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RPGs / Re: Lost: A tenative idea for an Eclipse Phase campaign

« on: August 15, 2014, 03:10:19 PM »

Well, honestly, I was hoping to use some of the ideas talked about in the last RPPR episode. I wanted to introduce the EP setting to a new group using the Lost Project as the twisted school that the students find themselves in. I wanted to give them the Cognite perspective on the setting. The issue I had was "how does school work in EP?"

I wasn't going to introduce any of the more exotic or fantastic elements of the setting until things started to unravel. Sorta like the Narnia.exe idea only with the kids hacking the simulspace. I don't think that Cognite would try to reproduce an entire city on the servers with infomorphs. I have a feeling that maintaining a city-level lie would be harder than, say, maintaining an isolated boarding school or an isolated education habitat. The thing about the city is that you've got tons of variables to keep track of, tons of infomorphs to psychosurgery or convince to keep quiet. It's going to be really hard to do that if the simulspace is accelerated (which it invariably will be).

The biggest hurdle is how school works in Eclipse Phase and how Cognite's take on education is different from the baseline. Everything rests on that.

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RPGs / Re: THE QUEUE: Whacha got in YOUR gaming pipeline

« on: August 04, 2014, 11:29:31 AM »

I've got The Devotees in the pipeline. One of my players is going to be "Bitter Sam" a masked steelmorph bodyguard with a history of guarding the celebrities that she idolized in her youth pre-Fall. Essentially she was too badass to be an actress and fell into being the person that kept the crazy fans off.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: One Money Unit!

« on: July 27, 2014, 02:30:27 PM »

You all work for Quo Valis.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: Ross needs to play Diplomacy

« on: July 27, 2014, 02:24:20 PM »

This American Life's next episode is going to be on the Diplomacy World Championships.


http://www.dixiecon.com/

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/531/got-your-back

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General Chaos / Re: Everyone Betrays Me!: The Room Tribute Thread

« on: July 27, 2014, 02:20:26 PM »

I literally spent a good 30 seconds unable to articulate why I had laughed and then cried to my boyfriend in the next room. I think I may have contracted a temporary insanity from sheer joy.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: One Money Unit!

« on: July 14, 2014, 03:48:45 PM »

Is the smoking dragon from the New World? I keep thinking that he's Tom's old dragonborn character.

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General Chaos / Re: What are you reading?

« on: July 01, 2014, 11:13:29 AM »

I'm reading:

 The Southern Reach Trilogy http://www.amazon.com/Annihilation-Novel-Southern-Reach-Trilogy/dp/0374104093

Beating Back the Devil: A Year in the Epidemiology Intelligence Service http://www.amazon.com/Beating-Back-Devil-Maryn-McKenna/dp/1439123101/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404227549&sr=1-1&keywords=beating+back+the+devil

And I just finished Windup Girl http://www.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/1597801585/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404227575&sr=1-1&keywords=windup+girl

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RPGs / Re: THE QUEUE: Whacha got in YOUR gaming pipeline

« on: July 01, 2014, 11:08:21 AM »

Just ran across something in my notes that I'm going to run. It's an all grippli campaign using Wild Talents. The Grippli are a small neutral power stuck between two belligerent nation states, living on the land that nobody else can deal with. When the Grand Kobold army begins it's march through the Grippli nation the players are forced to choose. Collaborate, resist or run?

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

« on: June 21, 2014, 08:19:49 PM »

Thanks to this thread, the next scenario I am writing is centralized around a leather bar.  Right now I am trying to decide if it should be run using A Dirty World or as an additional playtest for CORE.

I love you all.

I recommend A Dirty World. Also if you need to discuss the particulars of the leather bar scene you now have a reputable source.

Today I was listening to the Devotees while washing dishes and he came wandering through and asked me why Kermit the Frog was describing torture. Jokes on him through. I'm running the Wives of March tomorrow and he's playing in it.

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

« on: June 11, 2014, 05:35:44 PM »

 My boyfriend is also a kinky bastard so... you know... eventually somebody leather related will find out about you guys.

I find that oddly comforting.  Someday somewhere some kinky bastard will turn to another kinky bastard and say "Dude... that's fucked up" on our account.

