http://www.wicked-dead.com/discordia/
Looks interesting!
Look out Steve Jackson. A challenger has arrived.
This has been around for several years and I've played two short campaigns in it.
It was full of win, especially because the dice system made all of my friends bleed through the ears.
I want this game.
I've played one of the other games available on that site (Inspectres, which was fun).
I'd like to at least take a look at this one.
I had heard of this, never had any interest. What is it like?
Players are "Discordian Double Agents" and have 'catma' points. They are also infiltrators in one of 5 major groups, The Hashashin, The Rosicrucians, The Greys (aliens), The Illuminati and some other one. Each group has its own special "Dogma" which you can use to do special stuff... The Dogma of the assassins allows you to force your will on others, the dogma of the Rosicrucians allows you to manipulate the elements etc. Everytime you use Catma (the Hail Eris! Emergency plan) it drops a point, everytime you use your dogma, it grows a point. If your Dogma every outweighs your catma, you become a triple agent and start working against the Discordians.
Otherwise the rules are entirely unnecessary.
Oh and dice rolling is basically x number of d6 and your goal is any form of 5.
So if you roll 5 dice and get:
2 3 5 4 1
You have three successes, 5, (2+3) and (4+1)
:lulz:
:lulz:
That is pretty fucking awesome.
Quote from: Doctor Rat Bastard on November 16, 2009, 10:01:45 PM
Players are "Discordian Double Agents" and have 'catma' points. They are also infiltrators in one of 5 major groups, The Hashashin, The Rosicrucians, The Greys (aliens), The Illuminati and some other one. Each group has its own special "Dogma" which you can use to do special stuff... The Dogma of the assassins allows you to force your will on others, the dogma of the Rosicrucians allows you to manipulate the elements etc. Everytime you use Catma (the Hail Eris! Emergency plan) it drops a point, everytime you use your dogma, it grows a point. If your Dogma every outweighs your catma, you become a triple agent and start working against the Discordians.
Otherwise the rules are entirely unnecessary.
Oh and dice rolling is basically x number of d6 and your goal is any form of 5.
So if you roll 5 dice and get:
2 3 5 4 1
You have three successes, 5, (2+3) and (4+1)
:lulz:
I bet I could find more fives than that!
Just wonderful.
Out of stock my ass, you sell PDFs don't you? :argh!:
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 17, 2009, 01:05:14 AM
Out of stock my ass, you sell PDFs don't you? :argh!:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925118/Discordia-A-Little-Game-about-a-Lot-of-Chaos
First released under (k) at 23ae.com... still available at the above address
Quote from: Doctor Rat Bastard on November 17, 2009, 01:31:30 AM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 17, 2009, 01:05:14 AM
Out of stock my ass, you sell PDFs don't you? :argh!:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925118/Discordia-A-Little-Game-about-a-Lot-of-Chaos
First released under (k) at 23ae.com... still available at the above address
:lulz: I opened that and thought to myself, "Hey, why does this look so familiar?"
I dl'd it from poee.com
Hey, did Cram flounce or something while I was AWOL? I'd expect to see him in such a thread by now.
Anyway, if any of you rolespags and I ever meet, we are SO doing a lil' session of this game!
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on November 18, 2009, 02:34:46 AM
I dl'd it from poee.co.uk
Can you link me up? Can't find it there and Scribd requires signup which I don't feel like doing right now.Link: http://poee.co.uk/site/resources-mainmenu-28/ancienterisiantexts/19-discordiaalittlegameaboutalotofchaos.html
Oh yeah, I remember reading this a long time ago.
Fairly simple ruleset, I thought. Someone should make one that is at least on a par with D&D 3.5, if not more complicated.
So my first campaign in this system involved a true story. It was related to me by a lawyer friend of mine. He was hired on as the Chief Privacy Officer for our company so we worked quite closely together. I never really mentioned Discordianism, but often has philosophical discussions.
Anyway, he told me about an experience he had at a conference where he spoke on internet privacy.
Apparently he was speaking at this conference and afterward two guys came up to him, said they were very impressed and would like to take him to dinner. They introduced themselves as "Bob" and "E.B" whcih the guy claimed meant "Elvis' Brother". They took him out to eat and told him they were planning a major international software project and wanted a smart legal expert... They slid a piece of paper across the table with a $ and some numbers. My friend said "Oh, I'd like to learn more!"
He was set up with an plane trip and landed in Arizona. He had been told to take a cab to X location and they would meet him there.
He took the cab there and ... no one was home. He tried the door, no luck. The taxi driver had left and he was stuck for the moment. So he calls his contact who says "Oh there was a mixup! The spare key is located *****, just let yourself in and we'll be there shortly." He goes to location***** and starts digging around looking for the key. Then he hears a car pull up... a car with lights and a stern cop. The cop is very interested in why this random guy is messing around a house where no one is home.
My friend got to sit in the backseat of the car and just in time, someone pulls up, tells the cop that its OK and lets my friend in... then says "Bob and EB will be here soon", then leaves.
My friend walked into a completely empty house. Well almost completely empty. There were plans for various guns laying on the counter in the kitchen, with words written in Russian. The entire rest of the house had nothing.
My friend waited about an hour and since Bob and EB hadn't shown up yet, he called a cab, went back to the airport and booked a flight home.
Of course, in my game, things got much more interesting.
I have often wondered if "Bob" and "EB" weren't a couple Sub-geniuses fucking with a Pink.