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Post by tkdco2 on May 23, 2020 3:21:50 GMT -6
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Post by Malcadon on May 23, 2020 22:39:04 GMT -6
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Post by tkdco2 on Jun 9, 2020 0:49:00 GMT -6
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Post by tkdco2 on Jul 20, 2020 15:41:05 GMT -6
Maybe a few ideas from these books can be integrated into Carcosa: Meatlandia and Worm WitchThese books aren't for me personally, but maybe someone will find something useful here. |
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Post by tkdco2 on Sept 13, 2020 13:33:35 GMT -6
Glorantha's Broo would be a good fit for Carcosa. Iron Wind Metals has a selection of goat-man miniatures that are perfect for representing Broo. |
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Post by tkdco2 on Sept 17, 2020 21:57:18 GMT -6
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Post by tkdco2 on Nov 21, 2020 15:46:21 GMT -6
It has been a long time since I last gamed in Carcosa. Perhaps I should try a solo game sometime.
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Post by tombowings on Nov 22, 2020 1:07:26 GMT -6
It has been a long time since I last gamed in Carcosa. Perhaps I should try a solo game sometime. Perhaps its time to start one online. |
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Post by tkdco2 on Nov 22, 2020 4:39:43 GMT -6
It has been a long time since I last gamed in Carcosa. Perhaps I should try a solo game sometime. Perhaps its time to start one online. I've thought about it, but my online campaigns never seem to last very long. |
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Post by tkdco2 on Mar 26, 2021 17:19:22 GMT -6
I should have incorporated more sorcerous rituals in my game. My players didn't feel Carcosa was very different from a regular D&D game.
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Post by terje on Apr 10, 2021 13:49:54 GMT -6
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Post by burningtorso on Apr 12, 2021 23:55:58 GMT -6
I should have incorporated more sorcerous rituals in my game. My players didn't feel Carcosa was very different from a regular D&D game. If Hyadian Schism is still up you could raid a few more rituals from there. Might need a few conversions but there are few different ones I worked on back in the day. Google sites changed their format and I gave up updating it back in 2019. |
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Post by burningtorso on Apr 12, 2021 23:58:27 GMT -6
Thanks! I had forgotten his name. Too much awesome art and artists to keep track of... I see he has added a lot more since I looked last. |
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Post by tkdco2 on Apr 13, 2021 12:43:31 GMT -6
Thanks, terje and burningtorso.
I haven't played Carcosa in a while, but I did get a few ideas from Hyadian Schism and Songs That the Hyades Shall Sing. And those illustrations by Herve Scott Flament are spot on for a Carcosa game.
I have been wondering how the inhabitants of Carcosa would dress. Given their colorful skin tones, I have speculated whether they use drab colors for their clothes. They may dress in furs or leather, but if the technology is on par with that of the 6th century AD, I assume the inhabitants know about textiles. Of course, they can just as easily have the same fashion as the folks in Barsoom!
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Post by tkdco2 on Apr 15, 2021 16:08:23 GMT -6
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Post by tkdco2 on Apr 23, 2021 18:41:50 GMT -6
Several of the miniatures in this set work great as Spawn of Shub-Niggurath or other eldritch horrors. D&D Boneyard |
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Post by tkdco2 on May 24, 2021 23:40:06 GMT -6
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Post by tkdco2 on Oct 5, 2021 0:30:08 GMT -6
I've been playing the Knave RPG on Discord with Nagnar lately. I think it may be a good system for Carcosa. Since there are no classes in Knave, anyone can learn spells. Rituals can be learned the same way.
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Post by tkdco2 on Dec 24, 2021 1:08:48 GMT -6
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Post by tkdco2 on Feb 13, 2022 15:37:01 GMT -6
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Post by Malcadon on Feb 13, 2022 20:06:45 GMT -6
Ever since Mörk Borg came out, I have loss interest in Carcosa. Don't get me wrong, I still like the setting for all the crazy things I can put into it, as noted in this and the other long Carcosa thread, but Mörk Borg is whole another beast all together.
