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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game)
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Genius: The Transgression is a fan Gameline for the Chronicles of Darkness setting created by the author/artist of webcomic The Water Phoenix King, Kyle Marquis (better known on RPG.Net as Moochava), detailing the adventures of Geniuses, Mad Scientists who can build impossible machines (called Wonders) thanks to their connection to the mysterious light of Inspiration. Drawing on every sci-fi and horror cliché out there, Genius justifies the setting, expands the tropes along their logical progression and links its themes to the real world. It will be instantly familiar to any fan of the genre.As with any tabletop RPG, Genius is defined by its characters. Each character is a mad scientist of some stripe, with a Catalyst, which determines their overall archetype, and a Foundation, which determines their overall approach to mad science. Each of the five Catalysts is defined by certain emotions and mindsets, which in turn cause them to act out various mad scientist stereotypes that can be summed up in one of the stock mad scientist quotes. | |
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Doctor's Disgraceful Demotion | |
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Doctor's Disgraceful Demotion: Some Genius have this trope in their background. Indeed, some were so angry at losing their license or their patients that it was their Catalyst. | |
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And Then John Was a Zombie | |
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That, and there's the possibility of being eaten by monsters born of insanity, being back-stabbed by psychotic rivals, being driven from civilization by quasi-Luddite fanatics, becoming monsters born of insanity... | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology | |
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Bizarre Alien Biology: One of many possible explanations for Havoc; things associated with mad science typically work in ways that make very little sense to anyone who isn't insane a Genius. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: Lots of it, some of which you make. This is a game about mad scientists after all. | |
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The Unsolved Mystery | |
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The Unsolved Mystery: Lots. The nature of Inspiration itself, the reason the Seers of the Throne and Lemuria don't notice each other. | |
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Winds of Destiny, Change! | |
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Winds of Destiny, Change!: Implementors of Epikrato can make Wonders capable of altering probability. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Some Illuminated tend to be a bit fanciful in their self-concepts — you get a fair number of them thinking they're the Devil. That is, if they haven't gone to the other extreme. The Thule Society are one-dimensional caricatures of evil, and they build Atrocity Halls for the sake of torturing prisoners for Mania. | |
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Instant Expert | |
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Instant Expert: It may not be immediately evident, but the benefits an Exelixi 3 Wonder can provide include fighting styles. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Channeling too much Mania at one time or withdrawing into yourself can overload your Inspiration, transforming you into a particularly dangerous Reality Warper called an Unmada. You're still playable (if not entirely sane), but your Inspiration warps reality around you to prove your worldview correct. These are mad scientists. Unmada reality warping doesn't shield them from moral arguments, but they still show a strong tendency towards "dangerous and unstable". And if they fail another check while Unmada, they completely snap and become Illuminated. | |
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Heroic RRoD | |
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Heroic RRoD: Channeling too much Mania at one time or withdrawing into yourself can overload your Inspiration, transforming you into a particularly dangerous Reality Warper called an Unmada. You're still playable (if not entirely sane), but your Inspiration warps reality around you to prove your worldview correct. These are mad scientists. Unmada reality warping doesn't shield them from moral arguments, but they still show a strong tendency towards "dangerous and unstable". And if they fail another check while Unmada, they completely snap and become Illuminated. | |
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope | |
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"Actions that physically or psychologically distance the Genius from humanity" are about mid-level Transgressions; at higher Obligation, going without human contact for a day is a Transgression. It's no accident that staying at the top of the Obligation meter requires more than normal sociability. When you're on solid ground, you can relax; when you're on the Slippery Slope, you need to keep trudging upward. | |
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Our Elves Are Different | |
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Our Elves Are Different: Our Elves Are Mathematical Anomalies: Fractal Elves are diminutive Manes born from failed equations, and are often found in laboratories and other research facilities. They're not too bright, but most aren't truly malicious. | |
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Anti-Magic | |
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Anti-Magic: Anti Super-Science: The underlying principle behind the Natural Body ability of Clockstoppers. It's also effective against regular science. | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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A number of things have also Gone Horribly Right. Geniuses can have rather skewed values. | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong | |
