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Plots, Story lines and other wierdness.

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Re: Plots, Story lines and other wierdness

Want something to spice up your game. This chart may just do it for you.
Feel free to use or modify it. Its just something me and some friends came up with a long time ago and I found in an old file recently.


AD&D Quirks Chart
EXOTIC ATTRIBUTES AND QUIRKS

Characters may have up to 8 of these but only start out with 1-4 (1d4) of them. They may gain
more via the free attribute + 1-4 Attributes, or by DM's discretion.

1) Natural Werecreature (see sub chart 1 )
2) Member of a secret society (Thieves guild, Club, Elite organization (Harpers, Zentirim, etc.)
3) Night vision equal to day vision
4) Totally fearless (unaffected by outside generated fears [spells, auras, etc.] )
5) Good luck +1-4 to S.T.
6) Naturally lucky (Find coins on ground, accidental good fortune)
7) Internal Compass (Always knows what direction you are facing even underground)
8) Natural swimmer (50% chance of being amphibious)
9) Natural Thief abilities (pick pockets, move silently, hide in shadows, hear noise, climb walls, escape bonds) [as a level 1 thief. If a already a thief then you get an additional 60pts to spend on these skills]
10) Natural in class (+10% to exp. + any bonuses for high primary stats)
11) Natural Berserker 25% chance of continuing to attack even after foe has been killed.
12) Detect poison by smell 75% chance (Enhanced sense of Smell - works on bad food to)
13) Vision challenged (1: nearsighted 2:farsighted 3: tunnel vision 4: blind 5:color blind 6: cataracts )
14) Devoted paladin abilities ( detect evil, aura of protection, immune to disease, turn undead at -2 levels)
15) Good with animals + 1-4 on reaction rolls and training chance
16) Idiotic appearance ( Not taken seriously by others, all children, Joxer, Looked on as if a clown or incompetent)
17) Gifted mage ( gains 1 extra spell per level, if not a mage gets one 1st level spell usable once per day )
18) Gifted Priest (as Mage above)
19) Enhanced Strength + 1-4 (to a max. of 22 )
20) Enhanced Dexterity + 1-4 (to a max. of 22 )
21) Enhanced Constitution + 1-4 ( " )
22) Enhanced Intelligence + 1-4 ( " )
23) Enhanced wisdom + 1-4 ( " )
24) Enhanced Charisma + 1-4 ( " )
25) Mental quirks ( use personality chart in Creative Campaigns )
26) Aim + 2-5
27) Inspire loyalty + 1-4
28) Natural Beauty + 1-4 (affects Chr Reaction only)
29) Naturally Ugly - 1-4 ( " )
30) Blind curiosity ( think kender, does not consider response to actions 1/2 wisdom or less to avoid )
31) Natural Climber + 5-30 % to climb walls
32)Use any one 1st - 5th level spell 1/day ( determine spell when this is first rolled )
33) + 1-6 Miscellaneous magic items ( if first level then gained them from relative or teacher )
34) Sound Imitation 10 to 100 % accuracy
35) Bad with animals - 1-4 on reaction rolls and training chances
36) Intimidating appearance ( taken to seriously, treated with undeserved respected or fear )
37) Enhanced telekinesis ( can move 100 - 600 lb. per 2 levels )
38) Telekinetic arm AC: 5, 1/2 the owners Hit Points ( may lift the equivalent of the users Int. in weight)
39) Telekinetic flight ( can fly over any surface up to 10 ft per Int point high at base movement rate. Example Int 10 = max of 100ft up)
40) Friend of random race ( use Ranger companion / enemy charts )
41) Enemy of random race ( use Ranger companion / enemy charts ) {in the complete Ranger Handbook }
42) Random missing body part ( players choice )
43) Increased Infravison + 30 - 80 ft ( 1d6 + 2 x 10 )
44) New or multiple body part ( see sub chart 2 )
