.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">And a couple bootlegs people made:</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrJwbQNiKYPt_-YfTPjlXsIpihUXnCtiMWfeDdeOTK8tqo5HD3w1o8coFCf9h8J7nz2X0k9hZSpBlimq6alcHwZZiSOg6KtWlRKrCRgf2W_2wjgeTzzsrw4_rflpiGvKaKL2G_fIxxDyUFrCiAWQ3AucXdJQXbIteH_FT1jNAUD_MjggeBGOjTAnFuWs4" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2896" data-original-width="2896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrJwbQNiKYPt_-YfTPjlXsIpihUXnCtiMWfeDdeOTK8tqo5HD3w1o8coFCf9h8J7nz2X0k9hZSpBlimq6alcHwZZiSOg6KtWlRKrCRgf2W_2wjgeTzzsrw4_rflpiGvKaKL2G_fIxxDyUFrCiAWQ3AucXdJQXbIteH_FT1jNAUD_MjggeBGOjTAnFuWs4" width="240" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Heroquest/comments/aljdvv/some_more_pictures_of_my_homemade_heroquest_set/"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">source</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeHfG-kuYj-YM3FqVtXyFnvNAND5inZ54pTrZ56T3-5e1f11xtqgnMdPVdrhtVKhoClDZtSNlTbWU9v0clsphV5US9H10UVnznCbgyHbtgjNW_If5Qs-lmH_s5Rdl8Kyt68n5Pespw3PfJoYWh13p0W6QwwDxkxsg6UuJCSsas9e6rRP5KcPERHzUmyTY" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><img data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjeHfG-kuYj-YM3FqVtXyFnvNAND5inZ54pTrZ56T3-5e1f11xtqgnMdPVdrhtVKhoClDZtSNlTbWU9v0clsphV5US9H10UVnznCbgyHbtgjNW_If5Qs-lmH_s5Rdl8Kyt68n5Pespw3PfJoYWh13p0W6QwwDxkxsg6UuJCSsas9e6rRP5KcPERHzUmyTY=w320-h180" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-106545/trencherBelse/heroica-quest/#details"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">source</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">There’s also dozens of crafters on etsy selling custom and replacement components of the game, from the board, cards and funky dice to the furniture and minis. So really there’s no great reason to keep giving Hasbro your money over this.<br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">(i have the reboot version because i am a hypocrite and a fraud).</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Anyway, someone built an in-browser map editor for Hero Quest and I’ve been making quests for it. There’s also no reason you couldn’t use this adventure with DCC or some other version of D&D.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl0y6PEIdHL8xdIT6-oc5DFbae1oKyofmw_Ni0jI_lrZP_jc9Zm9IWVcA2ajO-WlrxyhlaBk5dn-78j5WZH8j0VhMEKtS6zrh1Bj6sjQgx225DY0XhRVs5VNO0N_v_vH5yPtnDxi_YuSktNQ781qyxWd7_5K_5F0hD1TTTbu991-Oiz8MWsOPHrwW4EM/s1788/Screenshot%202023-11-27%20at%2011.15.48.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1788" data-original-width="1378" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisl0y6PEIdHL8xdIT6-oc5DFbae1oKyofmw_Ni0jI_lrZP_jc9Zm9IWVcA2ajO-WlrxyhlaBk5dn-78j5WZH8j0VhMEKtS6zrh1Bj6sjQgx225DY0XhRVs5VNO0N_v_vH5yPtnDxi_YuSktNQ781qyxWd7_5K_5F0hD1TTTbu991-Oiz8MWsOPHrwW4EM/w309-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-27%20at%2011.15.48.png" width="309" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LB1hRmW6Uu5YOUu7_Ne3mNUaGaLth0AU/view?usp=drive_link">click me for the pdf</a><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">If you’re already into HQ you might have noticed that I’m using terminology from the reboot (abomination instead of fimir) and the map tileset from the original game. Congratulations, have a cookie.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-79769928566392495572023-11-14T23:48:00.001-06:002023-11-14T23:48:30.414-06:00Angel Tears<p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">A couple links first: some kind of opossum with bolts in his neck or something has launched <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daishugars/spectacle-science-fantasy-gladiatorial-mayhem-for-troika">a kickstarter</a> for a Troika! supplement called Spectacle. It's a pastiche of cosmic superhero fiction with art reminiscent of Jack Kirby. It's basically an alternate setting for Longshot City, though I don't think it was written with that as an explicit goal. So if you're here it might be relevant to your interests.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Bolt-Neck Opossum is also launching <a href="https://itch.io/jam/comical-spheres-longshot-city-and-beyond-">a game jam</a> on itch.io to get people writing material for Spectacle and Longshot City. I hope it gets weird fast.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Angel Tears</span><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Skill: 9<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Stamina: 28<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Initiative: 7<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Armor: 2<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Damage as Dream Weapon (see special).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre;">Larissa Malone was one of hundreds to be addicted to fantomin at Dr. Sarah Tonin’s juvenile hall, and one of dozens to suffer a fatal overdose after escaping the system and becoming homeless. She is, however, the only known victim to return to the land of the living. Her ghost appears as an almost luminescently pale figure wearing an inmate uniform from SanDyne Juvenile Hall, with bloody tears streaming down her face (the hallmark of a fantomin overdose).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Averia Serif Libre; font-size: medium;"><b>Special:<br /></b></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">Angel Tears returned from the other side with innate magical abilities. She can physically step through shadows like doorways and into the minds of others (as Power—Puppeteer). If she tries and fails to possess a target, her physical form re-manifests as she is thrown from their head. She can retrieve objects from nightmares that function normally in real life, but turn to dust when she stops focusing on them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Motives:<br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">1. To make someone pay.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">2. To share a beautiful nightmare.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">3. To resurrect her friend.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">4. To satisfy curiosity.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">5. To protect someone she cares about.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">6. To convince the PCs to help her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Dream Weapons:<br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">1. Axe.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">2. Crossbow.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">3. Flamethrower (as Energy Blast—Heat).<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">4. Dynamite (as Explosive).<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">5. Shotgun.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Averia Serif Libre";">6. Bear (as Large Beast).</span></p>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-57427868472944435372023-11-09T09:31:00.001-06:002023-11-28T10:51:53.449-06:00Enterprise Justice Solutions #12<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzYluS7Zvo6zDitpBw8VlpLPREYJVmP7XU3PqGkNke_uFhbyLyWaPtRjdCzrvvYN7KKNO12srHOpmilEjocQQbvh2jT1y7MHDqkAdKtPFLNOEL7kh-0kr9fX3qnHT51AxeWSwHAIp6FmNYp0dSZiiEpfeAwL_ze8D_CWKR0dZErNFnSsaf93vPlLEO5o/s2512/ejs12.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1702" data-original-width="2512" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzYluS7Zvo6zDitpBw8VlpLPREYJVmP7XU3PqGkNke_uFhbyLyWaPtRjdCzrvvYN7KKNO12srHOpmilEjocQQbvh2jT1y7MHDqkAdKtPFLNOEL7kh-0kr9fX3qnHT51AxeWSwHAIp6FmNYp0dSZiiEpfeAwL_ze8D_CWKR0dZErNFnSsaf93vPlLEO5o/s320/ejs12.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">click me</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">(this is my current Longshot City campaign—that’s what the players named their team so don’t blame me)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This session’s crew:</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Greasy Devil—host to a superstrong shapeshifting symbiote</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The Letter of the Law—wealthy masked vigilante who everyone hates</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Deathgun—supersoldier from a dystopian future</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Mr. Fox—superspy from a more distant future where humans are extinct</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The session opened with the team entering a warehouse party near the docks, looking for dealers of a dangerous new street drug called fantomin. There was a large cage onstage next to the DJ, containing one of the superpowered chimpanzees they’d freed way back in session 2. The cage must have been grounded because this one had the ability to manipulate lightning, making for a pretty impressive light show. Everyone assumes Mr. Fox is simply a furry in a very expensive costume.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Letter immediately started roughing people up in the bathrooom (none of whom knew anything), while Fox and Devil sweet-talked their way backstage. They were close to getting a dealer’s number in the green room before they started radiating cop vibes and the other two DJs starting roasting them and high fiving each other.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Meanwhile Deathgun and Letter were having a dance-off, in which Letter of the Law embarrassed himself so thoroughly that someone got a photo and he became a meme. They didn’t notice the chimpanzee busting out of its cage until it was too late. One dead bystander and one dead ape later, they decided it was time to split and head back to their headquarters beneath the Militronics building (Letter of the Law’s drone A.I. research company). When they jumped in the van, the head of security’s voice came over the radio informing Letter that the entire building was locked down and no one could access the system.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When they got back they discovered that Singularity, the first true general A.I., had invaded and taken control of the building, activating all security doors and a variety of combat drones. After a brief standoff and negotiation, they allowed one of the corrupted drones to enter their lab to analyze the impossibly complex array of dozens of hard drives they’d found in one of Dr. Sarah Tonin’s labs (she maintains several, each run by one of her clones, apparently all doing Bad Things).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Turns out she needed all that storage space to save a copy of her consciousness, or at least the version of her that ran the lab where EJS found it. It was in a sub-basement beneath a juvenile hall where Dr. Tonin was developing fantomin and studying its effects on the kids in her care.