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And all of the Lemurians, Geniuses who haven't gotten the memo that they literally cheat reality and think that something Went Horribly Wrong in the past, and they have to fix it in the present. They range the gamut from Knight Templars to playable Anti Villains. | |
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Transhuman Treachery | |
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Transhuman Treachery: Transhuman modifications ding your Karma Meter. | |
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Human Resources | |
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Human Resources: Making living things generally needs material; the sourcebook states that grinding up stray cats is one way to do it. | |
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Fictional Document | |
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Fictional Document: The Organons of the Foundations, the magazines (Alloy Blend, Inspiration), and FREUDIAC's A Guide to the Psychology of the Exceptionally Gifted, to name a few. | |
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Everything Is an iPod in the Future | |
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Everything Is An I Pod In The Future: The "Pod People" aesthetic, which is currently the "in" thing with Directors and gets crapped on by Steampunkers. According to an editorial cartoon drawn by a critic of the style, a "Standard Pod People Death Ray" is an iPod with its controls replaced by a single large button marked "KILL." | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: A stylish way of designing Apokalypsi wonders. | |
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Raygun Gothic | |
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Raygun Gothic: Named as a possible aesthetic for mad scientists. The Etherites in particular like this, but even some peers just want a raygun and a fishbowl helmet. The Atom Punk variation is almost mandatory for Atomists and pretty much verboten elsewhere. | |
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Ãœbermensch | |
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Ãœbermensch: Nazis notwithstanding, the idea of the actual Ubermensch is a strong undercurrent of the game. The Inspired don't think like normal people, break rules and in doing so create wonders, and the Foundations' stereotypical conceptions of mere mortals sound much like the description of Nietzsche's "Last Man". The only way to keep your character playable is to avoid thinking like an Ubermensch. | |
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Power at a Price | |
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Deep Inspiration allows you to use Mania that you don't have. Unfortunately, this means your Inspiration is writing checks your mind can't cash; the more Mania you spend, the greater the penalty to the resulting Unmada check. Worse still, Unmada who use Deep Inspiration risk becoming Illuminated. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Some Wonders have Faults that can fall into this trope. Vehicles that behave like tediously legal bureaucrats (flight plans must be filed, lane changes must be signaled, and the proper traffic lanes must be adhered to or the vehicle stalls) steal the limelight, but weapons that you literally have to convince to work for you and robots that will switch sides at the first opportunity are also pretty up there. | |
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Powerful and Helpless | |
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Powerful and Helpless: The curse of the Genius; they have really cool gadgets and gizmos that could work to make the world a different place. However, these gadgets come with faults, they break apart if a Muggle so much as brushes against it, the Genius can't tell how they made it without sounding like a madman (which they are), and they have to keep telling themselves they're insane lest they become even more mad. | |
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Homemade Inventions | |
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Homemade Inventions: The Dumpster Diver Merit makes this very easy. | |
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Muggles Do It Better | |
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Muggles Do It Better: Subverted: Geniuses do it better, muggles do it reliably. On the whole, the Inspired are pragmatic about when they want power or reliability. | |
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Kryptonite Factor | |
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Kryptonite Factor: A common flaw of Wonders, sometimes reaching truly ridiculous levels. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Screw the laws of physics, you have Resources! Which leads to Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_230d64 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_230d64 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_230d64 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_234bd900 | type |
For Science! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_234bd900 | comment |
For Science!: Much of the time, it's more like some sort of anti-science, largely the point of these "Geniuses". | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_234bd900 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_234bd900 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_234bd900 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_23510712 | type |
Science-Related Memetic Disorder | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_23510712 | comment |