45) Reinforced skeleton + 2 to AC
46) Heightened hearing + 5 - 30 % to hear noise
47) Heightened touch + 5 -30 % to pick pockets and / or open locks
48) Stealth + 50 % to move silently or hide in shadows
49) Adjusted height 1-50 + 1die of height 51-00 -1 die of height
50) Regenerate 1-25 1hp / turn, 26-50 1hp / round, 51-75 3hp / turn, 76-00 3hp / round
51) Naturally skilled + 1 - 6 Non weapon proficiency
52) Weapons master + 3 to hit and damage with one weapon ( if rolled a second time then its for one broad group, ie Swords - Daggers - axes, etc)
53) Heightened sense of smell + 1-4 to tracking
54) Mutations 1 - 6 random powers (see sub chart)
55) Leaping ability + 3 - 12 ft ( as per jumping NWP + bonus ft )
56) Bad luck - 1-4 on S.T.
57) Naturally Unlucky ( always losing things , trouble finds you, as Swashbuckler )
58) Naturally fast +3 base movement rate
59) Detect magic at will ( can see magic auras. Cannot Identify magic items but can identify spell types )
60) True sight ( can see all Illusions for what they are)
61) Double jointed + 5 - 30 % chance to escape bonds
62) + 1-4 traits ( as in Skills & Powers ) (If you don't have these make up your own)
63) + 1-4 disadvantages ( as in Skills & Powers )
64) Good rider + 1-4 ( 1 land based, 2 air, 3 water, 4 all types )
65) Bad rider - 1-4 ( as above )
66) Gifted poet + 1-4
67) Gifted Singer + 1-4
68) Gifted Musician + 1-4 ( at +4 this person can play any instrument proficiently with just a few minutes of
practice but does not gain his / her bonus unless he / she actually studies the instrument )
69) Disciplined study habits ( it takes half the time to learn a new skill or to learn spells)
70) Naturally tough skin ( natural armor ) AC: 1: 8 2: 7 3: 6 4: 5 5: 4 6: 3
71) Strange Birthmark or Tattoo ( 25 % chance to be magical , DM's choice of effect)
72) Indestructible stomach ( not affected by nausea, ingested poisons, or alcohol )
73) Weak stomach ( easily nauseated , -2 on saving throws on ingested poisons, double the normal affect of alcohol )
74) Odd appearance ( unusual hair, eye, or skin color )
75) Foolhardy (like Blind curiosity but in regards to dangerous situations)
76) Ambidextrous ( no off hand)
77) + 1-4 potions or scrolls
78) Desire to form or belong to a secret society
79) +1 to find secret doors or hidden objects
80) + 5-20% to find traps
81) Natural Wild Talent ( reroll if not using Psionics )
82) Heightened visual acuity ( can see 25% farther without losing normal vision)
83) Allergy ( DM's choice )
84) Good Bargainer + 1-4 (chr ) ( good at haggling )
85) Storyteller + 1-4 ( chr ) can tell enthralling tales
86) Astral detection ( can see and talk to beings on the ethereal and astral planes as well as spirits, side effect : not affected by ghost fear power )
87) -1-4 on random stat
88) Resist Poison and Disease + 1-4
89) Naturally magic resistant ( as a dwarf , if already a dwarf then character has a +1 resistance )
90) Naturally magic receptive ( -1 resistance to spells, x2 duration on personal effect and healing spells)
91) Appear as opposite gender ( a manly woman or a girlish man )
92) Underweight - 2die (example : humans use 6d10 on weight roll this character will use 4d10 )
93) Overweight +2die
94) Appears as different race ( a dwarf looks like a gnome, a human like an elf, etc.)
95) Albino ( little to no skin , eye , and hair color )
96) Mage school immunity ( immune to one school of magic : Necromancy, Conjuration, Evocation, etc. also
cannot use any spells in affected school. )
97) Priest school immunity ( as Mage )
98) Total magic resistance ( just not affected by magic cannot use magic either, has a 50% of being unable to use
magic items.)
99-00) Roll 1-4 more times