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Now they have to plan a prison break. While negotiating with Singularity, they agreed to free his mother, the brilliant hacker Tara Byte, who is currently locked up on PenalCorp Island. The Letter of the Law is not at all pleased about this, but with his building locked down and all his employees held hostage he doesn’t have much choice but to go along with it.</p>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-31754984442206651252023-10-22T14:46:00.003-05:002023-10-24T10:56:44.126-05:00Pepe Silvia<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLphTvuXeZfAMEAJoNGdphyphenhyphenU_l-2uNn5eJeGQhwEFWsj-4V41IzNy6kvD9FpNMZNmbxmOrY7Gp_EvMRAGZozVQjgmXUMAut57uMXCVhqn8DVxwkX_7wsq5HDYwsO0VPewRZ_dbCTmc9DvLQZmn85-tO6UZ43zhWp7kQSSiFgjvdYONZFSLk5wF9zf4Mio/s3192/Screenshot%202023-10-22%20at%2014.25.23.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3192" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLphTvuXeZfAMEAJoNGdphyphenhyphenU_l-2uNn5eJeGQhwEFWsj-4V41IzNy6kvD9FpNMZNmbxmOrY7Gp_EvMRAGZozVQjgmXUMAut57uMXCVhqn8DVxwkX_7wsq5HDYwsO0VPewRZ_dbCTmc9DvLQZmn85-tO6UZ43zhWp7kQSSiFgjvdYONZFSLk5wF9zf4Mio/w400-h256/Screenshot%202023-10-22%20at%2014.25.23.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">click to embiggen</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was starting to take half a session just for people to fill each other in on what they'd missed, so I suggested to my Longshot City players they start keeping a conspiracy board to keep track of the campaign via shared whiteboard. I love it. That's logos for all the PC characters on the left (it's a drop-in drop-out style campaign, so it's usually more like 3-5 characters at a time than all 9 at once. just whoever makes it that week). EJS stands for Enterprise Justice Solutions, which is their team name. They want to make a name for themselves, so Professor Fangs had business cards and tshirts all printed out and ready to go before their first mission.<br /><br />This is 10 sessions in.</span><p></p>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-16925212982942424222023-10-12T12:39:00.000-05:002023-10-12T12:39:22.238-05:00Longshot City NPC + Shameless Marketing<div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">This past weekend I introduced a new npc to my ongoing campaign. She ambushed the pcs as they left their hideout and almost killed them all. They captured her in the end but she melted a hole in the floor and got away when they wrecked the van. They wrecked the van because the driver saw a ghost.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">P.H.</span><br /></b>Skill: <b>11</b><br />Stamina: <b>18</b><br />Initiative: <b>4<br /></b>Armor: <b>2</b><br />Damage as Energy Blast (Chemical).</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Priscilla Hamilton won 8 Olympic medals in gymnastics before retiring from competition and coaching the sport at Franklin College. She is a well-loved local celebrity who makes frequent public appearances.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />Her younger brother was an innocent bystander who became collateral damage in a superpowered fight involving the PCs. When she went public with her hatred of the team,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <br /></span>Dr. Sarah Tonin noticed and approached her with an offer she couldn't refuse.<br /><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>Special<br /></b>P.H. is outfitted with tech from Dr. Sarah Tonin including wrist-mounted acid jets (as Energy Blast—Chemical), acidic gas bombs (area, as Massive Blast—Chemical), a compact grapple gun with a lightweight nearly unbreakable line, polycarbon jacket and pants, gas mask/helmet with enhanced vision (infrared and telescopic) and hearing. She rides a bitchin’ motorcycle.<br /><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>Motives</b><br />1. To get revenge.<br />2. To protect a loved one.<br />3. To work for hire.<br />4. To make a name for herself.<br />5. To pull off a string of heists.<br />6. To protect her employer.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">In Other News<br /></span></b><a href="https://spacepenguin.ink/">Space Penguin Ink</a> is now selling <a href="https://spacepenguin.ink/products/get-high-play-rpgs-logo-shirt" target="_blank">this t-shirt</a> I designed:<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7Mdsu8L7KhL530TEhhAJzkJTUAlNu-PD4SBe77-Ui6gdK7FnfuVcI9ttmSXcRgUQpA6dDFqazlL1Dfjg-q038Xr5_aSXW6u6b0sMwE7psRAR-pJll3RC4IXQrrtwhzlUXdzLTp38W1-71gbMTVi1EFLW0xs9CPfCyjbK2SR4_aLLn-uk391Xi5AssNs/s1134/Screenshot%202023-10-12%20at%2010.55.58.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1134" data-original-width="1052" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7Mdsu8L7KhL530TEhhAJzkJTUAlNu-PD4SBe77-Ui6gdK7FnfuVcI9ttmSXcRgUQpA6dDFqazlL1Dfjg-q038Xr5_aSXW6u6b0sMwE7psRAR-pJll3RC4IXQrrtwhzlUXdzLTp38W1-71gbMTVi1EFLW0xs9CPfCyjbK2SR4_aLLn-uk391Xi5AssNs/s320/Screenshot%202023-10-12%20at%2010.55.58.png" width="297" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue;">They also have a 13% off sale on all their zines and books going on. I worked on <a href="https://spacepenguin.ink/collections/troika/products/garden-of-corda" target="_blank">The Garden of Corda</a> and the first three issues of <a href="https://spacepenguin.ink/collections/troika/products/red-solstice-for-many-rpg-systems" target="_blank">Red Solstice</a>.</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><a href="https://shop.swordfishislands.com/silent-titans/" target="_blank">Silent Titans is also on sale</a>, so be sure to check that out if the regular price was too daunting.</span><br /><div><br /></div>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-43573010367761991532023-07-06T14:33:00.003-05:002023-07-06T14:38:26.734-05:00Happy SPInk Day everybody!<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHuRLPe-oIKFon7sdO6IfLG2pSwJ8cvU2ZahVik3BFaYO4cveGffvjUPLhIdGLez--7vJJVfK4eFmekZDGK-TG6GciqBZCh_2JLtVugsBwnRNxnNhbNL2S16KGzIjY3PEPFOoRATcEcOqJFqkSNlkIuoDbt5AHaxumz-07lnWsm3_I1C0DfiSCDYGZwnc/s2698/spink%20cat.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2698" data-original-width="2319" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHuRLPe-oIKFon7sdO6IfLG2pSwJ8cvU2ZahVik3BFaYO4cveGffvjUPLhIdGLez--7vJJVfK4eFmekZDGK-TG6GciqBZCh_2JLtVugsBwnRNxnNhbNL2S16KGzIjY3PEPFOoRATcEcOqJFqkSNlkIuoDbt5AHaxumz-07lnWsm3_I1C0DfiSCDYGZwnc/w275-h320/spink%20cat.png" width="275" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.dougkovacs.com/home.html">Doug Kovacs</a> (illo) and <a href="https://500poundsofnothing.itch.io/">Stella Condrey</a> (typography)</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Today is the official launch of <a href="https://spacepenguin.ink/">Space Penguin Ink LLC</a>, a new publishing company headed by my friend Jarrett Crader a.k.a. jert. The first wave of products includes a hardcover book and four zines written to support five different games (two are for Mothership but one has stats for both Troika! and B/X), so there’s a fairly wide variety right out of the gate.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you don’t know who Jarrett Crader is, he’s been working in RPGs as an editor for about a decade and a project manager for at least five or six years. He worked with me at <a href="https://www.melsonia.com/">Melsonia</a> for years before moving on to <a href="https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/">Exalted Funeral</a>, not to mention the dozens (hundreds?) of freelance projects. He handled project management on <a href="https://shop.tuesdayknightgames.com/products/dissident-whispers">Dissident Whispers</a> which pulled together 90+ people in less than two weeks (and has raised upwards of $70k for the National Bail Fund). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">With SPInk he’s also introduced the most creator friendly business model I’ve personally worked under or seen in the industry, offering royalty shares to the artists, graphic designers, and editors, not just the authors. And of course complete creative ownership and control. This kind of approach tends to encourage everyone to go the extra mile and end up producing a more inspired, polished, and just all around better product, so the audience wins too. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">I have development credit on one of the new releases, <a href="https://spacepenguin.ink/products/garden-of-corda">The Garden of Corda</a>, written and illustrated by reluctantly rising star Cade Crites. They previously did layout on <a href="https://www.melsonia.com/the-ruinous-palace-of-the-metegorgos-424-p.asp">The Ruinous Palace of the Metegorgos</a>. The Garden of Corda is a Troika adventure that takes place on the planet-sized heart of a long dead space giant, host to a dying biome. This is the one written for Troika! with B/X stats included in the back.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">So yeah, this is a pretty exciting development all around. Check it out, and while you’re at it take a look at the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/melsonia/longshot-city">Kickstarter</a> for my superhero game <a href="https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/qa-christian-kessler-longshot-city/">Longshot City</a>.</span></p>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-40297301164678421962023-06-22T08:21:00.003-05:002023-07-07T11:10:26.383-05:00Longshot City is Live (and i am not dead)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPIW9gJFF_chBZajGOCBrDQy3U8PMCKNmjWY5QsdYXYzP3mKSIPj1jZ8BRTdYnTei3TjCG4_FVQ_Tj2TkTXZPToOnceeCfAqtN_845ugbgRETAa8CyIT8O3d-TY2kMl1h1bNG0JW_oatu2kU9j81_JfGJeICOV3pZYx40KkMb9l3PBLzT_QLS3y4j0yng/s1800/01%20copy%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1800" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPIW9gJFF_chBZajGOCBrDQy3U8PMCKNmjWY5QsdYXYzP3mKSIPj1jZ8BRTdYnTei3TjCG4_FVQ_Tj2TkTXZPToOnceeCfAqtN_845ugbgRETAa8CyIT8O3d-TY2kMl1h1bNG0JW_oatu2kU9j81_JfGJeICOV3pZYx40KkMb9l3PBLzT_QLS3y4j0yng/w400-h300/01%20copy%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br />I’m <a href="http://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2019/06/spandex-troika_20.html?m=1">finally</a> <a href="http://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2019/06/more-supers-archetypes-for-troika.html?m=1">at</a> <a href="http://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2019/06/heroes-of-troika-powers-and-weapon.html?m=1">the</a> <a href="http://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2019/07/troika-hero-archetypes-part-3.html?m=1">end</a> <a href="http://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2019/07/super-troika-knockout.html?m=1">of</a> <a href="http://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2019/08/supertroika-archetypes-delta.html?m=1">the</a> last project I posted about back in 2019—Longshot City, a stand-alone superhero RPG built on the chassis of games like Troika! and Fighting Fantasy.