Now, canny observers may realize that the Order as-written has only existed for the last 60 or so of the town’s 200-year history. To boil everything down to the simplest and most significant difference from the adventure as-written, I exchanged the roles of the Neighbours and the Recondite Order, making it so that the ulat-kini of the bay were in fact victims of the Order, who used their control over the fostering system to exploit both surface and sea-dwelling populations for their own gain. Anybody interested in debating these topics are cordially invited to start their own thread for the purpose-I might meet you there if I get the time.Īdmittedly, calling it a ‘rewrite’ is a bit dramatic given the actual scope of things changed. monsters, and I am delighted by the imagined horror Lovecraft would have for my version of things. The bottom line is I love stories which subvert the fantasy assumptions of humans vs. My second primary goal in altering Wake was to remove as much of the unintentionally racist themes and undertones that rather inevitably carried over from the source material as I could.ĭisclaimer: I am not at this time interested in a discussion about whether or not it’s “real” racism if the other party really is a subhuman fish monster, or whether the xenophobia is in some way vital to the feel of a cosmic horror story inspired by the works of Lovecraft. Fast forward to when I actually read through the adventure, I realized my first impression was wrong, but having just finished adding supplemental werewolf politics I was emboldened to make a few changes. In some ways this process probably started way back when I first read the phrase ‘Reverse Innsmouth’ in the Forward and, lacking context at that time, ended up with a vivid snapshot of what those words might mean. To start, I should share the goals/inspirations I had for going to all this trouble. SUFFICE TO SAY THERE WILL BE MASSIVE UNMARKED SPOILERS FOR BOOK 4 IN THIS THREAD – TREAD LIGHTLY YE WARY I am now fairly deep into this rewrite but I felt like sharing the changes I’ve made in case they catch anybody’s interest, and also perhaps to generate inspiration for one or two loose ends I haven’t found interesting answers for yet. The minor changes to Broken Moon to increase the amount of werewolf politics and diversity of alignment ranges among the packs seem to have been well received and over Christmas I was inspired to do a somewhat more significant overhaul of Wake. My group is in the process of playing through my conversion of Carrion Crown into 2e and we are just beginning Wake of the Watcher (having started back in the playtest). Marvelous Minis and Prodigious Pawns Promotion.
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