tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post8075568191825587408..comments2024-03-25T19:59:20.840-07:00Comments on Cavegirl's Game Stuff: Esoteric Enterprises - actual play!Cavegirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-62720386514530883632019-11-18T18:02:39.752-08:002019-11-18T18:02:39.752-08:00There's a loose setting implied in the book, b...There's a loose setting implied in the book, but nothing concrete. Rather, a lot of hints and suggestions to build off. The game's much closer to VtR than VtM in terms of approach to canon and stuff. Like, there's no set thing called a 'vampire' with a precise origin and nature. Rather, anything that looks human and feeds on human blood comes under the umbrella category of 'vampire', and different vampires encountered can be wildly different to one another.<br />The point is to be brain-fuel for the GM to build their own setting with, not a rigidly defined world. <br /><br />That said, there ARE bits of the setting that didn't get fully mapped out in the book, but which are in my head. Like: who actually /are/ the Men in Black and what are they doing? There's no 'canon' answer in the book, but I know what /my/ canon is.Cavegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-16729385057710216962019-11-18T17:55:00.217-08:002019-11-18T17:55:00.217-08:00OK I might have to nick these for my home game, th...OK I might have to nick these for my home game, these have some really cool imagery.Cavegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-75169350508580650152019-11-18T04:24:13.322-08:002019-11-18T04:24:13.322-08:00Short review of EE.
Since I was introduced to mod...Short review of EE.<br /><br />Since I was introduced to modern day RPGs, in particular to nWoD, I wanted to run such a game. I never managed, for the lack of an interested group and the percieved amount of work I would have to do.<br /><br />Thanks for creating a multi splat system that looks better then World Of Darkness. At least to me.<br /><br />I have only one comment. IMHO the reason VtM remained popular and had a comeback while VtR died (I started with VtR so it really saddened me) is the existence of a setting and a metaplot.<br /> <br /><br />Even D&D while providing rules relies relies on an additional setting (forgotten realms) to introduce people into the hobby and sell the products.<br /><br />What I'm trying to tell you is that in addition to the rulebook you did consider creating a setting book as well. Nobodi12https://www.blogger.com/profile/03855509321888775545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-44771537209885501502019-11-11T07:56:57.339-08:002019-11-11T07:56:57.339-08:00Great monsters! Changeling the Lost is cool, but m...Great monsters! Changeling the Lost is cool, but my personal favorite is Changeling the Dreaming, i'm in a great CtD larp near Milan, with the Aeterna Nox group, really good stuff.yurizanelli79@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05935837719583931463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-26986359219808544022019-11-11T05:05:08.335-08:002019-11-11T05:05:08.335-08:00Over the years I have written/stolen several urban...Over the years I have written/stolen several urban monsters. I'm too lazy to start my own blog so I will post them here hoping you might scavenge them for ideas:<br /><br />>Undead treant made of ikea furniture. <br />Azenwrath (stolen from a ravenloft module) . From its head dangles a curious assortment of wooden amulets, rings, and bracelets. He searches for pieces of his body, when 50 miles close the parts aniamte and start whispering (I will kill you). <br /><br /><br />>Cockroach lich<br />A giant swarm of cockroaches that can take the shape of a man. It is actually an evil sorcerer who transferred his consciousness into the cockroaches. It wants to continue his research into forbidden magic.<br /><br /><br />>An oriental dragon under the Chinese district (a not quite dead Koi fish that recovered and jumped over a "waterfall" in the sewer).<br /><br /><br /><br />>Dust Bunny<br />Typically found in ill kept magical institutions, Dust bunnies are clumps of dust given life and proper form by ambient magical energies. Apart from being a symbol of poor housekeeping, Dust bunnies help keep their homes clean, by absorbing any future dust created. Their appearance depends on the magical energy surrounding them, exemplified in the necromancer's dust bunnies, which are shambling horrors of the dust of undead flesh.<br /><br /><br />>Teapot salamander.<br /> Set a teapot on it and it will boil the water. It eats tea leaves and sugar/milk and has scales that shed easily and can be used to make tea. The tea tastes like whatever combination of leaves and flavorings you feed it.