Scott Ruggels Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 I don't know how many folks out there are familiar with SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) fandom out there. starting first as creepypasta on Reddit, it has grown into all sorts of activities. Recently they released a near professional fan film called Overlord, and i feel this could be an inspiration for a horror based, or X-Files flavored Dark Champions game. Take a look. Duke Bushido, Genma and DentArthurDent 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted August 1, 2021 Report Share Posted August 1, 2021 Extremely well done. Need to redo the foley, though: the discoveries and plot points get totally drown in the mood music, etc. Have to deafen yourself to listen to the "discoveries" throughout the film. Other than that? Awesome! Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted August 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 Sound tends to be what separates the pros from the amateurs. I think Tennent is the example of when Hollywood messes up. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted August 2, 2021 Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 Not familiar with that one. I'll try to remember to google it up later this week; going to bed shorty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted August 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2021 Tenet was an espionage thriller that was released last year. Because of COVID, the film had a spotty theatrical release just before full lockdown reand was displayed on streaming services. Directed by Christopher Nolan of Inception fame, and the good Batman films, people expected a movie full of mind expanding concepts and unique action. Mostly true, but heavily marred by a sound mix that obscured dialogue, and sounded muddy elsewhere. Most reviews complained about it. It’s the one film by that Director I was not eager to see. Duke Bushido 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorImpossible Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 Yeah, Tenet seems to have been almost intentionally full of loud background noise over a lot of inaudible dialogue, so that the audience would ignore the vague, poorly explained scifi elements, in favour of just enjoying how the big, dumb, explosive action was made to work backwards and forwards. It was a sort of showcase for a few action set pieces with a cool gimmick, rather than any of Nolan's usual, plot-driven, playing with a timeline films, like the reverse story order (Memento) or the different rates that time flows in different dream levels (Inception). CaptainCoulson and DeleteThisAccount 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genma Posted October 9, 2021 Report Share Posted October 9, 2021 Thanks for posting that, Scott. Very well done. Funny that all I pictured in my mind after watching this was: Delta Green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted October 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Well Delta Green would definitely fit the SCP Aesthetic on both sides well enough. Good eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Bushido Posted October 10, 2021 Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Weirdly enough, I was thinking Bureau 13. No; not because I didn't think Overlord wasn't packed full of suspense, mystery, horror--- but because every time I try to run that kind of game for one group in particular (the Brunswick group), it invariably devolves into a game of Bureau 13. You can almost _see_ the entire game as a Foglio-esque cartoon, played out before your eyes.... Chris Goodwin and Scott Ruggels 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted October 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Richard Tucholka, God rest his soul. He is gone, and we are the poorer for it. I worked on some Bureau 13 stuff, but Doug Blanchard defined the look of most of the Tri-Tac games. There was a definite gallows humor edge to that game, but having spoken to folks who played in Rich's games, as well as to Rich himself often at the old Milwaukee Gencons, that the games got pretty lethal to player characters if they weren't smart. The old Tri-Tac system itself was crunchy, and dangerous, in that post Gygaxian way. But often Bureau 13 adventures did have their moments of Laurel & Hardy events due to the die rolls. The odd thing is that to me, Danger international, and Dark Champions have two separate "Feels" to me, with D.I having a grounded, real world flavor, with the occasional weirdness, whereas Dark Champions feels less grounded, with it's foot in the Superhero world. Doing SCP feels more like D.I. than D.C. with all the real world weapons, and many of the SCP items being otherwise mundane items being altered by the unexplainable. But D.C will have to do, these days. Chris Goodwin and Duke Bushido 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Goodwin Posted December 29, 2023 Report Share Posted December 29, 2023 Thread necro! My group back in the 80's almost did a Bureau 13 DI game. Sadly it never happened... There's no reason you can't use DI as a supplement for the edition of your choice. And I wrote my Low Heroic protocols for just this purpose. I ran a Robot Warriors short campaign in 2021 using 6th edition and essentially following RW/DI for my pregen characters, and it was every bit as fun as it was back then. Scott Ruggels and Duke Bushido 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich McGee Posted December 29, 2023 Report Share Posted December 29, 2023 (edited) All you Bureau 13 fans have read the novels, right? Nick Pollotta has passed away as well, and he was probably better known for his work under the Axler and Pendleton pen names, but B13 was some of his best work, along with his debut Illegal Aliens and the B13-adjacent That Darn Squid God (which features a cameo by the Winslow from Phil Foglio's Buck Godot comic). Come to think of it, the climax of Squid God could probably use the Robot Warriors rules. Edited December 29, 2023 by Rich McGee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted December 30, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2023 Aww, Nick died. Very sorry to hear that. I knew he was writing books but I lost touch with them all around 2005, when I moved to Los Angeles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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