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A team comprised of lgbt and disabled individuals trying to make it in an industry dominated by D&D5e. Authors of Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.
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A succubus “eats” her victims through physical intimacy, and draws sexual attention, whether she likes it or not.
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A succubus is a manifestation of a particular brand of misogyny, a sexist caricature of attractive women, made real. In a world where those without assets starve and die, can a woman whose only assets are sexual attractiveness really be blamed for leveraging them?
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Like the wolfman trait, the succubus is not based on historical beliefs and depictions of succubi, but rather modern depictions, because the potential for themes were too good to pass up. Eureka succubi are not demons, but they are women who are demonized.
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The new monster trait, the succubus, takes that passion in a darker direction. This monster needs love (in physical form) to survive, but every touch leaves hooks in her partner that can easily leave them dead by morning.
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This new mini-expansion for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy gets into the salacious side of life with brand new optional rules, three new mundane traits, and a new paranormal trait. Whether it's big boobs (and a downstairs to match), high heels, or bare feet, Eureka: The XXX-Files has it.
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Here’s the changelog
Changelog
Added special thanks.
Clarified contextual bonus under Assets for succubus.
Fixed the numbering on the Private Dicks table.
Tweaked Erotic Fixation Trait.
Finished the Bust Size Table.
Fixed accidental 33” dick
Tweaks to succubus trait
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You didn’t recognize her in her mist form..
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The video narrator is explaining that four ghost hunters were enveloped in a black fog and that deep cuts and abrasions started to appear on their skin. Most of the bloody details are obnoxiously blurred.
She kinda huffily rewinds it and plays it again when you don't show any reaction.
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Simply seeing a game spell it out like Eureka does will teach you that, and teach you to look for the signs in other games of how they want to be approached. Like I said, people tell us all the time “Eureka changed the way [they] think about RPGs.”
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The way that Eureka wants to be played and GMed may not work for every other RPG, but the truth is that every RPG has particular ways it wants to be played or GMed, but the designers rarely write this into the rules text.
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This, combined with how the rules themselves are presented with their intent made clear, means you will learn a lot about game design and game mastering just from reading the Eureka rulebook, whether you end up playing it or not.
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There’s even a whole step-by-step guide on how to write and publish your own Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy adventure modules. Writing mysteries is really hard, but there’s no reason it has to be a mystery itself!
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Eureka also has a whole chapter in the back full of additional GM resources such as optional rules, how to handle edge cases, game running advice, and homebrewing guidelines, guidelines for how to convert adventure modules from games such as Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green for Eureka, and more!
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Eureka doesn’t have a separate book called the “[game master]’ Guide,” but it does go out of its way to teach you how it wants to be GMed every step of the way.
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Even if a game has something called a “[game master]’s Guide,” we’ve found that these “guides” don’t really guide or teach you how to game master, they just tell you a bunch more rules.
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You already know if you’ve read earlier parts that Eureka treats the GM as a player and insists that they should be having fun too, not just being an entertainer.
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Eureka succubi “eat” their victims through physical intimacy, and it’s not something they can easily “turn off.”
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In a world where if you don’t have any assets, you die, a woman whose only assets are sexual attractiveness has little choice but to leverage them, but this really really pisses some people off.
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A Eureka succubus is, like, a manifestation of a particular type of misogyny, a sexist caricature of attractive women, made real.
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but rather more modern depictions, because the potential for themes were too good to pass up. Eureka succubi are not demons, but they are women who are demonized.
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The real star of the expansion is the Succubus Monster Trait. Now, I know we said we aren’t doing angels and demons - and we still aren’t! Like the Wolfman Monster Trait, the Eureka succubus is not based off of historical believes and depictions of succubi,
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So, what is actually in The XXX-Files?
A few optional rules, a few Mundane Traits, and one Monster Trait, all with a bit of a sexual tinge. (No, we didn’t add full mechanically-adjudicated sex, that would probably already be handled with a Seduce or Comfort roll anyway.)
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At the time of writing this, the expansion is released, but in alpha, it isn’t quite finished enough to consider in beta, but all the gists are there. I have a few things to fix and one more thing to add. You can expect that to release some time around Wednesday, May 21st.
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There's not as many people on tumblr, but the upside is there's no algorithm, you can make a post as long as you want, it has a queue feature, and, surprisingly, less callout posts. I haven't really tried to "blog" on patreon besides, like, uploading patreon rewards for subscribers monthly.
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Yvette Preux, one of the iconic Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy monsters, has thousands of followers. (art by chaospyromancy)This picture is an innocuous public post that doesn't mean anything special to anyone except the person whose house that is, to which she is conveying "I found you."
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(Another thing I might consider to help differentiate the man-eater from just being a weaker gorgon is to maybe make them a bit more spry effectual even when they have a big meal in their stomachs, representing how they’re more, like, warm-blooded.)
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But for playtesting to happen, people have gotta make man-eater characters and play them in-game and give us feedback. So go download Eureka: The Fanservice Files and show me the hungriest chick you can think of.
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