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IC: Godbound.

Posted by Drackler
Drackler
member, 85 posts
That is not dead
Which eternal may lie
Fri 31 May 2019
at 04:33
  • msg #1

IC: Godbound

Checking to see if anyone's interested in playing Godbound, Kevin Crawford's RPG in which you take on he role of demigods. I have only run it once so far, but I'm falling in love with the thing.
I'm not sure about setting, game concept, or anything. Just getting an interest check to see if it's worth putting something together.
Aidhogan
member, 79 posts
Fri 31 May 2019
at 07:35
  • msg #2

IC: Godbound

You will have trouble managing the number of RtJs within 48 hours.  Guaranteed.
Yozi
member, 602 posts
Fri 31 May 2019
at 07:41
  • msg #3

IC: Godbound

Yes, that is true.  I was flooded with RTJs.

I'll be sending one your way when this game has the 100 subscribers or whatever number you need to convince you its a good idea.
Redfoxmagi
member, 144 posts
Fri 31 May 2019
at 12:22
  • msg #4

IC: Godbound

I'm not super familiar with it, but I'd be interested in learning it. So, sure, I'd be up for it!
Philosoraptor
member, 42 posts
Fri 31 May 2019
at 20:30
  • msg #5

IC: Godbound

*starts filing the numbers off her RTJs to Yozi's and Aidhogan's games, then remembers an unpursued idea*  Say, if you're looking for a concept, how about a mashup with the Laundry Files and/or Cthulhutech's Tagers?


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Set 15 minutes into the future, when the stars are coming right and the world's governments are frantically keeping the lid on the impending return of the Old Ones, whose cultists have already infiltrated and suborned at least some corporations, churches, and gov't departments.  Nyarlathotep's minions at the Chrysalis corporation have been building an army using a ritual that feeds the victim's soul to a lower-H gibbering horror from beyond space-time that then takes their place. The secretive Eldritch Society uses a variant ritual to empower volunteers (afterward called Tagers) with sufficient mental stamina to bond to extradimensional symbiotes that are the aforementioned gibbering horrors' natural predators.  In Cthulhutech, a Tager who sufficiently embraces this union eventually metamorphoses into a more powerful form.  In this setting, the basic symbiote could be one of Godbound's shards of divinity that eventually grows into a full Word, and that more powerful form is a full demigod.  Gifts become [Lovecraftian Superpowers](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LovecraftianSuperpower), the Engines of Creation become various slumbering Old & Elder Things, the Words of creation are in Aklo, etc. - Godbound maps pretty well to the Mythos.


To be clear, I'm interested whether any of these ideas catch your fancy or not.
...but your tagline makes me think some might.
This message was last edited by the user at 01:52, Sat 01 June 2019.
Lavender_Green
member, 1 post
Fri 31 May 2019
at 20:55
  • msg #6

IC: Godbound

@Philosoraptor: you have got to see Neon Genesis Evangelion. Don't get spoiled first!
This message was last edited by the user at 20:56, Fri 31 May 2019.
Aidhogan
member, 80 posts
Sat 1 Jun 2019
at 05:39
  • msg #7

IC: Godbound

Oh, wow, yes.  Tragers as Godbound sounds amazing
Drackler
member, 87 posts
That is not dead
Which eternal may lie
Sat 1 Jun 2019
at 15:27
  • msg #8

IC: Godbound

I decided to go a different route with it, so someone else could feel free to steal Philosoraptor's idea and start another game.

Mine is here: link to another game
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