Sub chart 1 : Werecreatures
1)Bear
2)Rat
3)Cat
4)Seawolf or Dragon
5)Tiger
6)Wolf
7)Boar
8)Raven

Sub chart 2 : New body parts
1)glowing eyes (2)quills (3)spines (4)wings ( butterfly, reptile, bat, etc.)
5)claws ( 50% retractable) 1-6" (6)forearm claws 3-12" (7)concealed orifice
(8)horns (9)fangs (10)tail 1-6 (11)2-8 tentacles 3-12'
12)Antenna (13)serpent or cats eyes (14)Hooves
15)eye stalks (16)pincers on extra arms (17)serpents tongue
18)feathers (19)webbed hands and / or feet (20)gills ( may be useless)

Sub chart 3 : Mutations (Powers)
1)pyrokinesis 1-4 dam per level (2)cryokineses (as pyro) (3)invisibility at will
4)dimension door at will (300ft range) (5)dimension travel at will
6)chameleon powers (7)light generation (8)paralyzing touch
9)webs from hands (10)speed x2 (11)lightning bolt ( as pyrokinesis)
12)phasing (the ability to pass through solid objects) (13)true flight (speed = 4x base)
14)force bubble (5-10' radius AC 2 Hp = to 1/2 characters ) (15)circle vision
(16)life sense 60' radius (17)x-ray vision (18)fire control
19)light control (20)shadow shaping (21)cell adjustment (heal 1-20 hp)
(22)induce sleep (as spell but with no level limit) (23)weapons creation (dur: 1-4 turns)
24)speak with animals (25)speak with plants (26)linguistics (the ability to speak any
language within a few minutes [ 1-10 rounds] ) (27)empathy
28)animal empathy (29)spiderclimb (30)floating disc up to 10' across (may use
this to fly )
This message was last edited by the user at 04:31, Wed 27 Apr 2016.
ShadoPrism
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Rehash old for new

I like stories where people are displaced in time / space / dimension. So on that theme.


Scene: Some people start to 'hear' / 'Imagine' a female voice speaking to them about creating a 'new life' via rolling up a character using set specifics. All these people find on their computers / smart phones a file for Ultimate Powers. It looks like something for a role playing game, and a dice generator program with instructions on how to create their character.
Those that do this, for what ever reasons, soon forget about the character till this one normal day when the whole cities power grid suddenly fails.
All those who made up characters on that program / app, slowly fade away, first mentally then physically. Only to come to in another similar but different world, as the characters they made up.

They have new powers, possibly even new skills (depending on how through they were in creating their new Identity) and now a new life. All with only 1 common set of problems. No jobs, no money, and no Legal Identity in this new world. Also they will need to learn how to use these new powers and abilities pretty quickly, cause Somehow you know the other shoe is coming, but not what it is.


The above I can see using Marvels FASERIP system pretty easily. But the world - now that can be any thing the talented GM can think of, including Marvel / DC variants. (I like dropping them in to a world in which Scarlett Witch or someone similar removed all the Mutants (or Most of the Mutants) and SOMETHING decided to 'fix' this sudden vacuum of power by 'recruiting' these new people for this job.

The City wide power outage was caused by the needed extra energy to pull these 'recruits' out of their world and in to the new one.
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Deck of Fate or Doom

Your out somewhere and find an old deck of cards with excellent hand drawn images on it. Drawing a card from the top of the deck you feel an odd sensations ...

Thinking of the fabled Deck of Many things.
Imagine the sort of fun - mayhem you could have Starting a game with such a deck - imagine someone finds such a deck and first time out uses them to play poker with some friends - 5 cards, 5 random things happens to each of the players.

Takes some thought but I can see such an interesting group of stories unfolding from such a thing.
ShadoPrism
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Deck of Fate or Doom

Idea just popped in to my head.
A group of 'medival' cosplayers (with maybe some steam punk or victorian aged types thrown in) are transported to a medival world. Say around 900 AD or something. Not nessisarily one with more magic or anything. How would they survive, what sort of mischief would a group from the 21st century get in to in the 10th century.
Heck would the group even stick together, or split up and go their own ways, leading to other fates and stories.

The question of can they return to their own time or not is also out there. It could very well be a one way trip caused by some cosmic glitch or random event.

Be interesting story I think.
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Other Worlds

Someone posted an Idea for Overlord type game - I forget which forum though. But it got me thinking about what it would be like to be sucked in to a video game.
Maybe not already at the top of the power heap but not at the bottom either. (Lets face it, bottom of most games is cannon fodder or close to, till you level up some.)
How would you react if you found yourself in say Elder Scrolls, or Grand Theft Auto Online, as the character you normally play ? Only this time, if you die, that's it, game over. And pain, being shot hurts, allot. Unlike the super humans that seem to make up the standard PCs in those games.
Just a thought, maybe someone can make something more from it.
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Sun 19 Aug 2018
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Other Worlds

This is not an uncommon motif in the literature of fantasy and science-fiction.  Some examples:

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Samuel Clemens writing as Mark Twain)
The Compleat Enchanter (L. Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt)
The Worm Ouroboros (E. R. Eddison)
The Martian Novels (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
The Land That Time Forgot (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)

In a possibly related vein, see the Amber novels of Roger Zelazny.

There are many others in the veins of the examples given here.

