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John Snead

Autor(a) de Ars Magica (4th Edition)

37+ Works 961 Membros 8 Reviews

About the Author

Inclui os nomes: John Snead, John R. Snead

Séries

Obras de John Snead

Ars Magica (4th Edition) (1996) — Autor — 131 cópias
Second Sight (2006) 73 cópias
The Laundry (2010) 53 cópias
Caste Book: Dawn (2001) 51 cópias
Mistborn Adventure Game (2011) 47 cópias
Manacle and Coin (2003) 44 cópias
Faeries (1995) 37 cópias
Planets of the UFP (Star Trek) (1999) — Autor — 36 cópias
Hunter-Book: Judges (2000) 35 cópias
Hedge Magic (1756) 32 cópias
Aberrant: Year One (1999) 29 cópias

Associated Works

Book of 3 Circles (2001) — Contribuinte — 63 cópias
Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras — Designer — 8 cópias
Eclipse Phase Morph Recognition Guide (2014) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Snead, John
Data de nascimento
1961-08-25
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Portland, Oregon, USA

Membros

Resenhas

Good enough but it made me miss Sanderson's writing more than anything.
 
Marcado
nosborm | Oct 10, 2021 |
The RPG I am currently running with my group, in which the players take the parts of British civil servants working for a secret department of the Security Services which is tasked with protecting Her Britannic Majesties Domains and Protectorates - and, incidentally the world - from all manner of unspeakable, tentacled monstrosities from beyond space and time. [a:HP Lovecraft|9494|H.P. Lovecraft|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1263313703p2/9494.jpg] called them The Old Gods, others have called them the Many-Angled Ones, but they are multitudinous and ever hungry for human souls (or quantum thought patterns, as modern terminology has it), and almost always possessed of some deranged cult that feels summoning them to our world is a good idea. Add to this the aspects of the espionage genre that [a:Charles Stross|8794|Charles Stross|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1218218373p2/8794.jpg] has woven into the novels on which the game is based and the authors make full use of here, and you have a fun game that can be played as any mix of Lovecraft and [a:le Carre|4400777|Le Carre|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg] that you wish.

The characters are not superheroes, or even necessarily heroes, just ordinary people who have been inducted (often forcefully after being involved in an Incident) into the dark secrets that hide behind our modern, wipe-clean world. Magic has always existed, of course, but the utterance of complex grammatical and mathematical summoning structures (or spells and incantations, if you prefer) was always hit and miss until Alan Turing developed both the computer and the algorithms that made the process a little safer. Hence there is a substantial emphasis on IT and CD (Information Technology and Computational Demonology), with gadgets like the specially adapted Apple product (nicknamed the NecronomiPhone) being a must have for any smart Laundry operative.

The system used is the classic BRPS (Basic Role-Playing System, usually pronounced 'burps'), a nice simple metric that leaves most of the emphasis on role playing rather than dice but offers a good solid backbone for the mechanical aspects of the game. It is also a natural fit for this setting; having been developed from the original Call of Cthulhu RPG system the players should feel right at home as their characters' sanity begins to ebb away when they encounter all manner of squamous, cyclopean terrors.
… (mais)
 
Marcado
Pezski | outras 2 resenhas | Jun 21, 2020 |
A sourcebook dealing with the lesser magicks of Ars Magica.
½
 
Marcado
BruceCoulson | Apr 24, 2019 |
Based on Charles Stross's series (collected in On Her Majesty's Occult Service) where C'thulhu meets Len Deighton; where nerds and geeks have to become spies in order to protect the human world. Uses Chaosium's Basic Role Playing and a bit of Call of Cthulhu, but with some (very dark) humor thrown on; the worst opposition may well be your own bureaucracy, more than the eldritch horrors.
 
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BruceCoulson | outras 2 resenhas | Jul 16, 2014 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
37
Also by
3
Membros
961
Popularidade
#26,792
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Resenhas
8
ISBNs
40
Idiomas
2

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