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    Dinos, and Cowboys, and Gods, Oh My! : A Tabletop RP



    Or the IC

    While I would totally love to hear if you're interested in joining in on this campaign or had ideas for it, but until otherwise noted, this will be by invite only. Sorry.

    Also, this is technically a WIP

    The Setting


    It'll be a bit like this

    Unlike my last attempts and stuff, particularly the last one, I'm not going to be trying to go off a preexisting canon that is itself ongoing and not completely under my control. Too many restrictions to avoid all the temporal issues with having a campaign sit where it may. So, instead, I'll be having a completely original, all of my own, setting, plot, etc, unlinked to other campaigns and story arcs. This alternate universe of Scion is set in a Steampunk American West, or, rather, American / Mexican west.

    The Titans are all locked up as they were, and most pantheons try to do little with each other, lest they break down into brawling and killing each other over practically nothing at all. For the most part, this separation, while breeding no familiarity, has kept them from a lot of unnecessary contempt. The Aesir stay in their lands, the Teotl unto their own, and so on. Unfortunately, the world of mortals is turning on a slightly different axis.

    Over the last hundreds of years, people have been crossing the Atlantic with frightening regularity, sharing ideas, and customs. Fate has too now, conspired to bring the Gods together again. Unlike in the ages past, they aren't brought against a common enemy, they are simply forced in a room that is too small for them all. With the deviant monotheistic religion monopolizing mortals, the remnant machinations of Aten, still subtly manipulated by the Elohim when they're feeling brash, there is little room for expansion, and as the mortals travel, they are strongly reminded of just how small the world actually is.

    Most is taken, and they would not dare let another have more than they of what is left.

    The craftsmen of heaven have colluded with their own pantheons, each attempting to further those mortals they are most closely linked to, to let them be the strongest of the lands. In such a revolutionary age of science, surely the divine inspiration and unnatural technologies are not beyond reason. Unlike in the world we know, steampowered devices have been pushed much further in their time, spurred by the gods, to empower man. Ships sail the airs on heat, and horseless carriages tread the ground.


    But now for the specific locale

    Now, in the Mexican State of Coahuila y Tejas, there's a growing powderkeg of contrasting and conflicting ideas. From the slaved Africans, favored by the Orisha, to the various Anglos under the Aesir and Bogovi, to the locals watched over by the Teotl, tensions run high, spurring tensions likewise in the heavens. Mortals flock under their banners, and the gods take their spot at the battlements, and they know it will not be long before they are all at war. All but the Bogovi seem eager for battle. The Teotl see the insubordination of the foreigners as an offense, and the Orisha want vengeance for the enslavement. The Aesir are thirsty for a grand battle, and the Tuatha seek to have new stories to sing in the glowing fires after combat. The Dodekatheon, while not lusting for combat, await for the hubris of the Teotl, for daring to stand up to their goals, to be their downfall.

    But from strictly the mortal point of view...

    Tejas has been experiencing a mass influx of American settlers, migrating to get away from debts and other troubles. They've come bringing with them, slaves. The Mexican government has already abolished slavery, which does not sit well with the growing majority. Movements were enacted to slowly remove slaves from these Anglo settlers, but they have been met with resistance. Slaves were forced to sign contracts for life servitude for debts they were reputed to owe, with said debts passing onto their children. The government took a stance against such contracts, seeing through the ruse, and agitating the immigrants. Despite reforms, and varying degrees of peace offerings, the young Mexican government, barely free from Spain, is struggling to maintain peace, as a liberal mirror to the United States.

    Spain is meddlesome, and all their ways are not met with respect by outsiders. Laws passed and emancipation abound, there are still hundreds to thousands of slaves, more slaves than there are loyalists to the Mexican government. This is a fact that does not sit well with the natives, let alone with any slave who would stumble upon such knowledge. That all said, the growing unrest has begun to snowball, and while it's still small, it's steadily growing in size and strength. Whispers spread of treason and revolution. Mexico itself underwent another civil war, ultimately centralizing the state a bit more, in hopes of making a sterner grip on it all, but the tides are turning, and the future does not look so bright.



    JUST A NOTE

    As with the last campaign, you will not get bonus points for character creation. You will start at Legend 2, and go up in Legend not based on XP, but based on RP. Also, all boons, pantheon specific or not, must be purchased in order. Further the 'up to 3 dot' rule is gone as well. You're going to start as a weaker, more mortal Scion for this campaign.

