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  • File : 1257539012.jpg-(92 KB, 648x828, CthulhuTech.jpg)
    92 KB CthulhuTech General Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:23 No.6594156  
    I'm considering getting this.

    What can you tell me about it?
    Any warnings? any Praises?
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:24 No.6594167
    Interesting idea/setting. Shitty mechanics.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:26 No.6594176
    >What can you tell me about it?
    Way too much kitchen sink for me. They should've focused on one or two ideas.
    >Any warnings?
    Pretty clunky system.
    >any Praises?
    Cthulhu vs Evangelion.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:26 No.6594177
    >>6594167
    You'll probably hear this from everyone. I'm incorporating some of the ideas (arcanotech, engels, tag'ers) into my medieval fantasy setting, but I would never run an actual cthulhutech game.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:28 No.6594194
    fishman rape camps
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:30 No.6594209
    >>6594194
    Go on
    >> Masterfag !!wUrDqZks5cn 11/06/09(Fri)15:31 No.6594220
    I reckon it's finally passable as something that is playable by now, since they actually released a book that contains preconstructed adventures (after what, 3 years?).

    Still the crunch is shit, and the fluff is a combination of the bad parts of CoC and the bad parts of Evangelion. At the very least, they missed out on the parts that made either of those good in it's own right.

    Also, tries to be investigator, mecha and high-powered agent game all at once, and does none of them good or detailed.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:34 No.6594233
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    >>6594209

    The fishmen are also magicians.
    Then there are the furries of Shub-Niggurath.
    Also, Russian child prostitution rings.

    Pic related, it's anime + cthulhu mythos.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:35 No.6594241
    >>6594194
    You forget Dagon cults, where nailing a hybrid is a holy act.
    >> The Bearded Bear 11/06/09(Fri)15:37 No.6594257
    The setting is awesome, the character creation mechanics are awesome... the battle system sucks dicks but can be mostly ignored and patched up. The main problem of the game is a overly involving dice gimmick. Either way I had a lot of fun GMing this.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:37 No.6594259
    Idea is only good if you jack off to one, and lord help you, or two of the worst fandoms in 'popular' culture. Those being emo piloted giant robots and love craft. After you get past that steaming pile of bad writting and DEEP ideas you have a system that has one of the worst dice pool systems ever in that no GM can keep up with it's "you suck or you are goddly" rolls that can pop up and end encounters. Then the stats and implementations of this dicepool look half finished and no semblance of balance in any area, you either do great with the same few ideas or suck horribly, and if you wanted giant robots enjoy homebrewing around that clusterfuck of codes which is if you came here for that you might as well look elsewhere. Everything is the worst kind of nerd hobby, idiot players attracted by the DEEP fluff and LAWL INSANITY DAMAGE type, worst system made by people not knowing what the fuck they are doing, and uncontrollable system in game without the GM going "reroll" every time an oddity comes up. Shit sucks.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)15:57 No.6594443
    It always seemed like it would be good. Unfortunately, everyone around here doesn't know any games other than 4e and Pathfinder.
    >> Blacksheepcannibal 11/06/09(Fri)16:05 No.6594554
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    The rules and mechanics of the game need -a lot- of work. Even simple movement can get a little confusing with the rules they give you, and psionics are pretty wrecked as is. Mecha rules are as clunky as the regular rules, and you'll find yourself really struggling to get off the ground in character creation to begin with. Much of the rules are very similar to a mixer blend of WoD "if you munchkin you'll make an unbeatable character, the point is to make an organic character not win the game" and Rifts "one player is a mecha pilot destroying cities, the other player is a pennyless bum named joe with 4 rounds left in his ancient tech revolver". You really need to decide what sort of game you want to play (street level, tager, or mecha) and not allow the options for anything else into your game.

    Once you get a lot of things sorted out and houseruled (at least in my experience) the baseline crunch system isn't too bad, and is fairly clever. I liked the crunch once I applied 30 hours and almost 20 pages of houserules to it.

    Fluffwise, if you like mecha, and you like cosmic horror, it's a goldmine. If you don't, then why are you even picking up the book? I think the setting is one of the more original works recently, and has a fairly viable explanation of why things are, and why they work the way they do. The mood and atmosphere you can capture (paranoia, cosmic horror, hopelessness, grittiness) are amazing.

    tl;dr: Once you houserule most of the crunch, the setting is absolutely wonderful (if you can decide on what sort of game you want to play).
    >> OP 11/06/09(Fri)16:09 No.6594607
    >>6594554
    I like mecha and I like cosmic horror.

