Nordic Noir, or Scandinavian Noir, is best known as subgenre of crime fiction, often set in the Nordic countries and written by Nordic authors. Its key elements are moral complexity, social criticism and realistic tone. In the role-playing game The Quick, Nordic Noir describes the themes and general mood of the setting. This way the … More Setting the Stage: Nordic Noir
We had a chat at the first test session about how the game should play out and what characters actually do in the game. The main insight from this conversation was distilled in the Actual play: pilot part 1 followingly: This is not a mystery game. This is a game about people who solve mysteries. This needs … More On Echo design
AKA lacuna, lacunae, scars, unspace(entropic) The fabric of reality is fragile and malleable. Each time something terrible happens it permeates the fabric like a rock falling to a pond’s surface. Traumatic death or a dark power can tear the fabric asunder – creating a scar in it’s wake. These scars are known as Echoes. These … More The Echoes
TR made an excellent point over lunch about the premise. We need to specify why the characters are involved in this stuff and what is this stuff anyhow. Following the example of Hellblazer: the characters are stuck with these things. It’s not really a choice. But this is still too abstract. We need to extend … More Setting rewrites #2
The main incentive for this game was to fix the Quick’s concept by utilizing Fail Fast ideology. I spoke with TK about the premise and the first extended Shade and we concluded two things. Firstly the premise is too vague and secondly the Family sounds like a cheap VtM Giovanni/Assamite rip-off. As VtM:s lousy way of handling ghosts and … More First rewrites
A small update to the Touched Shade. Background One day you just saw it. The Echoes, Hallows and all. It just become as real as Sun on a bright day. You instantly realized you could bring it here and enter the twilight. You just did not know how horrible it could be. Maybe you sought out … More Extending Shades: the Touched
A small update to the Family Shade. Featured image by Thomas Leuthard. Used with Creative Commons license. Background The Family are all believed to be descended from a single Enlightened World Weaver John the Undying. Who escaped the Slumbering God Angel of Death numerous times like an escape artist until the Angel finally managed to cast a binding curse … More Extending Shades: the Family
How can you make up to a life lost? Who should be able to collect the debt of a martyr? Can you carry whats due to your next incarnation? The Letters of Debt are the Quicks answer to these questions. These letters, symbols, runes and monograms carry an uncanny presence until the debt etched to … More Letters of Debt
