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Sydonai said:
The setting is basically every horror movie ever that doesn't end with humanity going extinct or the earth being destroyed, all existing simultaneously, except that going through puberty erases your memories of anything not "normal" and adults are physically incapable of realizing that anything wrong is happening.
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ganonso said:
Basically Little Fears' gist is that it exists a secret dimension named Closetland where monsters plan the destruction of childhood, innocence and the like. Under the Demagogue, the master of this hellish realm serve seven Kings and Queens each associated to a Deadly Sin.

The Defiler is the King of Lust and can possess adults. Trivia: he was renamed the Destroyer in the French version and put more in self-destructive behaviours than rape.

What's interesting about this game is that this is apparently the third iteration of the designer's project. The first was only "kids fighting closet monsters and boggeymen". The second created after he was exposed to how much the world can suck for children was apparently so depressing it was unpublishable and nearly entirely focused on human evil. The final version toned down on that but talks still about child rape, slavery and other such subjects.
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Again, gonna avoid that one.
 
AkatsukiL13 said:
Again, gonna avoid that one.
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That's just Book One, it gets worse;

You were a normal kid once with a normal life and a normal family. Then things changed. There was a moment when your life took a sudden turn and you stopped being a normal kid. You became a headline, a statistic, a picture on the grocery store window. A warning for other children.
Maybe you were taken, stolen by a monster, or maybe you simply disappeared.
Whatever happened, at that moment, you became one of the missing.

Book 2: Among the Missing is a player-focused expansion to the Little Fears Nightmare Edition game. In it, we talk about what missing children mean in the world of Little Fears, how kids become missing, what happens to them next, how they can help in the fight against monsters, and how they can be saved. Includes new rules for Friendly GMCs, new monsters, information about the World In-Between, and a full-length episode titled "The Long Way Home."
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Not every child is the same.
They are different than other kids.
Some would say strange.
Some might say cursed.
But they are called the blessed.
Some are born without souls.
Others, with more than one.
Some are secretly monsters.
Others are children of faith
given powers beyond belief.
And then there are those
who wander this world
long after death.
Searching. Wanting.
Hoping.
Praying to die
or to live again.
Every child is special.
Some more than others.
Book 3: Blessed are the Children focuses on the realm of spirits and ghosts within the world of Little Fears Nightmare Edition. From the kids whose souls are different than others to the monsters who pursue them, Blessed are the Children introduces six new character options including Gifted, Soulless, and Changeling, numerous creatures from Closetland, rules for possession, a new take on the Spirit Drain ability, a full standalone episode called "My Soul to Keep", and more.
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guys, please stop. you're making me want to actually run Clarisa as a LF char and that will ruin my mental health forever.
 
As a veteran Vampire player I can honestly say Little Fears is the most spooky game I have ever played.
 
There's a thread on Wr20 on the official forums.

It seems Richard Dansky is a truly cursed man. o_O
 
So, if you were going to run a Scooby Doo/Vampire: The Masquarade crossover with pregenerated characters, which clans would each member of Mystery Inc be?
 
So I've been reading the second edition of Ascension and I found the opening story quite interesting.
Apparently the idea that a Widderslainte is unredeemable is not entirely true.

Somehow Senex's spell separated the protagonist's memories from her past Nephandi life, this also seems to have fixed her Avatar by stopping it from combining with the memory of her past incarnation's inverted Avatar.

Curious how that works though, wouldn't her Avatar already been corrupted even after he set up the barrier before she was reborn? Or did he modify the Avatar directly into having no knowledge of its previous descent?

Still, nice to know that there is a way to fix such unfortunates.
 
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ganonso said:
There's a thread on Wr20 on the official forums.

It seems Richard Dansky is a truly cursed man. o_O
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It's not Dansky, it's the Wraith Curse. Back when they were writing the First Edition, before Dansky got involved in Wraith and made it even more awesome, there were problems in the development. And its had other issues and problems over the course of its run, more victims of the Curse.

Wr20 having problems is nothing unexpected for those familiar with the Curse. In fact both Dansky and Rich Thomas joked about it during the KS.
 
I mean... with the right paradigm, you can pretty much make that work?

You can ... heh, imagine the Avatar working like an Exaltation (funny how that works), being a Keter-soul that moves between lesser-souls to use ES's term. And so if you catch it in time (or in Time), you can prevent a corrupted Avatar from influencing the bit of her soul and mind that actually affects her.

And since Senex is like Enlightenment 10 or something similarly ridiculous he's completely transcended paradigm and can just pick whichever one's most useful to him at the moment. But in theory a Hermetic with the right set of beliefs/research from lore could do the same thing, if he had the Spheres.

(... you know, actually, the whole deal with Nephandi and cauls reminds me a lot of Exaltations and the Monstrances of Celestial Portion. Though, of course, Abyssals weren't really supposed to be irredeemably evil even without "redemption", so.)
 
linkhyrule5 said:
I mean... with the right paradigm, you can pretty much make that work?

You can ... heh, imagine the Avatar working like an Exaltation (funny how that works), being a Keter-soul that moves between lesser-souls to use ES's term. And so if you catch it in time (or in Time), you can prevent a corrupted Avatar from influencing the bit of her soul and mind that actually affects her.

And since Senex is like Enlightenment 10 or something similarly ridiculous he's completely transcended paradigm and can just pick whichever one's most useful to him at the moment. But in theory a Hermetic with the right set of beliefs/research from lore could do the same thing, if he had the Spheres.

(... you know, actually, the whole deal with Nephandi and cauls reminds me a lot of Exaltations and the Monstrances of Celestial Portion. Though, of course, Abyssals weren't really supposed to be irredeemably evil even without "redemption", so.)
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I think what paradigms allow for that is gonna be kinda academic, because anyone with the Spheres to pull it off has the enlightenment to start shedding their paradigm anyway. Because if you can get the Traditions to agree that such-and-such a magical feat is impossible, it's gotta be, in technical terms, really fucking bullshit hard.
 
I figure that if a Caul can invert an Avatar, there should be a way to invert it again and end up with a non-evil Avatar.
 
... So here's a question for the experienced Mage players.

What sort of thing might cause someone to gain multiple Enlightenment levels at the same time?

Assume there's a strong narrative reason for that to happen, it's not a mechanics question or something PC would do. Say, the backstory for an oracular waif or the like, who needs to make their way up several Enlightenment dots in a very short amount of time.
 
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linkhyrule5 said:
... So here's a question for the experienced Mage players.

What sort of thing might cause someone to gain multiple Enlightenment levels at the same time?

Assume there's a strong narrative reason for that to happen, it's not a mechanics question or something PC would do. Say, the backstory for an oracular waif or the like, who needs to make their way up several Enlightenment dots in a very short amount of time.
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Usually that only happens at your awakening as you can start with 2-3 points if it was more traumatic.
 
linkhyrule5 said:
... So here's a question for the experienced Mage players.

What sort of thing might cause someone to gain multiple Enlightenment levels at the same time?

Assume there's a strong narrative reason for that to happen, it's not a mechanics question or something PC would do. Say, the backstory for an oracular waif or the like, who needs to make their way up several Enlightenment dots in a very short amount of time.
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A Grimoire that teaches multiple levels of Arete could conceivably let one spend all the XP at the same time, since they waive Seekings. I believe this was given as a possibility in Ascension's Judgement scenario.

Other than that, being trapped in a temporal vortex? I.e., they spend months or years of subjective time when only an instant (or at least a very short period) happens outside.

I will term this the "Rydia Effect". Massive age-ups strictly optional, especially if it's a mental vortex. Might want something to keep them sane-ish though.
 
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