The Exquisite Corpse Shall Drink The New Wine

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The Exquisite Corpse Shall Drink The New Wine

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Quite an introduction Fantômas.
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Welcome, Fantômas.
I think play-by-post will be right up your alley. Enjoy!
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Welcome home good sir. :D

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#6 Post by Inferno »

Welcome, Fantomas. You'll fit right in around here.
Suggestions?
Just lurk this thread: viewforum.php?f=21
When something looks good to you, jump on in.
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Lost City of Eternity (1e): Hyborian Age Sword and Sorcery (B4, JG102, homebrew)
Once and Future Earth (1e): Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Dungeon Crawl (X1, B1, ASE1, homebrew)
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Jack in the Green: Ancient Child, Giants
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#7 Post by Pulpatoon »

Welcome!

AD&D is probably the most played game on the board (far more so than 3.5, Pathfinder, or 5e), so I think you'll find a lot to interest you. CoC shows up regularly, too.

Of course there's a Curmudgeon Class! Would the internet let you down?

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Thanks for that, Pulpatoon! Though I don't find this particular class description all that inspiring. For example, I would humbly submit that if a Curmudgeon has class bonuses against Whippersnappers, he ought to be able to easily defeat anyone wielding a whip, especially if he's equipped with a cudgel or bludgeon. Not that there's any real difference between the two, but a Curmudgeon knows there is, therefore he can deploy one of each in a devastating two-handed attack that utterly baffles Whippersnappers who couldn't be bothered to learn the difference because young people nowadays... (etc. etc. etc.)

I would also suggest that a Curmudgeon should have the special attack of actually knowing what a Bohemian Ear Spoon is, therefore if he threatens anyone younger than himself with it, they'll instinctively shield their ears from being spooned (whatever that entails), thus rendering themselves vulnerable to a weapon which turns out to be just another pointy thing on a stick.

Oh, and I couldn't help noticing that apparently a Curmudgeon has the not terribly useful power of continuing to be able to fight for a short while after he's actually dead because he's too stubborn to admit it. In AD&D this applied to hardly anything other than a few not particularly supernatural beasts, the most significant of which was the wild boar. Are we subtly being called old bores?

No, but seriously folks, I'd love to give CoC a whirl. Looking around this site, I see that a proposal to play a 7e game generated zero enthusiasm, so what CoC system are the people here most familiar with? All versions of the game, and also my personal approach to it, are much heavier on rôleplay than rollplay, so I don't think it matters a tremendous amount which one anybody has. I would tend to go with the approach that if I'm the Keeper, any edition of the game is adequate, and if there are major differences from what I'm using I'll tell the Investigators what they are and tweak things appropriately. But of course it would be nice if everyone was approximately on the same page.

I'm particularly interested in running a CoC campaign set in the 1920s avante-garde art world because Dada and Surrealism were both so weird that the Investigators would have great difficulty in figuring out which of these people really were behaving in a dangerously abnormal fashion unless they caught them eating someone's face. Did you know that Max Ernst, a very major figure in both Dada and Surrealism, claimed to be inspired by an utterly chaotic and inexplicable god called Loplop the Bird Superior, who was either a bird-headed man, a bird, a man, or a formless mass vaguely suggesting a bird or a man, who at one point was shown exalting over the death of the Universe? That's not a spoiler because it's actually true. Under the influence of Loplop, Max Ernst depicted flying saucers two decades before they were invented. No kidding!

So there you have it. Should I continue to pursue these topics on a different part of the forum?
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#9 Post by Starbeard »

Agreed, I love tweeting on SnappyChat. It's where I play all my storyteller games.

There's a healthy minority of CoC enthusiasts on this site, recently disenfranchised after a very large, multi-party campaign was recently put on the shelf. I'm sure you could generate some interest in a CoC scenario.

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Wow that is the introduction can you imagine the posting from Fantômas holy cow :)
Welcome to the site/community Fantômas :D
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Welcom Fantômas!
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#12 Post by Inferno »

Fantômas wrote:Should I continue to pursue these topics on a different part of the forum?
Yeah, at that same link I provided before: viewforum.php?f=21
Would-be DMs or Keepers usually include "Looking For Players" or "Interest Check" in the subject line, depending.

Because you're new here, you might also fill out one of these forms: viewtopic.php?p=77906#p77906
It's so prospective players know what to expect.

Good luck and good gaming.
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The Horror at Briarsgate (1e): Lovecraftian Gothic Horror (N1, homebrew)
Lost City of Eternity (1e): Hyborian Age Sword and Sorcery (B4, JG102, homebrew)
Once and Future Earth (1e): Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Dungeon Crawl (X1, B1, ASE1, homebrew)
Sauron Victorious (1e): Dire Saga for the Fate of Middle Earth (homebrew)

Player:
Agax Gryyg: Gamer of Urth, Ravenloft
Azoth Al-Aziz: Lovecraftian Cultist, Tamoachan
Blodget: Foolish Young 9th Level Hobbit, Dark Clouds
Dredd Doomsmith: Dwarven Deathtrap Engineer, Tomb of Horrors
Elijah Crowthorne: Marooned Prophet, Pirates
Jack in the Green: Ancient Child, Giants
P.T. Codswallop: Larcenous Impresario, Dimwater
Sir Ugghra: Bestial Half-Orc Aristocrat, Brotherton
Swilbosh: Savage Lizard-Warrior, Keep
Tantos Vek: Failed Paladin, Under Streets
Ulfang Chainbreaker: Barbarian Liberator of Slaves, Tharizdun

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Welcome to the site.

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#14 Post by Inferno »

Fantômas wrote:Gone.
What happened? :(
DM:
The Horror at Briarsgate (1e): Lovecraftian Gothic Horror (N1, homebrew)
Lost City of Eternity (1e): Hyborian Age Sword and Sorcery (B4, JG102, homebrew)
Once and Future Earth (1e): Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Dungeon Crawl (X1, B1, ASE1, homebrew)
Sauron Victorious (1e): Dire Saga for the Fate of Middle Earth (homebrew)

Player:
Agax Gryyg: Gamer of Urth, Ravenloft
Azoth Al-Aziz: Lovecraftian Cultist, Tamoachan
Blodget: Foolish Young 9th Level Hobbit, Dark Clouds
Dredd Doomsmith: Dwarven Deathtrap Engineer, Tomb of Horrors
Elijah Crowthorne: Marooned Prophet, Pirates
Jack in the Green: Ancient Child, Giants
P.T. Codswallop: Larcenous Impresario, Dimwater
Sir Ugghra: Bestial Half-Orc Aristocrat, Brotherton
Swilbosh: Savage Lizard-Warrior, Keep
Tantos Vek: Failed Paladin, Under Streets
Ulfang Chainbreaker: Barbarian Liberator of Slaves, Tharizdun

DM bio is here.

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