Editorial Note: Carcosa Warning: Rated Jale
On a planet 153 light years away from Earth,
orbiting a star in the Hyades Cluster, you have been born into one of
the thirteen races of men who were bred specifically to serve
as components for the bizarre and horrific sorceries of the
now-extinct snake people - not that you know any of that. However, even
with those reptilian bastards gone, humans are still not the top of the
evolutionary heap, and in fact are being held mostly in a state
of primitive and ignorant "civilization" by the omni-present threats
from Grey aliens, the Great Old Ones and their spawn, the mutated flora
and fauna one finds there, and the remnants of Primordial Ones' fallen
civilization. Life is therefore dangerous, brutal, and short for the
humans of the planet, and character death should be understood at the
beginning to be a likelihood, especially for adventurous 1st level
characters.
For those of that who don't know, Carcosa is an
unquestionably mature setting, with subject matter that some find
highly objectionable. And while I don't intend to linger on or
embellish over-much the grotesque and inhumane rituals of sorcerers,
they will appear at some point, along with their sometimes
requisite components of torture, murder, and/or rape. If you think
that's something which will ruin your fun then this is not the game for
you.
Mechanically I will be using the Lamentations of the Flame Princess rules
and classes, including the Fighter, Specialist, and the Berserker (a
variation on the Dwarf), as well as an alternate Sorcerer class than
the one presented in the Carcosa supplement (basically a tweaked
version of the LotFP Elf). In most every other way the LotFP rules will
be followed, save that for experience I will be using Keys, as found here, with the experience charts being adjusted to reflect the smaller xp rewards. Each character will get to choose 2 Keys.
The game will be on Thursday the 27th of January at
5-7pm MST for the folks in North America, which is about 8-11am of the
28th for those of you in Singapore. I'm adam kunzang nyima on G+, with
a picture of me doing a handstand on a beach, and my email is (here dot
now dot relax at gmail dot com). I'm looking to make this an
every-other-week game with up to four players per session. And while I
may allow FLAILSNAILS characters in the future, at the moment I want to
keep everything relatively close to the source material.
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