07-23-2015, 10:43 AM | #1 |
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Pyramid #3/81: Horrific Creations
A recurring theme in horror, dark fantasy, and conspiracy stories is "knowledge best left unused." This might take the form of an artifact, a technology, a ritual, or something less tangible. The common thread is that people who tinker with it believe they know what they're getting into and view their goal as beneficial (at least to them!), but in reality are meddling with forces beyond their ken and control, and are likely to find madness rather than enlightenment, destruction rather than creation.It is almost done! Like any tome of forbidden lore, Pyramid #3/81: Horrific Creations provides a variety of ways to get into trouble. Items best left alone, horrific monsters best avoided, and deals best not made . . . choose your fate. Then again, maybe your fate will choose you, so it's best to be prepared:
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07-23-2015, 11:22 AM | #2 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/81: Horrific Creations
Cool and useful. Also, some of this stuff can be retooled for a wider variety of games.
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07-24-2015, 01:14 AM | #3 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/81: Horrific Creations
Yes. Indeed, J. Edward Tremlett's scary paraphernalia, not relying on any one system, need no retooling at all to be used anywhere. And they're worth reading even just only for the backstory and drawbacks.
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07-24-2015, 02:39 AM | #4 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/81: Horrific Creations
That was creepy.
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07-24-2015, 09:46 PM | #5 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/81: Horrific Creations
I'm curious how useful the general readership found my Madness Dossier adventure. I've heard several people say how much they love Hite's book but weren't really sure what to do with it, so I wrote "Iraqi Irruptor Blues" with the intent of creating a good "campaign starter." In fact, this is the exact adventure that I used to launch my own Madness Dossier campaign.
I waffled between trying to keep it generic and portable (to make it something you could drop into a different game with a few changes) and diving directly into the Red King weirdness that makes Madness Dossier so, well, Hitean. In the end, I figured that the only way to do this setting justice was to go all-in, with lots of Anunnaki weirdness based (loosely) on real-world Mesopotamian history. Was that the right call? Is anyone out there playing Madness Dossier -- or finding themselves inspired to play it by this issue of Pyramid?
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07-24-2015, 10:14 PM | #6 | |
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07-25-2015, 01:03 AM | #7 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/81: Horrific Creations
An evil weapon that is also a dungeon? Keen!
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07-25-2015, 08:12 AM | #8 | |
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07-25-2015, 11:17 AM | #9 | |
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This adventure is a lot more coherent in this form, and it's clear that you play Madness Dossier as more "super-powered" than we did. We mostly played it as a scientifically styled special-operations (in the British, rather than American, style) game, with glyphs and NLP, and the joys of an unlimited budget, but no psi or Taishers, and a strong requirement to maintain cover. I doubt I'll play (having read) or run this adventure, but it's dead interesting as another view of the setting. |
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07-25-2015, 10:08 PM | #10 |
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Re: Pyramid #3/81: Horrific Creations
I'm glad people liked my trio of terrible items :)
I liked the idea of the demon blade dungeon, too. I wonder what would happen if you jammed it into my book... hmmmmm
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