A little thing...

[mythicfox]

Since ending my Hunter LARP, I've been meaning to look to some of my notes as inspiration to write up some of the stuff I homebrewed for the game.

And the first item has gone up, a full splat-style write-up of the Mountain Line Preservation Society, a compact to which many NPCs belonged (and, for a time, I considered making available to player characters in my game). It's a little unpolished, and the compact endowment is a little clunky (if I hadn't already established in my writing that they had a few special gadgets before Compacts and Conspiracies came out, I probably wouldn't have gone to that much trouble), but it's more or less functional.

Comments

[furryjackal.livejournal.com]

Okay that's really cool. I didn't quite know what you meant when you said 'splat' (I'm not up on the terms) This also reminds me a little of the character you made in CoH you were telling me about. The Archer. Honestly? I'd totally run a character like this. It appeals to me a lot in that Supernatural sort of Hunter way. Nicely done!

[mythicfox.livejournal.com]

'Splat' is a gaming term that arose in the early WoD stuff. Vampire had 'clanbooks,' Werewolf had 'tribebooks,' Mage had 'tradition books' and so on. On the old newsgroups (that's how long ago this was), people came up with a shorthand term: '*book.' And as in some places the asterisk is sometimes called/pronounced 'splat,' this eventually shifted to 'splatbook.' As a result 'splat' is generally used to mean 'character type' or 'faction', depending on how a given game divides up its characters. (A D&D book all about a particular character class is a 'splatbook' as much as a book about a Vampire clan is.)