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VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3249

Necessary Horror

I dont have necessary evil but did look in the book a bit when someone used it for ideas for a Paladium supers game

Thought this up on a 45 min walk back from the singles club (library) last night after a wild night of Skipo and Pepsi

For untold paltry human generations we have been here, the silent shadows behind the thrones of man. They have been our feed stock, our plaything, our minions and slaves. They have unknowingly fought our wars and in turn we have set there struggles in motion. Always we strive to keep there hatreds focused on each other against the enemy beyond the hill and not the shadow in the corner. For with unity of purpose they have at times been strong and a danger to us. Now we must take up this mantle of unity and join together, let the call go out to every counsel, pack, tribe and synod. We can not wait for the human's to rise up, they could in the end prevail but at a great lose and the remainder would be forever stout before the winds of bondage. To hide among the humans they must be many, to rule them they must be dissolute and not stand proud. All creatures of darkness must come together and throw off the tentacled grip upon the world so that we may once again rule.

Have the players roll up modern horror characters like in Vampire using the NE rules

Encourage they be different monsters that don't normally work together

Tell them they start at a truce conference

Then have a horde of Cthulhu invade earth through dimension gates and defeat the worlds armies. Apply Cthulhu names and descriptions to all the V'Sori creatures and NPC. For the sake of simplicity use the same stats and game mechanics from necessary evil. The equipment is tecnorganic in description.

Rather then Super heroes that have been wiped out

All the Slayers are dead

All the watchers are dead

Every BPRD and similar org in the world has been destroyed and it's members are dead

Van Helsing's "Explorer's Club" has been destroyed and it's members are dead

Now the monster have to save the world

Diss&Cuss
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marshal kt · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:27 pm Post subject:

whe I 1st read NE, I thought how easy it would be to convert to fantasy. aleins = deamons or some other evil race.. and the control/takeover would happen slowly. with all the big names killed off after a while.. all the pc's & heroes are 'conan-esque'. more a cut above than typical heroes. magicv instead of super powers, magic items for gadgets, super skills and stats, just because they're heroes.. way above the normals.
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Vinzent · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:51 am Post subject:

I believe Pinnacle should seriously make this book.

Call it Unnecessary Evil? World of Darkerness?
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Enno · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 2:06 am Post subject:

Why don't you just use Pinnacles Superpowers and Horror Companions with a sprinkle of Reality Blurs' Realms of Cthulhu?

Or you can dust off Rippers, and substiute Ripperware with Superpowers. A lodge would be a specialized and codified superhero team - with a lair...
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samuraicrab · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:06 am Post subject:

FinaLLY A VAMPIRE,WEREWOLF, MONSTER GAME THAT DOESN'T SUCK! Huzzah I amn all for this idea.

Zadmar · Heroic Joined: 10 Nov 2010 Posts: 1380 Location: Munich

Sounds a bit like Hellspawn.

XcomSquaddie · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:04 pm Post subject:

I've seen something like this before. I'll try to remember what it was called. Basically it was post-apoc, but the monsters (vampires, werewolves, etc.) were defending their human herds to survive. It was a variant sourcebook for an RPG, not one of the bigger names. Now it's gonna bug me until I remember it.

It is an interesting concept though, if you're into that style of play.
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XcomSquaddie · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:21 pm Post subject:

Ok. Saved my sanity.

The game I was thinking of was Nightlife by Stellar Games. Specifically, a book called KinRise, which was a variant sourcebook like I thought.

The basic premise is that the PC's are supernatural beasties of various sorts fighting to defend their turf. Not only against other creatures like themselves, but worse things that are hunting them.

Looks like there were three rules editions and a fair number of sourcebooks.
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XcomSquaddie · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:24 pm Post subject:

VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3249

As i have never read any WOD book any similarity would be because they read this post and sent themselves a message back in time to use my idea.

Other then looks this is just a reskined Necessary evil, use the same adventures and plot points just change the names to protect the guilty

And if you set this in the 1930's or 1940's all the player have to start as one of the universal monsters
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XcomSquaddie · Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:54 pm Post subject:

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Sitting Duck · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:09 am Post subject:

VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3249

I just thought of one very important setting rule.

Since the set up sorta sounds like the world of darkness

If any player comes to the game in a cape or with black makeup, or drinks grape juice pretending it is blood

the GM says

"Abbigayle Van Helsing just popped out from behind a garbage can with an automatic shotgun mounted with a UV flashlight sight and loaded with slugs carved from blessed sections of the true cross that have been aged in holy water for 100 years and drilled through the end and given a tungsten/silver core and coated in phosphorus"

Booyaa

XcomSquaddie · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:24 am Post subject:

VonDan · Legendary Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 3249

Creature from the Black Lagoon was 1954

But that can be a another re skin of necessary evil ware little green men invade in a flying saucers with ray guns and it is up to the 1950 boogie men like Creature from the Black Lagoon, Commies and Elvis to save the world
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