Jewish RPG Content

babi_gog · Dec 30, 2020

It's from 4th Edition

Samloyal23 · Dec 31, 2020

aramis erak said:
Which edition is that from?

My copy says it is for the Fourth Edition. I have heard more recent editions contain the same rules for Jewish characters.

babi_gog · Dec 31, 2020

Samloyal23 said:
My copy says it is for the Fourth Edition. I have heard more recent editions contain the same rules for Jewish characters.

That would likely be the fifth Edition supplement Realms of Power: The Divine which has a chapter on Mythic Judaism. Though I've not get any of the fifth edition books beyond the core, so haven't read it.

corwyn77 · Jan 2, 2021

Back in the late 80s, there was an adventure for Champions called Wings of the Valkyrie where 5 jewish victims of the holocaust go back in time to 1931 to kill those responsible for the rise in power of the Nazis. Things go horribly wrong and things get worse for everyone. So now the heroes need to decide whether to save Hitler and others or not. It was controversial, for obvious reasons. I believe it was pulled quite early.

Samloyal23 · Jan 2, 2021

corwyn77 said:
Back in the late 80s, there was an adventure for Champions called Wings of the Valkyrie where 5 jewish victims of the holocaust go back in time to 1931 to kill those responsible for the rise in power of the Nazis. Things go horribly wrong and things get worse for everyone. So now the heroes need to decide whether to save Hitler and others or not. It was controversial, for obvious reasons. I believe it was pulled quite early.

Were the Holocaust survivors the PCs? Or were they a team sent in after to fix things?

corwyn77 · Jan 2, 2021

The holocaust survivors were the "villains". At the end, the heroes go back in time and confront the jewish supers and can choose to kill the germans in cold blood (I know, Nazis and all), or they can defeat the supers and save the Nazis.

Thomas Shey · Jan 2, 2021

It was one of those ideas that looked like you were making a reasonable point regarding time travel (You can't do just one thing, and the long term consequences of doing something may not be what you want) but was going to be a hard sell given the specific context. I suspect it would have been problematic given any time-change that was, viewed in a vacuum, a clear-cut thing to fix (because they were all going to be big horrible parts of history or it wouldn't make the point) but that one was going to be particularly...special.

Blue Orange · Jan 4, 2021

Dream Apart - Buried Without Ceremony

Jewish fantasy of the shtetl. Dream Apart is a roleplaying game of belonging outside belonging, by Benjamin Rosenbaum.

buriedwithoutceremony.com

How about this? Hat tip to Tun Kai Poh, in another thread...

Tun Kai Poh · Jan 4, 2021

Blue Orange said:
Dream Apart - Buried Without Ceremony

Jewish fantasy of the shtetl. Dream Apart is a roleplaying game of belonging outside belonging, by Benjamin Rosenbaum.

buriedwithoutceremony.com

How about this? Hat tip to Tun Kai Poh, in another thread...

Yeah, posted to wrong thread... too many tabs open.