Hey Blades!
Some friends asked me to do a little sketch for their hack. So maybe there is any interest to have it translated from german to english? I have mentioned it a couple of times here: Midnight Empire
The Setting is a clash of KULT, UNKNOWN ARMIES, WORLD of DARKNESS, SUPERNATURAL, INTO the BADLANDS, MAD MAX and PENNY DREADFUL.
We have played the 4th Season and normally a season consists of 1 large story arc with 7 short sessions. The current one is “City of Bones”.
Holy crap translation yes! Ahem… yes please!
YES
Ja, bitte!!
Wow, very cool 😀
I would be interested in the German version as well as in the translated one 8)
The Supernatural Playbooks are:
The Gun-Witch:
Magic Gunslingers, Shamans + Witchcraft
The Templar:
Tech-Tinker-Paladines, serve the Machine-God
The Shade:
Vampire-Daywalker-Undead. Infected ones. Superhuman strengths + regenerations
The Prodigy:
Mindbender, Telekinetics, Pyronetics, Psychometry, precocs,
The Regent:
Mastery of Insects, rats, spiders, vermin, birds, fishes etc.
The Stranger:
Shadowy, Stalker, Stealth, Hiding, Spies
The Weaver:
Master-Thinker, plan maker, hacker, knowledge experts
The Spook:
Summons ghosts, devils, familiars
The Ogre:
Strong Powers, Bruisers & Breakers, Brute force
The Acolyth:
New Age is Real. Mages, tricksters, sorcerers, Ressearchers
The Hunter:
The Human playbook vs Supernaturals
The City of Bones:
An old WW2 Bomb is found in an excavasion. Instead of a detonation cell, there is a chained coffin full of deformed skulls inside. Strange clues to Projekt Blutsturz appears, the Empires secret WW2 involvement.
The ressearchers are slaugthered and the skulls are gone. Dead Shades (Vampires) show up at broad daylight. The Wolves howl at night and a bikergang The DoomSmiths arrived in town. Cultists go mad (more than normally) and the Buroeu is sending YOU out into this mess.
The other Seasons were:
1 – Among the Damned
2 – Dance of Eclipse
3 – Los Angeles Bulletstorm
4 – A Plague of Beasts
How on God’s green earth is The Hunter part of the crew?
It is not.
All vs. Hunters
Or some supernaturals partner up with the Agency.
Have you seen the film “Push” ?
Vandel J. Arden So… you run two parallel campaigns between hunter (s?) and Supernaturals?
Somewhat: each player has a Hunter and a Supernatural character. Perspectives are changing between boths. And I dont run it, Lorelei does.
head asplode
Lorelei’s Huntress Isabella Crimford was chaising the “Lucky Lady of St.Leopold” a dangerous witch assasine with her Glock and a handfull of granades down a deserted trailer park, while her other character, a weaver was on mobile striking a deal.
Proctors Hunter was in sniping range as he was confronted with my Shade and a knive fight escalated.
My Hunter did actually hit the Lucky One with a car, and Proctor’s Regent summoned a swarm of crows to help the escape.
Overlapping scenes are rare. Most of the time its a bit like Ars Magica. Switching between long term and short term characters.
Count me as interested
I would very much like to see this in English.
Sounds very cool, translation please!
This looks awesome!
Can one access the german version somewhere?
Holy crap, that sounds amazing you had me at “Unknown Armies” <3
I can help with translation if you want.
I’m not fluent in German, I’d be a bit slow, but this sound worth the effort!
Its more or less a collection of scribbled pages and still need a proper transcript. I will ask Lorelei about it.
We all contribute to it mire or less equally but she is managing it as a whole as well as GM it.
I love that all of this is happening in German and us English-speakers had no idea.
This looks amazing, and the premise sounds super cool. I’m also interested in seeing an English language version!
Yes, please. 🙂
Isa Wills
A thousand times yes!
Please, at least give us original transcript!))
Would love this.
As many here seem to like the base idea, would some volenteer to help bring our gibberish excuse of english into some readable lamguage?
Marcus Burggraf hmmm, wir müssen das Zeug echt erst in eine leserliche Form bringen 😉
Its not realy usable outside the test group at this moment. Also I would have liked to use the BitD SRD for it.
So far, I still try to collect people who would like to help on the english writing :0
I can’t help translate, but I would pay for one on drive thru rpg
I could help translating, but as a native German I might only make things worse XD
Thats tje same issue we have 😀
In my experience us Germans have far better English then then we give us credit for. So you should be fine. Once it is translated there may be native speakers who will offer help on fixing stuff.
Yes, German and English are so close that I’m surprised more English speakers don’t learn it. But in America, it’s shamefully easy to get by with only one language, occasionally adding Spanish.
You’ll be fine initially translating on your own.
I’m an English speaker, but I’d be happy to help. If you want help finding the right wording in English for something, or refining the translation, let me know!
This intrests me greatly, same as Renaud, you had me at Unknown Armies.
Unknown Armies more like the German Edition which was a tausend times superior to the english one. By Art and Design. I actually was quiet sad to see the new english edition…
What are the diffrences between English and German Unknown Armies?
My german is terrible – if you need someone to look it over afterwards to help tighten it up – let me know.
Gorinich Serpant the setting was ported and was more international, including some extras on german weapon law. Overall the art was top notch. All great in style and up to date. Looking at what I saw from the new english edition, I felt like looking at a relict from the ’90.
Either real retro or up to date designs. I realy dislike cheesy stuff between.
Stras Acimovic sure. I value your input.
By the way, do you still need my help for some maps?
Yes. We started playtesting (if you look at my post on Band of Blades you can see our placeholder map made in Hex Kit). When we have a final design we’ll ping you ^_^
Its saver to email me or use handout / fb nowadays. I am been away for a while, handling personal issues.
No worries man – you take care of yourself.
Thanks. Been rough since December :/