Because the Unspeakable Oath is taking submissions, that’s why.
https://twitter.com/shaneivey/status/816057503234592768
They want two things out of said submissions: originality, and playtesting. My regular game doesn’t really ‘do’ horror, but I suspect that I can get a couple of people together for some rules-light playtesting. Let me know in comments if you’re interested.
Blame this.
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The Twelve Inscrutable Masks of the Dark Zodiac
By definition, we know very little about what happened prior to the invention of writing and the keeping of records. Ever wonder that this may be deliberate? That writing itself might have been a desperate weapon, wielded by people who needed to learn a new way of thinking before they were eaten by the all too seen, and the dangerously definable?
Continue reading Item Seed: The Twelve Inscrutable Masks of the Dark Zodiac.
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Alas, it did not win the Delta Green 2016 Shotgun Scenario contest. Heck, it didn’t even get a vote (I was competing, so I didn’t think that it was appropriate that I vote for mine). There was a missing sentence at the end and I needed to tighten it up a bit here and there before putting it up now, so that’s fair.
Still, I think that it’s a workable Delta Green scenario, so here you go. Also, check out the entries in that link! Sure, they didn’t recognize my greatness: but there are certainly enough adventures there to fill a campaign…
Continue reading My @DeltaGreen Shotgun Scenario “Operation HAMSTER DIAMOND.”
This one lasts until 01/31/2017: the Pendragon RPG is one of the legends and classics in the field, so check it out. Lord knows when I’ll have a chance to thumb through it, though…
Cc @Ogiel23 https://t.co/ooeJpFgIaO
— Mad Dougs & Englishmen (@zamoose) January 1, 2017
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Our New Year 2017 sale is live, for one day only!: https://t.co/vRZi2lkHfL (Please RT!)
— Eclipse Phase @ Gen Con Booth 349! (@EclipsePhase) January 1, 2017
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Monotony Money [Unknown Armies]
It’s sometimes referred to as ‘Meta-Money’ by those members of the occult underground who know something about roleplaying games (a surprising number of them don’t). It typically takes the form of a piece of fake $20 currency from a certain board game, suitably inscribed with an increasing number of sigils and mystic runes; the only rule for the writing seems to be that it also has to involve the number 20 somehow. Nobody knows who started the first one; but you just know when a proffered piece of Monotony Money is the real deal.
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Doctor Brillat-Dessaigne’s Valiant Riding Caterpillars
This… is an example of what happens when you have to balance what the client wants with what the vendor can produce. What the client (in this case, an extremely well-connected general high up in the French military hierarchy) wanted was two-man giant caterpillar cavalry, for admittedly mostly ceremonial use. What the vendor could produce was a giant caterpillar permanently ‘frozen’ at its immature state that could barely carry one man, provided that he had a small amount of gear. When the general in question saw this, of course, he immediately… opened his mouth, contemplated the matter, closed his mouth, then told an aide to go fetch him a certain minor official in a certain obscure department who certainly wasn’t a representative of the Third Republic’s most secretive black ops organization.
Continue reading Creature Seed: Doctor Brillat-Dessaigne’s Valiant Riding Caterpillars.
Caf? [TL 12] [0 points]
It’s not a typo and it’s not a transcription error. Caf? is the morning drink of choice in the Age of Miracles: the ‘?’ is there to establish that the stuff does not precisely fully exist in our dimensions. It tastes marvelous, and not in a mysterious way, either. Imagine a rich, but not overpowering chocolate-vanilla contrast with an aftertaste of banana that somehow is enjoyable whether or not you like those flavors and you’re not too far off. Caf? has clearly been designed with human taste buds in mind.