</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/melsonia/longshot-city?ref=3dj287&amp;token=dac6e0b5">The Kickstarter is currently underway</a> (funded in 20 minutes!). The box set contains everything I wanted for my own home game—paper minis, GM screen, custom dice, a sick patch for my vest, and plenty more with a box to put it all in.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRvFEbh5fXicUvYQ3CUJVnAa3Za0VWDnO85nZcjySsNAfk0qX03bAn_JuFqDPIZbn7feWO9VqKVYXsoAYecBk89LGoBGLBkjbd55Wfhm5FhZ2E7tndIo7COfxzC3N-Q6FehObon71UB5p3-PKsBZ4K6-xFbocnKjX5ZJEldoZaAabC795Upz7U9bhArE4/s1778/minis.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1778" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRvFEbh5fXicUvYQ3CUJVnAa3Za0VWDnO85nZcjySsNAfk0qX03bAn_JuFqDPIZbn7feWO9VqKVYXsoAYecBk89LGoBGLBkjbd55Wfhm5FhZ2E7tndIo7COfxzC3N-Q6FehObon71UB5p3-PKsBZ4K6-xFbocnKjX5ZJEldoZaAabC795Upz7U9bhArE4/w400-h274/minis.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0aLfaAv7Z6wygXTK7wos766lNjatAeSxDxqcOKfgRVtrrWFFS6j2ritBOPRp4HzgpHsKTSGMMGdW0oMI3jiiRNS_PrUcbAyHVVXRqUj4IPr-LRGqd6oWgGwveQMl6dDB_0s47W8p_KWXHhAAjSMWSdEpnJzATziXizmOmvxoZaUsFqIeGbmg0L2guWKE/s1800/patches.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0aLfaAv7Z6wygXTK7wos766lNjatAeSxDxqcOKfgRVtrrWFFS6j2ritBOPRp4HzgpHsKTSGMMGdW0oMI3jiiRNS_PrUcbAyHVVXRqUj4IPr-LRGqd6oWgGwveQMl6dDB_0s47W8p_KWXHhAAjSMWSdEpnJzATziXizmOmvxoZaUsFqIeGbmg0L2guWKE/w320-h240/patches.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That’s been the theme of this whole process. This isn’t the game I thought people would want (though I hope they do), it’s the game <span class="s1" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><b>I</b></span> wanted. I ran an open table playtest campaign for close to three years, trying out the different archetypes and NPCs, seeing what works best for me and rewriting powers as I went. At this point <a href="https://spacepenguin.ink/">Jarrett Crader of Space Penguin Ink</a> was still editing at Melsonia, and helped with early development. This game is fine-tuned to keep me grinning like an idiot at the table.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As anyone who’s tried to turn a binder full of houserules into a cohesive game knows, the hardest part is translating your work into something anyone can use. To that end I’ve gone back and forth on the wording with <a href="https://spearwitch.com/blogs/news">Jared Sinclair</a> until my eyes bled. I also included advice on running the game including how to set up and run three different campaign structures, all of which can be used with any open-ended RPG.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I also filled the role of art director for this book. In this case that mostly means two things; supervising Meredith Silver’s layout work and providing her with a style guide and any needed guidance, and hiring and assigning illustrations to artists.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This game is designed not to emulate any particular tone, but to embrace the variety and weirdness of the superhero genre, and it was important to me that the art reflect that. I hired three artists with wildly different styles: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/makeitgayer/">JeCorey Holder</a> who I worked with on Academies of the Arcane, <a href="https://www.patreon.com/evlynmoreau">Evelyn Moreau</a> who I’ve been wanting to work with for like a decade, and <a href="https://twitter.com/atypicalbrkfst?lang=en">Boson Au</a> who I’ve never worked with before and definitely will again. There were times when I was worried about tying it all together, but I honestly couldn’t be happier with the end result.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5xOGJud2rQGolYJmHubuYQBuyQ6eZI8oJQ13retD1dj47KDG3x3Uterc9Q5LFMQPfcEoh7sRuXnzespQ2KbTjM5C1AXuSGcOoJIZF3mW3DsWCRN5MY8cakr0jtGn-x9LNfF9h0VW85Zl1pjqTW7CAgQhYo75PRwpFGPOrKfVrx3VvBWYJpRNSJKrYdZ4/s1800/03%20copy%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1800" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5xOGJud2rQGolYJmHubuYQBuyQ6eZI8oJQ13retD1dj47KDG3x3Uterc9Q5LFMQPfcEoh7sRuXnzespQ2KbTjM5C1AXuSGcOoJIZF3mW3DsWCRN5MY8cakr0jtGn-x9LNfF9h0VW85Zl1pjqTW7CAgQhYo75PRwpFGPOrKfVrx3VvBWYJpRNSJKrYdZ4/w400-h301/03%20copy%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I recently did an interview about the game for Logar the Barbarian’s (of Wizards and Wobblies) new podcast, the Hobos Collective, <a href="https://hoboscollective.com/2023/06/21/how-about-some-superhero-or-sci-fi-rpgs/">that just got posted today.</a></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I’m also set to do a Q&A on the RandomWorlds Discord server that will be posted in a bunch of places in a couple days. Links to appear when it happens. EDIT: yeah this happened like a week ago now <a href="https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/qa-christian-kessler-longshot-city/">here it is</a>.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you want to talk about Longshot City or Troika! or whatever really, the easiest place to find me online is <a href="https://www.melsonia.com/">Melsonia’s</a> <a href="https://discord.gg/XQkrr2NN">Discord server</a>.</p>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-41268570576959131992019-08-07T14:02:00.000-05:002019-08-07T14:02:01.187-05:00SuperTroika: Archetypes Delta<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-51557746817689375122019-07-16T09:35:00.000-05:002019-08-07T13:12:35.925-05:00Super Troika Knockout<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of <a href="https://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2019/06/spandex-troika_20.html">the damage tables I wrote</a> can do two or three times as much damage as most characters have. That's because if Cyclops or Superman wants to zap a tank, they should have a chance of blowing it up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the other hand, this makes every PC pretty fragile. So I'm making some K.O. tables for things that happen when you hit -1 Stamina. Eventually I'll want it to be a d66 table, but this is fine for now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All of these results would have the PC out of the game for at least the rest of the session, so let the players take over a side character (there are likely to be plenty around because of the <a href="https://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2019/06/supertroika-secret-identities.html">friends and family rule</a>).</span></div>
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Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-64495988187597031692019-07-12T08:35:00.001-05:002019-07-12T09:02:14.961-05:00Troika Masks & Capes: Rival Personalities<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Continuing <a href="https://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2019/06/spandex-troika_20.html">this project</a>. This method would also work for intelligent swords and other sentient items in that other fantasy role playing game. Might also be fun to play with in Call of Cthulhu/Delta Green or Mothership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've mentioned rival personalities as potential complications for a couple different archetypes now, and I think it's pretty obvious what that means in the context of comics (especially when there's a movie about Venom and a show about Legion and I'm pretty sure Ghost Rider is on that Agents of Shield show). I haven't really explained how to adjudicate it fairly though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The most obvious option is to make players roll on a random table of traits a few times. That sounds kinda boring to make and not even really all that helpful in terms of how the rival personality impacts the game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No one in my current playtest has to deal with a rival personality at this point (but there are experimental pharmaceuticals in play so who knows), but I've got an idea of what to try if/when that changes: Schrodinger's personality, with individual decisions decided by luck checks and precedent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The PC is going to need to keep a list of what actions are and are not cool from the rival personality's perspective, presumably on the back of the character sheet or something. If the pc has multiple rival personalities, the player keeps a separate list for each one and which one is dominant is randomly determined whenever the issue comes up. The player can give them names if they want to, but make sure they realize that they don't know at this point how this personality is gonna turn out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first time the PC makes a moral decision of any kind, they need to make a luck check (and spend a luck point because it's Troika) to see if their rival personality is okay with it. They need to repeat the procedure again anytime they make a moral decision that isn't already covered by precedent (so if it works like I want it to, these checks become necessary less often as the campaign continues and more situations are covered by precedent). It's often in the PC's interest to ask the referee for a luck check if there is a shade of difference between the current decision and the one that set the precedent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">EXAMPLE: Spiderman's and then Venom's symbiote was initially defined by its bloodlust. Then, in the 90s, when faced with the choice to victimize or protect the innocent homeless people living under San Francisco, it and Eddie Brock unanimously decided to act as the community's guardian. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If your rival personality opposes something that you really really wanna do, you can attempt to make a raw skill check (that is, roll under just your skill stat, no powers or specialties apply). If you succeed, you manage to overpower your rival personality for now. If you critically fail (double 6s on 2d6), your rival personality takes over for 1d6x10 minutes. If, during this time, it is faced with a moral decision that isn't covered by precedent, the PC gets to try to make their own decision on what to do, making a luck check as usual. If the PC's decision is opposed by the rival personality, the rival personality does whatever the PC didn't want it to and a new precedent is set as normal. If the PC rolls a critical success on this luck check (snake eyes), they not only set a precedent that agrees with their stated desire, they also reassert control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I guess this makes reverse psychology a possible metagaming tactic. For now I'll say that if you try that and you succeed on a luck check you were counting on failing, you have to go through with your stated decision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm a little concerned about the randomness creating personalities that make even less sense than real people, but using precedent by default should keep that sort of contradiction at least somewhat in check. I'll find out when it starts coming up in-game.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1 no memories older than one month ago but plenty of enemies know you.</span></div>
