Update: Added the thaumatech and steampunk freetexts. At first I didn't think they really applied, but this is a location suitable for both. Go to Comment

How in the world did I miss this? An excellent fragment of dystopia to include in a setting.

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Ahoy, Dresden Files! Seriously, this one is played to great effect in the aforementioned book series. Any prospective GM who uses this needs to at least read a handful of those books to get a feel for how this can truly screw up a mage's world. Go to Comment

I must echo the other comments here. This is truly a unique and original idea. Earth elementals being solid, slow moving turtles of gigantic proportions Just Plain Works. It has a rightness to it that I'm sure every player would understand it intuitively, even if they don't fully comprehend everything about it.

Very nicely done Scras. Go to Comment

I laughed at #125. Well played sir. Go to Comment

I laughed more than once while reading this, and smiled many more times. I need to add this to my ToDo list.

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I'm left shocked and awed. This is apocalypse the likes of which I've never seen or heard of. The style it was written in is cold and mechanical, just recording history. The writer is obviously numb, and that just adds to the horror of such destruction.

A solid idea, and one that shines from excellent execution. Go to Comment

It might have worked better to have done some foreshadowing that shows the reliability of the oracles and necromancers. The PCs likely didn't take them seriously because they just didn't know of their reputation.

In the real world, that sort of thing happens all the time; in the game world, we probably need to give our PCs much greater hints. Go to Comment

As usual, an AG plot that twists my brain in strange fashions. Well done.

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I recall reading this while it was in-work a long time ago. It has met my high expectations. Very nicely done SnO. Go to Comment

Omnomnomnomnomnom

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The story gave it a bit extra flair beyond the interesting material. Not sure why it's got such a huge hype, but that's why we each have our own votes, ne?

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You might find it better to make this a scroll and add scroll entries if you're going to be continually adding new material. That was the entire reason for scroll submissions, and it'll help the rest of us locate the new material. If you're not wanting others to add to it, you can set it to be so when you make it a scroll. Go to Comment

The crunch was decent. The style was good. But the flavor...beyond words.

Enjoy your 5/5, and keep these coming. Go to Comment

What? Do I hear speculation on realistic spacecraft and combat? Have a link! http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.html Go to Comment

{Siren no Orakio} 3:26 pm: I have decided that I hate the word 'overpowered'
{Siren no Orakio} 3:27 pm: It's firmly rooted in the 'you're a level 3 peasant with no ability to change the world!' mentality
{Chaosmark} 3:29 pm: Very true.
{Chaosmark} 3:29 pm: Epic people sometimes need epic equipment.
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{Chaosmark} 3:31 pm: Jedi are a good example of "overpowered equipment isn't"
{Chaosmark} 3:32 pm: A laser sword that can cut through almost anything, and kills in a single attack.
{Siren no Orakio} 3:32 pm: Heh.
{Chaosmark} 3:32 pm: Extremely overpowered. However, GM Lucas was smart in controlling it.
{Siren no Orakio} 3:33 pm: Well, the other thing is this:
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{Siren no Orakio} 3:33 pm: When I am RPing or GMing, my feeling is that it's a story in which the PCs are supposed to be heros
{Siren no Orakio} 3:33 pm: They should be capable of heroic things
{Chaosmark} 3:34 pm: Of course. Why play if you're just going to be a peasant farming a field?
{Chaosmark} 3:35 pm: We want extraordinary.
{Chaosmark} 3:36 pm: Re: Overpowered - I think the word itself has valid applications, but most of the time ends up just being used as an excuse for GMs to not have to be creative in their GMing.
{Siren no Orakio} 3:36 pm: Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader had Light Sabers and the Force. King Arthur had Excalibur /and/ its sheath. Thor had Mjollnir. Kera gets.. the cloak of death
{Siren no Orakio} 3:38 pm: . A weapon which, technically, does 0 HP of damage.
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Excalibur was overpowered. Lightsabers are overpowered. Overpowered compared to what? The average, common weapons wielded by average, common people. A hero needs heroic equipment. The Cloak of Dusk is no different. When you think about it, how hard is it to actually wrap someone up completely in a cloak? Normally you can only do it when they're sleeping or drugged. Newsflash: you can get the same effect with a knife. Overpowered? Not hardly. Besides, this has the lore to back up it's power.

Nicely done Siren. Go to Comment

Aha! This is much better than the incarnation that you originally showed me. Now this is a solid, easy to use character for almost any setting. Excellent work. Go to Comment

I absolutely LOVE The Staff of Omens. Is it's current bearer the ferocious King Lionus? :D

I like this 30. You really put a good bit of work into each of the 30 entries, which is infinitely better than some of the other 30s I've seen. Go to Comment

While this is certainly a good expansion of the 30 in question, it seems to lack the spark of interesting-ness. It seems to me that she'd make a decent background character, but she'll never be a major player in anything but a game of courtiers. Perhaps you could add a few examples of how she and her obsession might be included in a game? Go to Comment