GAMES FOR FREAKS, VOL 1
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ITS FINALLY HERE! THE FILTH YOU REQUIRE!
Volume 1 of the semi-annual game zine for CHASM, including an all new, horrifying owl-themed faction the Steeplewracks for MAGNAGOTHICA: MALEGHAST and the powerful Virtues system for CAIN. Rip apart your foes with a massive flesh eating bird! Make friends with a powerful psychic who can wipe your entire memory and turn you into a soulless husk! These are additional game systems that add on to the base games (purchased separately).
The most current volume of Games for Freaks will always release at this (very affordable) price, while back issues, including this issue (eventually) will become free to download. But who knows when that will be!
Grab it while it's hot and full of gore!
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I don't know if I'm just crazy, but does anyone else notice that there's a Virtue for each Sin type and have the same text colors (even if they aren't the same hues). It's just something I thought of.
Heyo, like my comment over on the main game, just sharing some mistakes, typos, and inconsitencies I noticed!
I'm not sure but does the dive bomb machanic just happen every round doesn't matter which unit?
I'm curious, what font is used for the Virtues' name headers? It doesn't seem to be Apex MK2 and the zine doesn't list the fonts used.
It's Apex with a heavy stroke effect and altered scaling.
does the Harpy's Raise Roost ability work on allied units "adjacent" to the wall? it doesn't seem to say
Following, curious too
yes
I LOVE SLUDGE AND SLOP!!!!!
Love the new content Tom! Maleghast is an amazing concept for a game and I've loved my time with it! And I'll soon be running a session of CAIN too!
I noticed one thing in the Steeplewrack section of this though. The Tyrant unit's first bonus trait option has the name "Machine Heart", which I recognized as the Goregrinder Tyrant's first trait name.
I can't wait to see more content from you. I've loved everything from Lancer to CAIN!
The King delievering new content to the CHASM duo like its nothing. Love to see it, looks awesome, still need to find people to play these games but one day I will. For now, art go brrrr
I mega love this , Cain has become one of my fav RPG's so far. The blasphemies of the original are one of the best magic compendium i've ever read. And some of the new great blasphemies are amazing and crazy (especially Law , The memory loss and Shake ) but i fell like the blasphemies from Faith , Fortitude and Charity dont ring the bell for me ... Faith basically disables your blasphemies and that is like one of the main atractives and cool parts of the game for me so ...
Fortitude is like faith but instead of making you tankier makes you more powerfull , it doesnt make you lose your blasphemies but its pretty much for a wak-a-mole character build , i dont see it that bad as faith but idk ...
And finally ... i dont get entwine is pretty useless why i would want to entwine white somebody? To be more tankier? ...ok but the bad part make it almost worse whit so little to benefit from and i think it just ads narrative maybe (which is cool) but it doesnt seem to have sense to entwine yourself whit somebody you dont love bc it will not make benefits for the party.
This is just my opinion , the game is amazing and i will give this a try , thnx for reading
Entwine, as I understood it, makes you and another player share their resources (psyche bursts and stress). It would allow the tank/front player stay in place for longer and the one using blasphemies more frequently to be more agressive/useful (plus the telepathy, which could help a lot with the investigation).
The cool bit about Faith is that - once you finish the Bond track, you can keep the benefits without playing by its restrictions.
You essentially become Toji Fushiguro from JJK , Rock Lee from Naruto, or any number of other "super normals" in media.
A character aiming for that would spend more advances on agenda powers and skills.
Exactly it's a heavenly restriction ability
Amazing. More a Maleghast fan, but may be tempting my group into trying Cain. Adore the Steeplewracks.
Absolutely love the additions to Cain and Maleghast, as always, top-tier stuff Tom! :3
Does this mean Games for Freaks will be only stuff published through CHASM?
No ICON or LANCER stuff on the horizon in the sludge bucket?
Likely not, since this is Toms indie publishing platform. Not really involved in Massif Press.
He also had an AMA where I think he mentioned that content he publishs with Miguel will be halted for now because he wants Miguels involvement in those projects but due to Miguel's job, it's very difficult as of now. So their current solution is to contract other people to produce small adventure modules for Lancer.
I saw a post from him that's I thought said games for freaks would have content for all the games he makes so I ha shopped for Lancer stuff to be there.
I understand there is a separation between CHASM and massif hence why I mentioned in my question will it only be stuff from CHASM.
Was just checking if it's a case of first issue being on Halloween meant he focused on the spooky occult games.
so I bought it, a slight correction to what I mentioned previously right on the first page:
"It’s a semiannual game zine containing content for some or all the games I’ve published. It’ll come out when I feel like it. It might even have Lancer content some day!"
So to answer your previous question, it's a possibility, but likely not for ICON since it's still in the playtest stage :)