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Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-7318827236641766402019-06-29T13:59:00.001-05:002019-07-11T09:14:21.549-05:00SuperTroika!: Secret Identities<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-This step is entirely optional. Not every superhero needs a secret identity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-Treat any task directly related to alter-ego's job as a skill with 2 ranks. this can stack with archetype or origin skills at the referee's discretion. you cannot increase this rank without retiring from superheroics to focus, but you may advance in your profession as a result of gameplay events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-You have 1d6 family members and 1d6 close friends who will likely be put at risk by your activities.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-Lose 1d3 max luck points for each friend or family member you fail to save. (re)gain 1d3 max luck points if you manage to reverse their new status (falsely imprisoned, insane, dead, etc).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ALTER-EGO </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">11 taxi driver</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">12 mechanic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">13 lawyer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14 news photographer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15 artist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16 actor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">21 teacher</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">22 student</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">23 private investigator</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">24 religious leader</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">25 idle rich</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">26 journalist</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">31 forensic investigator</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">32 mortician</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">33 lab assistant</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">34 writer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">35 musician</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">36 librarian</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">41 stage magician</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">42 circus performer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">43 engineer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">44 police officer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">45 paramedic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">46 intel analyst</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">51 hacker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">52 office intern</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">53 bounty hunter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">54 sales rep</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">55 restaurant server</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">56 construction worker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">61 janitor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">62 dockhand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">63 curator</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">64 cook</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">65 bartender</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">66 stunt double</span>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-72049695130626262432019-06-26T11:36:00.000-05:002019-07-11T09:11:15.752-05:00Heroes of Troika: Powers and Weapon Damage<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wrote up some of the possibly less than obvious powers, and damage tables for modern weapons and energy blast type powers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feats of Strength ended up being the most complicated power to figure out, which I didn't expect, because it needs to increase melee damage directly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'll edit this post as I come up with more powers so they're all in one place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Signature Weapon Fighting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You possess a favorite weapon which you know better than all others of its type. It could be an heirloom katana, a heavily customized firearm, or even an energy weapon that you stole or invented. It may help to use your Origin and Archetype as guides in selecting them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Forensics</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You’ve developed the ability to determine what’s gone on in a small area by analyzing the aftermath. This can be used for tracking, reading a crime scene, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hand to Hand Fighting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Includes unarmed combat as well as any melee weapons that aren’t too bizarre to figure out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Energy Blast (3)/Energy Strike (3)/Massive Blast (6)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Just like regular Fighting Skills, Roll Versus whatever combat skill your Target is using, and whoever wins the Roll hits. Most Archetypes must choose a type of energy (such as fire, sound, radiation, or lightning) during character creation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Warding Circle</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Knowledge of the sigils and seals required to protect oneself from Mystical entities. These barriers also provide a +2 bonus when defending against magic attacks and take at least ten minutes to draw competently. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Suggestion (3)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You say a thing to an NPC, and they believe it. They realize their mistake if anything explicitly causes them to rethink the situation, but won’t think to question it on their own until then. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Absorb Damage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roll to try and shrug off successful physical attacks without taking any damage at all. If you fail the roll, your opponent still deducts your Rating from their damage roll (to a minimum of 1). Only if you critically fail do you take damage as normal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feats of Strength</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breaking things, moving things, etc. Also: whenever dealing physical damage with a hand to hand weapon, apply double your Rating as a multiplier to your damage result.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">EXAMPLE: Gronk succeeds in hitting Nab with an unarmed attack. He then rolls 1d6 on the Unarmed damage table and rolls a 5, which normally does 2 points of Stamina damage. Because Gronk also has a Feats of Strength Rating of +3, he multiplies his damage result by 6 for a total of 12 points of Stamina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Survival</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Encompasses wilderness survival skills as well as those that apply equally in an urban environment, such as first aid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shape Reality (8)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Successful use of this power lets you do anything you want. Failure is catastrophic and usually manifests in a way that reflects the cruel irony of the fates and/or GM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Flight (1)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You don’t normally need to test this power in relaxed, uncontested scenarios. Simply assume it succeeded and deduct a Stamina point as usual. Elements such as a need to move quickly, heavy wind, or narrow spaces make the task more difficult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Grappling</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More specific than Hand to Hand Fighting, this covers maneuvers like grabbing and pinning opponents, throwing them, disarming them, etc. All these maneuvers can also be attempted with Hand to Hand Fighting, but characters with this skill generally have a higher Grappling Rating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7+</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PISTOL </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6 <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7+</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>16</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ASSAULT RIFLE </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5 <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7+</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>12<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>18<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>24</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ENERGY BLAST/ENERGY STRIKE </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MASSIVE BLAST </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-4 size manipulation (must check every time size doubles or halves) (3) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-feats of strength based on size (up to +5, equal penalty to agility based skill tests) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-2 hand to hand fighting </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">STREET OCCULTIST (origin must be MYSTICAL) (john constantine, mr. e, dr. occult, sabrina) </span><br />
