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7/5/2025, 11:36:23 PM
7/2/2025, 10:33:49 PM
Back in mid-2015, I was in this game with one GM and one other player. The system was Strike!, a 4e-adjacent, grid-based tactical combat RPG, still in playtest at the time.
The setting was simple enough: big and heavily industrialized fantasy world, but telecommunications arcanotechnology was rare and expensive. Two empires dominated the planet. One was generic western fantasy, except that its royals and greater nobility had the ears and tails of dogs. The other was East Asian fantasy, and its royals and greater nobility had the ears and tails of foxes. (Fire Emblem: Fates had just come out, and the idea was popular. Also, the similarities between dogs and foxes were intentional.)
My character was the crown prince of the western empire (except that he was secretly a living-painting replacement for the real, deceased crown prince). The other player's character was the crown princess of the eastern empire. We each had a maid-cum-bodyguard secondary PC.
Before the campaign started, the GM offered two choices of starting adventure. One was fey-themed. The other was eldritch-horror-themed. The other player and I explicitly picked the former, and told the GM as much.
At the start of the game, the GM presented us with two plot hooks. First, some western duchess had mysteriously vanished. Second, there were strange reports of "blood gods" in some eastern city. The latter sounded more intriguing, so we pursued it.
(Continued.)
The setting was simple enough: big and heavily industrialized fantasy world, but telecommunications arcanotechnology was rare and expensive. Two empires dominated the planet. One was generic western fantasy, except that its royals and greater nobility had the ears and tails of dogs. The other was East Asian fantasy, and its royals and greater nobility had the ears and tails of foxes. (Fire Emblem: Fates had just come out, and the idea was popular. Also, the similarities between dogs and foxes were intentional.)
My character was the crown prince of the western empire (except that he was secretly a living-painting replacement for the real, deceased crown prince). The other player's character was the crown princess of the eastern empire. We each had a maid-cum-bodyguard secondary PC.
Before the campaign started, the GM offered two choices of starting adventure. One was fey-themed. The other was eldritch-horror-themed. The other player and I explicitly picked the former, and told the GM as much.
At the start of the game, the GM presented us with two plot hooks. First, some western duchess had mysteriously vanished. Second, there were strange reports of "blood gods" in some eastern city. The latter sounded more intriguing, so we pursued it.
(Continued.)
7/2/2025, 3:54:17 AM
let me iiiiiiiiiiiiin
i want to pull phainon already...
i want to pull phainon already...
6/30/2025, 4:01:14 AM
>>95980970
This is definitely be a good idea. I have taken your suggestion and integrated it as a sidebar:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vw4-EKpOZJ9rIxjGvy_h7yCY4pEao-gBY-3rLMdkvzE/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.q92f7td712q5
>>95981011
>There's plenty of movies where aliens or monsters represent Communism or the Red Scare. Or maybe Vampires representing corruption and nobility, etc. Werewolves representing anger and rage.
Yes, allegories are certainly possible. This does not make every allegory a good or intuitive one.
It would be a real stretch to say that the kaiju-sized cephalopod of obsidian and magma wreaking havoc on town is a metaphor for the sheriff's destructive overreach.
This is definitely be a good idea. I have taken your suggestion and integrated it as a sidebar:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vw4-EKpOZJ9rIxjGvy_h7yCY4pEao-gBY-3rLMdkvzE/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.q92f7td712q5
>>95981011
>There's plenty of movies where aliens or monsters represent Communism or the Red Scare. Or maybe Vampires representing corruption and nobility, etc. Werewolves representing anger and rage.
Yes, allegories are certainly possible. This does not make every allegory a good or intuitive one.
It would be a real stretch to say that the kaiju-sized cephalopod of obsidian and magma wreaking havoc on town is a metaphor for the sheriff's destructive overreach.
6/28/2025, 10:16:32 PM
>>529181581
>ancient greek dykes
But I want Cerydra. I wish I could say the same about Hysilens but I know they will fuck over Dot again.
>ancient greek dykes
But I want Cerydra. I wish I could say the same about Hysilens but I know they will fuck over Dot again.
6/26/2025, 12:25:26 AM
My wife is so cute
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