Science-Related Memetic Disorder: Geniuses are literally no longer exactly human. Their minds and personalities have been transformed by their connection to Inspiration. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_23510712 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_23510712 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_23510712 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_251bbe0e | type |
Genre Blindness | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_251bbe0e | comment |
Genre Blindness: Part of the problem with Unmada in general is that they refuse to believe they're mad, or that their Wonders aren't proper technology. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_251bbe0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_251bbe0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_251bbe0e | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_26f41623 | type |
Kill Sat | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_26f41623 | comment |
Kill Sat: There's a modification called "Orbital" made specifically for kill sats or any other extremely long range artillery. Though there's nothing but Size restrictions stopping you from attaching it to a melee weapon Nothing but utterly egregious Mania cost stops you putting a wide area healing ray in orbit, either. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_26f41623 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_26f41623 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_26f41623 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_276ad49e | type |
Karma Meter | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_276ad49e | comment |
Karma Meter: Obligation, representing the Genius's personal connection to "normal" humanity. Treating humans as disposable or replaceable (Mengele gets quoted) damages it, but so does anything that goes against social norms. Hit zero and you can kiss any restraints you had goodbye — a Genius who runs out of Obligation becomes the classic "Humans are test subjects" Unfettered Mad Scientist, known as an Illuminated (as in "burning from the inside with the spark of genius"). They're one of the most prevalent antagonist blocs in the setting. To add to the horror, "bottoming out" on Obligation is the least common way of becoming Illuminated — by the time a Genius is committing Obligation-2 or -3 Transgressions, someone is usually there to take him down. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_276ad49e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_276ad49e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_276ad49e | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_28a2cc0 | type |
Scale of Scientific Sins | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_28a2cc0 | comment |
Scale of Scientific Sins: All except number 2 are Transgressions— normal people find them unsettling. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_28a2cc0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_28a2cc0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_28a2cc0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2969dda7 | type |
Nightmare Fetishist | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2969dda7 | comment |
Nightmare Fetishist: A distinct worry shared by some of the more introspective Staunens. As the game manual puts it, some take delight in the modulation of screams of pain, or are fascinated by the effects of sickness and poison on the human body. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2969dda7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2969dda7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2969dda7 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2af7961 | type |
Faster-Than-Light Travel | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2af7961 | comment |
Faster-Than-Light Travel: Implementors of Skafoi can build FTL starships. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2af7961 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2af7961 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2af7961 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2bdae2ae | type |
Awesome, but Impractical | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Awesome, but Impractical: What happens when you something or have bad luck with your flaw. For instance, you could make a Doomsday Device that could blow up a city... but it would have to be the size of the chrystler building, take a century to build, has the internal concistancy of tissue paper, takes a month to charge, only works once, and sprouts legs and starts trying to eat you when a Mere Mortal so much as touches it (though, truth be told, they all have that last one). Unless you give it some Prostasia. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2bdae2ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2bdae2ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2bdae2ae | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2cbaa888 | type |
Empty Shell | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2cbaa888 | comment |
Empty Shell: Clockstoppers, empty beings that run on spite and lash out at anything born of intelligence or creativity. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2cbaa888 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2cbaa888 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2cbaa888 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2eaf2b05 | type |
Discredited Trope | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2eaf2b05 | comment |
Discredited Trope: In-Universe, even most Lemurians think that phrenologynote the idea that you can determine someone's psychological traits by examining their skull structure is racist tripe. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2eaf2b05 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2eaf2b05 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2eaf2b05 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2fcf9bbc | type |
Gratuitous Foreign Language | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2fcf9bbc | comment |
