SYSTEM: ICONS
Thoughts while I try to avoid thinking about the bad news that’s consuming me.
I just realized that putting an Affliction as the secondary effect on an Energy Drain (Or any damaging attack, really) gives you lingering effects for the attack. Like, the blood thinner on the sword makes them keep bleeding, or the vertigo (stunning) that just won’t go away.
Might be an interesting way to treat lingering effects for some genres. (Trouble or a new Quality might be better.)
- I just got BubbleGumshoe and I’m thinking about where and if you could blend it with ICONS, though maybe without a Quade diagram equivalent: silver age and before had a number of mystery books. Might be good for a Crisis-style arc or short-shot: they’re often structured around mysteries, like Heroes in Crisis or Identity Crisis.
- Could you do a fifteen-minute podcast that’s just fleshing out adventure ideas? Get two or three people to talk, each episode someone brings a premise and they riff on it for fifteen or twenty minutes? Would that even be interesting? (Okay, it would be to me, but I suspect there already is one like that; I just don’t know about it.)
I know there’s something about teen heroes that isn’t served by Masks, but I haven’t been able to put it into words. Thoughts?
- Why doesn’t Deadman find someone brain-dead and possess them permanently? (And then set about killing Rama Kushna, perhaps)
- Do self-aware tulpas found religions? Do they lock up True Believers so they have assured existence?
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