    Journal XP

    For every session that you write a journal style entry, chronicling your character's thoughts, actions, what they learned, and whatever, in a way that sounds like it's In Character, you get a bonus 5XP. Flesh out your character, get rewarded.

    Other XP

    You will also get bonus XP for drawing your character, and anyone else's characters, on a case by case basis. Art for characters that aren't your own will on average net you more XP. Art for characters you haven't already done art of will also on average net you more XP than doing art over and over for the same character. But wait, there's more! If you're willing to do some research, and find a neat story about your Scion's parent, you will also get some XP.

    Final Note

    You may have noticed the dinosaurs in title and setting picture. While, no, your character likely won't know what a dinosaur is at start, it'll... be something that will happen later. I'm sure you will get along. Can't say much else, because spoilers. All I can say is... they won't be there at campaign start.
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    Legend, or how to stay awesome.

    Now, Legend Points are something that, while your mana pool so to speak, are not something that you can just drink a potion, or sleep, or wait until next session to restore. This doesn't mean they're necessarily hard to restore! While you don't refill your Legend Points at every new session, you do at the beginning of each story arc. While the shortest arc will be your visitation, all other arcs will be quite long ( next arc probably will last until you're a demigod! ), that is something to keep in mind. Don't worry about spending all your Legend ( and Willpower ) in some big finale. Just try to make sure it's the actual finale.

    Your Legend Points also restore every time you go up in Legend. This is usually tied to smaller arcs, or Acts. These as well will usually be a few sessions at least. Unlike with a new Story Arc, your Willpower will not restore at the beginning of a new Act.

    Your Legend Points can also restore in two easier to manage ways on a session by session basis. By doing a significant action that is line with at least one of your virtues, you regain a single Legend Point... per Virtue that said significant action is tied to, given that it is significantly tied to all Virtues that are granting you Legend Points. So if you have Loyalty and Vengeance Virtues, if you take an act of REVENGE against someone who has harmed a friend, you'd regain 2 Legend. Again, it has to be something significant. You won't regain a Legend Point for Loyalty, if you hold the door open for a friend.

    Your Legend Points can also restore by doing cool things. Legendary things, so to speak. Cool actions restore either 1 Legend, if it was enough to shake things up, 2 Legend if you've impressed the players or GM, and 3 if pretty much all players and GM think what you just did was awesome. This can, but doesn't necessarily have to be, tied into Stunting, which grants you bonus dice and such.

    Lastly, if you're Aztec... well... there's plenty of blood to spill to refuel your Legend Pool.

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    Health only restores between Story Arcs ( the big ones ) UNLESS the prior Arc contained an event of significant damage to you, in which case you restore only half of your health back. Otherwise, you have to heal it by the plethora of mortal and divine ways.

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    Willpower is a bit more difficult to regain. The aforementioned 1, 2, 3 thing with actions applies here, except, only a 2 or 3 Legend Gaining can earn you a SINGLE Point of Willpower, and this would be INSTEAD of Legend. You also restore Willpower between Story Arcs, unless a significantly morally crippling event happened otherwise, in which case restore only half of your Willpower. This only is for WILLPOWER POINTS. Willpower is its own pool, that can be spent and gained. However, unlike Legend, some powers require you to spend Willpower DOTS. These powers will reduce the pool size entirely. If your top two virtues add up to 6, you have 6/6 Willpower. If you do something that requires a Willpower dot, you now only have 5/5 Willpower. Even a new story arc won't restore that, because 5 is now your upper limit ( unless you increase a virtue, or specifically buy a new dot of willpower ). If you spend a willpower dot, and 2 points of willpower ( 3/5 in this case ) a new Story Arc could raise it back to 5/5. If something really bad happened though, only 4/5.

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    Alternate Character Orisha Scion a go-go!










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    Akua - Hawaiian Gods

    Enemy Realm - Sky Titan ( Wao Lani ), under Rangi ( Primary Titan Avatar of Skies )

    Other associated Titans are Papa ( Titan Avatar of Earth ), and Hina ( Titan Avatar of Time )

    Overworld
    - Kuaihelani, the heavenly island chain.

    Underworlds
    - Lua-o-Milu, for bad people, ruled by Milu
    - Havaiki, for those who die at sea regardless of morality, ruled by Kanaloa
    - Hunamoku, for good people, ruled by Kane

    Virtues - Courage, Duty, Expression, Piety


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    Pointless Akua Scion!

    Written with the Post Ragnarok Campaign Setting in mind.











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    Demigod, unfinished.

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