INFINITE: Epic Modern

[Nuclear Platypus]

We're holding steady with four- and five-star reviews across the board for our products, and stay tuned for a FREE Infinite adventure in a month or so -- JPL and I are cooking up a corker!

With a hottie. An EPIC hottie.

America's Next Top Model d20?

Ooo! Ooo! Kaiju Kombat d20?

 

[Wraith Form]

A swaddling blanket and a box of .45 ACP, coming up.

(Could this be the strangest baby shower gift ever?)

And Lost fans recently found out why babies like to be swaddled... (thanks, Locke)

 

[JPL]

Ooo! Ooo! Kaiju Kombat d20?

See, that there would be a groovy minigame unto itself, especially if set in a world where kaiju were just another kind of natural disaster, and Japan and the U.S. had a Joint Kaiju Task Force to deal with them, using state-of-the-art mecha....

I figure the Hidden Master have at least one Monster Island somewhere in the Pacific where they breed free-range monsters...and probably a couple of artificially-maintained Lost Worlds a la the Savage Land, full of trees and dinosaurs and such.

 

[barsoomcore]

I figure the Hidden Master have at least one Monster Island somewhere in the Pacific where they breed free-range monsters...

They probably have a Ninja Island, too.

Where they keep the, you know...

Dino-Pirates.


Just saying.

 

[JPL]

They probably have a Ninja Island, too.

Where they keep the, you know...

Dino-Pirates.


Just saying.

If a setting cannot accomodate ninja, pirates, dinosaurs, monkeys, and robots, I have no use for it.

 

[barsoomcore]

Brother.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

If a setting cannot accomodate ninja, pirates, dinosaurs, monkeys, and robots, I have no use for it.

That's easy.

One Piece d20.

But with a Kaiju Kombat d20, there could be a merry lil adventure - "Kaijus Save Santa" or the intro adventure "The Little Kaiju That Could".

 

[JPL]

Well, don't just talk about it, NP --- go write it up!

Along with Godzilla, it would be cool to throw that 1950s Kirby monster comics stuff into the mix. My only concern would be keeping it light enough and not dwelling on stuff like how many thousands of people must get killed every time the monsters rumble through Tokyo or NYC.

If you adopt the idea that this has been going on for decades [dinosaurs discovered in South America by Professor Challenger around the turn of the century, a giant ape climbing the Empire State Building in the 1930s, atomic-powered beasties and alien behemoths from the 1950s onward, dino cloning in the 1990s], then there are surely safety drills in place, and the major cities can be safely evacuated.

But I also like the idea [using the "Island Zero" issue of Planetary as a starting point] of introducing kaiju into an Infinite campaign --- it's just a matter of explaining why there are giant monsters and the world at large hasn't heard about them [which isn't too hard, actually --- have the kaiju attack isolated islands in the South Pacific during the 1950s instead of Tokyo, so we have few survivors + a major coverup].

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

Well, don't just talk about it, NP --- go write it up!

Along with Godzilla, it would be cool to throw that 1950s Kirby monster comics stuff into the mix. My only concern would be keeping it light enough and not dwelling on stuff like how many thousands of people must get killed every time the monsters rumble through Tokyo or NYC.

If you adopt the idea that this has been going on for decades [dinosaurs discovered in South America by Professor Challenger around the turn of the century, a giant ape climbing the Empire State Building in the 1930s, atomic-powered beasties and alien behemoths from the 1950s onward, dino cloning in the 1990s], then there are surely safety drills in place, and the major cities can be safely evacuated.

But I also like the idea [using the "Island Zero" issue of Planetary as a starting point] of introducing kaiju into an Infinite campaign --- it's just a matter of explaining why there are giant monsters and the world at large hasn't heard about them [which isn't too hard, actually --- have the kaiju attack isolated islands in the South Pacific during the 1950s instead of Tokyo, so we have few survivors + a major coverup].

But then I'd have to read comic books by the truckload, spend hours in front of a tv watching cheesy monster movies involving gigantic arthropods (even Night of the Lepus ) or dudes in rubber monster suits trashing cities and maybe even playing monster themed video games for weeks on end... Ok, I'm not finding very many negatives.

Well other than "Can I do it without looking like a jabroni?"

 

[JPL]

But then I'd have to read comic books by the truckload, spend hours in front of a tv watching cheesy monster movies involving gigantic arthropods (even Night of the Lepus ) or dudes in rubber monster suits trashing cities and maybe even playing monster themed video games for weeks on end... Ok, I'm not finding very many negatives.

Well other than "Can I do it without looking like a jabroni?"

Yeah, that sounds like pretty enjoyable work. In writing INFINITE, I drew upon many, many years of reading and general nerdery. The trick for me was cooking it down to its essence, and trying to get the core idea across as strongly as possible. I think that your kaiju idea would make a great minigame, so you just need to start hittin' those Godzilla movies and takin' notes.