I was listening to the Wives of March yesterday while I washed dishes. He was half-asleep in the other room. Who knows what sort of dreams he forgot.

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Role Playing Public Radio Podcast / Re: RPPR on Patreon - what bonus content would you pay to get?

« on: June 10, 2014, 11:01:20 AM »

You might do a lottery with everyone over x donation level gets entered into a chance for the Skype game. Solves the game theory problem and stops people from just buying there way on at the last minute. Of course then you need to run a lottery and deal with the fallout but it does solve some of the problems.

My wife tells me I have a face for radio so I think this skill translates to skype.

Not that I have done this but people seem to think Google Hangouts work better than skype games.

I'd pay to be in this lottery.

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

« on: June 10, 2014, 11:00:15 AM »

I've listened to RPPR:

-Getting headaches from ethanol fumes while counting preserved insects under a microscope
-Vaccinating, infecting, performing surgery on, and collecting lungs from mice.
-While tagging horseshoe crabs
-On the way to and back home from a leather bar.

please say that last one was unrelated to the first three tasks

Please tell us you told someone about RPPR while at the leather bar 

Actually all of them were unrelated.

The ethanol story was when I first started listening to RPPR in undregrad when working long hours on an ecological assessment, essentially "Does the insect community reflect a what we would expect to see in a polluted river system?"

The horseshoe crab incident was when I was volunteering for the Audobon Society in Wellfleet MA during the summer. You have no idea how beautiful Cape Cod is when it's early evening and the crabs are coming out like ancient, buried, living, hubcaps.

The vaccination thing is what I'm doing now in grad school. I've often wondered about what it would be like to do a CoCt game or DG game where you play as human beings used as lab specimens. I guess that concept could work for EP too...

The leather bar thing was uh... interesting. I went because I'm a kinky son of a bitch but unfortunately the scene where I live is so insular that it was nearly impossible to make any headway or friends. After I left, still sober and still dressed in "Goodwill's Finest Biker Ensemble" I slipped the buds into my ears and made the 1.5 mile trek back home through the city in the wee hours of the morning, Know Evil blaring in my ears. The autumn sky was cloudy and the city's sodium lights made everything an orange twilight.

I never did tell anybody at the bar about RPPR but my current boyfriend knows about you in some capacity. He wandered into the kitchen while I was covered in dish suds. The stereo erupted in screaming laughter as Chan made a terrible decision. My boyfriend is also a kinky bastard so... you know... eventually somebody leather related will find out about you guys.

It's strange to say that parts of my life can be divided into different campaigns that you guys ran. I actually started recording games too but my campaigns were dashed on the rocks of grad school and conflicting work schedules. Instead I've taken to running one-shots. Right now I'm worming my way through No Security.

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

« on: June 05, 2014, 11:39:35 AM »

I've listened to RPPR:

-Getting headaches from ethanol fumes while counting preserved insects under a microscope
-Vaccinating, infecting, performing surgery on, and collecting lungs from mice.
-While tagging horseshoe crabs
-On the way to and back home from a leather bar.

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RPGs / Re: THE QUEUE: Whacha got in YOUR gaming pipeline

« on: April 03, 2014, 10:27:50 AM »

I've got a few things in the pipeline that I'd love to run.

• No Security- Bryson Springs: Because I love me some Great Depression and death puppets.
• Pathfinder: I've had this horrible horrible idea for a while about re-skinning World War 1 with a magical industrial revolution. Also all the players would be Grippli, playing the role of Belgium. There may or may not be a grippli badass named "Jean-Claude Von Swamp".
• Eclipse Phase: I've mentioned on the forums that I want to run a short EP campaign about being Lost and escaping from the Lost Project. This would explore how the characters define themselves and how they choose to exist in the weird, wild world of EP.
• Base Raiders Albany: If you've ever been to Albany the Rockefeller Plaza is bunker of a government office covered in sky scrapers. Perfect for base raiding.

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General Chaos / Re: What scares YOU

« on: April 03, 2014, 09:44:18 AM »

I'm afraid of two things right now. Scrutiny and numbness. I've had anxiety problems for a while which are triggered by being judged or tested. I'm afraid of the numbness that follows them, of only feeling fear, of being too tired to feel anything else.