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-pocket divination system: cards or dice or pendulum etc. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-chalk </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-warding tattoos (-1 to magic attacks) or focus (+1 to powers) or obedient familiar </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-3 warding circle </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-3 occult lore </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-2 suggestion (3) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-1 augury (3) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-1 summoning (4) or banishment (4) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ENERGY CANNON (cyclops, black canary, gambit) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-4 energy blast (choose one energy type) (3) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-3 massive blast (6) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-2 hand to hand fighting </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-1 athletics </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SUPERSOLDIER (cpt america, sgt rock, punisher) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Possessions </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-signature weapon (+2) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-medium armor </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-survival kit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-first aid kit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-multitool </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-3 fighting (all) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-3 athletics </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-2 awareness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-1 feats of strength </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-1 survival </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PARAGON (superman, thor, sentry, shazam, captain marvel, wonder woman, martian manhunter) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Possessions </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-lair that is incredibly difficult for others to get to </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-3 feats of strength </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-3 hand to hand fighting </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-2 absorb damage </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-2 flight (1) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-2 energy blast (3) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Complication </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 debilitatingly allergic to a relatively rare substance. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 possess a powerful signature weapon (+2) without which all power tests suffer a -2 penalty. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3 normally exists as two people (each has half of your score in skill, stamina, and luck) who must combine to activate powers (unstable when fused for too long). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4 you lose the energy blast ability and gain a signature weapon (+2). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5 set feats of strength and hand to hand combat to 2 each, change energy blast to telepathy (3), add 2 shapeshift (2). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6 a rival personality with full access to your powers takes over while you sleep.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ELASTIMORPH (mr. fantastic, plastic man, ms. marvel) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Powers & Specialties </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-4 stretch </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-3 absorb damage </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-2 grappling </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-1 hand to hand fighting</span></div>
Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-31743338871461059132019-06-20T12:57:00.002-05:002019-07-12T08:56:05.238-05:00Spandex Troika<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Okay I’ve been putting this off fuckin forever now.<br />
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I’m still alive! Just been really really busy. <a href="http://shop.swordfishislands.com/silent-titans/">Silent Titans</a> by Patrick Stuart is finally off my plate, as is the <a href="https://www.melsonia.com/troika-17-p.asp">Numinous Edition of Troika!</a> by Daniel Sell. I’m helping Corey Brin put the finishing touches on Wet Grandpa (generic OSR rules) by Evey Lockhart while I plow through Fronds of Benevolence (Troika! rules) by Andrew Walters, both of which are Adventures I Would Totally Run For My Friends. There’s at least one thing I’m not supposed to talk about. Oh and Beckett might have some more of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/weirdrealms/photos/a.541986725995324/1037279379799387/?type=3&theater">those tshirts I made</a> in his shop.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">That’s not what this post is about. This post is about superheroes.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I’m usually not one to think all that much about game mechanics, but I realized while working on Troika! that it’s the perfect system to model games about pretending to be superfriends. I’m not going to argue that point right now because that’s boring and I’m drinking and I want to get to some of the content I’ve been coming up with for it.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The biggest mechanical change is making the players roll dice one more time during character generation. Maybe two more times actually, I haven’t decided. I know, I know, that sucks, but hear me out. If you’re not familiar with Troika!, it uses a randomly determined Background to model a couple different things that, in a supers rpg, kinda need to be separate, which I’m calling Origin and Archetype. Like, Iron Man and XO-Manowar both have the Power Suit Archetype and roughly the same powers, but one is a rich inventor and one is an ancient barbarian who found an alien artifact. The Flash got caught in a freak accident and Quicksilver was born that way.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The other big difference is just giving some archetypes a few more ranks in skills than Troika! normally allows. That’s fine because they are superheroes.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(The maybe second extra dice roll is probably going to be an optional thing where you have a random day job for your alias with a couple skills at 1 rank but then you have a secret identity to maintain and close ones to protect as a tradeoff. I don’t know, I’m not there yet.)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Anyway here’s six archetypes:</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">FLEDGELING PSIONIC (11, jean grey, xavier, psylocke)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-3 telekinesis (4) (((((this means 3 ranks in telekinesis, which costs 4 stamina points to use)))))</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-3 telepathy (3)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-2 energy shield (3)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-2 energy blast (3)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-2 flight (1)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Complication (((((roll 1d6)))))</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 confined to a wheelchair.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 1d6 rival personalities.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">3 you don’t have a physical body of your own and must possess one to access your powers.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">4 change 2 energy blast to 4 energy strike, 2 energy shield to 3 hand to hand fighting, telekinesis to 1, telepathy to 1, change 2 flight to 3 athletics.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">5 test luck or destroy all electronics in ¼ mile every time you use your powers.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">6 if you fail a psionics test you take damage as large beast unless you spend a luck point and test your luck.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">ASSASSIN (elektra, ninjak, black widow, james bond, hawkeye, the black kaiser)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-signature weapon (+2)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-rope & grapple</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-1d6 smoke bombs</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-4 stealth</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-4 signature weapon fighting</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-2 hand to hand fighting</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-2 athletics</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 You killed your master; your fellow students seek revenge.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 Complex religious code; test luck the first time you make any action to see if it is permitted.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">3 You have an “evil” twin who wants to steal your identity.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">4 Your employers have decided that you’re no good to them alive.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">5 Your past crimes are coming back to haunt you.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">6 You cannot resist an honorable challenge.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">BRUTE (thing, hulk, luke cage, hellboy, armor)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-4 feats of strength</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-4 absorb damage</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-4 hand to hand fighting</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 feared and hated for appearance</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 must transform into a rival personality to use powers, rage triggers involuntary transformation</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">3 clumsy as hell — all important and breakable objects within 5’ of you have a 1/3 chance of doing just that at any given moment.