All of the considerations you've mentioned are valid ones for this type of story.  Making such a story line into a game here or anywhere else will require work, research, and patience to get it right.

A lot would depend on how you want the game to go:  sweeping cinematic action hero stuff or gritty realism? (Seems like you were tending toward the latter.)  Seems like you would want to pick or create a system for the game with a good bit of flexibility (unless you intend to go rules-light).

If the game is set in one particular time and place in history, the other thing that is worrisome is the time paradox/butterfly effect thing where one or more players intentionally or inadvertently muck(s) up the time stream by doing something that changes the future.

One way around this would be a deterministic universe in which it is impossible for players to change time, but that would place a high burden on you as GM.

You're considering an ambitious project.  It's one worth doing if you're all in.  How can we help?
DarkLightHitomi
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Other Worlds

You could also simply handle time as either multiple timestreams (going back in time splits the timestream so the timetraveller's past doesn't change, but rather a new past is created parrallel to the original) or that time isn't a stream at all but simply a measure of change amd therefore going back in time is more like changing the world to match the past rather than actually going to the past (more difficult, but ripe for interesting consequences and dilemmas, for example, just how far away can things be adjusted? A continent, a planet, or just a city?
ShadoPrism
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Other Worlds Concepts

Been reading this over and still keep going back to other worlds. People from one world to another still my fav.
Here is one thought, by pure chance a person finds an object (ring, card, or something ordinary) and unthinkingly makes a wish they did not really mean.
What are the consiquinces of this wish, does it really work, or do things go sideways from the start.

On finding a Tarot Card of the moon, a person jokingly says "Oh mighty Card of the Moon, grant me my boon, I wish I could live in another world of ancient magics, powerful places, and potentials undreamed of in the hearts of the people of this world, that there I was a mighty Wizard, with my staff in hand and knowledge of all things mystical and arcane, and that I was young, strong of body and mind and very healthy, and wealthy "

From there the story begins - what kind of mayhem can you think of for that fateful line ?
ShadoPrism
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Other Worlds Concepts

Another new concept - your just driving down the road one day, when a worm hole (Wyrm ?) opens around you and you drop in to a completely different universe.

Any thoughts on what sort of things could happen. Including becoming a new race / gender, gaining powers or special skills (or all the above).

Input welcome. Stories inspire us to write better, think stranger, do more with our hobby.
Razewun
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Other Worlds Concepts

I often consider "Time" in any game or setting to be "that is what is is here".

Could be multiple timelines, could be butterfly effect, could be malleable, or it could be immutable.

I first considered these and other options many years ago, when buying anthologies in book form; long, long ago in a time before internet and computers where "rules", "theories" and "thoughts" abound...to the point of confusion, where a story might "die" in the making...  Thus "time" in your story is your own concept, regardless of real world theorems.

The story that evoked my thoughts way back then involved a consideration that "time" in a universe was immutable.  I cannot recall if Issac Asimov was the author, or just the Anthology Editor.

The story was of a time traveler going back to stop an assassination "then" that would have created a more peaceful world in the "now".  The protagonist did stop the assassin (and may have been loosely based on the Kennedy Assassination (Yeah, that is when the Anthology came out shortly afterward... Olde Farte I am!).  However, the "time travel" was a one shot only for the protagonist.

With the assassination shooting averted, the time traveler left "then" to return to "now".  However, the ending of the story was that the victim spoke briefly to those around him, then stepped outside onto a balcony; looked up to the stars (Kennedy's thoughts of space travel to the moon, perhaps?).... the final sentences making it clear that the "universe" corrected itself to make time immutable, by sending a meteorite down and striking the "victim" in precisely the same fashion as the "original" shot would have done.

Just food for thought.  Hope the thoughts help in creativity for authors to choose how "Time" IS, in their story for their purposes.  Malleable, Butterfly, Parallel, Immutable... or whatever.  Consistent in its own self, regardless of "real world" theories, or other stories.
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Other Worlds Concepts

I been working the Time angle in a couple of stories. I got it down to somethings HAVE to happen while others can change but the change is so subtle that it has almost no noticable effect on the greater story. Such as a minor character living and thus how things in that one persons life get better or worse, but in the grand scheme of things it makes no huge difference. Or it could make a significent difference, but only hundreds of years later.
In one such story (high magic type) I had someone wish to be rescued and gave some parameters of the sort they thought they needed for that to happen. So the Traveler is pulled to that point. The thing is, later the traveler has to do things even further back in time, so that they get pulled to that point, say direct a 'main character' away or toward something needed so their own timeline is maintained. (I did this from the point of view that the Traveler was pulled from an event that would have ended their life, accident or such, and thus with out that wish happening, they would have died, which gave them the motivation they needed to reach further back in time to make sure that wish happened.