    I always say fluff is more important than crunch.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:23 No.6594786
    im on rs looking at the books, im downloading the core handbook but whats dark passion? and theres also one without a subtitle. how many books are in this system?
    >> Blackheart !!FYEhWpAirtN 11/06/09(Fri)16:25 No.6594827
    Awesome story, horrible system, its BLEAK. Enjoy your horrible insanity/death/worse. You don't need eyes where you're going.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:25 No.6594828
    Why people always call it evangelion plus something when the only part of the evangelion in it is that some of the mechs are alive ?
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:27 No.6594843
    >>6594259
    Thats like, your opinion man...
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:28 No.6594852
    >>6594828
    If you can't see it yourself, you're not going to understand it if I explain it to you.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:28 No.6594860
    >>6594786
    Dark Passions is a book giving fluff for various minor cults that weren't large or influential enough to be mentioned in the main book, but could be handy for any kind of non-frontline combat type of game.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:30 No.6594886
    I actaually enjoy the system. Character creation is no problem, fluff is on the most part great.

    You have to houserule a rule or two in combat, but what system doesn't need that ? The only thing I have yet to figure out is how to make grenades not too powerful, but stronger than a pistol round.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:32 No.6594904
    >>6594852
    Or simply you can't explain something there isn't.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:36 No.6594949
    >>6594886
    >I like objectionably bad systems, my opinions are invalid.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:38 No.6594987
    >>6594949
    >I have no constructive counter argument.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)16:58 No.6595200
    >>6594828
    One world government after a sci-fi/horror catastrophe that killed 3/4ths of the Earth's population is using advanced technology including mecha to fight a superior foe. Their only hope is a biomechanical war machine provided by a shadowy secret society that can only be piloted by a select few who are able to interface directly into its central nervous system. At stake is the fate of humanity, either a swift and merciless end at the hand of eldritch horrors or a poorly understood future that some might find equally horrific.
    >> The Bearded Bear 11/06/09(Fri)17:04 No.6595274
    >>6595200
    Not to mention somewhere in the first 10 pages of the book the authors themselves state to have been strongly inspired by it.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:07 No.6595318
    >>6595200
    >One world government
    UN =/= NEG - the countries in evangelion are pretty much intact. What you might think is SEELE, which is more of a Illuminati type of society.

    >after a sci-fi/horror catastrophe that killed 3/4ths of the Earth's population is using advanced technology including mecha to fight a superior foe
    Well I NEVER heard that one before evangelion.

    >Their only hope is a biomechanical war machine
    This is the evangelion related part

    >provided by a shadowy secret society
    You mean the government and a giant well know corporation ? Truly, those two are the most dark and shoddy things in the world !

    >that can only be piloted by a select few
    No, there is a abundance of potential pilots. It's the Engels which are few and why they pick only the best.

    >At stake is the fate of humanity, either a swift and merciless end at the hand of eldritch horrors or a poorly understood future that some might find equally horrific.
    Yeah, that's a evanglion exclusive plot right there.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:09 No.6595343
    >>6595274
    Yeah, it goes excatly like this:

    "Neon Genesis Evangelion was an inspiration for the Engels of Cthulhutech(...)"

    And nothing more.
    >> Blackheart !!FYEhWpAirtN 11/06/09(Fri)17:09 No.6595346
    >>6595274
    And? I've seen the same lines in WoD and D&D actually...
    >> The Bearded Bear 11/06/09(Fri)17:14 No.6595379
    >>6595343
    Indeed, however the Engels take a large portion of the settings focus and if you look closer you'll see that the parallels are quite deeply rooted into the fluff. Which is great as I find it to mash perfectly. Especially the Aeon War Syndrome.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:16 No.6595406
    >>6595379
    Yes but still, it's not enough to call it evangelion/cthulhu.

    I'd rather call it mechwarrior/cthulhu.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:16 No.6595408
    Great, great fluff. But poker dice gimmick takes a lot of getting used to. Game works a fuckload better if you use the cards rules in Vade Mecum, shit just goes faster that way. The downside is that while making it easier to play, the card rules also make it easier for the players to survive.
    >> No Man 11/06/09(Fri)17:16 No.6595412
    >>6595379

