[RPG]: Curriculum of Conspiracy, reviewed by The Unshaven (3/4)

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The Unshaven's Summary:

A detailed setting in which many different styles of campaigns can be set, but loses much of the blackly comedic elements that have distinguished the Monsters and Other Childish Things line.

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[Kaemaril]

I think that should probably be "new addition" :)

[The Unshaven]

I think that should probably be "new addition" :)

*Cough.*

Ah. Yeah.

*Scuffs toe.*

Whoops.

- The Unshaven.

[Dan Davenport]

Excellent review! You really capture the feel of the setting. It does sound awfully depressing, though, and so probably not my thing. I can get depressed for free. :o

So on the surface, to the staff just make the pretense of accepting the presence of children's monster buddies wandering around?

[Kaemaril]

Excellent review! You really capture the feel of the setting. It does sound awfully depressing, though, and so probably not my thing. I can get depressed for free. :o

So on the surface, to the staff just make the pretense of accepting the presence of children's monster buddies wandering around?
No, not really. Any kid who lets his monster just wander around is begging for trouble.

[The Unshaven]

Excellent review! You really capture the feel of the setting. It does sound awfully depressing, though, and so probably not my thing. I can get depressed for free. :o

So on the surface, to the staff just make the pretense of accepting the presence of children's monster buddies wandering around?

No, not really. Any kid who lets his monster just wander around is begging for trouble.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

As Kaemaril says, it's a bit more cloak and dagger than that. Basically in the setting "everybody knows" there's no such thing as monsters - except the teachers who are part of the Conspiracy. Who will say that "everybody knows there's no such thing as monsters" while devising circumstances where they can figure out who has a monster so that they can steal it from its kid.

So open monster-use will attract attention fast. Of course, figuring that out is tricky because the Conspiracy doesn't exactly advertise it.

Yeah. cloak and dagger would be a good description.

Something else I'd like to note is that Bailywolf pointed out just what a good job Curriculum of Conspiracy does at capturing the "Us versus Them" feel of a lot of 80s highschool movies where the cruel administration were Objectively Evil.

So if that sounds like anyone's sort of fun, this does a good job of it - and adds Monsters.

- The Unshaven.