[OSSR] Otherverse America Campaign Setting

momothefiddler · Post by **momothefiddler** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 5:43 pm

Omegonthesane wrote:It should here be noted that[...]

Yeah, true. I want to emphasize that what I stated was internal claimed logic, from my background, not actual root reasons, which are, as Omegonthesane pointed out, massive, massive levels of misogyny.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 9:58 pm

momothefiddler wrote: It being a moral matter also makes it (seem) impossible (from the inside) to just stop if it's hard, too.

One can always willfully chose to be evil.

It is amazingly freeing.

Leress wrote:
sendaz wrote:Question, how often are abortions really happening now in the setting?

From what I gather from reading this book no more or less (leaning towards less) than what is going on now.
I mean they mention curing most of the genetic disorders/STDs/etc yet they haven't added a switch to toggle on/off the reproductive system so that a girl could actually control whether she even gets pregnant in the first place or not.
How should I describe this...in Chris Fields's books all roads lead to more sex. So if you have a question about the setting which ever one would lead to more sex that is the one that is more likely to be the case.

On one hand, that should mean easy birth control.

On the other hand, pregnancy fetish. So the most likely choice is single-day gestation combined with robot nannies that raise your thousands of children for you.

Rawbeard · Post by **Rawbeard** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 10:18 pm

I still don't get how the Lifers are being oppressed in this setting. are they excluded from the workforce, or something?

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 10:32 pm

Rawbeard wrote:I still don't get how the Lifers are being oppressed in this setting. are they excluded from the workforce, or something?

I haven't gotten to that part yet, we are only 10 pages in the book.

Rawbeard · Post by **Rawbeard** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 12:40 am

ah, you poor soul. I'll be following your journey at least until I got this answer. I am sure more quetions will rise

Hadanelith · Post by **Hadanelith** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:00 am

Having done the entire journey: there is no payoff. Many, MANY more questions will arise. Few will be answered in any way satisfactorily.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 7:27 am

Omegonthesane wrote:*A minority of forced-birthers do not actually think it is OK to kill a fetus to save its mother's life even if the fetus was going to die anyway, just ask Poland. Or any Catholic hospital in the US for that matter.)

I'm not sure it's a minority. Speaking purely as a matter of institutions, it's very difficult to find groups which condemn abortion while working to protect access in the typical extreme cases. Instead, you get shit like "if it's a legitimate rape the body has ways to shut that whole thing down" and "rape is just god's way of putting a precious little baby in your vagina and you should be grateful" in order to downplay their importance, and also concern trolling about how while it's technically "okay" for someone in those cases to seek abortion it actually needs to be prohibitively difficult because otherwise people will "abuse" it.

I'm pretty sure pro-lifers only concede the extreme cases in order to seem reasonable while actively working to undermine them because misogyny.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 7:52 am

Since this book is legitimately free, I just downloaded a copy from Drivethrough RPG.

My fucking god.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 11:24 am

hyzmarca wrote:Since this book is legitimately free, I just downloaded a copy from Drivethrough RPG.

My fucking god.

Hey, just no spoilers okay. It's fine to add to parts I've already covered.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 3:16 pm

This is turning into quite the Den bonding experience.

I don't even drink, but I feel like a double shot of something after reading this a while.

Rawbeard · Post by **Rawbeard** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 3:50 pm

the formatting of this PDF is atrocious. pretty sure even I could do a better job, mostly because I would never hand in something so misaligned, even if I couldn't do it better on my own.

Also love the "drawing" of the woman holding a "I regret my abortion" sign. I guess I was right with guessing "having a choice is oppression" for the Lifers... I will not read this thing, so I will not spoil anything not yet covered in this thread.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:17 pm

Leress wrote:
hyzmarca wrote:Since this book is legitimately free, I just downloaded a copy from Drivethrough RPG.

My fucking god.
Hey, just no spoilers okay. It's fine to add to parts I've already covered.

I'm actually surprised that there is so little focus on sex. From your description, I'd have thought that the setting was just a thingy veiled excuse plot for a bad fetish porn game. It is not. It's so much more absurd than that.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:45 pm

hyzmarca wrote: I'm actually surprised that there is so little focus on sex. From your description, I'd have thought that the setting was just a thingy veiled excuse plot for a bad fetish porn game. It is not. It's so much more absurd than that.

That would be Black Tokyo and its supplements which I will cover after this book.

The description of the supplement is that the Abortion War changed everything. One thing you need to know about me: I am generally not phased by lots of sex talk and descriptions, no matter how depraved. I just look at the mechanics and logical consistency of the product. I've seen reviews of this get so hung up on the sex and abortion debate and forget to look at the how all the shit will function as a game. I judge fluff as fluff and crunch as crunch.

Yes there is a lot of absurdity besides the sex. I just want everyone have fun with a poorly made product.

Rawbeard wrote:the formatting of this PDF is atrocious. pretty sure even I could do a better job, mostly because I would never hand in something so misaligned, even if I couldn't do it better on my own.

There is no editor for the product. Well actually Chris is the editor, but didn't say so as credit.

Rawbeard · Post by **Rawbeard** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 5:50 pm

does this setting have magic? because I found something that makes you immune to non-magical heat and cold, and also non- magical disease and poison. or is that just an artifact from d20 modern that got copy pasted?

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 7:19 pm

Rawbeard wrote:does this setting have magic? because I found something that makes you immune to non-magical heat and cold, and also non- magical disease and poison. or is that just an artifact from d20 modern that got copy pasted?

That question will be answered I guarantee that. Just wait a bit.

Rawbeard · Post by **Rawbeard** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:34 pm

cool, good enough for me.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 2:41 am

Art preview:

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 4:14 am

That is uncannily like what I would expect if you commissioned parody art from Koumei but paid only in cheap rum.

Voss · Post by **Voss** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:37 pm

Wait, is that actual 'art' from the book?

Even Palladium does better than that. Hell, you can slip some fucker on deviantart a fiver and get better than _much_ better than that trash.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:05 pm

Voss wrote:Wait, is that actual 'art' from the book?

Even Palladium does better than that. Hell, you can slip some fucker on deviantart a fiver and get better than _much_ better than that trash.

Those pieces were drawn by the writer. There are other bits of art but they are from stock picture/drawing collections.

Rawbeard · Post by **Rawbeard** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 10:25 pm

Special art for a special game.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 12:45 am

Leress wrote:Art preview:

Why is Galvatron crying?

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:15 am

hyzmarca wrote:
Why is Galvatron crying?

Because apparently Galvatron is Pro-Life.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:46 am

Leress wrote:
hyzmarca wrote:
Why is Galvatron crying?
Because apparently Galvatron is Pro-Life.

"If humans kill their babies, then there will be fewer humans for me to enslave."

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:56 am

Leress wrote:
hyzmarca wrote:
Why is Galvatron crying?
Because apparently Galvatron is Pro-Life.

I was late to the party, and in typical erik fashion read this thread in reverse. I thought your response was some sort of snark. Oh em gee. This review made me squeal like a school girl.