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3 at least not when compared to a roll x2 and a rollx3 this didn t really occur to me when i was reading the rules before play hence dismissing it as inflating the numbers the reality is it allows a larger range of target numbers for challenges secondly the multiplication means that anyone with a skill of 0 cannot use that skill for anything this was quite poignant coming from what might be regarded as a casual game many games allow bases chances for success even if it is just the roll of a dice it was refreshing to note that as the skills are randomly generated it was possible you were going to have to work with a character that like mine did had 0 in a crucial skill athletics in my case this is mitigated by the fact that whenever you perform an action you describe it in such a manner as to decide which attribute you roll on if you emphasise the physical parts of an activity then you roll athletics if you emphasise precision and technique then you roll skill etc this is the main engine that drives the roleplaying aspect of the game and it works well as you have to work out how to proceed in the way that best emphasises your talents as to the actual game it was fun but a little disjointed and hectic it specifically says in the rules that it could be used as a long term game but i can t see it working that way for any group i ve played with it s fun as a distraction between other things but unless you re really into the theme you know who you are the ruleset is not really tight enough to facilitate campaign play and the kooky characters lolita assassain ninja and plots would probably wear thin after a while they certainly would for me anyway but as always ymmv and i know a few people who could probably get a kick out of it for a good long while posted by malik at 10 36 pm no comments labels characters general gms maid player safe review rpg writing monday 28 may 2012 feedback request yay three days in a row with new content as you may have been able to tell from the stream of consciousness posts and random subjects this blog is mostly just for me to collate and broadcast my thoughts that said if you have any comments on which types of posts you think are best most interesting and also how long is too long or too short for a post then it d be nice for me to have some info on what people actually read if you have contact with me from other sites and not here facebook da ysdc etc feel free to contact me there with any comments rather than making an account here posted by malik at 9 22 am no comments the non euclidian nature of horror two new followers in under a week i m on a roll enjoy the ride while i wanted to move over to rq for a while to get away from any intensive atmosphere pressure as it s wierdly draining as a gm to try to keep that going i am feeling an itch that i will end up implanting elements into my rq game too my games were never very scary anyway but i always tried to keep up a pretense of a horrific atmosphere horror comes in many different flavours being a call of cthulhu player addict the type of horror i m most familiar with is existential and fridge horror and i really need to learn that linking to tv tropes only loses me readers as they get sucked in over there instead which usually takes a while to sink in such as realising you ve just bricked up a living person into a stone cell or that should you fail to meet the requirements for eihort s sealing on the exact right date you will be directly responsible for any ensuing damages but there are a number of different types of horror most of which can be found in all media and i have dabbled with a few others as follows will be a couple of the ways i ve considered that could be used to create a more tense and disturbing game in rq needless to say these will be seasoning not to be applied with any strength more than one in ten sessions or so to keep the players grounded and not too heroically inclined survival horror this comes in two basic flavours wilderness survival horror and being stalked by something unnameable bsbsu horror the former relies on the feeling of isolation that comes from being cut off from civilisation with very limited resources and the lurking presence of death at all times this is i find hard to pull off in games because it essentially comes down to a resource management minigamewhich divorces the players from the perils their characters face films such as 127 hours which i do not recommend spending the 2 hours of your life required to watch on btw do show some of the fear that would be present in rl for inspiration and i m aware that it s my fledgling gm status that prevents me from evoking proper responses from players but even so the second case is much more easy to conjure up in games indeed the first instance i plan on using horror is based on it it involves some preferably hard to detect and probably even harder to defeat malevolent entity relentless wearing down the heroes defenses in my case i aim to have a cave system hopefully having limited the light sources of the pcs which as they explore they gradually discover is the hunting grounds for a pack of tooth fairies of the hellboy variety what starts as a vague chittering soon escalates into a whirling bitey death cloud that is inexorably closing in on them unless they can escape this i can do and have successfully ratcheted up the tension using this sort of scenario before it s good fun obviously for bonus points you can combine the two types together jump scares a token mention has of course to be made of the humble jump scare while the effect of a good jump scare shouldn t be underestimated it is worth noting that a fair bit of time has to be put in before hand building suspense so it s best utilised as part of a larger mood setting piece rather than an isolated incident always feels a bit cheap imo just like in films gore would also fall into this category really though most gamers i ve played with are so desensitised to gore in general and in fantasy settings in particular as to not even count this as horrific any more maybe i need to find new friends fridge horror this is horror that only dawns on you when you stop to actually think about it rather than at the time this is the stuff true lovecraftian horror is made of though the specifics are dealt with in the next section i can recall a few instances when this has been used to good effect in coc games particularly where terrible choices have to be made in a recent game i played in the gm didn t let on that we d forgotten to rescue some children from a burning cell until it was too late from the looks around the table that scene will stay with us all for some time as cool and flexible as this is it doesn t have a huge amount of place in a high fantasy setting really so i ll be giving it a rest at least until i get back to coc cosmic horror this is horror born from existential doubt and the shattering of humanity s or lizard manity s or beastmanity s delusions of grandeur it is is surprisingly easy to inflict on characters especially in frpgs as a few failed prayers and little selective denial of confirmation bias should put them right into their place players on the other hand are much more complex beasts and tend to be more difficult to scare it generally depends on the sensibilities of your individual players but of all the people i ve ever played with i am proobably the most susceptible to this play so it hasn t found much effective use as