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Mar 28, 2021 4:17:32 GMT
Post by order99 on Mar 28, 2021 4:17:32 GMT
Because our possible campaign is beginning in 1886, certain norms of transportation will differ greatly from the 1930's-so, here's a rundown. Prices are mostly gathered from TSR's very first Western RPG Boot Hill, and KenzerCo's latest Western RPG Aces & Eights. So...want to be a millionaire in 1886? Invent and patent the Three-speed chain drive,and get some good lawyers to defend your claim. Better yet, try convincing both the financiers and the Public that your new Steam-powered jitney will neither explode nor run amuck at a mighty 20MPH...
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Post by Adminenkainen on Mar 29, 2021 23:15:55 GMT
>Tonight-The Metal Colossus a possible City-destroyer for Our Heroes to play with when they have the Levels for it [snipped] They better call Steve Carson!
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Post by Adminenkainen on Mar 29, 2021 23:17:24 GMT
Prices are mostly gathered from TSR's very first Western RPG Boot Hill, and KenzerCo's latest Western RPG Aces & Eights.Jealous -- I wish I had a copy of Aces & Eights.
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Mar 30, 2021 5:08:07 GMT
Post by order99 on Mar 30, 2021 5:08:07 GMT
Prices are mostly gathered from TSR's very first Western RPG Boot Hill, and KenzerCo's latest Western RPG Aces & Eights.Jealous -- I wish I had a copy of Aces & Eights. Aces & Eights is probably one of the most comprehensive RPGs-and even post-Civil War history and lore-as any book I have ever seen. It is also one of the most beautiful from a presentation standpoint.
Having said that, it isn't really the kind of RPG i'd play anymore. It's very heavily simulationist, with dozens and dozens of sub-systems, multiple Poly-dice and one or more decks of playing cards...I would use A&8 as a sourcebook and a jumping-off point for other RPGs ... In fact, i'd probably take the Basic Rules from 'Shootout' add a Skill system of (+1,+2 etc) to the D20 Target used and go from there...
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Mar 30, 2021 6:47:21 GMT
Post by order99 on Mar 30, 2021 6:47:21 GMT
>Tonight-The Metal Colossus a possible City-destroyer for Our Heroes to play with when they have the Levels for it [snipped] They better call Steve Carson! OH MY GOD it's The Federal Men vs The Invisible Empire!
(Bookmarks Link hard enough to make my keyboard complain)
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Apr 1, 2021 6:26:53 GMT
Post by order99 on Apr 1, 2021 6:26:53 GMT
Beware ye weary travelers, for the Restless Dead haunt the major Carriage Routes of Rhode Island-and Satan has loaned them horses! Introducing the Night Terrors, brigands led by the best and sporting a cool gimmick-that is, unbeknownst to them, slowly killing them greedy raid by greedy raid...inspired by Disney's The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh of all things: www.imdb.com/title/tt1606207/
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Apr 13, 2021 8:33:54 GMT
Post by order99 on Apr 13, 2021 8:33:54 GMT
Well, what Penny Dreadful would be complete without a visit from a Sinister Carnival? The Carnival of Maestro Moray, however, is more sinned against that sinful...
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Apr 21, 2021 6:58:36 GMT
Post by order99 on Apr 21, 2021 6:58:36 GMT
A few more details on The Carnival, and what it really means to have stayed two decades in the Undying Lands...
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Post by order99 on Apr 27, 2021 5:25:39 GMT
It occurs to me that I just may have written myself into a bit of a corner. I had figured that the precursor to Light City would be much smaller, more of an intimate setting, roughly halfway between Laura Ingalls Wilder's Walnut Grove and New York City-small enough to be both my 'Keep on the Borderlands' and still bustling enough for some Victorian Era Urban tales as in an updated Lankhmar. Sadly,Lighthouse Bay is too small (thanks to access to telegraph and fast ships) and will need to be roughly triple the size of its contemporaries-this won't be hard to do, it is supposed to be a bustling Trade Center-literally the 'New Orleans' of the Northeast as it were...if I can make it a bit smaller than the Big Easy of 1886 I can jam more of the 'Urban Legend Supers' feel of Gotham by Gaslight-although Player Action can change that tone straight into 'Alternate Universe full of Radium-powered Zeppelins' real effin' quick! But I want the option to go in either direction, or indeed any direction the Players take us...I mean for all I know we might end up in a Spelljammer racing across Aetherial space to face the Illithid Hive-mind in a Universe-shaking contest of Trivial Pursuit! Also, I seem to have forgotten that some of the strongest portions of The Keep of the Borderlands was the open-ended sandbox nature of hexes upon hexes of wilderness, Random Encounters, the dreaded Caves of Chaos and the huge Toybox of scenarios that the Players could turn into an avalanche with clever applications of violence, politics, tactics, good roleplaying or weird dice rolls. I don't want to overstuff my Toybox with too many SCMs, too many sub-plots and any preconceived notions of how play and/or story should go-scripts and railroads and Character Bibles are IMHO utterly anathema to the spirit of OSR. Even so, with my concept of rotating Editors I have to have enough common ground with my co-Editor(s) for an actual shared world. Better I suppose to have a box full of too many toys that won't get used than to run out of inspiration-also, some of the Players are suggesting content, and might be modeling PCs to fit, which would make my job easier... So: 1) needs more Last of the Mohicans and more reasons to go out into the Deep Dark Scary Woods 2) more open-ended Plot Fragments the Players can run with, doing most of my job for me 3) more Random Tables for when the Players go Off the Map and the Editor needs quick Improv 4) time for Actual Play, not that I can do much about that right now... 5) convince the Players that as much as they like Gothic Horror meets Our Weird Heroes, they should let me mix up some more Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs into the mix. I mean, what's wrong with tossing out a Super-powered Connecticut Yankee/Prisoner of Zenda Four-Color farce once in a while? Sometimes, you've just got to break up the Gothic Gloom with a balloon full of Lost World Talking Apes who wish to introduce their furless cousins to the joys of Lemurian cooking and Pharol-worship... Time for a good night's sleep, fresh batteries for the Thinking Cap and some e-mails to my still-absent Players.
