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[Unholy_Pariah]

I believe i shall watch that movie now so i know just what you mean

[Empiricist]

I believe i shall watch that movie now so i know just what you mean

Basically, in PW's Poison system, you grind up random shit, get so high off of the random shit that you enter eldritch dimensions, trip balls in order to perform magic, get stuff from said dimensions and then either keep, sell or grind & snort what you find.

It's basically LSD made out of Perplexicon.

[Unholy_Pariah]

Oh god i want in

[Eotyrannus]

Oh god i want in

+1

[Empiricist]

Poison... is it about some guys who get poisoned and have to find the antidote before it's too late? Or maybe some kind of assassin? Or an alchemist? Or a poisoned apple? Or a living cloud of poison? Or people living in a post apocalyptic world where everything is poison? Or one of the players poisons the well and the others lynch him, Mafia style? Or a game about poisonous animals? Or a game where fear, doubt and hate poison/have poisoned your soul? Or... Okay, I'll stop guessing now.

Well, it's a bit complex, but I pitched it to a friend as "It's a game about grinding up your kitchen counter, your gold fish and a tin can and then smoking the powder and being whisked off to various nightmare worlds where you then do hits of Acid to summon clouds of homicidal bees. And then you can sell what you find in the nightmare world at the pawn shop in order to pay your rent for the month; assuming the nightmares don't follow you back out."

Sort of a "STALKER" meets "Fear and Loathing." sorta thing with a modular drug making system designed to let you turn anything you want into a drug with varying supernatural effects.

You know, same old same old.

[Sarzael]

Oh god i want in

+1

-1.

[Toaster]

That works too!  The mix and match effect system (magic, drugs, whatever) was just a lot of fun to run with.

[GreatWyrmGold]

piecewise, you never did definitively answer my questions about "one gang one kind of magic" or "one kind of magic one gang" definitively. All you've said for certain is that PCs can form gangs that go against that pattern...and you didn't even say if NPCs could join them...

[Parisbre56]

He did say NPCs can join PC gangs.

[GreatWyrmGold]

He did say NPCs can join PC gangs.

Missed that.
Still leaves the issue of the starting gangs. I'd be disappointed if there was only a "Mage Eater" gang, an "Artificer" gang, a "Bloatmage" gang, etc. At the very least, a couple of each, and perhaps some assorted non-type mages scattered about within.

[syvarris]

Happy Birthday, Piecewise!  Thanks for all your awesome RTDs!

Secondly, magical knowledge is unique to the character. Dying means losing that knowledge. And, although you can write down that knowledge or teach it to others, it takes time to learn.

How would you even do this?  By just saying "Your character doesn't know this spell" when a player says to do something with a new char?

4. I'm still working on how magic would work, mostly because I would be creating a new, more holistic system designed around discovery via experimentation rather then being given a list of words and just combining them. That and working on making it a deterministic system yet still one that feels "magical".

What's this?  I thought you said that Perplexicon was just a test for the magic system, so we'd be using the same thing in this new game.  Why would you have to create a new system?

Exactly how would it change?  What would be different

For now, that switches my vote back to 1.  I like the current magic system.


Beh.  Since you said people collecting info for you is useful, here's all the votes.  I left out ambiguous "3 is sounding pretty awesome"- this is pretty much just the stuff that says "I want x".  Also, I'm not sure if the talk to play Poison was serious.

• Option 1: 4 votes (syvarris, Sarzael, Xanmyral, Kinesen)
• Option 2: 0 votes (Ha!)
• Option 3: 1 vote (Zako*)
• Not 2: 7 votes (syvarris, Corsair, Empiricist, Harry Baldman, Tsuchigumo550, Vakothu, Saurinae)
• Test 1, try others if it doesn't work: 5 votes (Unholy Pariah, Harry Baldman, Tsuchigumo550, Vakothu, Saurinae)

*Fairly ambiguous


@Everyone else

If we do go with 3, why don't we all start our own PC-only gang?  Everyone joins.  Sure, it'd be more difficult, but we wouldn't have any NPC's ruling over us or anything.  Plus we'd be able to form the ideal mixture of the various magic styles without having to work around the pre-existing gangs'... stylism?

[Tsuchigumo550]

If we do go with 3, why don't we all start our own PC-only gang?  Everyone joins.  Sure, it'd be more difficult, but we wouldn't have any NPC's ruling over us or anything.  Plus we'd be able to form the ideal mixture of the various magic styles without having to work around the pre-existing gangs'... stylism?

I felt quire sure many of us would go for that. I'd be in.

[Empiricist]

That would be interesting, especially if Mage Breaker equipment is compatible with Artificer enchantments.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Happy Birthday, Piecewise!  Thanks for all your awesome RTDs!

It's piecewise's birthday?
Happy birthday!

(Oh, and you left me out. Mine was basically "Try 1 then go for others".)

If we do go with 3, why don't we all start our own PC-only gang?  Everyone joins.  Sure, it'd be more difficult, but we wouldn't have any NPC's ruling over us or anything.  Plus we'd be able to form the ideal mixture of the various magic styles without having to work around the pre-existing gangs'... stylism?

I felt quire sure many of us would go for that. I'd be in.

Agreed. We will make the Aether Gang.
(Aether gets the name because it was first.)

[syvarris]

Also, I'll throw up the current turn on thursday, since today was pretty damn busy, tomorrow I'm driving cross country and the day after that is my birthday.

And no, not the Aether gang.  Nobody wants to send the wrong message... The Zentol gang would be better.   Or just Zentol.

And everyone wears demonic equipment and speaks in Faust's voice when active ;p

Edit: Even better idea: if 3 uses a non-word system, Piecewise gives us the meaning of all the perplexicon words and we speak that language as a code.

Example:
"Cycallozozion (Enemy?) Halthel Halthel Halthel!" Three enemy men where I am staring!
"Halthel, Shael Gastorpit." Man, your breath stinks.