Does anyone use them or is it just me?
Odd events like a ton of dead fish washed up for no apparent reason, fish falls, meteorite falls, out of place animals etc. Not all the time but say once a year (game time NOT real time) with no explaination just to watch what players read into it.
Have there been any significant Fortean events in Glorian? Would you class the Sandpoint Devil as such...
Just curious...
Does anyone use them or is it just me?
Odd events like a ton of dead fish washed up for no apparent reason, fish falls, meteorite falls, out of place animals etc. Not all the time but say once a year (game time NOT real time) with no explaination just to watch what players read into it.
Have there been any significant Fortean events in Glorian? Would you class the Sandpoint Devil as such...
Just curious...
What is a Fortean event?
Fortean event = weird event that cannot be explained through normal channels of inquiry. Think UFOs, or Hollow Earth . . . dinosaurs in antartica . . . Atlantis . . . .
No, I don't use these unless they are adventure hooks. The players will spend hours looking for clues, and it's just cruel let them hang in the wing. It's a world with dragons and magic, after all . . . .
What is a Fortean event?Does anyone use them or is it just me?
Odd events like a ton of dead fish washed up for no apparent reason, fish falls, meteorite falls, out of place animals etc. Not all the time but say once a year (game time NOT real time) with no explaination just to watch what players read into it.
Have there been any significant Fortean events in Glorian? Would you class the Sandpoint Devil as such...
Just curious...
Sorry my bad.
Charles Fort collected a series of unexplained events from around the world and compiled two books, one of which Lo! is my pride and joy, in the 20's. Catalogued stuff like airships over America in the 1800s, frogs falling out of the sky, toads found alive in boulders, winged cats (which have been explained with photos!) stuff which is odd and defies explaination.
As an aside up to the 1700s meteors striking the earth was treated with huge disbelieve and thought impossible...
Does anyone use them or is it just me?
Odd events like a ton of dead fish washed up for no apparent reason, fish falls, meteorite falls, out of place animals etc. Not all the time but say once a year (game time NOT real time) with no explaination just to watch what players read into it.
Have there been any significant Fortean events in Glorian? Would you class the Sandpoint Devil as such...
Just curious...
Ya on occasion I can use things like that. but most of the time I use it just to mess with my players, I like to keep the nice and paranoid.
Does a god dying on the eve of his return count? Because that totally happened. And there's a big-ass hurricane (if only its wind speed was faster, we'd have a hypercane!) that has been around for a hundred years now.
There are many unexplained events - some of them are probably unexplainable, depending on your definition (someone will have the answer to everything, but is he telling?)
Stuff like cities found deserted from one day to the other, ships found adrift sans crew, looking as if everyone just went away in the middle of dinner, and so on.
Of course, Golarion being a fantasy world, there are a lot of actual phenomena and creatures around, which devalues the concept a bit. (In our world, we'd shout "Look, that man is flying under his own power!" but on Golarion, we'll prepare a dispel magic to cancel the wizard's flight magic)
Critters like the Sandpoint Devil or chupacabras are found on Golarion, and there's the Great Old Ones and ineffable entities from beyond the dark tapestry.
In Shackled City, Paizo used demodands falling from the sky as a parallel to that famous forten event.
These make great red herrings, and covers for the DM who like to keep the fog of war in his campaign thread. I may use the dead fish or a red tide like event in my upcoming CoCT campaign as an omen like event to herald a particular event.
I think the best answer to your question is they are a tool in the DM toolbox that should probably see more use other than an adventuring hook.