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Apr 30, 2021 8:41:22 GMT
Post by order99 on Apr 30, 2021 8:41:22 GMT
Well, I needed more Wilderness encounters-and the Unbaptized Swarm should fit the 'Wild' part well enough...
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Post by Adminenkainen on Apr 30, 2021 18:50:12 GMT
It occurs to me that I just may have written myself into a bit of a corner. I had figured that the precursor to Light City would be much smaller, more of an intimate setting, roughly halfway between Laura Ingalls Wilder's Walnut Grove and New York City-small enough to be both my 'Keep on the Borderlands' and still bustling enough for some Victorian Era Urban tales as in an updated Lankhmar. [snip] I had much the same problem with one of my last D&D campaigns, set in the city of Verbobonc. As I built it up, it became way bigger than the small city of 5,000 it had started as. I retconned the population to be twice that while the game was in midstream, as it were.
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May 10, 2021 4:32:44 GMT
Post by order99 on May 10, 2021 4:32:44 GMT
Well, i'm going to try for a little less Penny Dreadful and a bit more Victorian Superpulp. Maybe an Experimental Time Machine in case I need a setting break?
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May 14, 2021 7:12:58 GMT
Post by order99 on May 14, 2021 7:12:58 GMT
And...another set of Tables to add a bit more Pulp to the Penny Dreadful flavor. Seeing as how the Level cut-off for this setting will be 7, I don't think a few minor if unsettling changes to the PCs will be much of a Power Creep...I hope.
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Post by order99 on May 24, 2021 4:31:40 GMT
Well, Black Anne haz dun ticked me off... Remember her insistence that we allow Light City characters? How instead of playing Scott's 2nd Edition Masterpiece I instead had to take H&H 1st Edition, add Fiddly Bits, bend spindle and mutilate the poor Uber-editor's dream into what I shame-facedly call Hoodlums & Hideouts version 1.5 eXperimental Rosetta? Sooooo, after careful reading and prep for possible editor duties Black Anne has decided that ' Light City Classes are all pretty lame and I don't think that i'll be playing one after all".... (Bays and shrieks into pillow and hopes the neighbors fail their 'Spot Hidden' Skill Check) And is Black Anne right? Personally, I think the LC Classes have more 'bits' to fiddle around with at Level 1 and fewer abilities later on (with a few more linear exceptions). But in the long run I think that they are roughly equivalent-certainly around the 1-7 Levels we'll be playing in. In a higher-powered game(Level 10+) the H&H Classes would steal the LC Classes' Lunches, even if I extrapolated the LC Classes to that plateau. Also, BA hasn't figured out that LC Classes are meant to be Multi-classed as easily as H&H based ones. Now check out how many options a Lvl 1 Brute/Lvl 1 Elemental can grab by Character Level 2, or a Lvl 1 Supersoldier/Lvl 1 Marksman-or any of the front-loaded combos for that matter. More importantly however-I have wasted my time and effort on 'Flailsnailing' poor Scott's game, my SCM/Mobsters (and example PCs in the 'Alternate Classes' Thread) all run on the modified vehicle-easily converted back, but still... No, I am not wasting all this time and effort. I have twisted this poor RPG into a taffy sculpture, but i'm too far over the Burning River to turn back now. So at least one of my characters will be a Light City Class, and one for H&H. I think Per Negaton is going to go that route as well. And I will Multi-class until she begs me to stop... I'll show her which of us has the Red Pen, oh yes I will! On a more positive note, Black Anne and Dayspring are back on the same shift at work, because someone in HR decided that Middle Management was being extremely petty separating a married couple like that. Aside from the various reasons to be happy over that, it seems almost trivial to note that it increases our chance to grab a pick-up Game! A week or two for the couple to adjust and then we'll see...
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May 25, 2021 23:05:48 GMT
Post by Adminenkainen on May 25, 2021 23:05:48 GMT
This Black Anne seems pretty smart to me.
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