Strange Aeons with a party of 4 Androids


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Would I be correct in assuming that trying to play the path with a party of 4 androids- immune to disease, immune to fear and mind-affecting effects (assuming not taking the emotions feat)- would result in a game that pretty strongly misses the point? ^^


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Well, they're not immune to mind-affecting, they just get a +4 bonus to those saves. Nothing to sneeze at, but still quite capable of going mad at the sight of Bokrug rearing above the waves.


Revan wrote:
Well, they're not immune to mind-affecting, they just get a +4 bonus to those saves. Nothing to sneeze at, but still quite capable of going mad at the sight of Bokrug rearing above the waves.

True. Still, it'd be a much different game than normal, wouldn't it?

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No, it's still fantasy superheroes against tentacled horrors. Except in this case it's autistic fantasy superheroes.

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Having only played through most of the first book, and read ahead to the fourth, I currently don't see a huge amount changing. The diseases are annoying early on, and really only serve to drive home the lack of external support. All five of my PCs have been infected with multiple diseases, and only one of them has actually taken any damage from it.

The androids potentially add some interesting twists to the main plotline. Without going too far into spoilers, androids have their OWN method of entering an amnesiac state (i.e. renewing their souls), so this might interact in a satisfying way with the background.


Severe thread necro, but can I ask what you’re referencing, YogoZuno? What’s their method of entering an amnesiac state? Or message me if you don’t want to spoil?

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Whirling Dervish wrote:
Severe thread necro, but can I ask what you’re referencing, YogoZuno? What’s their method of entering an amnesiac state? Or message me if you don’t want to spoil?

there's no secret to this: the PCs begin the game in a "fugue" state, where they lack large parts of their memories, in particular, what happened to them over the last several years.

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I might be wrong, but I don't think that's what Whirling Dervish is asking about.

YogoZuno mentioned that androids have their own way of entering an amnesiac state, unrelated to the fugue state the PCs find themselves in at the beginning of the AP. I think Whirling Dervish wants to know how that works.

The short answer is, android bodies are essentially immortal. Every century or so, they voluntarily "die", ejecting their soul from their body to go on to the afterlife. A new soul then enters the android body, creating a new creature. The new soul remembers nothing of the body's previous life except maybe some dreams of it's former occupant,

So while superficially similar to amnesia, androids resetting their souls is distinct from true memory loss, and IMO doesn't really fit the themes of the AP. A post-reset android is legitimately a different person with a different soul than the pre-reset android.

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Benchak the Nightstalker wrote:

I might be wrong, but I don't think that's what Whirling Dervish is asking about.

YogoZuno mentioned that androids have their own way of entering an amnesiac state, unrelated to the fugue state the PCs find themselves in at the beginning of the AP. I think Whirling Dervish wants to know how that works.

The short answer is, android bodies are essentially immortal. Every century or so, they voluntarily "die", ejecting their soul from their body to go on to the afterlife. A new soul then enters the android body, creating a new creature. The new soul remembers nothing of the body's previous life except maybe some dreams of it's former occupant,

So while superficially similar to amnesia, androids resetting their souls is distinct from true memory loss, and IMO doesn't really fit the themes of the AP. A post-reset android is legitimately a different person with a different soul than the pre-reset android.

which is kinda fun to play with. An android will leave Thrushmoor thinking "my body did terrible things, but that wasn't me."

And then they get their memories back and realize that they are in fact bad guys who were rationalizing away the wrongs.

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