    I thought Aeon War Syndrome was the effect of EVERYBODY knowing the unthinkable. One of the biggest victories in Lovecraft's stories was the ability for humanity to roll over and go back to sleep, thinking it was just a bad dream. AWS is what happens when humans wake up and find out the 'nightmare' was reality.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:20 No.6595444
    >>6595412
    Also about people getting used to the thought that they already lost and constantly getting reconstructed with cloned parts.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:20 No.6595446
    >>6595412
    AWS is like PTSD on meth while you watch a split-screen of Event Horizon and children getting raped and then eaten by Gugs.
    >> The Bearded Bear 11/06/09(Fri)17:22 No.6595472
    >>6595412
    Indeed. But that's because AWS isn't a single disorderm. What I meant is the mental breakdown of the Engel pilots as they are basically thrown into communion with "monsters" to fight "monsters" which in turn splendidly parallels one of my favourite themes in Evangelion.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:24 No.6595492
    >>6595472
    Ah, no, it seems you misunderstood. AWS is what touches all the soldiers of the Aeon War. Engel pilots burning out is hinted at and presented in the story hooks related to them.
    >> The Bearded Bear 11/06/09(Fri)17:28 No.6595539
    >>6595492
    Ummm... and that matters where? Engel pilots are equally soldiers in the Aeon War as any other footman or tank commander, they just have a closer insight into the inhuman.
    AWS is defined in the book as:
    "The maddening effect of the Old Ones, their minions,
    and the occult in general is well known. This doesn’t
    mean that people don’t naturally have mental problems
    in CthulhuTech. To help differentiate between those who
    naturally have difficulties and those who’ve been driven
    mad by the Strange Aeon, psychologists use the term
    Aeon War Syndrome or AWS. Aeon War Syndrome encompasses
    any host of disorders that manifest as people
    are confronted with the eldritch horrors of the world and
    most forms of treatment development are geared towards
    helping its victims."
    Which basically catches every playable character "class", simply for each of them the exact reason is different.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:30 No.6595550
    >>6595539
    I said it isn't exclusive to them.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:30 No.6595557
    >>6595539
    That sounds like PTSD on PCP to me.
    >> The Bearded Bear 11/06/09(Fri)17:32 No.6595581
    >>6595550
    And where did I say anything about it being exclusive?
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:34 No.6595607
    Nazzadi pics are there for fanservice.
    That's the best praise I can give it.

    Plus, you know, a whole race who doesn't have any issues with wearing clothes, only they conform to the western ideal of beauty instead of something else.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:34 No.6595611
    >>6595581
    >What I meant is the mental breakdown of the Engel pilots
    >> The Bearded Bear 11/06/09(Fri)17:36 No.6595625
    >>6595557
    Oh it totally is. And it's awesome.
    For the Engel Pilots this basically means a blaze of glory before they burn out and turn into half catatonic shells of their former selves.
    >> The Bearded Bear 11/06/09(Fri)17:36 No.6595636
    >>6595611
    Reading it wrong. You are.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:38 No.6595644
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    I'm seriously considering having my players run up on a out of time Cimmerian fighting Mi-Go deep in the Alaskan wilderness. The Great Race of Yith would be involved somehow. Also cultists of Set.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:38 No.6595650
    >>6595625
    And then the Engel goes nutshit and kills everyone it can before the guys upstairs can get around to engaging their armor locks.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:39 No.6595662
    >>6595636
    Or rather, you wrote it in a confusing manner. Don't blame other people for reading it as such.
    >> The Bearded Bear 11/06/09(Fri)17:42 No.6595688
    >>6595662
    Well, ok, fine. Maybe I did.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:50 No.6595760
    >>6594156
    Good pilots get lovin's from their Engels.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:51 No.6595772
    >>6595760
    Oh yeah, there was that erotic writefaggotry, wasn't there. Shit. CAN NOT UNREMEMBER
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:54 No.6595791
    >>6595772
    Why did you have to mention that ?
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)17:55 No.6595802
    >>6595791
    Because I remembered it and now all of you have to, as well.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)18:00 No.6595836
    >>6595802
    You are now remembering a female Engel pilot receiving consensual tentacle sex. In the missionary position.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)18:01 No.6595852
    Hence the AWS
    >> No Man 11/06/09(Fri)18:05 No.6595896
    >>6595836

    Hey, I tried to write that one, too. It's just not as good as the first one.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)18:07 No.6595912
    >>6595760
    Dude - that was fucking awesome.
    You dream of fucking a woman - and it is goddamn great.