Gratuitous Foreign Language: Several, there's even a section explaining the history of Inspired terminology. For instance, the Inspired have been calling themselves Geniuses since Ancient Rome. Gratuitous German: The German terminology is largely correct, with only 3-4 minor mistakes and typos. ("Klagen" and "Archweltanschaaung" are supposed to be "Klage", "lament" and "Erzweltanschauung", "arch-world-view"; also, "Grimm" sounds somewhat archaic and hammy to modern German speakers, unlike "Zorn". "Katastrofi" and "Apokalypsi" are originally loan words, but the game uses Finnish variations. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2fcf9bbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2fcf9bbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_2fcf9bbc | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3107a493 | type |
Open Heart Dentistry | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3107a493 | comment |
Open Heart Dentistry: Occurs in two separate ways: The game mechanics encourage players to gain expertise in multiple fields. A Genius never suffers from using an old skill in a new context; if they know how to drive a car, they can drive anything else, whether they're rolling down the highway in a Mack truck or piloting a spaceship. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3107a493 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3107a493 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3107a493 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3126c34a | type |
Insufferable Genius | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3126c34a | comment |
Insufferable Genius: Probably a solid majority of Inspired. A large part of Genius culture is a way for insufferable geniuses to fulfill their human need for socialization. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3126c34a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3126c34a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3126c34a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_313e9485 | type |
Hero with Bad Publicity | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_313e9485 | comment |
Hero with Bad Publicity: Subverted. Paragons (Geniuses with the Karma Meter at 7 or above) naturally project an aura of friendliness and hospitality, leading to an unconscious Charm Person effect. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_313e9485 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_313e9485 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_313e9485 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3300f2be | type |
Extra-Strength Masquerade | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3300f2be | comment |
Extra-Strength Masquerade: This trope isn't here because mortals can't see mad science; they can. It's here because seeing mad science often turns mortals into more Mad Scientists or assistants thereof, who have a vested interest in not going public and creating more rivals. funding is hard to come by, after all. Furthermore, if a mortal isn't turned to a rival or thrall, they cannot help but cause wonders to break down or run amok merely by touching them. Especially if a real scientist gets ahold of them; nothing destroys Wonders like having someone that can understand precisely why it can't possibly work witness it. Most important of all: A typical Genius theory will sound, to any non-Genius, like the ravings of a delusional madman. You end up looking like the guy behind Time Cube or magnetic Immortality Rings, so you can't just show your stuff on Youtube where nobody will dick with it. You'll still look like a lunatic. Time Cube is In-Universe a Genius-written Thesis on how to exploit time zones for use of Time Travel, the Navigator's 'organon' (i.e. manual) Introduction to Skafoi. Problem is that to us it's the ravings of a mad man. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3300f2be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3300f2be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3300f2be | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_334b7f3a | type |
Cryptic Background Reference | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_334b7f3a | comment |
Cryptic Background Reference: Tons of them. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_334b7f3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_334b7f3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_334b7f3a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34dd5f3 | type |
La Résistance | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34dd5f3 | comment |
La Résistance: The Peerage started out as a haven for geniuses who didn't like Lemuria, and eventually became the reason Lemuria is now a Vestigial Empire. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34dd5f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34dd5f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34dd5f3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34f1b472 | type |
Mad Artist | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34f1b472 | comment |
Mad Artist: The Domitions mentioned in Moochava's emails are a Mediterranean group of Inspired artists, architects, and sculptors who specialize in the as-yet unrevealed Pseudo-Axioms. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34f1b472 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34f1b472 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_34f1b472 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35022c20 | type |
No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35022c20 | comment |
No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Larval Wonders. Every single one is one-of-a-kind. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35022c20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35022c20 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35022c20 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d | comment |
