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The Lost World

Started by Dumarest, July 03, 2017, 10:18:24 PM

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3rik

#30
July 14, 2017, 03:46:13 PM Last Edit: July 14, 2017, 03:51:34 PM by 3rik
Quote from: Dumarest;975481The thing that makes a hollow earth interesting is that it's a contrast to our normal surface world. When the surface world is full of exotic creatures and monsters and things, the hollow earth is not especially fantastical. At least that's my opinion.

Exactly. I personally also enjoy using clichés and well-known tropes when using such pulpy/retro settings, not to steer away from them trying hard to be original. I want there to be dinosaurs, amazons, atlantean artifacts and what have you, and immediately recognizable as such for the players. IMHO this is what makes the Lost World "genre" fun.
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Dumarest

#31
July 14, 2017, 04:30:17 PM
3rik, your avatar makes me want to play a game where Santo  and Blue Demon discover a plot against the surface world by a strange Amazon civilization in the hollow earth. Maybe there's an entrance via Teotihuacán.

Dumarest

#32
July 14, 2017, 05:02:56 PM
Here's my new campaign idea:
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Molotov

#33
July 14, 2017, 06:00:40 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;975541Here's my new campaign idea: ...
Will this be PDF / POD or PDF only, and are you talking preorders?

3rik

#34
July 14, 2017, 06:02:02 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;9755363rik, your avatar makes me want to play a game where Santo  and Blue Demon discover a plot against the surface world by a strange Amazon civilization in the hollow earth. Maybe there's an entrance via Teotihuacán.

How's about them entering the Hollow Earth through a bottemless cenote in the Yucatan in a bathysphere?
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#35
July 14, 2017, 06:21:33 PM Last Edit: July 14, 2017, 06:55:45 PM by Dumarest
Quote from: 3rik;975547How's about them entering the Hollow Earth through a bottemless cenote in the Yucatan in a bathysphere?

Also a badass idea! Something like this?

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Dumarest

#36
July 14, 2017, 06:23:31 PM
Quote from: Molotov;975546Will this be PDF / POD or PDF only, and are you talking preorders?

:p

First I need to file off some serial numbers...El Santo is now El Toro...Satánico Pandemonium is ?

Also I need to work out how Dracula and El Hombre Lobo are involved... :D

Can I talk some players into this?

3rik

#37
July 15, 2017, 04:29:41 PM Last Edit: July 16, 2017, 08:01:02 AM by 3rik
Quote from: Dumarest;975553Also a badass idea! Something like this?

Yes, but you have to add this:

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Also, be aware the Maya used to drop all kinds of sacrificial shit into certain cenotes. On the "other side", the locals may still be into that sort of stuff.

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Dumarest

#38
July 15, 2017, 04:36:41 PM
Quote from: 3rik;975742Yes, but you have to add this:

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Also, be aware the Maya used to drop all kinds of sacrificial shit into certain cenotes. On the "other side", the locals may still be into that sort of stuff.


That's where Profesor Cristaldi comes in...[ATTACH=CONFIG]1153[/ATTACH]

RPGPundit

#39
July 18, 2017, 02:58:16 AM
Quote from: Madprofessor;975276I could never grok this setting.  I mean the whole point of a "Hollow Earth" is a kind juxtaposition, turning everything on its head.  It's a great contrast to real earthy or pulpy kind of stuff.  But Mystara's Hollow Earth is like "there's not enough fantasy in my fantasy." I'm not saying its bad, but what's there that you can't have in your fantasy world already.  I just don't get it.

It's true, Mystara was already a fairly weird setting, and Hollow World was for making places that were too weird to be found on the surface world.

But to me, that was awesome. It was just fantastic unusual fantasy cultures.
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Voros

#40
July 19, 2017, 01:25:27 AM
Has anyone done a Santo and Blue Demon RPG? Believe there are a few wrestling and at least one luchador RPG out there somewhere.

Dumarest

#41
July 19, 2017, 01:49:48 AM
Quote from: Voros;976555Has anyone done a Santo and Blue Demon RPG? Believe there are a few wrestling and at least one luchador RPG out there somewhere.

There is Lucha Libre Hero, which is quite excellent as a sourcebook even if you don't care for Hero system. I'm not a big fan of the system myself but would probably live with it if I could get anyone interested in Lucha Libre Hero. One nice thing about it is that unlike all the other 5th edition Hero genre books, it has all the rules in it so you don't have to buy anything else. It's a complete game and, I think, a model of the course Hero should have taken to get interested in what is a rather cumbersome rules set (the toolkit approach would never have gotten me in if Lucha Libre Hero didn't have it all written up and ready to go).

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Voros

#42
July 19, 2017, 01:57:49 AM
That must be the one I was thinking of looks like fun, great cover.

Heard good things about the PbtA WWW RPG that includes lucha libre. There's a free demo/beta version up there for download.

Dumarest

#43
July 19, 2017, 02:08:21 AM
Quote from: Voros;976565That must be the one I was thinking of looks like fun, great cover.

Heard good things about the PbtA WWW RPG that includes lucha libre. There's a free demo/beta version up there for download.

I have that game but wasn't very impressed in comparison to the level of detail in Lucha Libre Hero, which of course is focused like a laser beam on the Mexican wrestling tradition. Also, the mechanics in WWW weren't my cup of tea as there was a lot of emphasis on playing certain types and concocting a sort of narrative over just plain fun  psychotronic adventures like Blue Demon busting up a spy ring or Santo foiling an invasion of Mexico City by blond Martians, to say nothing of the two of them teaming up contra el señor  de  los vampiros  y el hombre lobo!

Voros

#44
July 19, 2017, 03:08:38 AM
Yeah I'll try and snag the Hero book, not a fan of the system but the background sounds awesome. Love the movies.
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