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RPGs / Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« on: April 02, 2014, 03:32:51 AM »
How to Britain:
1) Forget you have a colony on the tiny, isolated Pitcairn islands, which falls under your jurisdiction.

2) Rediscover said colony (all the inhabitants of which are inbred descendants of one navy captain from the 1800s) after nearly 16% of its population are accused of being part of some rapey pervert-cult.

3) Also discover that the islanders are armed to the teeth, and narrowly avoid some kind of armed resistance to your attempts to arrest and prosecute those responsible.

4) Appoint the sister of the leader of said group as the island's sole police officer until a suitable replacement is found.


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General Chaos / Re: What scares YOU
« on: February 13, 2014, 05:09:31 PM »
Ending up alone.

Stupid, I know, but I'd hate to go through a significant portion of my life with nobody around me who cares. I was once out on a ride-along with the local police, and we got called out to a missing person report at a care-home. An old lady had just wandered off into the city at night. We found her, and she told us she'd not spoken to anyone in like, two days, and just got on a bus to talk to other human beings.

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RPGs / Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« on: February 06, 2014, 09:18:27 PM »
Would you know of the Dogscape?

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"...this was a city once, i think, though which one i can't remember. I only owe my guess to the massive pillars of dogs jutting into the sky, perhaps ancient buildings now completely filled and overgrown by canine biomatter. i climbed one once, sinking my fingers and toes deep into the dogwall to gain purchase, and after hours and hours of climbing was rewarded with an incredible vista - fur and eyes, panting tongues and wagging tails, hugging the contours of the once-barren land and stretching in a single aeomebic mass farther than the eye can see.

now i don't do that, though. now I merely go about my day. I hike to the Gardens, where the dogplants sprout up in bizarre shapes from the floor of the dogscape, and reach up to pluck the fetal puppyfruits right off the wagging, energetic branches. I bite into the succulent flesh, the juices dribbling down my chin and dripping down to be reabsorbed by the groundflesh, and revel in the savory taste. I'm thirsty, so i range until I find one of the Mothermounds, and there I suckle at a teatpatch until I've had my fill of milk. sometimes I see other humans around me, as well-adapted to the dogscape as I am, but i barely acknowledge them, say nothing. what, after all, is there to say? The world is different now - what meaning would our old words have?"

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RPGs / Serenity Role Playing Game
« on: January 29, 2014, 08:47:54 AM »
Hey all,

Has anyone here played the Serenity RPG? I just finished going through Firefly with my flatmates, and I need something to block-out the twelve-year-old echo of a million Browncoats crying out in pain and being silenced. Not to mention, if I try to run CoC now, it'll just end up being a whimsical romp through space on a rusting ship, with a latent Psychic on-board.

But yeah - is it worth picking up? I've read mixed reviews online.

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RPGs / Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« on: January 27, 2014, 05:12:37 PM »
Need a little mood-music for your writing/RPG?

How about... oh, you know...

a freakin' Templar Chant?!

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General Chaos / Re: Here is Practical Explanation about Next Life, Purpose of Human Life -
« on: January 26, 2014, 05:21:13 AM »

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RPGs / Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« on: January 25, 2014, 12:16:33 PM »
Quote from: Setherick on January 25, 2014, 10:04:01 AM
Frozen trees in the snow: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/wired-aperture/2012-08/aperture-1-august

That's... just a tad terrifying.

There's also this:

http://www.oobject.com/category/insane-asylum-plans/

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Upcoming RPPR One Shot games
« on: January 24, 2014, 01:32:26 PM »
Quote from: PaulyMuttonchops on January 24, 2014, 09:57:42 AM
Thanks for the tip on Afterschool Activities.  I was looking for a new rules - light system to demo, and that one seems like good fun.

Hey, no worries. Let us know how it goes!

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Upcoming RPPR One Shot games
« on: January 24, 2014, 04:49:08 AM »
I'd found a couple of RPG systems that are absolutely perfect for one-shots, actually. This seems an auspicious place to dump them:

AFTERSCHOOL ACTIVITIES - An after-school detention goes horribly, horribly wrong, and the coffee machine is your only hope of salvation. Also Eldrich Horror in a(n all-girl) boarding school. Has a pretty cool 'tiredness' mechanic, and was written and created by the /tg/ community.

Sagas of the Icelanders - a game about building a settlement in Iceland, with one player as a suspicious stranger and a harbinger of trouble. I've not played this one yet, but I picked it up in the Bundle of Holding and have been intending to try it out.

There's also a supplementary WoD book called "Mysterious Places". It's got some pretty cool ideas for settings for One Shot games, which could work in any setting, really. Heartily recommended, if you ever get a hankering to run a CoC, Fear Itself or WoD: Mortals game. Things like a seemingly bottomless flooded quarry, and a forest that may or may not actually be purgatory.

I'm looking forward to Pokethulhu - so many potential shenanigans to be had. I love the series' you guys do, the varying one shots will always be my favourite way to enjoy RPPR.

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RPGs / Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« on: January 19, 2014, 12:16:39 AM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Treasures_of_the_Island_of_Britain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Treasures_of_the_Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann

A bunch of relics for a Dark Age/Early Medieval setting?

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: The Strangest Places You've Listened to RPPR?
« on: January 14, 2014, 10:18:39 PM »
Quote from: Dom on January 14, 2014, 01:27:34 PM
The Venezuelan-Colombian border.

No, seriously.

I...

...wow.

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RPGs / Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« on: January 14, 2014, 10:16:00 PM »
In-keeping with the Ice/Thawing Thereof theme we've got running:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10562017/Melting-glaciers-in-northern-Italy-reveal-corpses-of-WW1-soldiers.html

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / The Strangest Places You've Listened to RPPR?
« on: January 14, 2014, 11:25:44 AM »
I download the Actual Plays onto my iPod, which I generally take with me when I go hiking. So basically; at the top of Hay Bluff, during the hike up Snowdon, and whilst scrambling along the Clevedon coastline. Also, when I had a pretty miserable job as a marshal at a paintball centre, last Summer, RPPR kept me entertained during the tedium of kit-cleaning and gun-maintenance.

How about the rest of you?

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RPGs / Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« on: January 10, 2014, 08:01:08 PM »
I've always thought this would be a cool setting for a CoC/Fear Itself series:

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Machine

A strange, mechanical chasm is discovered beneath the Earth, with a seemingly impossible network of tunnels spread out through its crust.

Also insane Soviet or Nazi (time-period dependant) remnant forces and deadly cleaning-automatons that are "just doing their job" by obliterating the party.

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RPGs / Re: Game Fodder / Story Fodder
« on: January 08, 2014, 11:12:32 PM »
Also, I'm sure many of you have heard of the Voynich Manuscript. What if, in a CoC game, investigators discovered something similar, which turned out to be a record of the flora and fauna (as well as details on reaching) a parallel world or something? Human civilization having evolved differently to our own - mega-bears and stuff still running around. England regularly winning the World Cup. That kind of thing. *shrug*

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