All Geniuses are on the slope down to madness, and becoming Unmada takes away a significant barrier to jumping to the bottom. The five baramins of Lemuria are all made up of Unmada. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3517000d | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35fb9016 | type |
Gratuitous German | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35fb9016 | comment |
Gratuitous German: The German terminology is largely correct, with only 3-4 minor mistakes and typos. ("Klagen" and "Archweltanschaaung" are supposed to be "Klage", "lament" and "Erzweltanschauung", "arch-world-view"; also, "Grimm" sounds somewhat archaic and hammy to modern German speakers, unlike "Zorn". | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35fb9016 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35fb9016 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35fb9016 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_37263fea | type |
Magic-Powered Pseudoscience | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_37263fea | comment |
Magic-Powered Pseudoscience: What a Genius and their inventions run on. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_37263fea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_37263fea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_37263fea | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3800c1ad | type |
Totally Not a Werewolf | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3800c1ad | comment |
Totally Not a Werewolf: It's mentioned that Mages often mistake a newly Catalyzed Genius for a new Mage (and vice-versa). After this happened a few times, the Peerage and the Free Council set up protocols for swapping members back to their correct bodies. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3800c1ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3800c1ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3800c1ad | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858 | type |
Squishy Wizard | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858 | comment |
Squishy Wizard: Squishy Mad Scientist: In many ways Geniuses play a lot like Mages, formidable with prep time, just another Puny Human without it. Even more so. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_38047858 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_393ec3f9 | type |
Zeerust | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_393ec3f9 | comment |
Zeerust: Most of Lemuria is guilty of this, but the worst offenders are the Atomists, with the Etherites at a close second. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_393ec3f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_393ec3f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_393ec3f9 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39a63cd3 | type |
City of Spies | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39a63cd3 | comment |
City of Spies: The 2nd edition has the Bardo of Cantafa, which is built around the theme. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39a63cd3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39a63cd3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39a63cd3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | type |
Boring, but Practical | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | comment |
Boring, but Practical: Prostasia, Axiom of Protection. Sounds simplistic and uninteresting? When the horrible tentacle monsters try to bite your face off, you will be glad you spent the dots here. When your malevolent rivals try to Mind Rape you, you will be glad you spent the dots here. When the feds try to hack into your Kill Sat, you will be glad you spent the dots here. And if you want to build a submarine that can survive deep ocean pressure or a spaceship that's protected from vacuum and cosmic radiation, or anything at all that's invisible to radar, even one dot of Prostasia will be enough. It's not the sexiest axiom, but you'll miss it when it's gone. Can be subverted with a little creativity on the player's part. Nothing prevents you from saying your Prostasia body armor uses ancient Egyptian laser beams to shoot down incoming bullets. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39de664a | type |
Mad Doctor | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39de664a | comment |
Mad Doctor: Quite a few Geniuses (particularly those who Catalyzed in sorrow) were or are medical doctors. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39de664a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39de664a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39de664a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39ed1c8a | type |
Conspiracy Theorist | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39ed1c8a | comment |
Conspiracy Theorist: The Inspired are very good at seeing connections. This is equally true for connections that do not exist. Granted there are dozens of conspiracies in the World of Darkness. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39ed1c8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39ed1c8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_39ed1c8a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3aec9e5e | type |
Properly Paranoid | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3aec9e5e | comment |
Properly Paranoid: Particularly lucid Neids. While Neids are suspicious by nature, it's mentioned that their paranoia gets directed more often at real than imagined threats. Given the ubiquitousness of shadowy monstrosities in the New World of Darkness, this makes sense. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3aec9e5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3aec9e5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3aec9e5e | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b113b7 | type |
Character Development | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b113b7 | comment |