Reading this I really get how convoluted some of my stories get. Anyway this is another take on time and how it can be handled.
rastashana
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Wed 19 Aug 2020
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Other Worlds Concepts

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 53):

I will be honest, concerning time. Right now I have a story i am writing with someone else were we are swapping back and forth between present and past... in our posts. Time is what you want it to be. It has no shape or form or logical progression. It is a number you can define. It's only logic is that its speed is always the same. Like the speed of light.
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Thu 20 Aug 2020
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Other Worlds Concepts

Except that's not always a constant.  If you've got characters like Flash, Quicksilver, Superman, etc, who can move at relativistic speeds or beyond, Time isn't a constant.

That's the thing about creating stories, whether it's writing a novel or short story, putting together a game setting, or writing a script...the rules for ANYTHING are what you declare them to be.  As long as you cue people in on what rules are different, and stay consistent with those changes, you can cheat a LOT.  Time, physics, magic...there's a lot you can tweak and get away with it, if you do it the right way.
rastashana
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Re: Other Worlds Concepts

facemaker329:
Except that's not always a constant.  If you've got characters like Flash, Quicksilver, Superman, etc, who can move at relativistic speeds or beyond, Time isn't a constant.

That's the thing about creating stories, whether it's writing a novel or short story, putting together a game setting, or writing a script...the rules for ANYTHING are what you declare them to be.  As long as you cue people in on what rules are different, and stay consistent with those changes, you can cheat a LOT.  Time, physics, magic...there's a lot you can tweak and get away with it, if you do it the right way.


You can quote all you want of superhero comics you want about what they do... Marvel's is good about that one with the Avengers story line. Reality wise, like the universe, it is a constant. This is about story telling though and it can be what you want it to be. I feel as if you are discounting what i say to put your reality in. Time just /is/. If you want to continue on your line you'll be talking to yourself because I have no time for people like you.
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Re: Other Worlds Concepts

Maybe I misunderstood.  I mean, this thread IS about 'other worlds' (it's right there in the subject line), and the discussion has obviously not been about the prospect of visiting Mars, Venus, etc.  That kind of defies the concept of sticking with a strict definition of reality as an immutable constant. People are talking about storytelling, not calculating the physics of time-space.

I grant, yes, in terms of hard reality...or even hard sci-fi storytelling...time is a constant until you get into some of the most hypothetical of quantum physics as a storytelling element (but for the vast majority of us, it moves at the same, inexorable pace, seconds turning into minutes and then into hours, etc etc etc).

But arguing that a hard reality is a critical element of storytelling (which is how your point is coming across) is a bit ludicrous in a situation where people are coming up with ideas about being magically transformed into fantasy creatures or dropping through holes in space-time into worlds where magic is real.  The vast majority of games on here have some HUGE departures from reality as we know it, either via the presence of magic, or non-existent creatures, or fully-integrated cybernetics, or any of a thousand other far-flung notions that exist to fulfill a thirst for the fantastic and superhuman.  As such, time is just another story element that can be handled in whatever way the storyteller chooses to go about it.
Fobok
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Re: Other Worlds Concepts

Even in reality, time isn't a constant. You don't have to go to quantum physics to see that, just plain physics. Time is completely relative based on where you are, your mass, the mass and distance of the other nearest gravity wells, and how fast you're moving. For hard sci-fi, this can be a lot of fun to play with in stories.

As a storytelling point, you can even get into the point of our perception of time, which makes things even more fluid and interesting.

Or, you can go to the Doctor Who route, and use time travel to tell fun nonlinear stories. (See River Song.)

But yeah, a lot of the time it's completely hand-waved, and that's cool too. Some stories don't really require paying any attention to time.

What's my point in this post? Absolutely nothing. I'm overtired and I should be in bed, but for some reason I felt like rambling about time in storytelling. My throat is going to be awful tomorrow after dictating all this and my game posts. Oh well, it was fun. :)
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Re: Other Worlds Concepts

We got off on a tagnet over time, completely missing my original question for this section of thread.

quote:
your just driving down the road one day, when a worm hole (Wyrm ?) opens around you and you drop in to a completely different universe.

