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General Discussion / Re: Journey to the City, a Red Markets hack
« Last post by Teapot on April 25, 2018, 04:45:46 PM »The setup is each abandoned place/places form a section with a similar aesthetic. Each section also has a threat, some kind of thing that may have once been a person or an animal, lost here for too long they've been shaped by their new environment into something awful and murderous.
Say an abandoned shopping mall somehow built into a sheer cliff. The top floor lets out near the top of the cliff so the way up is through. Each section takes 2-4 legs, each leg is an encounter or set piece.
For the shopping mall the first is the basement, dank chest high pools of eyeless pale koi, which you can cook, they won't damage you but they do like to nibble on anything moving.
Leg 2 is the beginning of the jumble of scaffolding filling the central open space of the mall, the ground floor is full of abandoned shops, each might have salvage. Here the PCs begin to hear some movement above, the scaffolds occasionally vibrating, they also find bones scattered about. This leg ends when the PCs find a nest of the things that live here, they're like backwards jointed people but their bodies are painfully thin and their arms and legs are unpleasantly long. They scuttle about the scaffolding looking for meat. Their eyes are small and beady while they seem to locate things by sound or vibration.
Leg 3 is trying to get up the first few floors, sneaking or running.
Leg 4 is finding the way out at the top and discouraging pursuit.
Between sections the PCs must find some shelter to rest and recover, there are also special encounters, some with people who live here, they once came to find something but just sort of settled down, establishing their own little kilometer of something. Some are friendly, some are unable to interact with visitors, and some are ax murderers. All of them are differently sane.
The game covers a number of sections that the GM/group want and then leads to The City (It's Carcosa) which leads to The Lake and then The Party at the Castle. The last session is trying to escape the castle as it settles into it's new ownership.
So the broad mechanical strokes is: bounty is gone, upkeep is gone, hungry is gone, Charisma is folded in Adaptability, references are gone (replaced with flashbacks which cause a self control check), dependents and refresh are gone, most of the high tech gear is gone, you can't pay for healing.
Vignettes are now just one at the end of a section where you describe a small creature comfort you've found/stored and are using, an ipod with a bit of battery left, a single cigarette, or an instant coffee. It clears two columns.
Gear is found by scavenging, a roll lets you find gear, refresh it, or add an upgrade. It's meant to be more transitory in this. The GM has say over what kind of thing can be found in what place.
Personal development is changed, each set on the journey has three options, you can pick two:
1. At the beginning of a section you have a flashback establishing your life before and a skill you had, add +1 to a skill you don't have.
2. Under duress, before you roll a skill add +1 to it, as you grow.
3. Lessons learned, at the end of the scenario you can add +1 to any skill you used or saw used.
Say an abandoned shopping mall somehow built into a sheer cliff. The top floor lets out near the top of the cliff so the way up is through. Each section takes 2-4 legs, each leg is an encounter or set piece.
For the shopping mall the first is the basement, dank chest high pools of eyeless pale koi, which you can cook, they won't damage you but they do like to nibble on anything moving.
Leg 2 is the beginning of the jumble of scaffolding filling the central open space of the mall, the ground floor is full of abandoned shops, each might have salvage. Here the PCs begin to hear some movement above, the scaffolds occasionally vibrating, they also find bones scattered about. This leg ends when the PCs find a nest of the things that live here, they're like backwards jointed people but their bodies are painfully thin and their arms and legs are unpleasantly long. They scuttle about the scaffolding looking for meat. Their eyes are small and beady while they seem to locate things by sound or vibration.
Leg 3 is trying to get up the first few floors, sneaking or running.
Leg 4 is finding the way out at the top and discouraging pursuit.
Between sections the PCs must find some shelter to rest and recover, there are also special encounters, some with people who live here, they once came to find something but just sort of settled down, establishing their own little kilometer of something. Some are friendly, some are unable to interact with visitors, and some are ax murderers. All of them are differently sane.
The game covers a number of sections that the GM/group want and then leads to The City (It's Carcosa) which leads to The Lake and then The Party at the Castle. The last session is trying to escape the castle as it settles into it's new ownership.
So the broad mechanical strokes is: bounty is gone, upkeep is gone, hungry is gone, Charisma is folded in Adaptability, references are gone (replaced with flashbacks which cause a self control check), dependents and refresh are gone, most of the high tech gear is gone, you can't pay for healing.
Vignettes are now just one at the end of a section where you describe a small creature comfort you've found/stored and are using, an ipod with a bit of battery left, a single cigarette, or an instant coffee. It clears two columns.
Gear is found by scavenging, a roll lets you find gear, refresh it, or add an upgrade. It's meant to be more transitory in this. The GM has say over what kind of thing can be found in what place.
Personal development is changed, each set on the journey has three options, you can pick two:
1. At the beginning of a section you have a flashback establishing your life before and a skill you had, add +1 to a skill you don't have.
2. Under duress, before you roll a skill add +1 to it, as you grow.
3. Lessons learned, at the end of the scenario you can add +1 to any skill you used or saw used.