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beccaelizabethSo I'm thinking about Hell's Rebels for my next Pathfinder Adventure Path. The player's guide is very interesting. You meet the party at a protest against the imposition of oppressive rulership and arbitrary senseless decrees. He's taken over the opera house in a city of culture and it matters to the plot who you are a fan of. There's a whole elaborated set of rules about how to run a rebellion, starting with however many PCs there are and recruiting from there. It's going to be an epic struggle for freedom against impossible odds, since the ruling family have literally made a deal with the devil.
So naturally the first character I think of is a Vigilante.
... and then I start thinking what their secret identity could be and go all
pink! ruffles! feathers!
The Flamenco is the hero the revolution needs!
... possibly this is a bit of a tonal mismatch.
The problem is I can't go inventing Batman with a straight face. I pick an animal theme and if it's not birds it goes all care bears.
... a care bear revolution is perhaps not best run in Pathfinder.
It's supposed to be a really good adventure for bards and one of the character backgrounds is that you were about to get your big break on the opera house stage, so I thought, what better persona to hide behind than the diva?
And then I thought, no, the diva is the one everyone notices, they're the constructed mask. Someone else entirely is hiding behind that.
... which can still work but probably needs less flamingo.
I should figure out how to actually play these things. There's online groups.
But reading through them takes a whole bunch of time and many good daydreams too, so, might as well.
Also the running a revolution bits seem like exactly the sort of organising I always want to do, but with maybe fewer kitchens. Feeding people is a cornerstone of successful organising, and adventures skip it unless it's especially drama.
Which is fair enough. Otherwise it's a farming game with occasional monsters.
... and now I'm wondering which computer games are like that...
So naturally the first character I think of is a Vigilante.
... and then I start thinking what their secret identity could be and go all
pink! ruffles! feathers!
The Flamenco is the hero the revolution needs!
... possibly this is a bit of a tonal mismatch.
The problem is I can't go inventing Batman with a straight face. I pick an animal theme and if it's not birds it goes all care bears.
... a care bear revolution is perhaps not best run in Pathfinder.
It's supposed to be a really good adventure for bards and one of the character backgrounds is that you were about to get your big break on the opera house stage, so I thought, what better persona to hide behind than the diva?
And then I thought, no, the diva is the one everyone notices, they're the constructed mask. Someone else entirely is hiding behind that.
... which can still work but probably needs less flamingo.
I should figure out how to actually play these things. There's online groups.
But reading through them takes a whole bunch of time and many good daydreams too, so, might as well.
Also the running a revolution bits seem like exactly the sort of organising I always want to do, but with maybe fewer kitchens. Feeding people is a cornerstone of successful organising, and adventures skip it unless it's especially drama.
Which is fair enough. Otherwise it's a farming game with occasional monsters.
... and now I'm wondering which computer games are like that...