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General Chaos / Re: What Vidja games are you playing?

« on: November 21, 2016, 10:23:18 PM »

After more than 10 years, I'm finally getting a new gaming laptop tomorrow. So I'm going to break it in...with a little Nethack.

My man  To this day I have barely progressed in Nethack, as it's simply too dense of a game for me to try to figure out . However, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead are the shit.

My main Roguelike jam lately has been Infra Arcana. Busting out a Tommy Gun against a hallway full of Byakhee is pretty fun (until you run out of bullets!). I really wanna get Streets of Rogue soon, too.

Infra Arcana is dope, I still have yet to get past floor 5, always get taken out by a hallway of reanimated corpses.

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General Chaos / Re: What Vidja games are you playing?

« on: November 19, 2016, 12:27:34 PM »

After more than 10 years, I'm finally getting a new gaming laptop tomorrow. So I'm going to break it in...with a little Nethack.

My man  To this day I have barely progressed in Nethack, as it's simply too dense of a game for me to try to figure out . However, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead are the shit.

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General Chaos / Re: What are you reading?

« on: November 19, 2016, 12:25:41 PM »

Havn't had a bunch of time to read as of late due to school and work, but recently borrowed Blood Meridian from a friend and I find it excellent. The maelstrom of violence in the book coupled with McCarthy's amazing use of imagery really captures the imagination in a dark way.

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RPGs / Re: Suggestions for New Campaign Setting?

« on: November 10, 2016, 10:08:38 AM »

That seems perfectly straight forward, but not really a NBA campaign. I would use Feng Shui 2 for a pure action game or a universal system like Savage Worlds or maybe CoC for pure horror. NBA really works best in games where stealth and espionage is involved. Maybe set in a city near the zone where weird stuff is happening (things leaking out) OR someone put a crate of vampires in a plane and shipped to some distant locale?

I was going to run it with the new Delta Green rules, however my entire group are newcomers to tabletop RPGs and have only played FATE and NBA. Ran a first session using NBA rules and it was absolute garbage, and didn't work for the setting. Now I've convinced them to give DG a shot, and am rewriting the encounters in the new system.

So I recently concluded a Night's Black Agents campaign set in Midwestern America in which my players were fighting against a conspiracy led by vampiric demigods from an alternate dimension who were trying to rip open a dimensional rift to bring their forces to Earth (campy as shit, I know, but it was great fun running it).

Yeah I'm going to mention it. The vampires in RIFTS were extensions of extradimentional alien intelligences who could 1) open dimensional rifts 2) ended up in Mexico.

I'm not saying that you are being unoriginal. I'm saying RIFTS had ideas worth mining sometimes

NBA really works best in games where stealth and espionage is involved. Maybe set in a city near the zone where weird stuff is happening (things leaking out)

What if this Exclusion Zone/Treasure Trove was set in the middle of a Cold War borderlands between two superpowers?

Specifically I think NBA would would great if a supernatural Zone popped up between East and West Germany at the height of the Cold War.

Damn, now I feel like a dummy. I hadn't read RIFTS due to the silliness involved with it, and knowing that I subconsciously ripped it off horrifies me.

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RPGs / Suggestions for New Campaign Setting?

« on: November 02, 2016, 10:54:42 PM »

So I recently concluded a Night's Black Agents campaign set in Midwestern America in which my players were fighting against a conspiracy led by vampiric demigods from an alternate dimension who were trying to rip open a dimensional rift to bring their forces to Earth (campy as shit, I know, but it was great fun running it). It ultimately ended with a TPK in which the last survivor interrupted the ritual by detonating himself with a shit-ton of C4 just as the rift was opening. I've been trying to come up with a good continuation of the game, because my players loved the campaign and wanted to continue it. This is what I have so far, feel free to critique, add to it, etc. Just bouncing ideas around.

Setting: September 2018, 2 years after the cataclysmic events that resulted in the creation of the Ohio exclusion zone in which the resulting tear in reality allowed other-dimensional forces leak into our world and corrupt it (Been playing some S.T.A.L.K.E.R and reading through the Eclipse Phase Zone Stalkers book and liked the concept of players maneuvering through an extremely hostile environment that breaks one's mind if they try to figure out its inner workings). Players are members of a U.S govt. attempt at reconnoitering the zone after the devastating losses taken during the initial expedition.

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General Chaos / Re: Introduction

« on: November 02, 2016, 10:36:13 PM »

Hello Forum People, The name's Nick, current college student, longtime listener and dabbler in the arcane arts of GMing Call of Cthulhu and Night's Black Agents.

Hi, Nick! Welcome! Call of Cthulhu is my favorite game (except for Red Markets), and I'd love to play Night's Black Agents sometime, if I ever get the chance.

I really enjoy Night's Black Agents. I GM for a very finicky group of players who originally had only played FATE and balked at the D100 system for CoC 5th Ed. We finally settled for NBA after I listened to Tribes of Tokyo and fell in love with the system. I really recommend it to both play and run, it's combat crunchiness coupled with a really engaging system for players to add to the narrative (Contacts as major characters so it feels like the players are creating their own personalized espionage network, etc.). However, I really enjoy a good old fashioned game of CoC.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The Strangest Places You've Listened to RPPR?

« on: November 01, 2016, 01:28:33 PM »

Definitely the strangest experience I've had listening to RPPR was during my night shift at my security job. I was wandering the hallways at the condo I work at listening to "The Night Clerk" and shitting myself every time I rounded a corner, expecting the KiY to come popping out of a door.

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General Chaos / Re: Introduction

« on: November 01, 2016, 01:12:58 PM »

Hello Forum People, The name's Nick, current college student, longtime listener and dabbler in the arcane arts of GMing Call of Cthulhu and Night's Black Agents.