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| Silent |
 Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject: Alternate Alpha Complexes - A Website |
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(cross-posted from Mongoose Publishing Forums so that you don't have to go there to see this post)
Alright then, I hope what I am doing is allowed and tolerated, because I'm still a little hesitant.
There has been hints of other Alpha Complexes existing outside of the Alpha Complex the players are in. This serves as a useful mission hook for players, as well as the basis for the mysterious "Spy for another Alpha Complex" society. The problem is that these hints are...usually just that. There has not been, to my knowledge, a supplement made about these other Alpha Complexes. There is, of course, Brave New Complex which may be eventually published in the future, but that seems to be focused on providing new settings for people to play PARANOIA in, as opposed to adding new background for a pre-existing PARANOIA campaign.
This made me realize that despite the fact that there was no actual supplement about other Alpha Complexes, alternate Complexes were in fact made. The published mission "Sweep of Unhistory" had a couple of these complexes for instance. So did fan-made missions like Alphacology. Or even Flashback's Alpha Complexities. They just had to be...complied into one resource for easy access.
Which is why I made this website called "Alternate Alpha Complexes" so that other people can know about these complexes and use them in their own PARANOIA setting. When 'extracting' complexes from published Mongoose books, I try to scrub out any information that is unique to the book/mission (to encourage people to buy said book/mission) while still retaining the inherent idea of the complex. I probably went overboard in citation, in the sense that if the book had an idea that I then converted into a complex, I cited that book as being its originator even if the complex itself was not present or named in said book. It's better to be safe than sorry.
Again, still not sure if it is such a great idea, and I am afraid of stepping on Mongoose's toes, but I felt such a resource is necessary to make alternate Alpha Complexes more likely to be used and that if I do not do it, then nobody else will.
The website:
https://sites.google.com/site/alternatealphacomplex/
EDIT: I should also point out that I plan on updating this site when I find more Alpha Complexes online or are able to extract more Complexes from PARANOIA missions/supplements made by Famous Game Designers.
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| Phial |
| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:49 am Post subject: |
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Did you ask permission first?
That usually works best.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| Phial wrote: |
Did you ask permission first?
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No, I did not, which is probably why I'm still very hesitant. I don't know how I could do that with most of these Complexes that come from missions and supplements. (I did provide the source however for those complexes.)
I do have specific permission for 2 of those Complexes though; they were contributed by Proposition Joe.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:22 am Post subject: |
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I notice that you have my Alphacology setting there. I'm fine with that, but might I ask that you replace "Created by Paranoia-Live GM Aratos" with something along the lines of "Created by Stephen Whitehead and Laurence Dodds, inspired by the Shadowrun supplement Renraku Arcology Shutdown?
(Citizen Konputa? That's appalling. What on earth was I thinking? Probably "It's based on a supplement that has a Japanese vibe! I may not know much Japanese, but I remember a kid in a Godzilla film chanting "Konputa!" over and over...") |
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| Silent |
| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:11 am Post subject: |
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Done. Should probably consider changing the names of other people I credited from their Internet pseudonym to their real ones if their real ones are available.
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And after a very, very long period of time (5 months), I has finally posted a new update to the website, uploading one complex. I plan to eventually have 50 complexes onto the website, which may mean I might also have to overhaul the front page and create an "Index" to make it easier to find complexes.
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