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">4 you look like a large but normal human, but all power ratings are adjusted by -2</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">5 your arms end in massive club-like stumps instead of hands with useful fingers</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">6 your powers only last for an hour at a time and must spend 4 hours recharging</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">TRANSLOCATOR (flash, nightcrawler, kitty pryde)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Powers & Specialties</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-4 flight or superspeed or phasing or teleportation (1)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-3 athletics</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-3 hand to hand fighting</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">(((((they don’t all need to have complications)))))</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">SHAPER (dr manhattan, franklin richards, timothy hunter, green lantern, spectre, dr strange)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Powers & Specialties</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-4 shape reality (8)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-2 energy shield (3)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-2 energy blast (3)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-2 teleportation (1)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-1 flight (1)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Complication</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 completely resigned to a future only you can see (test luck to attempt anything ever)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 you are a child (set skill and stamina to minimum, lose all powers except shape reality)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">3 your powers are controlled by a rival personality with a very specific code (code should be a short sentence, test luck to determine its stance on any non-obvious issue)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">4 can only create or manipulate objects and energy constructs of a certain color (lose teleportation, increase energy blast and energy shield by 1 each, replace shape reality with hard light construct (4))</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">5 to access your powers you must possess a human host, who becomes a rival personality</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">6 hunted by cosmic entities that sense the use of your powers</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">POWERSUIT (origin must be ITEM) (iron man, x-o manowar, luthor in his battlesuit, steel)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Possessions</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-power suit (+5 superheavy armor)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-give up 1 armor point for each integrated weapon system: machine gun (2 stamina cost, as assault rifle), rocket propelled grenades (4 stamina cost), energy blast (3 stamina cost, choose an energy type)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Powers & Specialties</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-4 ranged fighting (stamina cost by weapon type)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-3 flight (1)</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-2 feats of strength<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">-1 sensory array</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">And here’s the origins (as of now, may change a lot):</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. MYSTICAL</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. BIOLOGICAL</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. MUNDANE</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4. COSMIC</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">5. TECH</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">6. TEMPORAL</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. BORN LIKE THIS</span></span></div>
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<td class="td8" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">changeling</span></span></div>
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<td class="td9" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">inborn mutation</span></span></div>
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<td class="td10" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">displaced royalty</span></span></div>
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<td class="td11" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">anthropomorphic concept</span></span></div>
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<td class="td9" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">sentient robot</span></span></div>
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<td class="td12" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">time capsule</span></span></div>
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<td class="td13" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. INTENTIONAL CHANGE</span></span></div>
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<td class="td14" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">faustian pact</span></span></div>
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<td class="td15" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">biohacked mutation</span></span></div>
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<td class="td16" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">oath of vengeance</span></span></div>
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<td class="td17" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">spiritual ascension</span></span></div>
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<td class="td15" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">cybernetic enhancement</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td18" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">one-way traveller from the future</span></span></div>
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<td class="td7" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. ITEM</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td8" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">magic artifact</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td9" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">serum dependent</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td10" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">government issue</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td11" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hyperdimensional tech</span></span></div>
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<td class="td9" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">inventor</span></span></div>
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<td class="td12" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">future tech</span></span></div>
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<td class="td1" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4. INTENSE TRAINING</span></span></div>
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<td class="td2" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">trained by a hermit</span></span></div>
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<td class="td3" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">raised by wild animals</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td4" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">rogue agent</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td5" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">star god cultist</span></span></div>
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<td class="td3" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">test pilot</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td6" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">centuries old</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">5. ACCIDENTAL CHANGE</span></span></div>
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<td class="td8" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">possessed</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td9" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">symbiotic organism</span></span></div>
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<td class="td10" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">marooned survivor</span></span></div>
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<td class="td11" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">sucked into a work of fiction</span></span></div>
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<td class="td9" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">radiation exposure</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td12" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">marooned time traveller</span></span></div>
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<td class="td1" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">6. ORGANISATIONAL</span></span></div>
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<td class="td2" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">trained by monks</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td3" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">experimental clone</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td4" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">active agent</span></span></div>
</td>
<td class="td5" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">alien soldier</span></span></div>
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<td class="td3" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hi-tech entrepreneur</span></span></div>
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<td class="td6" valign="middle"><div class="p9">
<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">active time agent</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Will post more soon.</span></span></div>
<br />Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-76922722309222910992018-09-04T13:18:00.000-05:002018-09-04T13:18:02.658-05:00Contacts (Insurgency)<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In Delta Green, bonds are meant to be your character's emotional support network, NPCs you can rely on (at least to a point) to help you deal with the massive psychological trauma inherent in the job.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These bonds could be with your spouse, childhood best friend, Very Good Dog, whatever. The point is that they don't directly represent an in-game resource as written, though they do help agents recover some of their sanity between sessions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That doesn't model an insurgency campaign very well. For one thing, your closest bonds as a dedicated freedom fighter, after a little while fighting alongside your comrades, are probably going to be with them, not anyone you left behind. For another thing, if you have every reason to assume you're being watched by people who want you dead, you don't go visit your family between missions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This frees bonds up to do something more appropriate to the context.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Basically what I want is: someone at the table says "hey we need fake IDs to try and get on base and none of us have the forgery skill" and then someone else says "fine then I have a cousin Smirnoff who makes those for a living" and they write it on their character sheet and then the player cell has a new resource and the occupiers may or may not find a new way to get close to the PCs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>Rule Changes:</u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">>Call it "contacts" instead of "bonds".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">>Each contact has 85% in one professional specialty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">>You don't have to decide who your contacts are or what they do until it comes up in-game.