On The Thirsts Of The Damned or whatever (one week post-Take A Load Off)

[extrasaltypotato]

In my searching through the Stacks I had a thought about how to use my understanding of their filing system for fun and profit and I found a rare treasure.

While it’s not quite the set of On The Thirsts Of The Damned, the Rage of the Garou, the Hubris of Sorcerers, and the rest of the On the Foo of Bar games, nor my native Dungeoncrawlers, I found the next best thing from two tales to the left: the substantially similar games Vampire: The Masquerade and Dungeons And Dragons Fifth Edition, Revised, in the form of finished manuscripts with placeholder art and full of references to Page XX, on which presumably is found all wisdom.

I’ve half a mind to run both. If anyone has interest in a tabletop roleplaying game about being in the contemporary vampire mafia, or of renaissance derring do in a Free Company (doesn’t that seem familiar), you know how to reach me.

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Hikaru

Comments

[aetherialshackles]

Okay okay okay... I'm not entirely sure I understand what that means but I would rather enjoy joining a social event like that.

I may require assistance in learning how things work, though. I know what vampiric creations are, my mentor actually took heavy inspiration by that kind of creatures for what I could only call his 'final transformation' but I'm unfamiliar with most other terms used.

It does sound nice to play games with others, though.

-Erich

[extrasaltypotato]

I was operating under the assumption that these games would be novel to most. I would be happy to teach the basics in a proverbial ‘session zero.’

But if you imagine improvisational theatre with occasional dice rolls for chancy actions, you won’t be far wrong.

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Hikaru

[aetherialshackles]

I feel like I would have a lot to learn, actually. Being a scholar and researcher that doesn't sound too intimidating. I would love to join this 'session zero'.

I know of theaters, that sounds fun! I assume dices are needed to move the story along?

[extrasaltypotato]

Tell me: in your childhood games of make-believe, did you ever get trapped in an endless loop of “you’re dead!” Vs “nuh uh?”

“I’ll roll one die for each point of Dexterity and Melee I have and you’ll roll for Dex and Dodge, and if I have more with 7 or greater I hit” is a way to short circuit that.

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Hikaru

[aetherialshackles]

Ah. Of course, it does make things more fair, right?


[Childhood make-believe... what? He never really had anyone to play with so it's just another thing that's difficult to understand but he'll not dwell on that]

so... how are we planning to do this? And what kind of resources do we need?

[extrasaltypotato]

Someone with the ability to draw the needed dice out of the illustrations from the books. Chairs. A table. Copies of the character infosheets in the back. I can provide all of these but the drawing out, right now.

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Hikaru

[aetherialshackles]

That. I can't help with. I see plenty of pictures now, between books and all, but at the same time I never really... dared to touch a quill.

Maybe we can ask around? Are illustrations needed for this kind of activities?

[extrasaltypotato]

You misunderstand me. Philip informed me that Editors can learn how to draw physical objects out of illustrations of them, which is where we will get the necessary supplies of Shiny Math Rocks required for play.

Though some evocative illustrations never hurt a game.

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Hikaru

[aetherialshackles]

Oh! My apologies! I can extract things from books too if that can be of any help! So we know what differences are there between our roles in the library, then?

My card says I'm a revisionist but I'm not sure what that implies duties wise.

[extrasaltypotato]

You and I both. Fascinating.

I am not sure what roles other than Revisionist we can be assigned to, but we all of us are Editors.

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Hikaru