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Not every image is without porpoise.

Good question! I don't have an answer.

Wilhelm Schulz, 1906

How does it diverge from Conan stuff?

Inspired by Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith, but with the serial numbers filed off.

You're basically trying to describe Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea.

This was, of course, the legendary starting point of the "vageode."

Shirow Masamune cleverly never goes into the history of Ghost in the Shell in the original manga. You're dropped into this fully-realized world of big guns, brain hacking, naked lesbian robots, and tactical police mecha in a future Japan and just roll with it. You don't need to know how you got from...

"Distressed" is actually a technique to disguise poor manufacturing.

I suppose there was some effort to have dark thaumaturgy come from banes? That never made sense: the banes in Werewolf/Mage and whatever infernalists in VtM worshipped are obviously different things, but this predated Demon. Every flavor of infernalist in every single game and damn near every singl...

Ah, Demon: the Fallen. Shitting on pretty much every other interpretation of demons in all the rest of the World of Darkness and trying to double-down on Christianity-is-right at the same time. Good times, good times. More seriously, this was basically Lucifer: the Roleplaying Game back before they ...

OSSR: Cyberworld Talkin One-And-Twenty http://www.kathleendeady.com/images2/Rain%20Makes%20Applesauce%202.jpg Sorry about the delays. Frank had the plagues. The assumption is that it was COVID-19, because what else could it be? AncientH I'm 90% sure that 85% of this lexicon was already defined in-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapemonites

In 1856, a few years after the establishment of the “Abode of Love”, Prince and Zoe Patterson, one of his virginal female followers, engaged in public ceremonial sexual intercourse on a billiard table in front of a large audience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_be_Jesus Arnold Potter (1804–1872), Schismatic Latter Day Saint leader; he claimed the spirit of Jesus Christ entered into his body and he became "Potter Christ" Son of the living God. He died in an attempt to "ascend into heaven...

OSSR: Cyberworld 8: The Net On The Edge http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pentagon-handmade-net-over-canyon-moab-monkeys-brian-mosbaugh-4__880.jpg AncientH Okay, so one of the key aspects of cyberpunk games that set them apart from your standard fantasy RPG is that they h...

My problem is that, as far as I can tell, this is all natural stuff that just occurs in the setting and therefore wouldn't be "magic". Focus on the functional. The actual mechanisms might be quite complicated and involve all sorts of supernatural phenomenon, but the parts of it that affec...