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Kult: Divinity Lost

Started by Itachi, November 04, 2019, 05:31:40 AM

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Itachi

#15
November 09, 2019, 09:40:43 AM
Quote from: Simlasa;1113395Except I don't recall CoC doing that... Most pre-fab adventures made some attempt to explain why investigators might get involved... and any GM worth his salt would know the PCs well enough to add more threads to the net.
It's like claiming all D&D sessions star with random strangers meeting in a bar.
I may have exaggerated a bit. Sorry.

But what I meant to say is that Kult ties campaigns to the characters dark secrets on a such a fundamental level that CoC doesn't do. In Kult the characters personal issues are not there to hook PCs to the GM adventure or a published module. In Kult  those issues are the campaign. Because of this, the game takes a personal tone that is different (and more interesting, IMO) than what CoC does.

Nihilistic Mind

#16
November 13, 2019, 03:58:48 PM
Quote from: Itachi;1113311On another note: are supplements of older editions useful somehow for someone just arriving at this universe with DL? If so, which ones are better for mining ideas/stuff?

If you get any one supplement for Kult from past editions, I highly recommend Legions of Darkness (Kult 1e)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1184755.Legions_Of_Darkness

Anything else is additional fodder to steal from. Purgatory and the two Conjurer supplements ('Beyond the Boundaries' and "Heart, Mind & Soul') are a bit annoying to read BUT they are beautiful albeit thin books and the content is actually really fun/disturbing and inspiring.
Running:
Dungeon Crawl Classics (influences: Elric vs. Mythos, Darkest Dungeon, Castlevania).
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Star Wars with homemade ruleset (Roll&Keep type system).

grodog

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November 14, 2019, 08:39:01 AM
Quote from: Itachi;1113311
Quote from: Nihilistic Mind;1113132The new edition, on the other hand, does a good job actually showing a set-up for a Kult scenario from the ground up and basing it on the characters.
You mean how it creates an intrigue map around the PCs' Dark Secrets, converging elements of the cosmology to them on a personal level? If so, yeah that's neat. And again, an improvement over CoC's "let's investigate just because".

Good points!

Quote from: Itachi;1113311On another note: are supplements of older editions useful somehow for someone just arriving at this universe with DL? If so, which ones are better for mining ideas/stuff?

Somewhat outside of the game supplements, but the 4-issue Kult comic book series from Dark Horse was decent as well (links @ http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=48580478152&snumber=1)---and the _Death Is Only the Beginning_ novel published via KS @ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/death-is-only-the-beginning-new-novel-in-the-kult/ both helped me to paint the picture of how Kult's default universe/setting works "in play" better than just reading through the 1e rules did.  

Unfortunately I've still not played a game of Kult yet.

Allan.
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Itachi

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November 19, 2019, 11:21:07 AM Last Edit: November 19, 2019, 11:44:43 AM by Itachi
The art in this game is real nice. Even the "mundane" stuff.

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jan paparazzi

#19
November 20, 2019, 09:41:45 PM
Those character classes look really cool and are indeed a bit like Cthulhu.
May I say that? Yes, I may say that!

PencilBoy99

#21
November 25, 2019, 12:20:14 PM
The developers today me that they were developing a Suppliment with even more support for True Detective style investigations
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