Types of Conspiracies in the World of Darkness
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ย. 2024
- The World of Darkness is full of supernatural conspiracies, but who falls in with them and how can we use them in our games? Jordan Etherington joins to talk methods and pitfalls when adding creeping conspiracy to your game.
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In a small town, a large patch of grass used to be a short road leading to a store that hasn't existed for 70 years, but the road technically still exists despite residents' complaints because its still used by an influential vampire for guest parking.
Reminds me of this weird municipality building in my city, about a single room wide, that was overgrown and covered in vines for years.
The building was decrepit yet still clearly being used: but not by the city. They replaced it with one down the block.
The building suddenly got torn down one day when I started asking a bunch of people questions about what purpose it served.
Whomever wanted use of that building wanted it hidden beneath banality, apparently.
We do happen to have a lot of old money in this town, too.
Fun stuff.
@@Atmatan Thats interesting. I based my comment off the real road beside my dad’s place. The county doesn’t do anything about it, so it just stays a phantom road partly used as a driveway.
As always: Terry fills in the gaps with some insanely practical world building tips and examples.
It's very hard to justify the dissonance between my rational mind that studies reality and my storyteller mind that swims in the surreal and fictional, with this conversation.
The academic in me is so mad but the storyteller is feening on this new way of applying these tools.
I read a super villain book where one of the side characters is a “Professional Sidekick”. She was a Henchman for Hire who would portray whatever minion you want so long as you provide a costume and character background. She was known to be up to 3 characters in a night depending on booking.
It was an interesting idea for the hero troupe.
I was hoping yall would talk about ladder conspiracies
The reason that the British ate so many mummies when they were doing archeology in Egypt was a Technocrat plot to cull the amount of mummies in the world. I don't know any mummy lore but this is my head cannon for my Hacker Tremere vampire and my psionic mage.
The lower the stakes, the worse the bloodshed.
There's actually a concept that captures this idea: Sayre's Law.
Sayre's Law states that the intensity of feeling in a dispute is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. In simpler terms, the less important something is, the more likely people are to fight bitterly over it.
Thanatos.
Thanateros.
Euthanatos...
Thanos???
Im having trouble keeping all these death invocations sorted in my head.
Another great show! A little let down by the end when the guest made the very shameful confession he never read Foucault's Pendulum (just kidding... sort of). I'm far from impartial here, since I believe to have read Eco's complete works (both fictional and theoretical) or at least enough to pay for one of his kids' college tuition all by myself. And yet I think this book is an absolut must when it comes to conspiracy theories. In it's way to criticize the conspiratory thinking the book ends up to offer a great tour through all most popular grand conspiracy. Every 10 pages has enough material to write and debunk an entire Dan Brown book.
I've considered it but it would quickly turn into "Foucault's Pendulum: The Podcast" which....should exist.
@@terryrtalksindeed! "Foucault's Pendulum: the podcast - working towards ascension... and then towards descension again".
I have three dots in the Eco Sphere, so I would totally subscribe it!
I genuinely dont think either of you guys are aware of what a single dedicated human can do when they have very little to lose or everything to gain, while existing in a system that ignores them.
One person can most certainly alter world events.
I've personally watched what my actions and words can do to governments on the other side of the planet.
With the internet and a few well placed words and incentives, there are limitless possibilities available to an individual.
Do you just neglect that, while the 'conspiracy theorist' player is operating with free will, everyone else, including the conspirators, wouldn't be doing the same?
I think single individuals make for far better plot antagonists than 'cabals'. The organization is just the face that the power broker hides behind;
Thats why we've given corporations legal personhood status in america.
You guys are getting close to that 'focus on the human element' part of the discjssion but there's still so many misteps here...
We dont care about what the fish people in the town are doing on our way to cthulu: the intrigue is the task thats in our way of solving the mystery (as players). We very much would rather see cthulu awake and have that Kaiju battle or go insane than be left wading through a bunch of npc humans that are, lets be real, plot padding to give you something to do to build to a reason to even be playing in the first place.
Theres a reason the call of cthulu game reaches its climax with you being the person to summon the great old one from its slumber.
Yes: the game reaches its conclusion shortly after; but it doesnt NEED to.
Referring to the cthulu video game obviously, not the ttrpg