Beautiful Anomalies
Apr 20, 2018 2:07:16 GMT -8
Post by carrotandstick on Apr 20, 2018 2:07:16 GMT -8
So I discovered a little game called Beautiful Anomalies and it's goddamn amazing. If you have any love for Doctor Who as a mood/feel/genre, please do yourself a favour and check it out. I cannot describe just how much fun I had reading the fluff, and while I'm not 100% sold on the mechanics, the attribute system they came up with is genius once I finally got how it would work in play.
Seriously, go check it out.
Some of my favourite passages from the 'intro to the setting' section (posted previously on RPG.net with author's consent)
To be read in David Tennant/Matt Smith voice:
To be read in Capt. Jack Harkness voice:
To be read in...well, my brain chose Martha Jones, but you do you:
Seriously, go check it out.
Some of my favourite passages from the 'intro to the setting' section (posted previously on RPG.net with author's consent)
To be read in David Tennant/Matt Smith voice:
Do you want to see the Akiam Rosette? Eight stars set into orbit around one another, gently exchanging planets like children tossing a ball. It’s quite a sight, but maybe too touristy for you. Something off the beaten track? Want to see where they manufacture the squirrels? What…you didn’t know that squirrels were biomechanoid spy devices for the…no, can’t say. Don’t want to spoil the surprise!
We’ve got a decent time machine though, and not War surplus junk either. Don’t bother reading the manual. I’ve made a lot of custom modifications. Plus, the manual is written in Formal Saurian. The designers called the energy our machine accumulates in its drive core Azu, which translates into something like breath by which the universe speaks itself into being. Formal Saurian doesn’t make much sense if you can’t nose-read the scent tags.
The Watchers watch from their private continuum called Coventry, a clockwork museum of a universe, parallel but intertwined with the main trunk, co-local, right over there. You could look into it if you had nine-dimensional eyes, and only mantis shrimp have those.
If you think a Watcher is out to get you, keep a mantis shrimp handy. When it punches a hole in its aquarium, they’re moving on you.
If you think a Watcher is out to get you, keep a mantis shrimp handy. When it punches a hole in its aquarium, they’re moving on you.
To be read in Capt. Jack Harkness voice:
The War is an infinity of conflict contained within a few million years of the universe’s total lifespan, spilling out on either end into a No One’s Land of unexploded munitions and trenches and burned out tanks, if the munitions were weaponized histories, the trenches ruts gouged into spacetime, the tanks really machines made of mathematics meant to kill parasitic universes.
The War is the universe turned on itself, time become a weapon, history a weakness, and all your future possibilities ammunition for a gun that kills civilizations. The War is a shadow across every battlefield in the universe. It is the reality, and ordinary conflict merely a shadow. It is the War at the End of All Wars.
The War is the universe turned on itself, time become a weapon, history a weakness, and all your future possibilities ammunition for a gun that kills civilizations. The War is a shadow across every battlefield in the universe. It is the reality, and ordinary conflict merely a shadow. It is the War at the End of All Wars.
To be read in...well, my brain chose Martha Jones, but you do you:
So, what are we running from today? I’ve been taking notes on all the things that have tried to kill us, and why. I’ve also taken note of how snooty you two get about airquote local trouble airquote. I for one found the Harvesters properly terrifying, even if they can’t reach through time and unmake my history or convert the mass of the primordial universe into Hitler clone babies. So ignore the local trouble, I guess. Here’s all the things that have tried to use time to kill me.