No.378 [Open thread]
So, I'm basically doing a traditional roleplaying game that essentially puts the players in the shoes of a Scooby-Doo like mystery solving gang, and I'm brainstorming ideas. I want to do a Hawaiian/tiki themed scenario, but I'd like to do something that hasn't really been done before. Was thinking of using an expy of that abandoned tiki park as the setting (so it might be more of a "modern" thing unless I put in a genuine cursed tiki that summons Night Marchers or something).
Were there any tiki-related urban legends or seedy rumors? I'm trying to think of something that hasn't been done before.
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No.382
Another nice idea might be ghosts of cannibals.
Fiji had some very gruesome cannibals, Ratu Udre Udre for example!
He got the world record for eating the most people :^)
He ate between 872 and 999 people.
Or the prophet Ndungumoy, who mixed Christianity with local beliefs and made the Tuka cult (cult of immortality).
The missionaries and colonialists were able to stop cannibalism in Fiji for 4 years until Ndungumoy showed up with his cult and revived it again, in all its gruesome splendor. :^)
Mite b kewl
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No.383
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No.398
like, a video game? or a tabletop roleplaying game?
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No.415
>>398A tabletop game, over IRC. I'm planning on using a super rules-lite system for it and seeing where it goes from there
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No.426
A recurring element in Oceanic mythology are shapeshifters. A wereshark or werebird following Oceanic rather than Western rules and characteristics could be a nice surprise for your players.
Menehune and their mythic buildings could make for a small dungeoncrawl, and you could throw in a lot of related crackpot theories like that of the continent Mu.
Nanakia (woman-stealing jungle goblins) and Tutumaiaro (ugly gnomes who beachcomb and haul treasure with nets at night) are also too weird to ignore.
If you want to play with Tikis, you could play around with Porotai - double-faced stone spirits who can turn invisible.
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