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[Kagus]

If you end up getting sent into the astral plane or some other bizarre dimension... Couldn't you just cast Banishment on yourself to go back?

I mean sure, there's a CHA save and no specific wording that you can choose to fail it, but... Still seems a fair bit easier than some of the other options.

[Grim Portent]

If you end up getting sent into the astral plane or some other bizarre dimension... Couldn't you just cast Banishment on yourself to go back?

I mean sure, there's a CHA save and no specific wording that you can choose to fail it, but... Still seems a fair bit easier than some of the other options.

Assuming you have enough spell slots for every present party member, and time to do so, (about four and a half minutes for your average 4 man party, which is easy enough if you aren't under immediate attack) yeah.

I think some planes, mostly evil ones, might have inherent shenanigans that make that difficult in some editions, as would the Divine Realms of deities, but it's generally an easy way out of most involuntary interplanar stuff.

[Egan_BW]

Wouldn't it just plop you back "somewhere" in the prime material plane?

[Persus13]

Yeah, but if you're about to be eaten by an astral whale, that's a problem for you 5 minutes from now.

[scriver]

Yeah, but if you're about to be eaten by an astral whale, that's a problem for you 5 minutes from now.

*lands in the middle of ocean next to killer whales*

[delphonso]

Yeah, but if you're about to be eaten by an astral whale, that's a problem for you 5 minutes from now.

*lands in the middle of ocean next to killer whales*

A true DM.

[Rolan7]

Players: "Orcas! We're saved!"
GM: "Think more Captain Ahab"

[Loud Whispers]

Players: "Orcas! We're saved!"
GM: "Think more Captain Ahab"

Ahab the storm herald barbarian

Man too angry to drown

[Grim Portent]

Got an idea for an X-files adjacent kind of game. Set in the modern period, sometime in between 1920-1970 or so.

The PCs would be agents working for a Men in Black type secret organisation, working to suppress knowledge of various supernatural or supernatural-adjacent phenomena and threats. Werewolves, zombie viruses, vampires, wendigos, cryptids in general, that sort of thing.

The organisation started out as several groups of knights, monks, priests, doctors and so forth from around the world who had taken up the cause of hunting their local 'monsters' to protect their own people, but after efforts to utilise these monsters in one or the other World War* it was decided that the various groups of monster hunters needed to come together and cooperate to prevent the threats they had been guarding against from being released upon people en masse by malevolent actors, and most of these groups have come together to form a unified clandestine body which operates semi-independantly from the nations of the world.

Now the main two threats the organisation deals with are wild outbreaks of the things they seek to contain, a werewolf preying on the people of an isolated region, a town being laid siege by undead after it's water supply became contaminated with the zombie plague, and the human radicals who seek to weaponise or irresponsibly study the pathogens, species and stange forces behind these events.


*Perhaps Nazi Werewolves, or British Zombies. Whatever plan, it would have been nipped in the bud.

[Egan_BW]

Got a system in mind?

[Grim Portent]

Got a system in mind?

A few come to mind. I have a fondness for the FFG 40k percentile system, and it would be easy enough to refit Dark Heresy to be set in the real world but with monsters. Strip out the sci-fi and 40k stuff and you're left with a high lethality shooting and stabbing game. Meaningful reload times on some guns is also a plus.

D20 Modern is an obvious pick, as is WoD, but D20 modern is basically just D&D with guns, which isn't really the tone I would want, and WoD is a game I find really unintuitive. WoD might flow better once everything is loaded up into a virtual system like Roll20, but just setting it up would be a real pain.

Call of Cthulhu might work, in that it's a D20 system, so more easy to acclimatise my group to but much gloomier and higher lethality than D&D derivatives. The sanity mechanics might be of interest to represent PTSD or similar.

All Flesh Must Be Eaten might also work, it was literally designed around zombie horror, but it's been a while so I don't recall quite how easy it was to play. It's probably my number 1 choice, but I need to look it over to actually make up my mind.

[Persus13]

Not sure where you got the idea that Call of Chtulhu is d20, since its a d100 system like the 40k FFG RPGs. I think it has had at least one d20 conversion, but its primarily d100.

Since you seem to like d100, might be worth checking out the Delta Green RPG, which is a spin off of Call of Cthulhu where you work for a secret government agency/conspiracy dedicated to keeping the mythos contained and secret in the modern day. It also cites X-Files as an inspiration, so its probably easily hackable.

Another possibility might be Modiphius's Achtung Cthulhu. Haven't played that one myself but its a bit more pulpy and definitely has Nazi supernatural stuff.

[Kagus]

Anyone have experience with Candela Obscura? Friend of mine discovered it recently and it gunning to DM a game of it, and I might be able to snag a spot there. Never heard of the system before her bringing it up, so was kinda curious what I might be getting myself into

[scriver]

Tell us about it

[Persus13]

You probably haven't heard of it since the full rules aren't even out yet. The quickstart was released a few months back and the full rules come out in October.

Pretty much all I know about it is that its produced by the Critical Role folks and its an investigative horror rpg in the vein of stuff like Call of Cthulhu.