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[IronyOwl]

Ah, alright then. Mostly glass cannons it is then.

And I'm fine with starting off with nothing, I'd just like to be able to make neat things eventually.

[HmH]

When you say no defense, do you mean no dedicated defense skill? Or that there's literally no way to defend yourself? Like could Derm create a wall of flame?

That's what I have jokingly called a 'preventive counterattack'. Things that disable your enemies before they can reach you are a form of defense in this game.

What I meant is that there is no 'passive' defense like a defensive skill or a defense roll: you'll need to think ahead and act fast if you want to take on a dangerous enemy and live.
However, the opposite is also true: since player characters are dangerous to most of their enemies, they can dispatch their foes rather quickly without those pesky defense rolls getting in the way.

And I'm fine with starting off with nothing, I'd just like to be able to make neat things eventually.

The beauty of this system is, you are able to make neat things and get spectacular effects immediately, even if you have no skills at all: you just need to get lucky. That impredictable behavior is exactly why I picked it for a magic game.

Anyway, since there seem to be no more major issues with the system, I'm starting the game.

[lawastooshort]

Ooh, I have two themed ideas.

Roll to Rastamouse - he's a rasta mouse who solves problems and saves orphans.

Roll to Quest in a Dungeon - there's this comic by this South African dude which is funny, Dungeon Quest. It's a stoner parody of adolescent D&D, I guess.

[Powder Miner]

Skyrunner's thinking about something involving evil overlords.

Otherwise... not much. PM's also working on something, sort of a modern magicless multiworld I guess?

I've been on vacation the past week so I haven't really started, but yeah it's a multiworld but with many factions that are on all the worlds, and the worlds won't be level-like things, you'll visit them repeatedly. Also, it's not quite magicless- some of the main gear from two of the ages has magic, as the ages are actually dimensions you go to- the Agency does not have time travel technology, only dimension technology.

[scriver]

Guys. Guys. Cthononauts. Who's with me.

What the devil are Cthononauts?

((I assume cthononauts is cthulu and chrononauts.))

Even if that isn't what it is, it's what I'm assuming it is now. Preferably helpful chibi Lovecraftian Horrors just trying to clean up their accidental snarling of the space-time continuum.

"Chthonic" means "under the earth" (from Ooooold Greek "chthonios"). I think you know what "-naut" means. And yes, it was obviously meant to invoke a Lovecraftian feeling. CHTHONONAUTS! The Horn of Africa is separating from the mainland, it's first quaking breakaway attempts leaving deep scars into the Somalian Soil, leading thousands of distances into the ground. An eccentric multi-billionaire organises an expedition into the depths, seeking whatever the darkness below might hide! What will they find? What secrets man was not meant to know awaits them? Will they ever return? Find out this Saturday, in the next episode (the first) of CHTHONONAUTS!

Also it's 1927.

[Yoink]

Sure, I'm in! [/never read HP Lovecraft]

[Digital Hellhound]

1927? Ooh, count me in!

[Yoink]

Character idea get.

[monk12]

Ah, 1927, a fine year. Heisenburg formulated his Uncertainty Principle, Charles Lindbergh completed his historic transatlantic flight, the League of Nations abolished slavery of all kinds, and apparently, a horrible doom chasm opened in Africa. Good times.

[scriver]

Well, it was either that or the Bolton Strid Suddenly Draining, Opening Up a Vast Complex of Underground, and Perhaps Underwater, Caves! Or a Journey Into the Deep Shadowy Pockets of the Madagascan Tsingas, Literally "The Place Where No Man May Walk (Barefoot)"!

Because yes, I do all my research on Cracked.com

Sure, I'm in! [/never read HP Lovecraft]

It's okay, I haven't either! But there will be lots of tentacles, other kinds of floppy appendages, eyes, tentacle-eyes, and losing insanity. Because that's what Lovecraft is all about, right?

Also you are all eleven-year-old Japanese girls.

[Digital Hellhound]

Nonsense, my man, the 20's were full of GENTLEMAN ADVENTURERS, mad scientists, mad scientists' beautiful daughters, daring pilots, gritty detectives and old rumrunners. Those could be the character classes all I know.

[Skyrunner]

Also you are all eleven-year-old Japanese girls.

OH SNAP I GOT DISCOVERED

(...sorta...kinda...)

[scriver]

I meant in-game.

...So it's more that you gave yourself away.

[Skyrunner]

Oh, it's fine. The fact that I'm actually 17, and am Korean wasn't disco-

Snap.

[Spinal_Taper]

Oh, it's fine. The fact that I'm actually 17, and am Korean wasn't disco-

Snap.

Sure, maybe you're 17 and Korean, but thanks for giving me away.
Kinda.
(Yes, for revenge, I reused your joke!)