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I do admit to reading the Eisenhorn trilogy last night

Quote from: Max White on April 17, 2013, 08:16:16 pm

Quote from: Furtuka on April 17, 2013, 08:13:37 pm

How can something, "objectively" look better? 

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THAT IS HOW!

the one on the left is cobbled together from a trailer, the one on the right is cobbled together from at-leisure gameplay

Actually, the one on the right is probably taken straight out of the game's data.

Here's an idea I started thinking up last night:

Basically a sort of cross between Liberal Crime Squad and The Secret World. You would take the role of a sort of "Inquisitor" or "Investigator" charged with tracking down randomly-generated instances of paranormal/extraterrestrial activity and maintaining the Masquerade. You would have as much freedom as possible in how you choose to keep the secrets; you would only be punished for failing to keep these events under wraps.

Say someone claims to have an alien corpse in his barn. You show up and quickly determine that he does, indeed, have a space alien. What's more, he killed it himself. Well, you can't have this guy running around leaking secrets, so now you have several choices:

• Kill the guy, take the alien corpse.
• Convince him to keep quiet by any means necessary, confiscate corpse.
• Convince him that it isn't actually an alien.
• Sneakily replace the corpse with a rubber replica. He can blab all he wants, but all anyone will see is a cheap movie prop.
• Have him work for you. You never know when you might need an extra gun while banishing demons, or a local set of ears in case the aliens continue showing up at this location.
• Etc, etc.

Each of these options would have various consequences to deal with. Say you kill the guy, but the cops hear about it and come after you. Do you kill the cops as well and risk further exposing the world? Do you evade them? Do you reveal your true identity and threaten them with life imprisonment/death if they mention anything about it? What other things can you come up with?

It should be all about choices. The game should take place over many decades, with no real "plot" to follow, like LCS. Just do the best you can, and maybe someday humanity will be ready to learn the Truth.

So's Gregor, technically (as a soldier serving at her fort). Doesn't mean they won't stick with the group; they are PCs after all, and thus don't have to suffer from genre blindness

I don't think they ever actually murdered any pregnant woman, just the doctors.

Bombs don't tend to be that discriminate.

9/10. Much better!

Quote from: Sirus on April 17, 2013, 07:46:28 pm

Yeah, but we really only need one shaman. Hell, I can think of a couple games don't even include one playable shaman.

Ah, but the bad guys usually have them by the armful. And let's be honest, right now at least, what side do you think we're really on right now?

Yeah, but I'm hoping we eventually end up on the "right" side. After all, we're a bunch of mercenaries and soldiers following the orders of a vaguely-sinister noble. How often does that happen in RPGs?