[RPG]: Exquisite Replicas, reviewed by Nick The Lemming (3/5)

[RPGnet Reviews]

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13885.phtml

Nick the Lemming's Summary:

Abstract Nova's latest off-kilter game is one of unrelenting surreal horror. What do you do when everything you love and cherish is slowly being replaced by perfect, but somehow wrong replicas? Can you be sure it isn't just all in your mind?

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[Dan Davenport]

Thanks for the comprehensive review, Nick!

The only thing I feel it lacks is a description of some of the Othersiders. You mention what some of them do, but what do they look like?

[Nick The Lemming]

Thanks for the comprehensive review, Nick!

The only thing I feel it lacks is a description of some of the Othersiders. You mention what some of them do, but what do they look like?

There are pics of each of them in the book, but I wanted to try to remain spoiler free, so that anyone playing the game gets to see them as they appear. They do look suitably otherworldly though, but not recognisable as, say, little green men, or demons etc.

[Dropkicker]

I get the impression that the game is mute on the subject but is there any indication that the PCs can really make a difference, perhaps even "winning" in the end, or is the only ultimate outcome death and madness?

[Abstract Nova]

Nick: Thanks for the review.

Dropkicker: There is advice in the GMing chapter on ending the game (i.e. how the PCs can win). This is advice only, not official canon, and multiple suggestions are provided.

If anyone has any other questions, I'm happy to answer them.

Best,
Lee

[MonsterMash]

Sounds interesting with a whole Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibe to it, except its not just the people changing.

[Nick The Lemming]

Sounds interesting with a whole Invasion of the Body Snatchers vibe to it, except its not just the people changing.

Yeah, it really is. You could easily play it as a hammed-up Invasion thing, or play it a much more creepy sanity issue thing, which is probably the direction I'd go.

[xenongames]

So this is Capgras Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_Syndrome), the RPG?

[teckno72]

I'm looking forward to this one. I just read Noumenon, and it was great.

[Ken Finlayson]

Curse you Abstract Nova!

For some time I'd been tinkering with a campaign in which the PCs are a random assortment of everyday people thrown together by circumstance; that circumstance being that one day they found they'd been edged out of reality, that they'd been replaced. The PCs would find themselves living a nightmarish and unreliable life in the shadows, fighting against Them...

So, I'm looking forward to this. Curse you.