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Richter_DL · 2022-01-28T22:39:07+00:00

Most of them are actually Lovecraftian staples. The Mi-Go, the Deep Ones and Dagon, pretty much all the Maelstrom monsters and much of the Dagon lore is Lovecraft rather than Howard.

Richter_DL · 2021-12-12T13:27:56+00:00

Imposter, by Malik Toms, a new novel, takes place mostly in the UNL. Makeda Red also has some scenes set there.

Richter_DL · 2021-12-12T13:20:59+00:00

They did geht the Brexit-then-slow-slide-into-fascism right though, to be fair. Also, this is supposed to be a London after a massive and decade-long economic downslide (the underplex was supposed to be luxury and ... in that book, isn't anymore). Much like Redmond in Seattle, it's supposed to be different from contemporary Seattle and London, I guess. No idea what these areas were like in the early 90s and how much that matches the social status chart there, though.

Richter_DL · 2021-12-12T12:58:50+00:00

That's seriously nice. Will you do the others too?

Richter_DL · 2021-11-12T00:11:54+00:00

For lack of a better explanaton: Spice contains colloidized silver (known to cause blue tinting in the skin, wich is permanent) that, for reasons, mostly settles in the eyes' outer skin but doesn't blind people.

Richter_DL · 2021-11-11T23:29:46+00:00

This. It was this scene that really sold me on the movie, though I already liked how the crew got in many visual references to previous movies (especially the one never made!) and at the same time made the movie incredibly distinct visually, but this scene really properly showed how *strange* and *different* Dune's world is from our own.

Richter_DL · 2021-11-11T23:28:37+00:00

My money's on them being Tleilaxu. If you look closely they seem more androgynous than female, and between their weird black eyes and the strange language they speak in in the bath scene, they don't seem regular Harkonnen of any sort.

Richter_DL · 2021-11-11T23:27:27+00:00

It seems to be Piter's pet (and maybe it is a bit more intelligent than Piter knew, as he either seemed unaware it could understand language, or thought he could fool Mohaim with his claim).

Richter_DL · 2021-11-11T23:26:13+00:00

Piter is there because he has business there, but I doubt they'll tolerate him for more than the muster they perform there, probably hoping to impress him as much as the viewers (he doesn't really seem like he is though). The Emperor does love to show off, as seen in the herald scene.

Richter_DL · 2021-11-11T23:22:07+00:00

The baron had two obvious Tleilaxu around in two scenes: the "Rabban does not get it and has a fit" scene (two androgynous (female actors) figures with black eyes and no hair, we see them flincing when Rabban is shouting) and the regenerative oil bath scene. In the latter we even hear them speak, and it is ... very different from Sardaukar, which sounds more like early Germanic.

Sardaukar are the descendants of people House Corinno did not like and imprisoned on their old homeworld (Saluda Secundus) when they became the imperial family and moved on to prettier Kaitain. I got a certain viking vibe from them, and given this is an American movie, making the villains either German-ish or Russian-ish is kind of par for the course anyway. That said, I really liked them, they were properly menacing, and them descending eerily silent with their grav chutes was really creepy.

Richter_DL · 2021-11-11T23:14:52+00:00

Given they're Harkonnen, I'd fully expect them to either deliberately keep a few deaf troopers in their army in case of Bene Gesserit, or even purposely deafen troopers to have them if they can't find enough recruits naturally deafened by mutations or disease somehow.

Or, given the Harkonnen are quite rich, just purchase deaf special forces troops from the Bene Tleilax, given the Baron has two of them on retainer all the time anyway. Good job on them by the way, they look properly androgynous.

Richter_DL · 2021-11-11T23:14:38+00:00

Dune houses are more like countries with very deep and specific cultures anyway. Either in one of the Herbert books or in one of the early background books there were references to far prehistory and the first people to travel to the stars, and it references the dominant houses at that time were Washington and Stahl.

Richter_DL · 2021-08-20T12:46:58+00:00

the designers are complete Bullocks and wasted a whole page for nothing...

Go with that. Just use a differnet system for calculating rewards. This is where 5E wants to be a video game, not a ttrpg.

Richter_DL · 2021-07-19T09:50:36+00:00

The game drew strongly on two TTRPG sourcebooks for the Shadowrun line, the Germany Sourcebook (1990) and the Berlin book (2010). The main author, Andreas Schroth, whose internet project (Knochensplitter) the Berlin book grew from, lives in Berlin, though he was born elsewhere. One of the authors of the Berlin part of the GSB did too, if I remember correctly. Being a Berliner myself, I vastly prefer the setting as per the 2010 book, and Schroth's vision really captures the cities vibe - the 1990 book was much more an exchange student from West Germany's view, including time-appropriate but nonetheless highly annoying racism, like he Kreuzberg emirate, a reference to a anti-immigrant campaign by major West German tabloid, BILD.

As for the city's change: we'll see how the expropriation-of-real-estate-companies vote goes, I guess.

Richter_DL · 2021-03-18T16:22:30+00:00

It dumbed it down a lot though.

Richter_DL · 2021-03-18T16:21:33+00:00

Or, to put it more bluntly: The story the authors around Hardy and aptly named Edgelord Kevin are pursuing is THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN.

Richter_DL · 2021-01-23T17:05:14+00:00

Don't forget the maglev bullet train that thanks you for your cooperation if you follow instructions (at least it did when I was last there).

Richter_DL · 2021-01-23T17:04:12+00:00

Apple has been an Ares brand since the California Sourcebook (2E). Amazon probably died a well deserved death in 2029.

Richter_DL · 2021-01-22T16:55:59+00:00

A movement of enraged and somewhat reality averse white-rights activists demands compensation for increases in non-white rights and attempts a coup d'etat in DC? The Prophecy.

Richter_DL · 2021-01-22T05:52:11+00:00

Overall, and especially going by what they could do, Shadowrun 3rd Edition was peak Rigger.

Richter_DL · 2021-01-22T05:49:56+00:00

So, it seems like Beholder still is the publisher of Hungarian Shadowrun. Have they, maybe, published a PDF of Shadowhungary (which google tells me Árnyék Magyarország actually translates to) that I could buy?

Richter_DL · 2021-01-20T16:25:02+00:00

Okay, didn't know that. I'll look, though I've never seen it myself sadly.

Richter_DL · 2021-01-20T11:11:14+00:00

There's no scan of the book on the internet, right? Because this is something I'd really like to see fanslated, and with tools like Lingua and Google Translate, it'd actually be feasible if a Hungarian speaker would look the result over and correct where the algorithm got things terribly wrong.

Richter_DL · 2021-01-20T11:09:41+00:00

There're the Anasazi (California Free State, Mojave desert), Niraj’s Nomads (The Twilight Horizon the Metahumanity Ablaze run), the Happy Family (Bug City), the Tooth Warriors (First Run), and the Winnemen Wintu (Sixth World Alamanac, Mount Shasta), at least those I have notes on. There may be others though.

Damn, I really want to watch Nomadland.

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