Busy Brains A-Storming

This is just some brainstorming before I head out for the day. I think about my current Intervention system, and try to corner the setting and motivation for my next game.

Affinities and Interventions

I am thinking that Gods of Aureata is nearly finished. However, I have thought up of a new table system for the Interventions. The table system is 6x6 and combines the PC's Affinity with a simple manifestation. Manifestation Types include Armor, Armaments, Trinkets, Creatures, Room Fillers, and Alterations. Examples of Armor are Crown, Cloak, Chest-plate, etc.

Simply combine the manifestation with the target Affinity, and that is your intervention. So if your Affinity is Squamous, a crown might be Medusa-like head of snakes, a crown in the form of coiled snakes, etc. The Cloak could be a cloak of crocodilian skin that gives armor, or a writhing cloak of snakes that attacks those near you. Or they attack you.

I am also nearly finished changing 12 affinities into a 6x6 table of them. I am trying to work them into better categories and to fill out the sections a bit.  This many affinities will be added to the 🔧Make it your own appendix and a New Game.

A New Game

In other news, I am also trying to make a Chased / Be Chased game. The idea comes from watching Carmen Sandiego with my daughter. In the series, Carmen and her allies are hunting and hunted by VILE. ACME is also chasing Carmen, thinking she is working for VILE. 

I am trying to shoehorn in the Intervention system in some format. I have run through the gamut of ideas including:

• Explorers of Vaeth: Looking for treasures while in debt and competing with a Rival. Your debt holder is hunting you. A'la Electric Bastion Lands / Coriolis
• 36 Demons: Being possessed by Demons while chasing other Demons, and being hunted by Demon Hunters. This one might be my best bet, as I can make a Demon for each Affinity.
• God Hunters: Post Gods of Aureata / Miami land. 36 Reckonings have manifested. The Players must defeat the gods to restore order to the world. End Time Cult would be hunting them, maybe?
• Ghost Eaters: The PCs are some type of corporal undead, and chase down ghosts to both gain power and to provide a service to the locals. In the meantime, undead hunters are on their trail.

Anyways, I'll have a long commute to run an errand today. I'll have some time to work on the Affinity 6x6, and to brainstorm the setting. Maybe combine two to make 36 Demon Gods?