Supplement V: Carcosa (split)
rabindranath72:
Slightly related, this might be an interesting campaign for Sorcerer & Sword:
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=32059
Finarvyn:
Quote from: rabindranath72 on October 01, 2008, 03:57:53 AM
Slightly related, this might be an interesting campaign for Sorcerer & Sword:
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=32059
I recently picked up this book, and yes it does seem like it has some Sorcerer potential. It's a tough and gritty fantasy world, more like Howard than Tolkien.
Rabindranath, have you tried this, or are you simply speculating?
Ron Edwards:
The above were split from [Sorcerer] Hyborian Age as a S&S setting. I recently purchased it so will follow up here soon.
Best, Ron
Valamir:
I had occassion to flip through this book last week. I found it...wierd. And, for my tastes, pointlessly so.
The world is populated by people of different colors. I don't mean different colors like our world...I mean crayola colors. There are Purple Men, and Green Men, and Orange Men, and Rasberry Sherbert Men...ok, I made that last one up, but there are like a dozen different colored people. Fortuneately the book goes to some length to assure us that these different men cannot interbreed, so thankfully there won't be any Mauve or Chartruese men running around.
And apparently getting high on Lotus is a major preoccupation of these people because, slim as the book is, several pages are dedicated to describing the various magical effects of different colors of Lotus...yes, like men, Lotus comes in a whole bunch of different colors.
And while they're all high on Lotus they sacrifice virgins and try to summon the dark eldritch magics of the Cthulhu-esque gods. I didn't study the list of rituals...perhaps the gods come in a rainbow of fruit flavors too.
And then there are aliens and lists of alien tech. Now the image of wielding a sword in one hand and a laser blaster in the other isn't all that wierd. What is wierd is that the alien ray guns do different damage depending on what color you are. Yep, you can get the ray gun that does 2d6 damage...+1d6 vs Purple Men. Near as I can tell, there's a different kind of gun for each type of man you might want to shoot.
Even way back when I was 10 and playing Old School D&D my group would have looked at this and said...wha...?
Eero Tuovinen:
Strangely enough, everything I hear of this product seems really fun and colorful to me. Usually D&D stuff seems bland and pointlessly weird, but those colored mankins, say? They're cool for me, I could see all sorts of weird fantasy scenarios in a game like that. Even aliens seem like a fine counter-point to the Cthulhoid gods when the setting doesn't apparently have the usual everything goes D&D style. Ancient inhuman creatures who bred colored men as arcane material, Cthulhoid gods and aliens make for a remarkably consistent and ambitiously different fantasy setting, it seems to me. I've bought into the setting without even seeing the product.
It'll be interesting to see somebody proficient take a stab at a review - if I had a habit of buying rpg stuff without immediate intent to play, I'd get this one instantly.
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