From wiki: "a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia—the Roba El Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients—and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus."
Sounds like a desert-based Torchbearer game would be perfect. Delve the depths of ancient ruins, find horrors!
From wiki: "a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia—the Roba El Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients—and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus."
Sounds like a desert-based Torchbearer game would be perfect. Delve the depths of ancient ruins, find horrors!
The thing is in Torchbearer, nobody wants to go somewhere just for horrors alone. There have to be mad treasures.
I finally read the TB rules and it all looks like some incredibly cool shit to me!! I was also thinking the system would work incredibly well for a Call of Cthulhu game; conditions being sanity damage, adventure phase being an "investigation" phase, camping a "research" phase.
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If you want to play Call of Cthulhu, there's a game for that. It's called Call of Cthulhu.
You're not the boss of me and I will game however I want to!!!
But really I more so meant I feel like it's a better system for CoC than the classic system or the d20 system. I'm not actually going to play it that way ahah.
What came to mind for me was DayZ - analogs would be the inventory management and also the hungry&thirsty/sick/injured/dead conditions. Survival horror.
Playing a serious Inspectres is technically possible. Playing a serious Paranoia is also possible. The Paranoia book even has specific instructions for doing so.
Name one gaming group you know that has actually played a serious Paranoia.
Serious Paranoia would be gloriously unfun. From what I remember of it, Paranoia XP barely has mechanics for it.
I'm not sure what system I'd use for slow, brooding horror. I rarely do horror games.
IIRC Paranoia XP has an entire chapter for it. I will check it when I get home. I think it would be incredibly superfun. Actually progress up from red. Learn all the mysteries of the ultraviolets.
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Thor said that the Dread Crypt of Skogenby might also be included. I'm running Torchbearer at a con next Saturday, and it fit nicely into a 4-hour slot at Burning Con.
EDIT: Hmm... doesn't appear that I can purchase it. I can't get a quote on shipping to Seattle? DOUBLE EDIT: I think it's broken, it sorta works for New York but it still doesn't calculate shipping but it will apply tax. For everything it seems to say there's no shipping methods available.
Hey has anyone ever played/tried this solo dungeon making game: http://planet-thirteen.com/Dungeon.aspx ? I just saw it mentioned in the Torchbearer forums, seems like it would be perfect for TB dungeons since you create an entire ancient history for each dungeon. I bought the pdf cause it was only $5 but it apparently takes up to 24 hours to get sent to me via the tubes.
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"a mad poet of Sanaá, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia—the Roba El Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients—and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus."
Sounds like a desert-based Torchbearer game would be perfect. Delve the depths of ancient ruins, find horrors!
But really I more so meant I feel like it's a better system for CoC than the classic system or the d20 system. I'm not actually going to play it that way ahah.
Stress is just losing sanity. Results are thematic and dark. The "franchise" is a branch of the university. It all works.
Name one gaming group you know that has actually played a serious Paranoia.
I'm not sure what system I'd use for slow, brooding horror. I rarely do horror games.
http://www.burningwheel.com/store/index.php/torchbearer.html
I'ma get one.
EDIT: Hmm... doesn't appear that I can purchase it. I can't get a quote on shipping to Seattle?
DOUBLE EDIT: I think it's broken, it sorta works for New York but it still doesn't calculate shipping but it will apply tax. For everything it seems to say there's no shipping methods available.