Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[Manly_Brony]

I would like to see how they present the NPCs. If they go with the isolated town of Innsmouth having a family with the last name Mankambe, that’s some woke shit. If it’s like a passing journalist for a New York City African American paper, then it makes sense in context.

I have no reason to believe that the changes and new NPCs will be 100% positive this time around. I'm expecting the same stupid swaps their updated Arkham did. Listing a handful of examples: a WW1 fighter ace and his mechanic were turned into women who come off as lesbians on my gaydar, a mystic Chinaman tattooist into a Dago masquerading as one and a German spiritist into a Magic Negress stereotype assumed to counterbalance Abigail LaRue the evil Louisianan Voodooist stereotype in Keziah Mason's (the antagonist from the short story The Dreams in the Witch House) witch cult. Christ, even Dante Helcimer the NPC who was originally the first character of the late Keith Herber's son couldn't escape DEI and is now a woman named Gisele. To quote Herber: "[Helcimer] was my son's first Call of Cthulhu character. Erik was about nine years old at the time he rolled up Dante. I remember Dante was supposed to be Belgian, survived many an adventure, and eventually semi-retired after suffering crippling sanity losses." I find this to be a very disrespectful decision.

I already see several potential ally NPCs perfect for race swapping in my Innsmouth book and I bet that some of the Coast Guardsmen and maybe even one of the Marine units participating in the raid will be Black. It's the logical step to a liberal since the original story is anti-miscenegation as it led to a proud, Anglo-Saxon New England town's horrific downfall.

Going that route does require an understanding of these mystical traditions. Because they are real to many people and it does a disservice to just relegate all spiritual practices to being associated with the eldritch.

You wouldn’t present the Eucharist as an apocalyptic cult cannibalizing their god every time you encounter a Christian group. You do that when you want to show that this an actual Lovecraftian cult.

Same goes for a ritual in Voodoo or Santeria or any other African-derived syncretic tradition. Draining the blood of chicken to summon the power of Ogun is occult, but not unnatural. Draining the blood of an orphan to strengthen a Lloigor masquerading as Ogun is unnatural.

I always treat the Lovecraftian versions of IRL religions as corrupted offshots. The fedora atheist Delta Green designers turned all of the self-castrating Russian Skoptsy into evil cultists because they're not around anymore to protest so I just rolled up a normal Skoptsy investigator for myself who hails from a tiny group that managed to come to the US.

 

[Konigsberg]

Anyone have some less talked about Rpgs?

Recently got Pilgrims of the murky dome which has a wooden cover
Conspiracy X set for 90$
Mortasheen
And Red markets

I'm looking to expand my collection again and want something different from DnD CoC or WoD

I've got mf uhhhhhh

Weird War II, the original 3rd edition D&D books and the Savage Worlds editions.
Fallout 2d20
Dishonored The RPG

The later 2 are just hardly ever brought up, Weird War 2 is probably the closest thing I have to some actual TTRPG hipster game.

 

[Sayer of the N-Word]

Wouldn't Twilight 2000 be too realistic for an action hero setting?

The module is a realistic recreation of the world of Escape From New York, but there are no Snake Pliskens.

How so?

Poland is just out of the way. Most people would think to start in the UK or Paris or something because post apocalyptic media relies on recognizable landmarks to fill in some of the background. But Poland? For most Americans except for the Polacks, Poland was interchangeable with Bulgaria or Yugoslavia or wherever, just some communist country that the Pope happened to be from. GDW really did an outstanding job of making it a real place with lots of sites for different kinds of adventures.

Free League had a chance to do that with Sweden, by the way, but instead they made the bizarre decision to reskin Poland, give referees advice on how to convert 1e modules, and call it a day. They're obviously afraid of callouts and are woke fags who became extra paranoid about this stuff after Russia invaded Ukraine, but grow the fuck up

 

[Adamska]

It's one thing to change a character in a way that can make sense. For example, if you wanted a Coloured Regiment or unit to do the shit work in cleansing Innsmouth, that could work if you actually handle it like it would be. They're given bitch work like cordoning off. But forcibly changing characters is almost always a fucking terrible approach. Especially if you aren't aware of where that character came from.

If you really want to go diverse, then you have to do what that retard idpol cunt with no talent did. Do a different area. Tulsa in the 20s, Los Angeles in the 30s, and Texas in the last outlaw years of the 30s are all good periods. I doubt anyone assigned would be competent though.

As for Twilight, I found out it leaned too much into rogue like for me to fully enjoy. Shame that.

 

[Manly_Brony]

It's one thing to change a character in a way that can make sense. For example, if you wanted a Coloured Regiment or unit to do the shit work in cleansing Innsmouth, that could work if you actually handle it like it would be. They're given bitch work like cordoning off. But forcibly changing characters is almost always a fucking terrible approach. Especially if you aren't aware of where that character came from.

If you really want to go diverse, then you have to do what that retard idpol count with no talent did. Do a different area. Tulsa in the 20s, Los Angeles in the 30s, and Texas in the last outlaw years of the 30s are all good periods. I doubt anyone assigned would be competent though.

The two Marine sections of the raid have Poles, Italians and Irishmen mixed in with the corn fed WASP Privates from the Midwest what I like to call WW1/WW2 movie diversity. Black Marine units didn't exist until 1942 but facts rarely stop them from having their Netflixed Roaring Twenties. Unforced diversity was never a problem in my game, because the last scenario I ran took place in the local Chinatown. I just hate it when even secluded small town scenarios have to have Black families. How is this different from every village blacksmith being a Dwarf? I'm stealing your idea BTW. Having characters be ordered to guard fucking roadblocks during the raid and players bitching about it until you hit them with the actual scenario you planned is a cool bait and switch.

But I know of one thing that will presumably not appear in the 7th edition Innsmouth book. Or not as originally written. A young Democratic congressman shows up in a post-raid scenario hook to exploit the event for political gain, visiting the ruined town immediately with the Lügenpresse, holding "Think of the children!" type speeches while pointing at some Deep One Hybrid kids who successfully avoided the patrolling Marines, the works. One of his aids has Deep One blood and is manipulating the politician to cause a political crisis so Washington never tries this again and hopes that the outrage can rebuild the town so the Esoteric Order of Dagon can be reborn. The players must prevent this.

 

[The Ugly One]

Someone told me months ago that Chaosium is trying to diversify it's audience of middle aged White men and so far it's been working very poorly because it's fans keep pushing against any attempts to change even the most slightest thing about the game. How about focusing on other eras if you crave diversity and representation so much like an 80s or 90s setting

That won't work. If you want niggers to buy your game, it's real simple, take all the math out and get the Dragonball Z license. There, I just made you rich.

 

[LovisXVI]

That won't work. If you want niggers to buy your game, it's real simple, take all the math out and get the Dragonball Z license. There, I just made you rich.

No way that they would do such a thing; that actually sounds fun.