Operation: Fallen Reich

misterguignol · April 27, 2011, 12:38:35 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;453998Notice that no where do they explain how you would actually play this Train Wreck of a Flashy Concept.

Its like hipsters on parade: you get all these characters, with funny hats, beards, thick glasses, odd pants, ridiculous names or titles, and not one of them fucking works; and you're left asking what the fuck is the point!?

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What part of "fight occult horrors" do you not understand?

Hell, this: " you get all these characters, with funny hats, beards, thick glasses, odd pants, ridiculous names or titles"

...sounds more or less like classic Call of Cthulhu.

The Butcher · April 27, 2011, 07:24:48 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;453998Notice that no where do they explain how you would actually play this Train Wreck of a Flashy Concept.

Its like hipsters on parade: you get all these characters, with funny hats, beards, thick glasses, odd pants, ridiculous names or titles, and not one of them fucking works; and you're left asking what the fuck is the point!?

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:rotfl:

I should post about games like this more often. Not only do you get totally riled up at something that you've never read, or played, or even seen someone play; but you also cease rational thought entirely.

How difficult is it to grasp the notion of playing a black humor game of caricatural, early 20th Century upper-class Brits vs. eldricht horrors?

Hell, any CoC game set in the 1920s with upper-class characters is halfway there already, as misterguignol pointed out above.

Granted, I don't think it's the stuff of years-long campaigns either, but to say that it's "unplayable" suggests a terminal lack of imagination.

Cole · April 27, 2011, 10:57:10 PM

Quote from: The Butcher;454107How difficult is it to grasp the notion of playing a black humor game of caricatural, early 20th Century upper-class Brits vs. eldricht horrors?

I don't think that sounds like "black humor," just painfully corny know-your-meme type stuff.

I think it'd be broadly speaking playable but I just don't think it would end up working out very well. Mostly because the society humor angle is drawing on a style of comedy that is really really scripted and precision oriented.

Simon W · April 28, 2011, 02:31:04 AM

Aside from the price, the number of skills on the character sheet puts me off.

RPGPundit · April 28, 2011, 04:02:39 AM

Quote from: Cole;454133I don't think that sounds like "black humor," just painfully corny know-your-meme type stuff.

I think it'd be broadly speaking playable but I just don't think it would end up working out very well. Mostly because the society humor angle is drawing on a style of comedy that is really really scripted and precision oriented.

Quite. The whole point is basically "let's do CoC but be all sarcastic about it". Ergo, hipsters.

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Operation: Fallen Reich

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Cole

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