01-23-2018, 07:47 AM | #21 |
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Land of the Beer, Home of the Dirndls
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Re: TL 0 campaigns?
Pyramid #56 has a pretty extensive treatment on using RPM for ice age shamanism.
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01-23-2018, 08:16 AM | #22 |
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Re: TL 0 campaigns?
Path/Book Ritual Magic is quite fun for a TL0 society, as you only need to avoid the Path of Gadgets and its proprietary rituals to keep the tone (mana-based magic tends to devolve into an almost Flintstones society). Books end up being transmitted through Literature (Oral), so I make Literature (Oral) into a substitute for Symbol Drawing (the quality of the telling improving the effectiveness of the ritual) for Book Ritual Magic.
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01-23-2018, 10:31 PM | #23 |
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Helmouth, The Netherlands
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Re: TL 0 campaigns?
Maybe the movie "Quest for Fire" might give some ideas. This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source. The main characters are at TL 0.
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01-24-2018, 01:29 AM | #24 | |
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Land of the Beer, Home of the Dirndls
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Re: TL 0 campaigns?
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I kinda-sorta liked "10000 BC", the Emmerich-helmed "I ruined physics and meteorology, let's try my hand at history" stone age movie. Not a bad inspiration for a cinematic TL0 game that doesn't feature interlopers from another time. Not to be confused with "1 Million Years BC", which only has two interesting features. |
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01-24-2018, 07:59 AM | #25 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: TL 0 campaigns?
I'm running a campaign in which one character is a shaman. My system is really simple: she has the advantages Medium, Spirit Empathy, and Resistant (Spirit abilities) +3. She negotiates with spirits. She can use Autohypnosis and Religious Ritual as complementary skills with her Influence skills. The spirits are NPCs with individual abilities, needs, goals, and attitudes. And that's it! So, if a spirit were causing someone to be sick, she could talk to it, ask if they can come into some kind of agreement. Maybe the spirit would like a sacrifice of something particular? She can do that with Religious Ritual. Maybe it's a ******-off ghost and just needs somebody to listen to and acknowledge its grievances. She can do that. Maybe she gets a bad result on the initial reaction roll, and the spirit attacks her. Well, her HT and Will are pretty high and she has the +3 Resistant bonus, so she has a fighting chance of keeping it off. But she's a shaman, not a spellcaster.
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01-24-2018, 10:25 AM | #26 | |
Join Date: Jul 2006
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I suppose you could also add some path/book, say using energy gathering to model the process of finding a specific spirit to carry out a job for you... |
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01-24-2018, 10:50 AM | #27 |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: TL 0 campaigns?
I use path/book a lot in my current TL1 campaign, though with effect shaping rather than energy gathering. My players do a lot of sacrificial offerings, most often tobacco (smoked and blown out into the wind) or silver (thrown into the sea).
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