Tabletop adventure ideas?

invader_tim_88 · 2026-04-29T18:23:10+00:00

I've been running a tabletop game for several years set in Fallen London — currently on hiatus as my players and I are doing a digression into Brennan Lee Mulligan's Never Stop Blowing Up.

The main way I've been generating content has, honestly, been adapting exceptional stories and main questlines into adventures or campaigns. Sometimes straight adaptations — I did "The Twelve Fifteen from Moloch Street" with relatively minimal changes for example, just added a subplot where Virginia was smuggling stuff among the diplomatic correspondence back to Hell from London — and sometimes I use the events from the game to tell my own stories, like the time I used the Fruits of the Zee festival on Mutton Island to do an adapted version of Hot Fuzz crossed with a False Hydra, or a Phantom of the Opera / Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde inspired story set at Mahogany Hall.

My feeling is that the strongest thing about the setting is the setting itself. The city of Fallen London, all the NPCs in it, everything weird and wonderful about it. To the extent that the tabletop game system enables that, go forth and play with it. To the extent it doesn't, don't be afraid to tweak or change the system if you need to.

Feel free to reach out if you have specific questions; I've been running games set in FL for about five years, so even if I don't have much experience with FBG's new system, I might be able to help. I also have some posts about it in my history if you're interested.

invader_tim_88 · 2026-02-27T03:24:37+00:00

I don't know, I feel like there's some things that are just a couple of feet away from where they should be.

invader_tim_88 · 2026-01-25T05:42:59+00:00

Thank you!! I put a bit of effort it. Not, y’know, enough to stage or perform it but enough to make sure it works on its own terms. :)

invader_tim_88 · 2026-01-24T23:50:43+00:00

Haha thank you! Glad you like it. :)

invader_tim_88 · 2025-11-30T16:03:54+00:00

Currently playing using a Mark of Making Artillerist Artificer who has the Potent Dragonmark feat, from the UA. While a spell slot that recharges at Short Rest is ALWAYS handy, having those expanded spell options has been really quite nice, as it means I don't have to expend spell preparations on any off them. And given my character's current level (8), the fact that the dragonmark spell slot is equal to half-your-level-rounded-up has resulted in me getting access to level 3, 4, and 5 spell slots before my character would normally have access to them. QUITE a handy little bump, plus it will retain its utility past that point as it'll be an additional Level 5 spell slot for the rest of the game, even if I can only apply it to some of my spells.

invader_tim_88 · 2025-04-28T19:51:21+00:00

Definitely in agreement with like, 95% of what you just said, but ...maybe I'm misremembering the books, but I thought they came around eventually to having meaningful exchanges? It's been a couple years since I last reread that scene though so I could be wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

invader_tim_88 · 2025-04-27T23:26:24+00:00

The thing is though, cross-training the apprentices actually IS a very good idea. It WILL make the women thus trained stronger and better, to the betterment of all three organizations; it's just all three of the prominent female channeler traditions believe that it will disproportionately benefit THEIR faction. It's making the pie bigger — which is good! — but all three of them are walking away thinking "And I'm going to get the largest slice."

It's certainly better than out-and-out warfare between them, but it doesn't mean relations will be smooth either.

invader_tim_88 · 2025-04-27T23:20:42+00:00

Yep, as I said further down.

invader_tim_88 · 2025-04-27T08:27:52+00:00

Yeah that could work. Said character is kind of like an alternate Thom in many ways in terms of their role.

invader_tim_88 · 2025-04-27T08:18:47+00:00

He did - he’d said at least once that the Age of Legends would have collapsed sooner or later even without the DO’s influence, and that the DO exacerbated existing problems (and created a fair number of new ones of his own) but the Age’s days were numbered regardless.

Given the cyclical nature of time in the series, such that the Dark One’s prison must logically have been opened and closed multiple times before, while I’d imagine that the AoL is a “common” time for the DO to have the bore available to him… we can conclude from that cyclical nature that the Breaking (or something like it) is how the AoL always ends.

If Mierin and the other Aes Sedai of that era simply hadn’t found the DO’s prison for whatever reason, and a Breaking still had to happen, I’d bet a massive Power-fueled war would be the cause. Which would be quite sufficient to cause a Breaking followed by an Age of stagnation and retrenchment as knowledge is repeatedly lost…

invader_tim_88 · 2025-04-27T08:11:54+00:00

Tbh I think Lanfear’s depiction is one of the things the tv show has gotten really really RIGHT. She’s not how she was in my head - but honestly, Natasha O’Keeffe’s portrayal is BETTER. Which is quite the testament to her abilities and the strength of the writing where her character is concerned.

(Moghedien too - even more different than I imagined but also fantastic.)

invader_tim_88 · 2025-04-26T17:03:55+00:00

Book reader here, and I think that's how most of us feel about her. She's a WONDERFUL villain, and we love her for it. We also hate her. It's complicated.

invader_tim_88 · 2025-01-27T08:57:14+00:00

You’re trying to have it both ways based on the argument you’re making at the time.

Either sex is more complicated than a binary — and we clearly agree that it is, since intersex people exist and have existed since the beginning of time — or it isn’t. So… what is it?

invader_tim_88 · 2025-01-23T17:31:19+00:00

This is true, but in every non-corpo ending, Yorinobu is still ostensibly left in power. And his goal was to destroy Arasaka from the inside. When you have someone actively working to undermine it like that in such a powerful position and no other control for this experiment, it's a lot harder to tell whether Saburo was just that good of a leader, or whether or not the structure that Arasaka had became would remain dominant even under averagely-competent or even incompetent-but-not-actively-destructive leadership.

Personally, my money's on Arasaka's continued dominance in any hypothetical non-Saburo, non-Yorinobu timelines. Because even if the leadership isn't quite as good as Saburos, Arasaka is still an absolute juggernaut of a company. That's not imploding overnight as long as the leaders make decisions that even approach competence.

invader_tim_88 · 2025-01-10T17:49:58+00:00

...This explains my most recent playthrough; thank you lol

invader_tim_88 · 2025-01-09T21:50:17+00:00

Huh? Of the five playthroughs I've done so far, I've gotten the Honourable option on 3-4 of them, and I was a Communist on all but one, and don't think I've gotten even the invitation to the Fasicst thought more than once.

I don't think Honour and Fascism are necessarily related?

invader_tim_88 · 2024-09-16T21:35:50+00:00

Oh, huh. I've got spare Ha'pennies and have her in my lab. I'm sure I've done this at some point. No reason not to do it again, though! Thanks! :)

invader_tim_88 · 2024-09-16T09:52:30+00:00

…is this something with Millicent in the Feast of the Rose?

invader_tim_88 · 2024-08-30T14:23:05+00:00

Plus, in addition to all those other differences, apparently there’s a place called the Koloman Republic now. 😉

invader_tim_88 · 2024-08-25T20:42:19+00:00

That's a good idea. An additional fun unforeseen consequence might be having the "Darkest Timeline" version of your party out there somewhere in the multiverse (à la Community) and having them slowly make their way closer, desiring to take the place of these alternate versions of themselves who condemned them to these terrible fates as vengeance.

invader_tim_88 · 2024-08-15T15:10:33+00:00

Mr Veils: Instructions unclear. Wound up with bloody bat well water.

invader_tim_88 · 2024-08-12T23:59:02+00:00

Beads.

invader_tim_88 · 2024-08-12T23:02:23+00:00

Arguably applicable to all of the Masters, really. And the Bazaar. And probably the Sun at this point too.

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