Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[burningcrow]

Hello!

I just got my my copy. Very shiny indeed.

I heaven't read half of it so maybe my outlook will change in the next few days ... but ... it seems to me Necropolis is rather a tabletop CoSim instead of a "real" role playing game. Sure, it has some background ... but most of it looks more like WH40k than like CthulhuTech (sorry for the indecent comparisons).

Don't get me wrong, I like what I've seen so far, but I'm not yet sure how to use it.

So what are you doing with it? Using it as a RPG? A tabletop with miniatures?

I'm really looking for options to play it as a RPG ... so help me out with some ideas, please ...

[burningcrow]

Okay, maybe this is the wrong forum ...

[DaRealJudas]

Yeah, SW General Chat & Game Stories would have been more appropriate. But don't worry: Clint is a teddy bear and won't bite you...





Coming to think of it Wiggy IS the teddy… what was Clint again?!?
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[Jordan Peacock]

This is on hold, since my group seems to be in more of a pulp mood (1930s heroes vs. Nazis & undead ... or undead Nazis, for that matter), but one of the ideas I floated for our new campaign was to run one in Necropolis. One player promptly responded by writing up several quick blurbs of character concepts, and for Necropolis he envisioned playing a Corporate character with a begrudging alliance-of-necessity with the Church "for the greater good."

That definitely wouldn't fit into the usual Necropolis plot plan, as written, but I think, whenever I manage to fit in a Necropolis campaign, I'm likely to play with the premise a bit. I think there's a lot of potential for exploring some of the different Corporations and their motivations - and playing characters who may be fighting the Rephaim, though not necessarily sworn to the Church. (Now, if only I could settle on a good premise to allow for my players to play a mix of Church, Corporate and "freelancer" heroes taking on the Darkness. All apocryphal, of course.)
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[Control]

You could place the game in a region that is cut off from the church and corporations. With a group of survivors scavenging for supplies and fighting a guerrilla campaign against the Rephaim. With the occasional communication or supply drop from the Church and Corporations to interject some conflicts of interest. If the party survives they become the Legendary irregulars that weakened the Rephaim hold over the area. Which allowed for a successful liberation of the region. They all are given positions of power in the region as it is rebuilt, and the war goes on.

Just my thoughts on the matter...
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[Wiggy]

[Gospog]

Rumor has it that one of my Players is going to pick this up and use it to run Gears of War.

I myself am interested in seeing if it's helpful in running some Mutant Chronicles stuff. But I've got my hands full right now, running two RPG campaigns and actually playing Necessary Evil. (no complaints)\

Still, I look forward to the time when I get to see what Necropolis can do.

-Tom
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[burningcrow]

[Jordan Peacock]

[SnowDog]

When I get my hands on this one I plan the following.

PCs are new replacemts and arrive to "base" with other replacement Knights and Sergeants not to mention with a new Commander.

The game will be a mix of combat and recon mission (or whatever comes to my mind) and politics within the very remote outpost. You see, the previous Commander ran things a bit differently and got transferred. Unfortunately old hands and XO liked the old ways and now see any new blood as a threat.

The twist is that the Commander will try and win the PCs to his side and while the old hands are not strictly speaking heretics they are at least border line because they have a bit different view on things (purely theological) than what is normally accepted.

So, PCs have plenty to do inside and outside the encampment. Plento to talk, plenty to fight. Who can they really trust?

As a side note, Gears of War kind of campaign would have been cool, too since I am currently reading a novel based on the video game. I have never played the game because it's not ported to PS3
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[C.A.Pryde]

I can add a useful addendum about the campaign in the 2351-55 Update (because I wrote the campaign material). The core idea is about the knights attempting to expand the Church's influence in a far border province, so it's as much a "hearts-and-minds" campaign (which requires a lot of role-playing) as it is a shoot-em-up. The starter adventure that I wrote for the campaign setting actually has suggestions about how to use a combination of Skill checks and role-playing to represent the knights' attempts at community outreach, and the campaign rules include a system for tracking over time the changing attitudes of different communities towards the knights.

[scourger]

I've got a game of it going that is, unfortunately, a year between sessions. The heroes are playing through the plot flowchart (from the original), which I love. I last brought forward a couple of characters from our Tour of Darkness game to try to spark a little more interest from those players.

[savageslacker]

An exciting spin on this game I would do is to have the PCs be Corporation mercenaries with all the dark flavor of the Black Company. If the Sacri Ordines model themselves after the medieval Knights Templar why can't the mercenaries be based on the medieval Black Company.

I would give them an Annalist with Annals going back 500 years (to 1850) or more.

I'm not sure about company wizards. Maybe they could be just these 2 guys who are very superstitious and lucky. I haven't read the Necropolis setting yet, so I don't know how ABs work but they might have similar trappings.

[savageslacker]

...or 4 guys as in the first Black Company book...

[Sitting Duck]

[Jordan Peacock]

[C.A.Pryde]

[Sitting Duck]

Is this Necropolis 2351-55 Update going to be available in hard copy or PDF only?
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