You missed Pirates off your list.
Do you want the Thargoids to hit hard and be actually a threat to the Bubble?
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You missed Pirates off your list.
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Because aliens doing things in Alien ways that have no context and no noticeable immediate effect on the humans observing them are boring and uncompelling.
It came from outer space to just sit there and do uninteresting things that maybe have a tertiary impact on humanity!
Yes, this. I'm keeping my expectations pretty low, but I'd love to see everything burn. I want "...ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low." (Lovecraft)
One is a bug, the other one is an intended mechanic. Of course you're going to reimburse players when you didn't mean to kill them with PA cannons.
So in essence you don't want aliens, you want a human threat. An evil human organization at war with the rest of humanity.
It doesn't have to be aliens in your case. A lost human colony with a war crazy religious zealot dictatorship killing everybody not them would be completely enough. No aliens needed.
Damn son, getting all Call of Cthulhu now? Yes indeed; bring on the Elder Gods in all their dark glory.
And they will give those fearsome pirates something to test their metal against. Actually that may be how we can defeat them, steal their tech.��
My money was on Enid Blyton..."Five Go To R'lyeh"
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They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them.
Haha, yeah the attribution was probably unnecessary for most people. Even if you only knew H.P. by reputation you could probably hazard a guess.
They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them.
They are out there in the cold black distance between the stars. They are watching us...and they love us.
@metascrawl, do you read anything in the Lovecraft mythos that is more contemporary?
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Guess we better update the ship computers to translate r'lyehian.....
Good recovery!
Should we? I think what we heard would drive us incurably insane and we'd turn off life support just to make the voices stop.
I did answer this in another thread but 'what's wrong with it being optional?' for me is that we're supposed to be talking about the return of an alien race, not a trip to a theme park. The entire fact of having to basically book an appointment to be 'terrorised' and fly off to a specific location to do it is risible.
As for the happiness of players who wouldn't like that, I'm past dressing this up I'm afraid - I care just as much about what they want as they do about what I want. Seems fair to me.
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And do either of you play any of the mythos board games, such as Arkham Horror or Eldritch Horror?
(Eldritch Horror is much better, BTW).
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/eldritch-horror/
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I'm unhappy with everything. Don't like Engineers, don't like multi-crew, disappointed by the sheer lack of proper exploration gameplay... So yeah.
This is where you tell me to play something else right?
"No."
Can't rep you again yet so I've gotta go with a virtual fist bump. I said something similar a page or so back but not as frankly.