josh mentions in the comments here it is especially common among those veterans of mythos that have either faced and answered any misgivings they have or are simply more lovecraftian and not interested in the slightest ymmv honourable mention surrealist horror this is what i tend to use in the dreamlands and similar settings and is similar to body horror a lot of the time body parts randomly shifting andd melting playing off of actual player phobias and similar blurring of the player character divide can lead to some interesting outcomes though it s probably more along the lines of creepiness than actual fear posted by malik at 9 12 am 4 comments sunday 27 may 2012 the things i get dragged into interesting happenstance i have been roped into playing a game of maid no that is not a bad link this is just somewhat out of character for me i ve been reading the rules and so far they seem pretty intuitive and actually fairly interesting that said i despise the core mechanic i just don t see the point of the multiplications of dice rolls it only serves to inflate the values seen in gameplay this seems to just add unnecessary maths for no real benefit though i m sure there is a reason and my amateur eye hasn t caught up to it yet otherwise though it actually seems to be a legit if rules light which i like anyway system the gm is replaced by the master with the players representing his obedient maids and hilarity ensues as the world can be as mundane or as wacky as the master desires character gen is almost entirely random you roll on what are essentially tables of fetishes to decide essentially what kink your maid will be fulfilling for your master examples include lolita leather werewolves cat girls hermaphrodites and vampires plus about 5 dozen others some more obscure some less so there is a perversion chart for demogorgon s sake it s all done with tongue firmly in cheek not like that you dirty sod though and it takes refuge in audacity fairly well you get the feeling this game is played by people who take their slightly fetishised games seriously but not so seriously that they can t laugh at themselves while doing it the best kind of people in other words in the english translation there is something like 17 scenarios included though the nature of the game means they are basically just frameworks for you to do whatever the hell you want to do needless to say all the pontificating in the world is pretty useless without having played the game so i shall delay proper judgement till it s done but i m fairly certain it s going to depend entirely on meshing well with the gm who is a first timer as far as i m aware and especially the other players most of whom i know but there are a couple of surprise players too should be entertaining i think posted by malik at 3 26 am no comments labels general maid player safe rpg saturday 26 may 2012 inspiration series temples and tabernacles firstly welcome to my new follower hope you enjoy your stay while there is an annoying lack of inspiration for commentary posts at the moment i shall at least attempt to post a content post dungeon design for the rq campaign is going well so i shall post the results of my brainstorming sessions in the hope that it sparks something useful for you too in trying to define my niche i m thinking of doing a series of posts on psychological principles as applied to gaming and how they can be used to improve your game not sure if i like it or more to the point if it would be of any use to anyone but it s floating around anyway enough of these empty going by past experience promises the last brainstorm i had was on shrines and similar places to be found as they are for rq they are predominantly designed for a high fantasy setting but some could probably be repurposed many of these may appear in my game and as i know some of my players read this stop here the temple of tears this mysterious temple is inhabited by two faced statues each of these faces is crying the liquid running down one face into a moat surrounding the statue and then runs up the back of the statue and into the eyes of the second face each statue cries a different liquid from water through blood and quicksilver to molten lead the temple to the stars this shrine consists of a single round room the domed ceiling of this room has been treated with some sort of lacquer or paint that absorbs all light inlaid across this backdrop are hundreds of gems these emit a gentle and harshly cold light that gives the entire room a foreboding fear combined with the loss of depth perception on the jet black ceiling a true experience of the vastness of the skies can be had here the gems can be prised from the ceiling with a lot of work but they stop glowing if removed from their settings and absorb heat likely causing freeze burns to the hands of all who wield them if a suitable storage can be devised they are worth 10gp each the wandering shrine this is i suppose technically a creature rather than a place an earth elemental akin to an bent and twisted ent meanders through the forest it s pollens spreading life to the forest s denizens and spreading disease and poisons through it s invading foes the top of this wandering construct is formed from an age s worth of entwined and knotted branches in a plateau in the centre of this plateau is a large spring bubbling up from the depths of the elemental s soul akin to the tears of nature herself should this spring be blocked or spilled clear of the elementals pond temple head the forest will die where the spring flows in the elemental s dying moments a new tree shall sprout and when the next age passes it shall pull itself clear of the ground a new clear spring bubbling forth and wherever it treads and sprinkles its waters new forest shall grow shamelessly pillaged from akrasia thief of time the temple to the god of immediate gratification shows the promise of a fabulous building a golden minaret perches above a gem inlaid tower closer inspection reveals it is just a shell however the inhabitants were distracted by more immediate pleasures before they could finish remnants of these pleasures litter the surrounding area from the hastily constructed brothel tavern to the nearby fields of hallucinogenic plants and mushrooms akrasia has let grow around to fulfil those fantasies as fast as possible the caged temple the ancient being associated with this temple believed that their priests should fully trust each other and as such in order to enter two priests have to stand in metal cages each of these has a door that leads to the next room in the next room it is clear that there is a single benefit of some kind two levers are present in each cage they are clearly labelled one allows the other priest to proceed while keeping their own door locked the second unlocks their own door and traps their companion or at least prevents them advancing this is according to the symbols anyway in reality to promote trust if either priest betrays the other both priests are killed by traps the tabernacle of the fates in the entrance hall to this labyrinthine construction there is a huge tapestry if examined closely it will be revealed to update itself every 30 seconds as a view of various areas of the temple not quite a map almost more akin to cctv really this will reveal the various traps and creatures wandering the halls if used correctly posted by malik at 2 58 am 1 comment labels general inspiration props runequest 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