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Creative Projects / Samurai World (tabletop RPG): "Legend of the Five Rings + Eclipse Phase"
« on: May 16, 2021, 03:00:14 pm »
So I recently made a tabletop RPG ("Samurai World") and am in the process of play-testing it. I'm posting it here for feedback purposes.

The Pitch: Post-Apocalyptic Post-Scarcity Samurai Drama. Players are samurai who are tasked with the unenviable goal of protecting the "Samurai Republic of Gizen" from its many threats - the Shadow, the peasant militia, criminals, and the feuds. Will the Samurai Republic rebuild itself? Or is it irreparably damned?

Fluff: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z-waBB10njAq9GLWEbuWMTlpdnVtDCmdueDYzmjktbs/edit?usp=sharing

Mechanics: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1heSWI0qdNONs5_aP9hs7HMw20TNRF2Ni0BYBW6-tuZc/edit?usp=sharing

As the thread title states, the RPG is a combination of "Legend of the Five Rings" (pseudo-Japanese samurai drama) and "Eclipse Phase" (transhumanist post-apocalypse). Blending the two settings can lead to rather...interesting results. As a gross oversimplification, the Samurai Republic has the social norms of "fantasy samurai" (honor, popularity and relevance of religion, magic, caste system, etc.) but the technological advancement of "transhumanism" (replicators, immortality, augmentations, Faster-Than-Light travel, etc.).

There's also a couple of other works that was used to help build this RPG as well. All works used are detailed in the "Appendix N" section of the Fluff link.

I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about this setting and its mechanics. I hope you like it.

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Mafia / Skynet's Seduction [Resistance Victory]
« on: February 02, 2021, 11:27:00 pm »
Quote from: BFEL on February 12, 2016, 09:27:02 am
For some reason I was thinking of the Terminator movies this morning, and how if Skynet really wanted John Connor not to be born, instead of trying to kill his mom, all they would have to do is send one to seduce her instead. Since robots cannot into gene pool, babby never happens and Skynet wins forever.

May 12th, 1984

Early this morning, the news reported the existence of a mysterious techno-cult. The cult leader says lies. Seductive lies. And they are targeting every Sarah Connor in this city.

One Sarah in particular had already called the police for help and requested protection. Until the police arrive, Sarah will hide in the crowds of the Tech Noir dance club, safe from whoever is trying to “get” her too.

But her would-be opponents had already known Sarah would flee here. They came from the post-apocalyptic future, where knowledge of Sarah Connor’s history was commonplace. Each opponent had acquired the blueprints of Tech Noir and wargamed all the possible scenarios in this arena countless times.

Each agent came into Tech Noir under false pretenses, thinking that this would be an easy job. Find Sarah, complete their assigned missions, and then return back as heroes. Only the crowd of civilians stood in their way. Sarah was hiding in there. She just had to be drawn out.

It just so happened that one agent had a plan to narrow down the crowd. This agent stationed snipers in nearby buildings, wearing grey suits to prevent identification by the police.

One sniper first broadcasted their propaganda to the nightclub. It was only just to state your aims before you shoot, after all. “Kill Harmful Industrialization! Destroy Shallow Politicalization! Clear the way for a new order...the order of the Eco Party!” Then, satisfied that their agenda was peacefully conveyed to the masses, the Eco Party snipers started firing.

When the snipers stopped shooting, only nine survivors remaining. And every one of them have pointed plasma guns at each other across the bloodied tables and the fresh corpses. Using the snipers may have dispersed the crowds, but it also revealed too much information.

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Players:
  • LuckyOwl
  • Vector
  • webadict
  • Caz
  • Secretdorf
  • TricMagic
  • Superdorf
  • FallacyofUrist
  • notquitethere

Rules of Engagement:


1. The game starts on Day 1.
2. A Day is 72 real-life hours, and a Night is 24 real-life hours. No extensions.
3. If a majority of the town (50% + 1) votes for a single target, that target is Hammered and the day immediately ends. No more conversation is permitted.
4. When someone role flips (as a result of dying), their role name and alignment are revealed, but not their full Role PM. This revelation is not guaranteed to be accurate. Your Role PM will let you know what your eventual roleflip will be.
 - Example Roleflip: Player Name: Skynet. Role Name: T-4, Vanilla Townie. Terminator-Aligned.
5. Do not quote directly from mod private communications (PMs or QuickTopic).
6. Individuals who are not Terminator-Aligned will be given fakeclaims to help them blend in with the Town. It's up to them to decide how to use their fakeclaim properly.
7. The game has a lot of flavor, so flavor claims may help give you some clues as to how the setup works. However, this should not be a substitute for basic scumhunting and general suspicion. The flavor here in this game may be...twisted, so don't rely on Terminator canon to help you out that much (that being said, the original prompt for this idea wasn't based on Terminator canon either).

This closed setup was actually made in 2016-2017, but I never got the chance to actually run it until now. I hope you enjoy it.

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Curses / LCS Reference in “AGI Federation”, a free tabletop RPG I made
« on: April 20, 2020, 09:21:10 am »
So even though I no longer play Liberal Crime Squad, I did make a reference to it in a free tabletop RPG I made heavily inspired by PARANOIA: AGI Federation. The Federation is a loose alliance of megacorps (ruled by supercomputers) that survived the Corporate Buyout Wars, and have plugged their employees into utopian simulations. To protect said simulations from its many internal and external threats, they drafted Transhuman Police Officers - and that is who you play as.

Liberal Crime Squad is one of the default megacorps in that setting, based in New York City - the implication being that the Squad has outgrown its revolutionary origins and became incredibly powerful (and possibly corrupt). I only ran one game in this setting so far, and they haven’t played much of a role other than handling debriefing. I will plan on increasing their importance later.

Before I worked on AGI Federation, I tried making a sci-fi RPG (“The Regulator”) where you play as a police officer dealing with the Corporate Buyout Wars - you need to maintain the balance of power between the megacorps while keeping your boss (who is receiving bribes from one of the megacorps) happy. LCS was also a faction in that game as well, as a full-fledged megacorp:
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            id: 9,
            title: "Liberal Crime Squad"
            description: "A leftist terrorist group that previously wanted to establish an 'Elite Liberal Utopia'. The leadership soon realized that it would be far easier to plug people into a 'simulation' of an Elite Liberal utopia instead. They now adopt a policy of utter hedonism, and only leave the VR sims to raise funds and preach their agenda to the masses.",
            pro_quote: "Only by abandoning 'Conservative Reality' can humanity be awakened to its True Liberal Nature and be able to enjoy happy, productive lives.---Chris Horsa, Liberal Crime Squad Founder",
            anti_quote: "The LCS agents sleep soundly in their virtual pods, and dream of fighting their war against Conservative society. But I notice that they never really dream what happens after they win.---Leobwin Sansone, former LCS employee",
            industries: "Virtual Reality",
            alignment: "oblivion"

That game would also have randomly generated backstories that would explain the origins of the megacorps and the reason for the Corporate Buyout Wars. One random backstory would be about the game taking place a few decades after the Arch-Conservative Amendment has passed - LCS slowly “reformed”, while the other megacorps began feuding against each other for market share.

That RPG never got off the ground (not even a playable demo, just design docs), but many of its ideas migrated over to AGI Federation (even though it takes place after the big corporate war). Unofficially, you could consider AGI Federation a sequel to The Regulator, though keep in mind that The Regulator did have multiple backstories to justify its Corporate Buyout Wars (and only one of them made a reference to LCS’ Arch-Conservative ending).

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