Any thoughts on what sort of things could happen. Including becoming a new race / gender, gaining powers or special skills (or all the above).

Input welcome. Stories inspire us to write better, think stranger, do more with our hobby.


I like the Isaki(?) type stories, which is what brought this line up.
So how would You the player, in this situation react if such a thing happened is the real question here.
What would you hope / wish for if such a thing happened to you ?
rastashana
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Thu 3 Sep 2020
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Re: Other Worlds Concepts

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 59):

Well, sounds like some sorta anime thing there and well I can't really respond to that(because most of it is horrible to me). It could be anything really. It could be a book series you really love like the Dresden Files to something like Star Wars or even you come through a Gate in Stargate(whicheveroneyouwanthere)or it could be a completely different world that followed a different timeline. That's the fun with writing, make shit up!
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Re: Other Worlds Concepts

I do write, kind of the point of places like this after all. Even got a few stories floating around the web. Less since the death of Yahoo's personalized websites.
I like the Dresden Files and many anime to. Which brought up this idea. Though I liked such stories long before I saw any anime, life time favorite as it were.
I have tried to run games here based on that to. Some worked, some didn't. I got them all archived.
Maybe some day I will be well enough to run another such game. (Had a minor TAI stroke in late 2016, have not DMed since then.)
Still I got the dream.
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Re: Other Worlds Concepts

ShadoPrism:
I like the Isaki(?) type stories, which is what brought this line up.
So how would You the player, in this situation react if such a thing happened is the real question here.
What would you hope / wish for if such a thing happened to you ?


If that were to happen to me I think there would be a little stress involved. Let's face it suddenly having memories of another world and life qith no evidence would make me question my sanity a bit.

But in a fun sense, being teleported to a magical world with average magical talent would probably be the most interesting scenario for me. I'm going to have a different way of looking at the world then most people in my new home. So having enough power to be useful but still need to think about my problems would be fun.

Audible has a story "How to defeat a demon king in ten easy steps" by Andrew rowe that illustrates this. The main character rather then go do the water temple in the normal way

Spoiler text: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
instead uses magic to store the lake water in their inventory.


Using a well known and common magical power in a different way.
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Re: Other Worlds Concepts

ok I am looking for that book now.
Sounds like my kind of read.
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Alternate Histories

What happens when time goes odd and someone is dropped from 'here' to a different yet similar 'there'. Time shifts but not past or future, just alternate. How do the characters adapt, do they seek a way 'home' or stay in the world they landed in.

I know this has been done in movies and TV shows, but I don't recall seeing it in an RPG.
facemaker329
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Sun 5 Mar 2023
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  • msg #65

Alternate Histories

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 64):

If you've got a good GM, this can be a lot of fun.  I was in a group that did this, and ended up settling into the 'alternate' versions of their characters so much that we kept playing that way for another couple of years.

A bad GM could make this a nightmare, I suppose...although, that's true of any scenario, really.
ShadoPrism
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Mon 6 Mar 2023
at 00:25
  • msg #66

Alternate Histories

In reply to facemaker329 (msg # 65):

I keep picturing people from here dropping in to a World of Darkness kind of realm. Though a RL friend suggested Super Heroes are real type universe to. Nothing says the Natural Laws all have to match our own reality after all.
facemaker329
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Mon 6 Mar 2023
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  • msg #67

Alternate Histories

Ours was in a Star Wars game...went from the reality we'd been in all along through a series of others.  Every time we changed, the GM had each party member role to see if they could remember anything from the last change (and, after the first shift, to see if they could remember ALL of the realities they'd bounced through, or just the last one...)

Ironically, my character (originally a hard-bitten bounty hunter who was a complete skeptic of anything Force-related) became a Jedi Master...and had absolutely no recollection of his 'original' incarnation. He could sense from everyone else that they were telling the truth when they tried to explain it to him, but he couldn't recall it at all.  He kept his memory through all the other changes...just not that first one.

That had us all, at some point or other, going, "I can't believe he's the one saying that..." when he would, as a Jedi, insist on some course of action that Bounty-Hunter-him would absolutely reject.

It was really intriguing for all of us, because the changes in realities were all based on one or two events going differently than they had in the canon timeline (the reality where he was initially a Jedi Master?  He'd been trained by Anakin Skywalker, who had never turned to the Dark Side...Palpatine had found another way to manipulate events and create an Empire...)  Kept us all thinking about repercussions and can we change events, etc...I really enjoyed it.
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