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Your contact score = CHA x 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> >>Roll under with d% to call in a favor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> >>If the roll fails, they still have a 50% chance of deciding to help you ("but I swear this is the last time do you hear me!?"). Either way, their contact score goes down by 1d20 points.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> >>If your contact score ever reaches 0%, they refuse to help or even see you ever again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> >>You can potentially increase your contact score by doing favors for your contact.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">>There are conditions that add bonuses or penalties to these rolls (maximum total of 99%, minimum of 1%).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> >>Absolutely no chance of being found out: +20% bonus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> >>Favor will likely earn money or status for the contact: +20% bonus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> >>Satisfies a preexisting grudge: +40% bonus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> >>Secrecy* score is 60% or less: -20% penalty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> ></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">>Secrecy* score is 40% or less: -40% penalty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> >>Public Support* score is -10% or less: -20% penalty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> >>Direct physical danger to self or family: -40% penalty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You could, if you wanted to, game this system to give you a contact you could use to reduce your PC's mental strain, just like a bond in the rules-as-written. You'd just need to use a contact slot on a mental health professional who could then use their skill to help keep you from losing your shit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">*These are <a href="http://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2017/11/after-action-report.html">two of the scales</a> I've been using to track how the PCs' actions affect the overall campaign.</span>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-64553379444716088692018-07-10T12:00:00.000-05:002018-07-10T12:03:20.825-05:00Faux Silent Fever<style type="text/css">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Time flies when you’re busy as hell. This seems like a good moment to step back and take stock.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I get it, I guess. There are some things I genuinely like about the system. The way it facilitates gonzo parties made up of PCs out of the monster book is kinda cool. The threefold save system is a genuine innovation, even if the rules don't leverage it as much as they could (more on that in a minute).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The core issue with the game, for me, is the crunch. The sheer number of rules creates two problems for me: how long everything takes in comparison to most other D&D retroclones, during character generation, actual gameplay, and DM prep, and mechanics that reward system mastery more than player creativity. The first problem makes the game hard to run, and the second makes it not feel worth it to run.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So I started thinking about how to turn Pathfinder into a Good Game (as arbitrarily defined by me).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not just like, playable, actually good, like what would it take to turn this into something I would choose to play?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Throw out the entire skill system as written and make the threefold saving throws do double duty. Fortitude still means fortitude but now it also means “stuff fighters are good at” like athletics or horse riding. Reflex maps to thief stuff, will maps to wizardpriest stuff. Now whenever you need to make a skill check, the DM tells you which ability score to add to which saving throw/skill score and you add that to a d20.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You can still keep class skills for the sake of niche protection by assigning advantage to those tasks as a class ability. So rangers, druids, and barbarians get advantage to checks involving nature stuff, bards get advantage to rocking out while everyone else does the work, etc. Rogues would get advantage to thief stuff *in addition to* having really high reflex saves and usually having good dexterity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">…by eliminating them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This would run the risk of nerfing fighters. You can avoid this by letting them use ad-libbed mighty deeds like in DCC, just replace the funky DCC dice chain with 5e-style advantage like so:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">fighter pc: i wanna charge the ogre and knock his ass off the cliff</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">dm: roll two d20s. if one hits, you do normal damage. if they both hit, it does normal damage and also knocks his ass off the cliff</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">fighter pc: fuck i rolled a 1 and a failure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">dm: he sees what you’re doing and steps aside at the last second and your ass goes off the cliff</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ex-fighter pc: dammit. oh well at least you adopted those house rules from that blog that make chargen take ten minutes even for drunk noobs. imma be a troll bard this time </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">what the fuck would a troll bard write songs about</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ignore all of the generic magic items in the book and most of the unique ones. They all suck. +x longswords are boring and trying to hide that with extra description or history just makes it worse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Instead, come up with unique items whenever possible. If you need a random table of semi-generic items like the rulebook provides, recycle the more interesting feats you threw out in Step 2. A scimitar that lets you do a whirlwind attack or a wand that lets you extend or empower spells would both be more fun than the equivalent lower tier magic items in the book. Remember, items that give players new options are always more interesting and fun than items that just make them 5% or 10% better at what they already do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I FORGOT STEP 0. ELIMINATE ALIGNMENT WITH PREJUDICE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first thing everyone everywhere should throw out of their game is alignment. It’s terrible as written and I would argue that it doesn’t add anything valuable enough to make it worth keeping.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">cons (if run by the book): eliminates interesting gameplay that results from moral ambiguity, can lead paladin types to adopt genocidal attitudes toward creatures listed as evil in the monster manual, prescribes and/or judges pc actions based on an outmoded Abrahamic conception of morality, limits roleplaying opportunities for players that want certain powers (why the fuck can’t there just be a paladin of Tiamat or a drunken master that’s just a regular monk without the alignment restriction you don’t need a whole new class for that shit if you just don't put the restriction in), allows the party or even NPCs to skip situations where they would otherwise need to use roleplaying and player skill to determine if someone is evil or not like why even have investigations and trials at all you know what I mean, probably a lot more but I'm done with this list</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">pros: uh it makes smite and detect work</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">You can make smite and detect work without alignment though.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. Any divine powers like smite evil that are designed to encode crusader-like values into lawful good religions now affect enemies of the PC’s specific faith. What qualifies as enemies is pretty much up to the PC and DM to determine as they go, once the religion has been sort of outlined ahead of time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. Any arcane spells or abilities like detect evil are now just called “detect” (for example) and the PC would have to say what they want to detect when they cast it. It’s up to the DM to make on the spot rulings about what sorts of things are too specific or not specific enough to target with the spell, but any of the creature types should probably be fine. Like:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">wizard pc: alright we don’t know where the wounded minotaur is hiding so i cast detect evil</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">dm: good and evil are societal constructs and have no place interacting with a form of magic that focuses on rearranging the fundamental structure of the universe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">wizard pc: fine, nerd. i cast detect monstrous humanoid</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">dm: you sense that the minotaur has stuffed himself into a barrel that kinda seems a little too small for it</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">wizard pc: wait i think this npc is a demon in disguise. detect outsider</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The challenge rating system that by-the-book XP is based on is too much damn work. It can make DM prep take forever just to plan out an encounter that, in more rules-light versions of D&D, you’d be able to randomly generate on the fly. It also tends to make it difficult to assign XP rewards for any traps or puzzles that are interesting enough to not fit into the strict guidelines presented in the rulebook.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is one of those problems that has annoyed so many people so much that there are easily hundreds of totally valid takes on how to fix XP on blogs and social media. I won’t pretend that the way I’ve started handling it is the best for everyone, but this is how I run it in most of my D&D-like games:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-Your PC levels up every time they achieve a set number of challenges. I’ve been going with 13 for good luck. If I ever decide that I want progression to move faster or slower, that’s the only number I’ll need to adjust.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-Valid “challenges” are obstacles that pose a legitimate threat to either the party’s safety or their goals, and require some level of player skill to negotiate. So solving any puzzle door would qualify, and so would figuring out and negotiating a trap, as well as winning any genuinely threatening combat encounter (defined as beating anything with more hit dice than you have levels). Slaughtering a village of goblins won’t give a level 7 paladin any XP unless there’s like a surprise dragon or something.