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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2012, 12:44:50 AM »
Night's Black Agents is an amazing game. I'm running one of my own right now and I can not recommend it enough. So I vote for that.

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2012, 02:31:09 AM »
Better Angels! I'd love to see the RPPR crew try their hands at over-the-top villainy.

If not, then maybe MaOCT. I'm just burnt out on the vampire stuff, and the zombie stuff wasn't that appealing to me in the first place.

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2012, 04:15:44 AM »
Better Angels! I'd love to see the RPPR crew try their hands at over-the-top villainy.

If not, then maybe MaOCT. I'm just burnt out on the vampire stuff, and the zombie stuff wasn't that appealing to me in the first place.

Caleb running Better Angels will be more grimdark than any vampire or zombie game.

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2012, 06:47:50 AM »
Caleb running Better Angels will be more grimdark than any vampire or zombie game.

Ohhh yes.  ;D It will be amazing.

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #19 on: November 27, 2012, 07:48:18 AM »
Just don't suggest anything by Palladium; I'll hunt you down >:(

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #20 on: November 27, 2012, 09:21:15 AM »
well if were going that route can we finally get a world of synabair game!

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #21 on: November 27, 2012, 11:05:27 AM »
Not that I doubt Caleb at all, but just from reading stuff on the Kickstarter, I got the impression that Better Angels was very toungue-in-cheek. Did I completely misunderstand the tone of the game?

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #22 on: November 27, 2012, 11:08:18 AM »
Have you listened to the games Caleb has run? Anything you give him will turn a noir shade of grimdark.

That said, if a legit Dirty World campagin can happen it'd be pretty incredable.

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #23 on: November 27, 2012, 11:41:55 AM »
I, too, would like to clamor for Monsters and Other Childish Things.

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #24 on: November 27, 2012, 12:24:52 PM »
Oh, I know, I don't doubt Caleb's ability to turn any game into what he wants it to be, but I was just surprised that he was thinking about Better Angels, based on the tone of it that I perceived without having read the book or .pdf.

Also, Caleb if you were thinking about Zombies, and wanted a twist, you could check out Unhallowed Metropolis. It's a zombie game set in Victorian Steampunk England. It's gotten great reviews. You might have just thrown up a little at that suggestion, and if so, please just ignore it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0981679285/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1/187-1419341-8983966?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=1MRF8TV0VF7GQ8X8WJ1Y&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_i=0971064296

A Dirty World campaign would be tons of fun in my opinion(though I don't have the book so I don't even know if the rules have character advancement)  but I also think that Night's Black Agents sounds like a great game and setting.

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #25 on: November 27, 2012, 02:22:19 PM »
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Not that I doubt Caleb at all, but just from reading stuff on the Kickstarter, I got the impression that Better Angels was very toungue-in-cheek. Did I completely misunderstand the tone of the game?

A little. To me the game sounds like dark humor. You have powers but they come from something evil. Not cartoonish evil but honestly from fucking Hell with a captial "H" evil. And you have to keep it from getting out of you and into someone who would use those powers like the demon wants.

That kind of thing can drive someone insane. Or make you actually evil.

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #26 on: November 27, 2012, 02:42:09 PM »
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Not that I doubt Caleb at all, but just from reading stuff on the Kickstarter, I got the impression that Better Angels was very toungue-in-cheek. Did I completely misunderstand the tone of the game?

A little. To me the game sounds like dark humor. You have powers but they come from something evil. Not cartoonish evil but honestly from fucking Hell with a captial "H" evil. And you have to keep it from getting out of you and into someone who would use those powers like the demon wants.

That kind of thing can drive someone insane. Or make you actually evil.

This inevitably leads me to suggest Kill Puppies for Satan. If only to see how Caleb and the gang handle a true evil game, and if Aaron is involved, see how his morals and heroic nature hold up.
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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #27 on: November 27, 2012, 07:36:16 PM »

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Re: What should Caleb run next?
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Re: What should Caleb run next?
« Reply #29 on: November 27, 2012, 08:42:05 PM »
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