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I'd also argue the verisimilitude objection goes out the window if you think of skills not as individual activities but as aspects of broader roles/disciplines. Let me put it this way: how many people do you really think are out there in the world who have managed to gain formal training in rocket ...

Okay, so I'm starting to get bored and I have a Shadowrun session to prepare, so I'l glance faster over the five remaining adventures before concluding (and posting some extra info about vikings). Scénarios "Faut pas être Mickey à Eurodisney" is the last adventure in this book for Magna Ve...

Scénarios "Subway" is the third adventure for Magna Veritas. The angels are sent on a special mission (one that officially doesn't involve a penalty in case of failure). The management has decided to send four teams of angels to simply "do good deed" as lord Jesus Christ did. Th...

Scénarios "Les contes d'apéro" is a Magna Veritas adventure. The angels are sent to retrieve magical armored leggings. They're warned a team from the opposing force may be also searching for it (indeed). The action takes place in the city of Orleans, which has no significance at all, exce...

Scénarios Most of the adventure titles are (dirty) play on words that are impossible to translate. "Une de perdue, tu l'as dans le c.. !" is a Magna Veritas adventure (ie. for a team of angels) in 5 pages. It introduces as standard procedures for freshly arrival angels to see a psychologi...

Guide des pouvoirs "Guide des pouvoirs" [Handbook of powers] is 46 pages that describes all the angels, demons, vikings and voodoos power. The powers are listed alphabetically. Almost. Because if for instance you're looking for the Familiar power, you have to look at the "Servant&quo...

It is likely that the author(s) of INS/MV put less thought in their setting that a dozen of posts in this forum already did. The year was 1990 (for first edition) and the most probable explanation for some part of the setting is either "rule of cool". The Pan Am Flight 103 "Lockerbie&...

"Autres personnages" [Other characters] The next chapter has five pages in case you want to play something else than an angel or a demon. Well, sort of. Vikings are servants of the old Norse gods. If you're a bit into Scandinavian mythology, they're einherjar reincarnated into mortal body...

INS/MV has the same problem than every other setting where intelligent beings have capabilities that exceed those of regular humans. It quickly results in a number of aspects the authors model after the real world not making sense. Whether it's the global status of the world in INS/MV, the existence...

Création des démons Next chapter is somewhat predictibly "Création des démons" [Creation of demons]. The structure is exactly the same than the previous chapter. It also starts which a short story, followed by creation rules for other type of characters that your are not going to play. ht...

Another example of the improvements: in 1e, during character creation you roll to determine what power you get, and some of those powers are flaws. So one character is able to summon a flying intelligent machinegun, while another one has fucking wings which don't grant any flying ability but he nee...

Création des anges The next chapter is titled "Création des anges" [Creation of angels]. It starts with a short story. From now on, there will be plenty of those. I mean, plenty. Not just like one at the beginning of each chapter: there are twelve in this chapter, fourteen in the followin...

And that I can make sense of. An attribute point is equivalent to half a skill point, the leftmost and rightmost jumps on the table are worth 1/36, the next three on both sides are worth 2/36, and the middle six are worth 3/36, approximating a regular, symmetric curve. To be fair, people had a reall...

Système de jeu The next chapter is "Système de jeu" [Gaming system]. INS-MV only uses the most simple and standard type of dice: d6. That being said, INS-MV uses those dice as RNG for the most bizarre, and esoteric system I ever saw. Most of the time, you roll three dice, called d666 . Be...

Background The first chapter is titled "Background]". In proper French, it should have been "Toile de fond" but the use of the English word "background" is well established among French roleplayers (although many of them have a very approximate understanding of its mea...

Le OSSR : In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas, deuxième édition http://www.legrog.org/visuels/couvertures/4598.jpg In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas (INS/MV) is a French roleplaying game who went through four editions between 1989 and 2006, and crowd-funded fifth one released in 2015. Obviously, there ar...

Crash 1 and 2 were both started not on accident but on purpose by entities. In an attempt to shift the power to their liking. That did not work out either. I don't remember any source that suggest the 2029 Crash was purposely planned. The only source I know of, the Dragonheart Trilogy novels, says ...

The question that decide which of 4th, 20th Anniversary (and, if you're really open-minded, 5th) is the best or least worst edition is which one requires the lowest amount of houseruling. 20th Anniversary had direct combat spell drain increased by net hits, which was promptly turned into an optional...

One idea that I found interesting was to present the Masquerade more as an established system and less as rushed, after-the-fact reactions with whatever resources are available to the vampire in charge. All too often, the Masquerade was the Ventrue overseeing the local government and police force an...

Stahlseele wrote:Wasn't there also something about a submarine and / or harbour in bogota somewhere?

Iduno wrote:Also War!

No. It was in the Deadly Waves PDF, page 18.

A metaplot of Aztlan planting magical carnivorous trees on the border to Amazonia in order to enrage them. Keep in mind that They planted them on their side of the border Amazonia doesn't give a wet fart about the concerns of metahumans the trees hinder Aztlan from raiding Amazonia Amazonia love ma...

And again: Karma (the Experience points you get) =/= Karma (the concept of how good a person you are) You can be the definition of a Saint and still have no Karma to spend, or the definition of a Monster and have tons of it to spend on stuff. Actually, no. The concept of karma in eastern philosophi...

- Long, tedious, dreadfully burdening character generation. Shadowrun differs from a lot of other RPG because nearly all character options are on the table at chargen. You have to choose among dozens of skills, weapons, ammo types, augmentations or spells. And without any guidelines at all regarding...

No no, the immortal elves are literally that. Aside from being killed, they are immune to age, poisons and diseases i think. SR2 Harlequin's Back does mention "Immnity to Age, Disease, Pathogens, Poisons" on Jane Foster profile, and SR4 Street Legends Supplemental stats for Harlequin list...

It's rather odd, because Earthdawn actually has a really tiny and myopic focus and is centered around some fantasy adventures people are/were having in what is now the Ukraine / Russia. There's no particular reason for people in North America, East Asia, or even Western Europe to ever see anything ...