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Wow!

As it happens, I'm compiling a ... really, ludicrously long (it's taken me six months so far and it's still not complete, but it will be very soon now) ... list of the most interesting games/settings/supplements/adventures/etc. that I've either owned, played or stumbled upon in forty-five years of gaming and I've placed Epigoni in three categories: Esoteric (along with games like Nobilis and Glitch), Fantasy: Modern & Urban, and Supernatural: Gods, Demigods & Heroes - so, I'm going to be alerting people to it in the near future anyway, but getting a look at the whole thing would be fantastic (thankyou very much!)

You can get me at coastal_joining103@simplelogin.com

I'm still gonna be getting the printed version in English though - it's one of those ones where, like Deliria, you want the print version for the whole experience (the Art in Epigoni is amazing ; )

 Imagine 'Terry Pratchett's Narritivium, the RPG' ... designed by Neil Gaiman. 

Ethan Skemp (Changeling: The Lost) and Jenna Moran (Nobilis) make sweet love in her personal chancel. Nine months later, their child, Epigoni, is born in the City of Mist

Amidst the physical projections of the idealized versions of actual places in imaginary places born out of fables, myths and fictions, the 'half-story' offspring of mortals and beings made of pure narration, born of the stories humans have been telling each other for millennia, try to forge their own paths whilst Myth Entities and the mindless force of Fate try to railroad them into wondrous, catastrophic adventures.

A very appealing prospect indeed - can't wait for the full version!

Funny - shame there's only two.

Has there been any progress on this in the interim?

Love the ideas, but the manual is a it thin on substance.

Thanks.


It's had to go on the backburner for now, unfortunately - Life's what happens to you when you're making other plans and all that.


But, it's given me some time to investigate other things - notably: A-State, Between Dreams, Daddy Issues, Deliria,  Dreampunk, Dungeons & Dayjobs, Everywhen, Ex Machina, Insylum, Invisible Sun, Itras By, JAGS Wonderland, Juggalo RPG, King of Nothing, Lacuna, Liminal, Lords of Gossamer and Shadow, Midnight, Mirror Mirror, Narcosa, Never Tell Me The Odds, New Gods of Mankind, Nightbane, Postcards From Avalidad, Ptolus, Reaching In The Dark, Scion, Sins, The Machine King, The Yellow King, Toypocalypse, Underworld, Unknown Armies, Urban Faerie+Chav, Urban Jungle and Vaesen.


Not everything will make the grade, but there's enough amongst them to have given me some ideas for the underlying rationale and plot development as well as some new mechanics - when I have time to focus on things again, there's a highly significant twist to the tale that has managed to consolidate the most significant thread to it all (think Clive Barker if he weren't such a cheerful soul ; ) [1]


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[1] The idea is that it should be to Barker what the original UK series Misfits is to the superhero genre - twisted. So, it will be not just dark but very ... very ... wrong - Cf. the difference between Gibson's vision of the world of Neuromancer and the brutality of Jack Womack's Ambient/Dryco series (only in an urban fantasy setting).

"Overnight, the circus comes to town. But something’s wrong … very wrong.

The circus music, which should be cheerful, seems menacing. The attractions (especially the freak display) seem off, the cotton candy is a sickly shade of green, the knife thrower doesn’t miss and the clowns …well, the less said about the clowns the better."https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Circus_of_Fear


I've been working on a mashup of ...


Don’t Rest Your Head/Don’t Lose Your Mind, Nobilis, Glitch, Little Fears, City of Mist, Clockwork Domain, Crimes Against Men and Gods, Crossroads Carnival, Domains, Dreaming Cities, Dresden Files, Into The Odd / Electric Bastionland, Enter The Forest/Enter The Palace, Extracausal, Fairy Meat, Folkloric, Grimm, GURPS Steampunk/Screampunk/Time Travel/Warehouse 23/Faerie/Metro of Madness, Headspace, In Dark Alleys, In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas, Katabasis, Kidworld, KULT, La Compagnie des Glaces, Monsters and Other Childish Things, Nephilim, Over The Edge, Part-Time Gods, Puppetland, Reaching In The Dark, Relics, Savage Worlds Codex Infernus/Contagion/Crystal Heart/Enascentia/Fae Nightmares/Imago Mortis/Mutant Chronicles/Savage Tales of Horror/Streets of Bedlam, Schauermaerchen, Shattered Dreams, Shelter, SLURPS, Solipsist, Summerland, Terribly Beautiful, The Echoes of Heaven, The Nightmares Underneath, The Strange, The Swing (except Time is a stretched out Slinky instead), The Thing That Lives In Your House (Knows All of Your Secrets), The Zantabulous Zorcerer of Zo, Threadbare, Through The Breach/Meat Market, Troika!, Twisted Rails, We Are Champion and World of Darkness/Chronicles of Darkness Orpheus/Umbra/Wraith/Geist/Fae/Gypsies/Midnight Circus/Possessed/Time of Judgement/Changeling/Deamon/Deviant/Promethean/Hunter/Dark Eras/Hurt Locker/Asylum/Immortals/Inferno/Innocents/Midnight Roads/Mysterious Places/Proverbial Monsters/Second Sight/Skinchangers/The Godmachine Chronicles (NO f*cking elves/dwarfs/hobbits/orcs/dragons/werewolves/vampires/any of that sh*t though!), Broken Rooms, Born From Hate and … if I can wrap my head around it (and it doesn’t turn out to be a joke) … possibly … Jenna Moran’s game WTF