It would be a given that one could mix them together due to how they are grim settings focused on murder hobos surviving one more day in the world before the inevitable cataclysm that will befell the world, but I have a mindset for both of them don't mesh-up well. If anyone have a differing outlook on this, I would not fight anyone on this nor justify this post, as this is wholly based on my own point-of-view on both games.
To me, (in my own head-canon I established since getting the booklet ten-plus years ago due to a lack of established of cultural detail, allowing me the freedom to use it as my own sandbox) Carcosa is a grim surreal world with creatures and environments straight out of Fantastic Planet and costumes so over-the-top that it makes The Cell look quaint. The technology is a mix sword & sorcery, Call of Cthulhu and Gamma World, with magic being dark as hell. Everything is so weird and alien, and a great escape from the typical medieval setting out there.
Mörk Borg on the other hand has that biblical "REPENT! THE END IS NIGH!!!" vibe about it, played to Swedish Death Metal, with a fair amount of Metalocalypse humor thrown in. The world used to have a fairly stable medieval society, but as the prophecies of a talking two-headed Basilisk are coming to fruition, everything and everyone are turning the world into a dumpster fire caught in a torrent of raw sewage waiting on the final prophecy to put an end to everyone's misery and hope for spiritual salvation. There are no "heroes" to be found and all the gods are dead; you just play as scum of the earth and spiritual pariah. Magic is as common as classic D&D, but they are all weird, potentially dangerous and unique — the way I like it! Its all melodramatic Edgelord bull$#%& but I love it. (Also, the third-party supporting material are %#@&ing amazing!)
I know there is a lot of potential to mix them and strange and interesting ways, but I'm not that guy.
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Post by tkdco2 on Mar 14, 2022 21:21:33 GMT -6
Dinosaurs and other Antediluvian creatures exist in Carcosa. While a lot of early depictions in our world were grossly inaccurate, why wouldn't some of them actually look like that in Carcosa? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEigGPmYJuoThey can also be used as Spawn of Shub-Niggurath. |
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Post by tkdco2 on Aug 12, 2022 0:33:27 GMT -6
I wrote up a bunch of NPCs for my Carcosa game a long time ago, but I never shared them here for some reason. Maybe I'll do so in the near future.
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Post by terje on Aug 19, 2022 14:57:56 GMT -6
I wrote up a bunch of NPCs for my Carcosa game a long time ago, but I never shared them here for some reason. Maybe I'll do so in the near future. Please do! A npc gallery for Carcosa could be useful. |
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Post by tkdco2 on Aug 20, 2022 0:36:39 GMT -6
I'll try to work on them this weekend. I wrote them up on old-fashioned paper and pencil, so I'll have to type them up on my laptop and paste them here.
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Post by tkdco2 on Sept 5, 2022 14:53:52 GMT -6
This book is chock-full of stuff you can use to detail your Carcosa setting:
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Post by tkdco2 on Sept 6, 2022 1:02:58 GMT -6
I've used metallic colors to represent dolm, jale, and ulfire. But what about adding a color shifting quality to them? The video showcases four different colors, so pick the three you like, or add a fourth imaginary color.
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Post by terje on Jan 14, 2023 12:20:07 GMT -6
This animated short movie could perhaps take place in some of the wilder parts of Carcosa, or perhaps some strange world on the farther side of an eldritch portal: youtu.be/6J6Z67elnDo |
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Post by crusssdaddy on Feb 21, 2023 22:56:02 GMT -6
This animated short movie could perhaps take place in some of the wilder parts of Carcosa, or perhaps some strange world on the farther side of an eldritch portal: youtu.be/6J6Z67elnDoThat channel is great! |
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Post by tkdco2 on Mar 8, 2023 15:16:36 GMT -6
I am totally going to unleash this monster on the PCs next time I run a Carcosa game. |
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