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- grodog
- Swordsman
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- Registered: 3/23/2014
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Re: Orienting the players...
I like the addition of science-fantasy, Jeff—it makes explicit the underlying themes from HPL and CAS while remaining true to their weird roots, and broadens nicely toward Phoenix in Obsidian, Kane, et al, as you intend!
I think that Joe does raise some good points about upping the DM section content about weird science though—even if there’s not a weird artificer/astrologer/tinkernaut PC class, it’s worthwhile to include some new tables of Fortean Times/Rube Goldberg inspiration, as well as some guidance on how you envision the interplay between magic and weird science functioning in the game/at the table.
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- gizmomathboy
- Warlord
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- Registered: 5/19/2014
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Re: Orienting the players...
BA has some Fortean-like stuff in the Hyperborean Encounter Tables with the Celestial stuff.
There is a pointer to Fortean events in the Weather Appendix B. Just examples, which is a decent jumping off point.
A look through the treasure tables to see how many...science-like artifacts there are. Out of about 600 items there are about 16 that seem sciency. I would argue that you might classify the snake-men's "pills as potions" sciency, or at least alchemical enough in nature to lean that way.
Not all surprising only 2% aren't fantasy derived. It isn't a bad thing. The weird science angle hasn't been fully explored/developed to date, but I like the idea of adding that part of CAS and that era to the mix.
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