    I heard that guy was going to do something with Exalted, as well?
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)18:09 No.6595932
    >>6595912
    I think he was, yes - something with Adorjan, IIRC?
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)18:16 No.6596014
    >>6595896
    Agreed - your first one was clearly superior.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)18:24 No.6596096
    >>6596014
    Second needed more build up and less shotas. Though the multitude of fetishes was amusing, I would imagine her computer has untold harddrives full of kinky stuff.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)18:39 No.6596263
    >>6595932
    oh yeah - whatever happened to that one?
    Did it ever get finished?
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)18:48 No.6596390
    I played a game with two tagers, a battle focused parapsychic and an arcanotech who was just a little nutty, didn't do much in combat. Things actually didn't too badly, we actually had a lot of fun, might have been the group though. I talked with the GM from that group last week, seems he's recently run a game with a different composition and he said the game pretty much falls apart when you have varying power levels.
    >> No Man 11/06/09(Fri)18:59 No.6596533
    >>6596263
    >>6595932
    >>6595912

    Yeahhhhh, college happened. I'm trying to write a paper for political philosophy. The teacher said we should come up with our own topics, and we have three papers that can beturned in at any time before the end of the semester. The hardest thing of all is coming up with the topic.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)19:13 No.6596692
    >>6596533
    Ah - well, at least I didn't miss the story, somehow, so that's a plus.
    >> No Man 11/06/09(Fri)19:17 No.6596748
    >>6596692

    I promise you will get delicious Jouten sex.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)19:24 No.6596834
    >>6596748
    As long as the Jouten of Adorjan is there, I'm happy...as long as she'd be on top.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)21:56 No.6598567
    Question: Which dice mechanic would you put on CTech that would fit? ORE, WoD, Silcore, Don't Rest Your Head or whatever.

    The good side of pker dice, i think, is that it would let you play at CoC level (yes, you just failed san) or at Exalted level (cut thta roach's head off) by limiting maximum skill ratings.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)22:00 No.6598612
    >>6596748

    Wait, you wrote that? I read that on 1d4chan, had no idea what it was based on. I actually liked the tent/straight shota, since it was all consensual. Wouldn't mind reading more of your work if it's in a similar vein.
    >> Anonymous 11/06/09(Fri)22:19 No.6598809
    To those who have played this, what campaign ideas did you use after not finding any in the book? I want to know how easy would be to set up
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)02:04 No.6600967
    Necropost
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)02:06 No.6600978
    Pretty decent. The mechanics need houseruling though.

    I like the setting. You could probably use the setting with another system easily enough.
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)04:09 No.6602011
    >>6598567
    WoD, but why change it ? The dice poker is very random, but hey, that's why it's fun and worth laughing of later.
    >>6596390
    Well of course a Tager will be stronger than a human - duh. Not everyone can be equally strong just because they invested the same amount of points - just like even a cheap revolver beast master kung-fu. What you should do is create character that give you fun and don't necessarily need to be fighters - it's Cthulhu.
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)04:19 No.6602102
    >>6594828
    Some of us watched Evangellion for the giant robots that were alive and tried to ignore the faggotty trappings that the rest of the show was couched in.
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)05:18 No.6602567
    >>6602102
    I don't see the connection.
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)07:19 No.6603270
    >>6602567
    You're surprised this sort of tunnel vision exists? When viewed as a show primarily about giant living robots fighting off eldritch horrors there's a clear connection.
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)07:28 No.6603328
    >>6603270
    No, I don't see the connection between "stop calling CT eva/something" and "I didn't like eva plot".
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)07:40 No.6603398
    >>6603328
    I was explaining to that guy why people say "CthulhuTech is like Evangellion plus Call of CthulhuRight", see if you can follow me here...

    "Stop saying CT has elements of Eva in it"-guy complains that 'Evangellion is all about the angst, and CthulhuTech isn't like that at all'.

    "CthulhuTech has elements of Eva in it"-guy is someone who glosses over the angst and pretentiousness because:
    they're either irrelevant to the comparison he's trying to make (using an imperfect comparison to save time, whowouldhavethunkit?)
    --or--
    they're the sort of person who were too busy watching 'giant living mecha used to fight eldritch horrors' for the pretentious angsty faggotry inherent in Eva to even register.
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)07:46 No.6603428
    >>6603398
    ...are you stupid or something ?

    I said "stop saying it's Eva/coc when the only thing from Eva are the living mechs. It should be Mechwarrior/coc" Where the fuck did you pull "Evangellion is all about the angst" from ?

    I basically said "those aren't pancakes just because they have butter on them" while you responded "I hate everything about pancakes except for butter". And now you're adding that I said "Those aren't pancakes because pancakes are about being delicious while this shit is not".

    So read previous post before posting yourself.
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)12:28 No.6605294
    bump
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)12:32 No.6605332
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    >>6603428
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    >>6605332
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)12:39 No.6605399
    >>6605391
    i think you missed the joke...
    >> Anonymous 11/07/09(Sat)12:43 No.6605435
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    >>6605399
    Then I hope you get this.



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