... taking whatever elements of each lend themselves to a Barker/Gaiman-esque tale that would, I think, in the right hands, deliver to fans of gaming the kind of punch in the gut that killed Houdini — I’ll give people dark fantasy alright (they’ll be traumatised for Life! ¹)


And Disparateum is central to it: it's the only place the Awake can get any sleep without falling prey to the Nightmares of Mad City. That is right, isn't it ... the Dreaming is safe, right? It's not a place where the Nightmares catch you unawares, whilst you slumber on, blissfully deluded that you aren't in grave danger here, right? ... Right? ... You didn't make the long, arduous and dangerous journey from the Warrens, via the Underground at Electric Bastionland, by way of London Below, then brave the Cityback, emerging into Katabasis, risking your very soul in search of a way in to the Named City, for nothing, surely? The Dreaming can't be Closetland in disguise, surely to God! And you can't be an eight-year-old tapped in the body of a fully grown adult, with no idea how you got here or what to do with it, because your secret Mythos is hidden from you ... you don't even realise you are a Rift (you aren't that awake you're just one of the Awake, asleep in the Named City ... and the Mist is coming to claim you)!) and you, therefore, have no idea of your power (the only thing that can save you now).

Disparateum is key to what I'm building as a .... 'campaign' isn't the word;  it's more of a long (at least a year IRL), (hopefully devastatingly traumatic) experience — so, keep up the good work (I'll be back with  the  financial support ASAP.


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¹ Can you guess why it has a working title of No Happy Endings ? 😉

Thanks for the community copy - Will still be back to buy it when I'm less broke than I am right now though (I want more of it, so it needs supporting financially)

"keep your hands, feet, and trauma within the magic circle at all times!"

You know it. I know it. Even they know it.

But will they get that chance? 

Or will they forget themselves in the moment and do something foolish? They might be all-powerful beings capable of rending the fabric of the universe with a thought, but secretly they suspect they're only little kids ... and they're a long way from home.

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Thanks!

I have just the person in mind too - they're the person I got the Ind Of The Year pack for, so they'll love Disparateum

And I know just the someone else for the KATABASIS keys: they'll thoroughly enjoy it (ME! I'll have my own copy : D) - I was gonna keep this one for myself and they'd get the rest of the IotY pack, but now they can have it too, because I've got my own copy : )

I intend to mix it up with a whole slew of (around ten or so)  other systems, the rules of which I will completely ignore in favour of the spirit in which they were intended - after I've done terrible things to that spirit in the dark (the kinds of things that would make even Clive barker turn white in horror ;)

And I can see Disparateum forming a significant hub (spiritually twinned with, but not as harmless as, Fallen London), in a KATABASIS plane inhabited by the lost spirits of (Little Fears) children who don't know they're (Nobilis) Powers - amongst other things.

 I anticipate it being the kind of place I lead the players to in the anticipation that it will be a glorious Abarat/Imajica-esque refuge only for it to transpire that it's far from it and, before long, have them weeping not only in snot-filled, underwear-staining terror but sheer nervous exhaustion (if I can induce psychotic breaks, so that they walk under cars and buses when they next set foot outside the door, I'll have done my job ; )

So, I need you to keep working on both this an KATABASIS but especially Disparateum.

Nope ... it seems I was panicking about nothing - I got all that with my download, so I must just have misinterpreted it (I thought I needed to pay more for the extra/exclusive content).

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Nope ... it seems I was panicking about nothing - I got all that with my download, so I must just have misinterpreted it (I thought I needed to pay more for the extra/exclusive content).

Love it just as much as Disparateum and, although I hope they remain separate, I hope you can put the same amount of time and energy into each of them.


However, I got this one as part of the Ind Of The Year pack, so I don't get any exclusive content with that - how do I remedy this?


Thanks

Absolutely love it (it's most Barker-esque thing I've come across in years) - man, do I ever want to move here! 

Something went wrong though and I ended up paying $6, not more, so I didn't get any exclusive content - what do I do to remedy that?

Thanks.