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## Anatomy of Failed Design: Cthulhutech

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Post by Username17 » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:19 am

> Red Lantern wrote: Yes, numbnuts, there is magic in CT and mecha and so on. Where does that imply you can create fully grown, trained, educated soldiers out of nowhere overnight?

Because that's literally the backstory of the Nazzadi?
The Migou decided to make a race of vat grown super soldiers and they were good to go three years later. No rape camps required.
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Post by Red Lantern » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:47 am

> FrankTrollman wrote:

> > Red Lantern wrote: Yes, numbnuts, there is magic in CT and mecha and so on. Where does that imply you can create fully grown, trained, educated soldiers out of nowhere overnight?

> Because that's literally the backstory of the Nazzadi?
> The Migou decided to make a race of vat grown super soldiers and they were good to go three years later. No rape camps required.
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The Migo had tech the EoD didn't.
BTW, how'd that work out for them again?
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Post by FatR » Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:08 pm

> hyzmarca wrote:
> It contains four different adventures. The canon default is that you're supposed to help a guy called the Perfect Metis (who is a Metis without any deformities) take over the Black Spiral Dancers and free the Wyrm from its imprisonment. This is presented as a good thing.

No. That's one of the alternative scenarios. The canon default is that you (everyone who's still alive at this point) fight the Wyrm directly and maybe win, although the authors weren't very convincing about the ways you can get a chance to defeat a statless god-monster. The Perfect Metis by default is a Wyrmspawn abomination.
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Post by Prak » Sat Nov 10, 2012 10:09 pm

Ah, of course. I knew that it was odd that there was a main ending where Downs babies were treated as a good thing by the republicans of the shapeshifter world.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.

> Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.

> FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
> You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.

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Post by SubversionArts » Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:00 am

Sorry for the necrothreading, but I chatted with the guy behind anydice.com, and he put together a script for showing the dice distributions for cthulhutech. I don't know how accurately this has been constructed, but it might be useful for people interested in this thread.
http://anydice.com/program/6177
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Post by Lago PARANOIA » Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:10 am

Jesus Christ almighty, those probability curves, man. And they throw in Critical Failures with that shit, too?

> Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.
> In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.

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Post by name_here » Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:55 am

That is honestly saner than I expected when I read the description.

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Post by Username17 » Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:38 am

Remember that the number of dice vary and there's a variable flat offset as well. So basically good luck.
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Post by martian_bob » Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:17 pm

This will be changing in the second edition of the game. I'm running dice simulations now that take in to account rational use of Drama Points, ought to be less terrible.
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