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I'm currently digging through the Degenesis Rulebooks and I have to say: The setting is absolutely amazing.
In case you're unfamiliar, the game is set roughly 500 years after Asteroids fuck over the entire nothern hemisphere, causing a new iceage and then (due to alien stuff inside the Asteroids) a massive spore investation that makes everyone exposed to the spores too long mutate or die.

No clue how the rules apply once you play, but it seems that the game does not fuck around when it comes to opportunities to shit all over the players, which is always nice. It paints a really dark, inhospitable picture of the future with countless threats all over the place. Other people might wanna kill and rob you, the Fauna is just outright hostile . . . and when you're really up shit creak, you might as well get invested by spores just by breathing.


And it certainly helps that the art and design is fucking amazing in the rulebooks, too.
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RomanesEuntDomus said:
I'm currently digging through the Degenesis Rulebooks and I have to say: The setting is absolutely amazing.
In case you're unfamiliar, the game is set roughly 500 years after Asteroids fuck over the entire nothern hemisphere, causing a new iceage and then (due to alien stuff inside the Asteroids) a massive spore investation that makes everyone exposed to the spores too long mutate or die.

No clue how the rules apply once you play, but it seems that the game does not fuck around when it comes to opportunities to shit all over the players, which is always nice. It paints a really dark, inhospitable picture of the future with countless threats all over the place. Other people might wanna kill and rob you, the Fauna is just outright hostile . . . and when you're really up shit creak, you might as well get invested by spores just by breathing.


And it certainly helps that the art and design is fucking amazing in the rulebooks, too.
Degenesis_Spitalian.jpg


Degenesis_Hellvetic.jpg


scrappers_cavebear_by_marko_djurdjevic-d80ur8i.png


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Ever watched the live-action commercials for the setting?
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
Ever watched the live-action commercials for the setting?
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Strangely enough, I completely forgot about them until you mentioned it. Yeah, they are awesome, would love to see a decently made show about this game.

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Might as well post them.


The weird twitching thing on the end of the spear is a so-called mollusk. Artificial muscle tissue that reacts to infestations, which the Spitalians try to eradicate.
 
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I just made my very first full on arcane caster for Pathfinder. I usually go for Rogues, Fighters, Ninjas, Monks or Gunslingers..so I have no idea what I'm doing. She's a sorceress with the Silver Draconic Bloodline, wizard seemed too fiddly for me.

If anyone has any suggestions for Feats or Spells I'd appreciate it.
 
Samuel Belmont said:
I just made my very first full on arcane caster for Pathfinder. I usually go for Rogues, Fighters, Ninjas, Monks or Gunslingers..so I have no idea what I'm doing. She's a sorceress with the Silver Draconic Bloodline, wizard seemed too fiddly for me.

If anyone has any suggestions for Feats or Spells I'd appreciate it.
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What level are you at?
 
2nd, we just started a week ago. The plan right now is to work on becoming a Dragon Disciple at around 6th. I'm not sure if this better, it just looked cooler to me.
 
Samuel Belmont said:
I just made my very first full on arcane caster for Pathfinder. I usually go for Rogues, Fighters, Ninjas, Monks or Gunslingers..so I have no idea what I'm doing. She's a sorceress with the Silver Draconic Bloodline, wizard seemed too fiddly for me.

If anyone has any suggestions for Feats or Spells I'd appreciate it.
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What kinda campaign is it? Mostly dungeons or actual kinda story with small skirmishes between it?
 
It's got a little story and skirmishing so far. The party is An Aasimar Sorceress(me), a Gnome Barbarian, a Half-Orc Rogue and a Dwarf Paladin.

It's a module(I don't know the name of it because I don't want to look it up and spoil it) and the impression I'm getting is it's started in a large dungeon but is going to end with us rallying to fight demons that took over our hometown. It's set near the World Wound in a country called Mendev.
Mendev is a kind of religious/crusader land and a frontline in the war against all the evil spilling out of the Wound. I'm think I'm going to need something to fight with or defend myself against demons even though we have just been fighting giant bugs(we're only 2nd right now).
 
Iä! Iä! said:
When you're done, I can recommend getting the campaign/sourcebooks (In Thy Blood, The Killing Game, Black Atlantic). They're a fantastic read and especially Black Atlantic provides further development in the metaplot.
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I think I'll be running a oneshot with a few friends the end of next month. Usually, we play DnD 5e, but I figured I might surprise them with a bit of the good old spore infested wasteland that is Degenesis as a change of pace. I'm currently trying to get a feel for rules and setting and I only have a vague idea, but I'll definetly check out these books, to see how the official campaigns handle encounters and such.