<br /><br />>Sea Hole<br />A sea hole is created when a sea star manages to survive for thousands of years, feeding and feeding and growing ever larger. At a certain point it suddenly transforms into a sea hole, a tiny marine echinoderm whose exact form is impossible to pinpoint due to a cloud of ink that surrounds it permanently. It perpetually sucks enormous amounts of sea water into itself together with whatever lives in it, be that a whale or a school of little fishes, but nothing ever comes out. Sea Holes are particularly dreaded by sailors for creating deadly whirlpools.<br /><br />Nobodi12https://www.blogger.com/profile/03855509321888775545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-62210102135322222862019-11-10T09:57:08.657-08:002019-11-10T09:57:08.657-08:00Once I played a one-shot in the underworld of my t...Once I played a one-shot in the underworld of my town (Pisa) in Changeling the lost. Players did not really like it. Party was continuesly getting split.<br /><br />But I'm proud of the fact that their first action was not "go burn university down" Nobodi12https://www.blogger.com/profile/03855509321888775545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-90577350075909668002019-11-02T01:39:46.773-07:002019-11-02T01:39:46.773-07:00Great play report! Can't wait for the master b...Great play report! Can't wait for the master book. I'd really like to run a EE game in the underworld of my home town, Genoa, (Italy).yurizanelli79@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05935837719583931463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-79771072865144923872019-11-01T18:44:37.248-07:002019-11-01T18:44:37.248-07:00That sounds great, Emmy! I am hopping from foot t...That sounds great, Emmy! I am hopping from foot to foot to get my paws on this book. Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886438754229604184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-83791374222143272622019-11-01T15:44:25.407-07:002019-11-01T15:44:25.407-07:00I don't have a firm date, but I think that EE ...I don't have a firm date, but I think that EE should be in print by the end of november. I'm working with people to get a proper hardcover done.Cavegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-67954474106374063912019-11-01T09:58:05.426-07:002019-11-01T09:58:05.426-07:00Katarina sounds badass! Looking forward to the boo...Katarina sounds badass! Looking forward to the book.Blasted Tower Gameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09706316683690639951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-43728545080895555582019-11-01T09:08:55.619-07:002019-11-01T09:08:55.619-07:00When will the new version of Esoteric Enterprises ...When will the new version of Esoteric Enterprises be released on DriveThruRPG? (I have the Player's Book and am looking forward to this new version). Thanks, - Brian C.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04886438754229604184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-48719291043444381682019-11-01T08:06:47.425-07:002019-11-01T08:06:47.425-07:00Some schmuck just tried to mug Katarina, and she r...Some schmuck just tried to mug Katarina, and she responded by jamming a knife through his neck and dragging him into the sewers to bleed out. And then taking his body apart, saving the eyeballs for her friend the Eyeball Collector, and dismembering & scattering the rest.<br />Girl's a stone-cold killer.Cavegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-91905800529730673502019-11-01T07:37:09.854-07:002019-11-01T07:37:09.854-07:00An update: Katarina has hired Ida (the slaugh), to...An update: Katarina has hired Ida (the slaugh), to co-manage the uranium mine she explored. She's directing cultists of Ursus the Bear to mine out the remaining uranium ore and selling it to the cartels (who are selling it on the black market to various dodgy sorts).<br />She's made 670,000 roubles of this, which will start to appear over the coming weeks, and will be granting her fuck-tons of XP. And established herself as a major player in the black market.<br />I was not expecting this. Fair play to her, though.Cavegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03853637517886592288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-43565697420237991302019-11-01T05:10:43.393-07:002019-11-01T05:10:43.393-07:00This looks absolutely amazing.
(if you need bookma...This looks absolutely amazing.<br />(if you need bookmarks and hyperlinks added to pdfs, feel free to contact me.)Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2556965477270279581.post-15362876279105526882019-11-01T04:02:04.837-07:002019-11-01T04:02:04.837-07:00This is great stuff! Loving the use of photograph...This is great stuff! Loving the use of photography for the mood illustrations. I don't want to denegrate the work at all by saying this, but this has a cool "Creepypasta: The SwordDream" quality to it that my players would eat with a spoon. GREAT WORK!Judge Joe Kilmartinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05561329102837374473noreply@blogger.com