tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40485770330773521692024-02-07T18:33:06.129-08:00Outsider: The CallingA game of choice in the face of the unknowableBlueDrakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064211228271306780noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4048577033077352169.post-54166546664545953842013-02-10T02:27:00.001-08:002013-02-10T02:27:54.791-08:00Current Status: Stuck in a rut <span style="color: white;">Oh, man. </span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Almost a year of no real updates.</span><br />
<span style="color: white;">Been trying to come up with some Sect specific weaknesses like one commenter suggested and while we have a few we just can't find one for Scions that makes sense both fluff and mechanics wise and the Courtiers also needs something more fixed. This is what we have so far and would appreciate any comments:</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><b>Starspawned Savants:</b> Must pass a Willpower check to
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<span style="color: white;"><b>Shepherds of the Silver Key:</b> Choose one effect from
Displacement. It's always active at minimum value and always one
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<span style="color: white;"><b>Scions of the Yellow Sign: </b>*blank*</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b>Courtiers of the Black Pharaoh:</b> Random Weakness from
other supernaturals or sects. Changes under yet to be specified
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<span style="color: white;">Besides being fixated on wanting to solve this particular part of the mechanics the general lack of updates can be also blamed on the fact that quite frankly we are at a point where our ideas have just run low and are in desperate need of outside (pun totally intended) commentary and ideas.</span>BlueDrakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064211228271306780noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4048577033077352169.post-42035396578062499522012-05-15T07:33:00.001-07:002012-05-15T07:33:13.744-07:00Still alive<span style="color: white;">Just posting to say this project is still alive, but we are buried in other work. As soon as we have time we shall bring you new material.</span>BlueDrakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064211228271306780noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4048577033077352169.post-42567646967810539732012-02-24T02:42:00.000-08:002012-02-24T03:03:19.141-08:00Artifacts & Disclaimers<div style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Been almost a month since the last update, seemed like the right time for one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. It seemed fair to put a disclaimer at the start of the document. After all we are borrowing from a variety of sources.</span></div>
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Mask 2.0],</span><span style="font-size: small;"> [Brain
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Pattern Electro-Rifle], [Mi-Go
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<span style="font-size: small;">Corruption: [Rot], [Essence Infusion]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hypergeometry: [The Key and the Gate]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">-specified that ranks in Mutations (except for [Size]) are not bought in sequence (a </span><span style="font-size: small;">(</span><span style="font-size: small; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">•••)
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<span style="font-size: small; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">-The third rank power of the Communion Rejection [The Tapestry] has some added text to make it less ambiguous. "Whenever a person uses a dice pool that relies on Stealth and is non-magical, you automatically pass perception tests to see through it."</span></span></span></span></div>
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Made some more progress: </div>
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1.Added a couple of stat blocks for the Mi-Go and a few words on their society. You can find them in the 'Antagonists and Allies' section of the document.</div>
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2.Added an [Elder Sign] ritual for repelling Outsiders and other mythos critters. The Ritual section has also been reorganized and redundant rituals removed. </div>
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<span style="color: white;">3.Added a bit of fluff for the Dreamer Creed that helps to explain why one of them would involve itself in the mortal world. </span>BlueDrakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064211228271306780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4048577033077352169.post-84393244169305643752012-01-21T14:25:00.000-08:002012-01-21T14:34:07.421-08:00Deep Ones<div style="color: white;">
We decided it was about time we actually stated something so, next to the usual stuff, we provide you with a few variants for the Deep Ones.</div>
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Updates:</div>
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1.Two new Rejections:<br />
Polymorphism: [Amoeboid]<br />
Corruption: [Útgarda's Nurse]<br />
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2. In-character comments about the other splats from The Mentor (The Outsider that explains how the Schools of Subversion work) that will serve as an intro for when we write how <br />
Outsiders perceive them. Can be found in the 'Antagonist' section of the document.<br />
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3. Deep Ones stats and some basic lore that still needs to be expanded can be found in the 'Antagonist' section.<br />
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4. The [Tainted Blood] merit has been added for creatures connected to the Outside, but not Outsiders themselves. <br />
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5. Maximum Age per Mythos has been increased to better represent what is seen in the lore.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Been a while and we have some more updates for you:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. Added 'Fall of an Empire', a fluff piece for the Master Creed. You can find it in the document.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">[Mimetism]</span></span></span></div>
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</div>BlueDrakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064211228271306780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4048577033077352169.post-19961319266002586562011-12-26T06:34:00.000-08:002012-01-07T19:54:55.575-08:00Updates<div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">1.Looking over any details we might have missed, we noticed we lacked entries for starting Mythos and Madness, so we added them: </span></span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Starting Madness is equal to Quiescence.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">For a new character Mythos starts at 1, but the player has the option of raising it up to level 3 using his merit points, at a rate of three per level of Mythos.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">2.The Size mutation has been altered to bring it more in line with the creatures one might see in the stories.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">3.The [Face of Humanity] Merit, that doubled the amount of time an Outsider could suppress it's mutations, has been removed and it's effect has now been assigned as a faction bonus for the Denier Creed.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">4.Basic rules for Ritual Worship have been added, tho it must be seen how they will hold up in practice and are likely to change.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div>BlueDrakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08064211228271306780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4048577033077352169.post-77387284053914661652011-12-23T00:15:00.000-08:002012-01-07T19:55:09.285-08:00Brainstorming Summary<div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">Much has happened in the week following our 1 year anniversary that I will try to summarize here.</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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</span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">"A Storytelling Game of Alien Horror.”</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">“<span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">...of </span></span></span></span>Horrible Truths”</span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">“...of Terrible Knowledge" </span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">“...of Monstrous Fates” </span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">Feel free to comment on these or add your own.</span></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">3.Ritual Worship</span></span></b></div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">When we first introduced Madness as the power source for Outsiders it was stipulated that it would be hard to gather, since it is the very antitheses of reality where the game takes place. As such regaining it through ritual worship, tho appropriate for the theme of the Mythos, seemed too easy. </span></span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">During the discussion it was suggested to tie any such mechanic to 'mystic signs and occurrences', the rare the sign the more effective the ritual would be. This would prevent the players from simply grabbing a few cultists and telling them to 'fill u p his tank', but still prevent overly long dry spells that would make the game less fun to play when other methods of regaining Madness ain't available or desirable. </span></span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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