alright. it's set in the White Wolf's World of Darkness and is similar to other games in that world in the way that it's one of their storyteller game system thingy. so it's basically more about the story and drama than stats and winning. so if d&d is sorta like a computer game where you kill things to gain stats to kill more things, ST games are more like a bad soap opera on tv where you try your best to scheme and just step into a ton of drama and politics. vampire the masquerade was a big hit of theirs in the nineties and had a huge impact on pop culture.PanicProne wrote:Tell me more about this. What style/theme is it etc?vallaton wrote:
on the non-video game front, we're starting a Geist: The Sin-Eaters campaing tomorrow and i'm excited and terrified. it's been so long since i've last played pen & paper, like a decade or something. seems like a game with weird possibilities, though.
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anyways, this game is set in the World of Darkness, which is like the multiverse where most of their gamelines do their thing. a modern, nineties gritty world, which is a dark reflection of ours. so everything is sorta like it really is, but a bit more cyberpunk, a bit more dark knight, a bit more blade. you get the gist of it.
the player characters are people who have died, and upon the moment of death have met a Geist and struck a deal. a geist is sort of like a rat king of ghosts and spirits. a being which has lost touch of it's original personas and has become this otherworldly deathspirit archetype, like a nightmare personification of fear and hate of hundreds of dead souls, which might look like a small girl who's constantly on fire or a man drowning on dry land or whatever, but who isn't THAT little girl who died in that fire some time ago or THAT man who set sail a few years back and was never seen again. it's a THING and it just brought you back to life and gave you mystical ghost powers.
so the game is basically about you dying for some reason (and that reason matters. if you die violently, you attract a different kind of geist with different powers and motivation than if you die of a disease or a freak accident or whatever), and trying to figure out what to do with your life now that you've faced death and made a deal with it. it's about your second chance. but it's not all about living. you're not alone anymore. there's a nightmare living inside you and it wants something. and you promised it something. and you also see ghosts and shit now, will you try to help them pass on, will you try to profit off of them or what?
sooo, yeah. let's see what's gonna happen.
