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game-saved · 8 months

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DND Campaign: L.A. Numinous

The Pantheons of the World are not as fantastical or mythical as you might think. They are around us, always hiding in plain sight. They hide from the Mortal Realm, having forgone most of their earthly attachments after the Great War, the World War, the Last War that they would put themselves through.

They hid their World, their mythologies, their fantasies from the Mortal Realm, between the cracks of what can and can't be seen. There in the unperceived, the lives of fantastical creatures, of ogres and fairies, of kitsune and deities, they continue to survive.

It's 2028, just 6 months before the Summer Olympic Games starts anew in the City of Angels, Los Angeles. You scroll through your X feed, look at the current trending topics: Articles about Whales and Dolphins taking over the sea; The Olympic Flame being ignited in Greece; And the death of an Instagram Model with no leads. It's almost banal and boring as you flick through tweets.

Perhaps, just at the corner of your eye, you see a little miracle, a trick of the light or a creep of a shadow. But something/someone tumbles over you, a friend, a loved one, a mentor you've known for some months, weeks, or maybe only a few days. They're blood soaked and their eyes are pleading, worrying, and saddened, as they look at you, clutching at wounds that only look seconds old.

"Aphrodite is dead. This was not how I meant for this to happen but I'm sorry but I must pass my Eidolon to you before it's too late."

Light flashes before you could even ask. You find yourself engulfed with it, bathed in it and then... nothing.

Now there's a dead body in your hands and an ominous feeling in your chest. Your phone beeps and rings to life with a spoken message. You're pretty sure it didn't have that feature before.

"[Player Name] , you are summoned before the Divine Council to be condemned for the Assassination of a Deity and Usurping their Status. Cooperation would be most advised."

ART CREDIT: Tony Sart, Javier Charro

Hi, hello, Name's Kiri or Hex or Vai! I hardly ever post on Tumblr anymore or advertise any campaign ideas here due to school but this one has been nagging me just a little bit more after listening to Stray Gods, watching American Gods, and rewatching the Percy Jackson films, so I needed to just write down the blurb and the pitch in case anyone is wanting to play some DND in a Divine Urban Fantasy kind of setting.

INFO

The game is set in contemporary Los Angeles, a few years into the future, a few months before the Summer Olympic Games. You have been accused for the assassination of a Deity and usurping their power and status, their Eidolon. Through the Eidolon, you gain power and are now able to perceive Los Angeles in its truest form, a City of Mythical Creatures living in secrecy.

During Character Creation, you will choose a Deity from any Pantheon (Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Egyptian, Norse etc) whose Eidolon has been passed down to you.

This is going to be a Human-centric campaign so, despite the advertisement of other races in the game world, physically your character will be Human. Through the power of the Eidolon, they can be reskinned with the capabilities of other DND races.

Gameplay will be roleplay heavy, debating on either PBP semi-live text or just Discord VC with a separate channel for Texting RP. But there will also be combat involved of course.

The DM, me, hi, has a flexible schedule but I am in PST so applicants who are close to that would be preferred.

Current Allowed Resources are PHB, Xanathar's, Tasha's, and Mythic Theros

Depending on interest, around 4-8 rotating players can be taken.

If interested, DM me or like this post for more details so I can get back to you.

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #d&d #lfg #looking for players #looking for group #dnd lfg #dnd lfp #why am i doing this to myself again #well at least its out there now and I can finally focus on other things hopefully #lgbtq #lgbtq+

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theamazingstories · 5 years

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Call this crass commercialism, call it a desperate promotional effort, call it marketing hype, call it silly and unnecessary, call it whatever you will. Regardless of what you call it – read it!

We have now produced 5 issues of the magazine since August of 2018. That’s a perfect number, because we are publishing quarterly.

With a couple of exceptions, every story and every article is NEW, contemporary content. We are not publishing pulp redux, we are not publishing “golden age science fiction”, we are not selecting stories to support a political agenda. In fact, we are not publishing anything that various and sundry are complaining about; we’re publishing good, solid, entertaining and thought-provoking modern science fiction. At least in the magazine. Check out our comprehensive list of the authors who have appeared in our pages, right below this enticing and attractive cover gallery:

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Volume 77 No 1

Volume 76 No 4

Volume 76 No 3

Volume 76 No 2

Volume 76 No 1

R. S. Belcher, Marie Bilodeau, Clara Blackwood, Ricky Brown, Elsa M. Carruthers, Adam-Troy Castro, Noah Chinn, Jack Clemons, Dave Creek, Marc A. Criley, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Julie Czerneda, Gary Dalkin, Paul Di Filippo, Roger Dutcher, Steve Fahnestalk, Jen Frankel, David Gerrold, Tanya Karen Gough, Sean Grigsby, Neal Holtschulte, Tyler Hagemann, G. Scott Huggins, Matthew Hughes, Kameron Hurley, Tatiana Ivanova, T. B. Jeremiah, Sandra Kasturi, Valerie Chantal Kaelin, Daniel M. Kimmel, Kathy Kitts, Mary Soon Lee, Paul Levinson, Francine P Lewis, Marina J Lostetter, Sally McBride, Jack McDevitt, Shirley Meier, Joanna Miles, M. J. Moores, Lena Ng, Wendy Nikel, Julie Novakova, Uche Ogbuji, Brad Preslar, Brian Rappatta, Amber Royer, Rudy Rucker, S. L. Saboviec, Darrell Schweitzer, Veronica Scott, Robert Silverberg, Cathy Smith, Rosemary Claire Smith, S. P. Somtow, Bud Sparhawk, Allen Steele, Jerri Hardesty, Drew Hayden Taylor, Matthew Timmins, R. Gene Turchin, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm.