As much as I love the setting, the core rulebooks are kind of weird and hard to get certain infos from. You have a giant chapter on all kinds of creatures, but their stats are not noted anyhwere or where and how they live... kind of confusing.
I guess, once you get used to it, it does make more sense.
 
The official adventures require quite a lot of work from the DM. They're written more like a story with encounter stats at the side, so it's an easy trap for the DM to railroad the players into progressing the story like it's described in the book.
And yes, Degenesis being weird and sparse with direct info has always been a problem, moreso in the first edition. Now at least the rules are more codified and the players can actually do shit (i.e. succeed in skill checks).
 
REGENDarySumanai said:
Remember, if you need PDFs, then The Trove is your best bet. In other news, I'm looking in the corebooks of 2nd edition Feng Shui and 4th edition Legend of the Five Rings (the game, not the book it's named after).
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Which books are you looking for exactly? If it exists I either have it or can get it. I have nearly 1TB of RPG's including some stuff from the early 70's and some miniature games. I have the latest Legend of the Five Rings book as well (5th Edition) somewhere among all of my hard drives.
 
BlueArmedDevil said:
So this happened
RPG author Elizabeth Chaipraditkulshared on Facebook that a whole batch of her latest game supplement had been destroyed.

She Bleeds is a Lamentations of the Flame Princess published sourcebook by Elizabeth Chaipraditkul that has a front cover showing blood trickling down a woman’s legs.

https://www.geeknative.com/63810/wa...tations-of-the-flame-princess-rpg-supplement/
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To be clear, the books were destroyed in a warehouse after the distributor paid for them. The big material loser here is the distributor, who apparently bought an entire print run solely for the purpose of destroying them. This is more an issue of censorship rather than vandalism.

LotFP is also written James Raggi and is one of Zak's darlings. So on one hand, you have a book about menstruation magic written by a woman of color being destroyed rather than being allowed to get to retailers. On the other, she is a good friend of Raggi and Zak.
 
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So, I've recently rewatched my favorite horror movie (and one of my favorite movies of all time) and I want to run a campaign based on it.

The movie in question is George Romero's Dawn of the Dead from 1978 and I've been thinking of running it as an old-school style campaign to help give it the feel of an actual RPG from the late 1970's.

I think it could make for a great survival horror campaign with the Monroeville Mall serving as a mega-dungeon of sorts.

I got the idea from someone else on an OSR forum propose this very same idea using a modified OD&D for the rules and that could work, but I am a more inclined to use something like Call of Cthulhu or maybe a modified Boot Hill.

Speaking of which, I've never actually played Call of Cthulhu but I have always wanted to. So I might get myself a copy of the game soon.

What edition should I invest in? Any supplements or settings that you guys would recommend?
 
Syaoran Li said:
So, I've recently rewatched my favorite horror movie (and one of my favorite movies of all time) and I want to run a campaign based on it.

The movie in question is George Romero's Dawn of the Dead from 1978 and I've been thinking of running it as an old-school style campaign to help give it the feel of an actual RPG from the late 1970's.

I think it could make for a great survival horror campaign with the Monroeville Mall serving as a mega-dungeon of sorts.

I got the idea from someone else on an OSR forum propose this very same idea using a modified OD&D for the rules and that could work, but I am a more inclined to use something like Call of Cthulhu or maybe a modified Boot Hill.

Speaking of which, I've never actually played Call of Cthulhu but I have always wanted to. So I might get myself a copy of the game soon.

What edition should I invest in? Any supplements or settings that you guys would recommend?
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How about you try a line called, All Flesh Must Be Eaten? It's got what you need to make a game like that. (There's even stats for a zombie cow.)
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
How about you try a line called, All Flesh Must Be Eaten? It's got what you need to make a game like that. (There's even stats for a zombie cow.)
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Of course he won’t, it’s too MODERN and SJW-INFESTED for a True Gamer like @Syaoran Li. Anything that isn’t OD&D or some obscure 70s-era game is the work of the devil, and must be shunned.
 
Randall Fragg said:
Of course he won’t, it’s too MODERN and SJW-INFESTED for a True Gamer like @Syaoran Li. Anything that isn’t OD&D or some obscure 70s-era game is the work of the devil, and must be shunned.
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Actually, I am fine with newer game systems but I see where you're coming from. I have encountered that attitude a lot in the OSR scene.

Personally, I was thinking of modern systems that could work, like New World of Darkness and All Flesh Must Be Eaten. I honestly had not considered All Flesh Must Be Eaten despite it being an obvious choice.

I mean, I like the OSR games a lot, even though I started with D&D 3.5 and wasn't around for OD&D and the like, but some things in games have changed for the better since the 70's and 80's.
 
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