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">-I also count spending 100 monies on just partying in between adventures as a “challenge” for leveling purposes to encourage <a href="http://jrients.blogspot.com/2008/12/party-like-its-999.html">situations in which players must roll to see what their PCs did while blackout drunk</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">STEP 5. UN-NERF HUMANS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I just realized that getting rid of skill points and feats kinda fucks humans over since that’s all they normally get at chargen. I say just start ‘em off at level two and be done with it. If nothing else, that should encourage players who don’t care what race their PC is to just pick human and move on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">STEP 6. LET’S FUCK WITH RACIAL ABILITY SCORE ADJUSTMENTS WHILE WE’RE AT IT</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Almost all the races in the game (pretty sure this applies to every non-human, right?) get a +x bonus to one or more ability scores and a -x penalty to others. Which I guess is alright, but it’s kinda more fun to interpret those bonuses as extra dice. So like an elf would get to roll 4d6 for dexterity but only get 2d6 for constitution.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I’ll admit that this one is more optional really <span style="font-size: x-small;">(all of these are optional dummy)</span>. I like it because the whole point of allowing players to role-play as non-human species is to add variety, so any change that accentuates that variety by making differences more extreme is worth making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Okay now I’m getting into aesthetic preferences instead of just ways to make the game run more smoothly so I’ll just quit while I still feel like I’m ahead.</span>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-17100046710611758002017-11-17T13:34:00.005-06:002017-11-19T09:40:45.052-06:00Kovakistani Mountains Die Drop Table<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;">In a guerrilla warfare campaign with a foreign occupying force, the local terrain is going to become the resistance’s greatest weapon. The earliest historical anecdotes I’ve read examples of that statement in were rebellions against Roman Imperial rule, but I’m sure it goes back further than that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">At the end of the first session of <a href="https://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/search/label/kovakistan">my KLA campaign</a>, the PC cell fled the capital city to head into the mountains. Which meant that my prep for episode two basically consisted of making another one of these: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />This one’s a little bit different from the two previous ones I posted, partly because of the more realistic genre, but also to account for less extreme weather conditions, variable alertness levels for local units of the occupying force, and human-made infrastructure. The other key difference is that (unless they REALLY fuck up) the PCs will be sticking to the roads, which means that smaller wilderness features won't generally even be noticed, at least not as readily as if the <strike>party</strike> cell was hiking through the woods. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The random alertness (bottom edge) in particular makes traveling more of a hassle by increasing the number of encounters per journey from the standard 1 in 6. It's also helpful when figuring out how any soldiers encountered should behave by default.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here’s a more legible version:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />I'd like to say I'll clean this up at some point but that's what I said about the jungle one like a year ago so let's assume I care more about pure functionality with these.<br /><br />It may just be that my players were really on it, but this worked really well in practice. The random terrain and constantly shifting fog added an element of tactical variety that gave the PCs room to deal with pretty repetitive encounters differently in different situations.</span><br />
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Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1984366687205600158.post-973070458076032112017-11-07T12:42:00.000-06:002017-11-09T08:52:10.439-06:00After Action Report<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Decided to give this <a href="https://popularenchanting.blogspot.com/2017/10/bella-ciao-bella-ciao-bella-ciao-ciao.html">freedom fighter campaign</a> a go starting last evening. I’m still sorting this out in my head so I guess you get to watch me do it in real-time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I’m using Delta Green/Call of Cthulhu rules, with the house rule that players can come up with their Bonds (NPC relationships) on the fly as needed. So far this has been used twice, to establish a base of operations each time (they kinda fucked the first one up already which is a little impressive in a way).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I’m not currently planning on adding any of the supernatural weirdness that game was made for, but the equipment and skill lists are pretty much perfect for this and there’s PTSD rules baked in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pretty much every mechanic in DG is based on a roll-under percentile mechanic, so that’s how I’ll be approaching Secrecy, War Weariness, and Public Support. Secrecy starts at 100% and goes down as the PCs make contacts and build up a reputation. War Weariness starts at 0%. Public Support also starts at 0%, but goes from -50% to 50%. This is because I don’t think I’ll ever need to roll under it, I’ll just be using it as a bonus or penalty to other rolls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The setting is Northern Kovakistan, a fictional country somewhere in eastern Europe, which has been invaded by America Inc sometime in the near future. The PC cell’s major goals at this early stage are to get some cash and connect with a larger terrorist network to gain access to intel and equipment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The party has already done a few things that affect these three scores. In order of occurrence:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1. They robbed a store for bomb-making supplies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2. They killed the store owner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(Even if 1 & 2 aren’t linked back to the PCs, it hurts Public Support for the revolution in general when civilians are targeted. Secrecy refers to the PC cell, but Public Support is for the whole movement.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3. They did manage to not only blow up an American convoy without any direct civilian casualties, but also to get the explosion on film.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4. They betrayed the only bond which had been established at that point, Pizza Josef, who was the employer, landlord, and possibly illegitimate father of one of the PCs, and got him arrested in connection with the convoy attack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5. They staged the attack literally right outside their base of operations (although i think the original plan was for the bomb to go off inside the restaurant which… well fuck Josef I guess).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6. They completely abandoned that base of operations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5 and 6 would normally both be pretty extreme adjustments but in this case they mostly just cancel each other out. Although they would probably have left some clues behind… I’ll have to get them to make a Forensics check at the top of next session to see how well they cleaned up. If the check fails, Secrecy goes down by the same amount the check fails by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4 is easy. The party set Josef up to take the fall, he knows it was them, and is gonna tell the Americans everything he knows even before they start torturing him (which they will do anyway). The strength of that bond was 13%, so Secrecy is gonna take a 13% hit. This represents the value of whatever intel Josef was able to give the interrogators. If the bond had been stronger, he would have known more about the PC, so the Secrecy rating would suffer more of a penalty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 & 2 are definitely going to directly affect Public Support, which will indirectly affect Secrecy. For now I’m just going to say that each fuckup (including multiple fuckups in the same event) results in a 5% penalty. So this puts Public Support at -10%, which means a 10% penalty to Secrecy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3 will increase War Weariness. Once the PCs release the video, it will also increase Public Support. Five soldiers died in the attack, so War Weariness is now at 5%.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(This is a little unreasonable, in reality tens of thousands of soldiers need to die in vain for the civilian population to start caring, but I’m only counting deaths directly caused by the PCs and you can always assume there’s a lot more going on in the setting than just what they’re up to and besides it would take forever even to get as high as 50% otherwise.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So now I need to make two out-of-game rolls to see what’s going on in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The PC cell’s Secrecy rating is currently 77%. I rolled 03, so the authorities are not yet onto them. Every time this fails, the occupying force will get one step closer to the PC cell by connecting some dots about their activities or interrogating one of their contacts or something similar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The War Weariness of America Inc is at 5%, so a 93 tells me that nationalist jingoism is doing quite well thank you very much. If I ever start rolling under this, dissent will start growing in the occupiers’ homeland, germinating in academia before spreading to the voters and eventually the politicians and business leaders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Oh, if you’re curious, <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1L6VCKisJO3YIH5AKKIVDl8xvSR9mgAXz">these are the pregens I threw together</a>. We ended up with an engineer, an ex-secret police inspector for the deposed Kovakistani regime, a burglar, a journalist, and a smuggler for this session. No one went for the shock troop or the paramedic.</span>Christian Kesslerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15041997396745932629noreply@blogger.com