We’ve got new guard and old guard, space opera and milSF and SF romance and hard SF and comedy SF and other sub-genre maestros in there; we’ve got award winners and nominees, new folks and old folks, we’ve got A GREAT MIX.

And we’ve got ART. Each of our authors gets a profile pic. Each of our stories gets a full page title illustration. There are cartoons throughout. (When was the last time you saw that?)

Our artists have so far included:

Austeja, Roberto Armas, Igor Avdeev, Tom Barber, Olivia Beelby, Renan Boe, Sean Chappell, Melisa Des Rosier, Vincent Di Fate, Phil Foglio, Wojciech Dudzinski, Jon Eno, Brad Foster, J.M. Frey, Gil Geolingo, Paolo Giari, John Grant, David Hardy, HMW, M.D. Jackson, Ngoc Lam, Amanda Makepeace, Richard Mandrachio, Britt Martin, Yoko Matsuoka, Ron Miller, Tom Miller, Ivan Montoya, Nizar, Chukwudi Nwaefulu, Anton Oxenuk, Olena Perekhrystiuk, Anthony Rhodes, Lianna Ribeiro, Armas Roberto, Tony Sart, Pratap Sharma, Dan Simon, Al Sirois, Steve Stiles, Matt Taggart, Tais Teng, Derek Whitaker, Cheyenne Wright

(All of our fiction is submitted via an anonymizing submission site; for those keeping track, we’re roughly 50/50 on male and female authors, roughly 75/25 male and female artists; our covers are 50/50 depictions as well. We continuously work on making the magazine representative, do out reach and continue to strive for that goal.)

As they say though, that is NOT all:

Our website (where you are right now)

is updated daily and features reviews, interviews, articles, opinion and more, and covers the entire history and spectrum of the SF/F/H genres, from Anime to a word beginning with ‘Z’ that represents comprehensive coverage of the subjects so near and dear to your hearts and imaginations. We are rapidly closing in on the publication of 10,000 posts, written by over 200 contributors, many of whom you are already familiar with. Ten thousand posts. At 1,000 words per post (by no means the average length of our pieces), we’re talking about more than ten million words of everything from silliness to seriousness and all of genre interest. At today’s averages, that’s over 100 SF novels worth of content (slightly fewer fantasy novels).

You could spend weeks in here reading what we have on offer. (Some do; we hope they are eating, resting and exercising properly.)

Done? No. Not by a long shot:

We are, in addition to publishing some of the best contemporary fiction, also mining the past. Specifically, Amazing Stories’s past, which, if you are new here, we will forgive you for not knowing stretches all the way back to 1926 and is synonymous with creating the science fiction genre as a genre, by offering the first magazine devoted solely to that genre (not to mention starting science fiction fandom within its pages as well).

We publish a line of annual anthologies in partnership with Futures Past Editions, one of the original e-book publishing firms. Each volume in the series features the best stories drawn from a year’s worth of magazine issues:

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Best of 1926

Best of 1927

Best of 1928

Best of 1929

Best of 1930

Best of 1940

Best of 1943

(Note: two editions are out of annual sequence because we wanted to support the Retro Hugo Awards for those years. We’re busily filling in the gaps.)

…aaaaand

we accompany that line of anthologies with novels under the Amazing Stories Classics line –

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Classic Novel 1

Classic Novel 2

aaaaand supplement that all with a growing line of facsimile issues of important and interesting editions –

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Facsimile Annual

Facsimile 35h Anniversary

Facsimile September 1943

Facsimile May 1943

We’ve also got a comic book

and, an entire line of posters reproducing the covers created by Frank R. Paul

Drink some tea or coffee or one of those awful energy drinks, there’s still MORE:

We have a Podcast – The Gernsback Machine – helmed by editor Ira Nayman

We have a store where you can order all of the above

We have a comprehensive (!) events calendar that event organizers can add to and is searchable by date, type of convention and location

and…

well, I know I’m forgetting stuff, like T-shirts and Coffee Mugs, not to mention other stuff, but you all are probably saturated by now, so I will leave you all with this:

It’s all Amazing. Amazing Stories that is.

Wait, wait! Despite concluding – there will also be a television show, headlined by Steven Spielberg, that will be one of the premiere offerings when the AppleTV+ streaming service debuts this November.

You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But You Can Get Amazing Stories Call this crass commercialism, call it a desperate promotional effort, call it marketing hype, call it silly and unnecessary, call it whatever you will.

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