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Conspiracy thread
Delta Green, Call of Cthulu, Unknown Armies--and all the other systems not necessarily designed for it but where a conspiracy enhances the campaign.
GMs: do you have some vast, malevolent council running things? Is a cabal of sorcerers or generals trying to keep the lid on a terrible secret? Is it elaborate and hidden or just beneath the surface, are there multiple competing groups at the top? Is everything your players think they know about the world a lie? Is it the lizard people? Tell us about the conspiracies in your campaign.
Players: Have you begun to uncover the secrets of the universe? Do you suspect that you're being handed a sequence of clues that will lead you down a dark, irreversible path? What makes a conspiracy memorable to you?
Everyone else: what's some good media with conspiracies and hidden depth to it? Good music for sessions with conspiracy content? Got any cool conspiracy pictures, like Agartha? I just got done watching Gravity Falls and I'm working on the cipher stuff right now.
>>47199455
Some good conspiracy music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0RKpmjjpLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WgaJpYKFxQ
There was another good illuminati one but it looks like it's been removed due to copyright claims.
>>47199481
also have some dank conspiracy memes
>>47199455
Had an idea for a hollow earth setting when reading Maoyū Maō Yūsha.
The hollow Earth world would be in a slightly different dimension. Out of phase maybe with the outer earth world. In their out of phase dimension the Earth's Iron core would be their Sun.
I've always wanted to run or play in a campaign where the PCs are all members of a secret government agency meant to deal with the paranormal, only to play it as a workplace-comedy/slice-of-life game with elements of horror.
>>47199534
What system would you run it in?
>>47199550
Not a clue. I haven't done anything with the idea so I figured I'd post it here.
Droppin some conspiricy game themes.
Check out the awesome The Secret World.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gefH1wcfjgw&index=6&list=PL_rYdsUQlE938ysL1rexYc6NNduNQv5ZF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXsp9bEFX2k
I use this last one for a CoC game set on a cruise ship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjaC5tNdmMU
>>47199537
>'ve always wanted to run or play in a campaign where the PCs are all members of a secret government agency
Try conspiricy X. Not enough people try that. Its like delta green except your all Moulder, instead of some tacticool vietnam veteren. But you can totally roll as one of those too. Its just more of an investigation led game. Like CoC.
>>47199646
You know where I could get a pdf for conspiracy X?
>>47199537
He-yup, you've got ghosts. We cab clear 'em right out for yeh, no problem. You should consider yerselves lucky. Sometimes wraiths, er poltergeists come inta the mix, but this here's a recent haunting as opposed ta an old 'un.
> grandma?!
Yup, we'll get her out.
The major conspiracy of the setting has to do with the gods. All of the real gods were killed untold ages ago in some celestial war, and the current ones are merely pretenders to the throne, using stolen power
>>47199733
Maybe something like that, yeah, though there would be coverups involved as per usual with the conspiracy genre. What I'm imagining is a game in which the agency in question is an unacknowledged, underfunded and unpleasant one. It's the sort of place an agent is assigned if they've disgraced themselves or have otherwise caused problems for their home agency and can't simply be fired or "terminated" for what they've done.
I could imagine that this agency was a big deal in the 1950s or 1960s, but did their job a little too well and a little too secretively, such that at present they have no where need the importance or punch they used to.
>>47199691
Im just seeing if i can help you out.
>>47199691
Ok...
Once youve read it/run it and see how awesome it is (especially the pulling strings section) please consider giving the people who make it your patronage so that they can continue to update it and that the community can access this great game.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ae1afuyztya58wt/Conspiracy_X_20_%288971755%29.pdf?dl=0
This is the introductory game kit.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dwll9dum0dgowpu/Conspiracy_X_20_-_Introductory_Game_Kit_%284764155%29.pdf?dl=0
These linkes should work...
>>47200410
I'm not in a great place financially, but when I'm able, I always patronize media I enjoy.
>>47199455
Good conspiracy media?
Watchmen. Just Watchmen.
>>47200504
I know right?
I dont know what this "disposable income" is supposed to be. Anyway im just doing this to give some much needed advetising for an otherwise obscure text.
Another cool part of conspiricy X is basebuilding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKXosCpfyiU
>>47200797
>base building in an RPG
I'm fucking sold already.
Did the PMC fighting the paranormal/occult in the modern day with everything from AKMs and ancestral cavalry sabers. The DM took Hellboy comics as a big inspiration, grim dark humor.
It was enjoyable as hell.
>>47201410
Storytime?
>>47199537
I think The Laundry is exactly what you're looking for.
>>47203815
Or Night Shift.
>>47199550
Related. I do question the romanization of בוש but Hebrew isn't my native language so eh.