Character Development: Integrated into the game in a very interesting way. In order to increase their Inspiration, a Genius must undertake a Thesis, a deeply personal analysis of their thoughts, their actions, and their character in general, combined with a personal mission that defines their goals and personality. In this way, the personality of a PC Genius develops (or is at least defined) as they increase in power. Also subverted, in that "more defined" often means "more streamlined" for a Genius. A high-Inspiration Genius becomes enormously powerful, but plenty fall into archetypes and rote behaviour. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b113b7 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b113b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b113b7 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b39c254 | type |
Dystopia | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b39c254 | comment |
Dystopia: Tsoska, every socialist and Communist dystopian idea rolled into one grey uninspiring doubleplusungood empire. Ironically, it's one of the safer Bardos to visit; if one's papers are in order and they act right, the government treats a visiting Genius like a foreign dignitary. Its capitalist counterpart, Voltt City, is mentioned in passing. The Seattle Of Tomorrow was a fascist police state governed by all seeing technology. The Atomists loved it. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b39c254 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b39c254 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b39c254 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b99a9e0 | type |
Reality Warper | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b99a9e0 | comment |
Reality Warper: Unmada possess an uncontrolled version of this power that causes the world to fit their version of reality better. That wouldn't be so bad, except it also summons Manes. They can be helpful, generally only to the Unmada in question, and even that's a bit chancy. One theory of Inspiration posits that all mad science is like this. The non-unmada just have a controlled version. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b99a9e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3b99a9e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Noodle Incident | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: At some point in the 17th century Pythagoras was resurrected. Accidentally. The only details we get is for this is why the Peerage uses a Greek standard for the Axioms. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Flame War | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3c2c4f9a | comment |
Flame War: Popular Genius websites have a tendency to sink to this level — just the way they like it. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | type |
Blessed with Suck | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: Not as overt as the rest of the nWoD, but still prevalent. Yes, Geniuses can create miraculous gadgets, but they are mad, and nothing they make is completely real. Inspiration is arguably the worst thing that could happen to a dedicated scientist. That, and there's the possibility of being eaten by monsters born of insanity, being back-stabbed by psychotic rivals, being driven from civilization by quasi-Luddite fanatics, becoming monsters born of insanity... | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3d19dd09 | type |
Punk Punk | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3d19dd09 | comment |
Punk Punk: The only aesthetics that don't correspond to a punk genre on this wiki are Fairy Princess (a mix of Alembic and Home Grown, though a case could be made that it fits the obscure solarpunk subgenre of "Lunarpunk"), Extropic (more of a philosophy than an aesthetic), and Crawling Rusty Meat (a mix of Trash Praxis and Black Plastic) | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3d59c9a0 | type |
Powered Armor | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3d59c9a0 | comment |
Powered Armor: Mania-intensive; a full-featured basic suit requires: Apokalypsi for scanners and communication. Exelixi for strength boosters, and quite possibly so you're strong enough to move it. Katastrofi for weapon systems Prostasia for the armor Skafoi for any kind of movement more complicated than just walking/rolling around. There is a large, loosely-connected organization of Geniuses who specialise in Powered Armour. They use it to fight crime. The above Required Secondary Powers are also a good guide as to how much time and effort has to go into your average Cool Starship, Humongous Mecha, Do-Anything Robot, and other sci-fi standards. Generally worth it. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3e8d9cd3 | type |
Historical Hero Upgrade | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3e8d9cd3 | comment |
Historical Hero Upgrade: Leonardo da Vinci defeated his Evil Twin, and an organization was founded in his honor. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3eed59a8 | type |
Explosive Overclocking | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3eed59a8 | comment |
Explosive Overclocking: A Genius can supercharge any piece of technology, Wonder or not, but doing so can result in heavy damage or even destroy it. Worth noting is that the game's definition of "technology" means you can do this with a stick; everything altered by a human to serve a purpose counts as "technology". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3fd51d77 | type |
Superhero Speciation | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3fd51d77 | comment |
Superhero Speciation: Averted. If you have another Genius' notes, you get a bonus to duplicate their Wonders. Or you can just borrow them. You still need the right Axioms to build the Wonder, and you take penalties for using one without the right Axioms. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_41d8a845 | type |
Sufficiently Analyzed Magic | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_41d8a845 | comment |
Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Sufficiently Analyzed Super-Science: Played straight and averted. Being scientists, the Geniuses have attempted to study the nature of Inspiration, Mania and Wonders to see how they all work. Being mad, they haven't managed to figure out much more than a few common themes and guidelines. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_41dd77d | type |
Zerg Rush | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_41dd77d | comment |
Zerg Rush: With rank 4 Automata, your factories can create human beings. While these clones are no more powerful than a normal human, the mania you spend to make them isn't bound, allowing you to have an effectively unlimited number as long as you can pay the initial mania cost. Combine this with 5 ranks in Assembly Line (allowing you to have 32 identical cloning vats for only 4 bound mania), another rank 1 factory that builds weapons, and a few weeks to build up your army, and you can clog your enemies' barrels with dead clones. A burgeoning mad scientist intent on creating a clone army needs to be aware that all his clones are considered manes, and thus need to spend a point of mania per day to avoid havoc. Manes have the Calculus Vampire merit by default, so they can suck mania or skill dots out of victims or donors to maintain themselves. The most effective alternatives to this strategy is to be unmada (thus generating a field which powers ideologically compatible manes), or make your clones geniuses, which is just asking for trouble. Unlike normal Automata, Manes created via Automata factories are in no way loyal to the Genius who created them. And God help the Genius once these new humans find out that merely interacting with regular people puts them at risk of insanity or death. Calculus Vampirism is also considered a pretty hefty Transgression, which is likely to make these clones murderously insane given repeated use (not to mention that Calculus Vampirism is effectively torture, and they have no choice but to repeatedly do this to people if they merely want to survive). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_420c50b7 | comment |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Inverted. When you die or otherwise abandon your Wonders, they mutate and turn feral. But, if your Karma Meter was high and the Wonder was intelligent, then there is a significant chance it will develop its own Karma Meter and become a Robot Buddy. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_420c50b7 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_426181b8 | type |
Do-Anything Robot | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_426181b8 | comment |
Do-Anything Robot: You can build Size 0 Wonders, or Collapsible Wonders that shrink to Size 0. You can build Integral Wonders inside a robot. With infinite resources you could cram an infinite amount of junk into your robot. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_426181b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_42c9f1ec | type |
Downplayed Trope | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_42c9f1ec | comment |
Downplayed by the Elders of the Third Law, one of the few Fellowships that accepts both Lemurians and Peers. The Elders don't consider new tech inherently evil, but they do believe all technology should be fully savored and explored before moving on to the next discovery. That's why they all use Renaissance level gear while hunting down Illuminated who use science for nefarious purposes. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_43a46119 | type |
Surrounded by Idiots | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_43a46119 | comment |
Surrounded by Idiots: Too much reliance on Beholden and not enough exposure to the idea that you might be wrong about the way the world works can quickly make a Genius Unmada, which leads to suspicious alterations of fact, which leads to... uh... | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_442e3d95 | type |
Professor Guinea Pig | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_442e3d95 | comment |
Professor Guinea Pig: Plenty of Geniuses experiment on themselves, and the Progenitors have a whole transhumanist philosophy that expects this. While self-modification is a Transgression, dangerous experiments on other humans is a worse Transgression (depending on how dangerous the experiment and how severe the modification), which leads to this trope. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_442e3d95 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_44880a8c | type |
Killed to Uphold the Masquerade | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_44880a8c | comment |
Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: For really serious breaches it can happen, but it's rare. Geniuses don't really care that much. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_450d9b75 | type |
Scavenged Punk | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_450d9b75 | comment |
Scavenged Punk: Called "Trash Praxis" by Geniuses, this aesthetic consists of taking whatever you can out of a dumpster and making it into Wonders. It's used as a fashion statement by a lot of disaffected punks in the West, but it's more common in impoverished nations, where it's a practical matter instead of a fashion statement. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_457655dd | type |
Human Popsicle | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_457655dd | comment |
Human Popsicle: Orphan Wonders can go into stasis, which dramatically reduces their Mania requirements; normally they require one point per day to sustain themselves. In stasis, this stretches to one point per year. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_457655dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_45fe3a2e | type |
Utopia Justifies the Means | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_45fe3a2e | comment |
Utopia Justifies the Means: Half the problem with Hoffnungs and Lemuria; the other half is that Utopia is a subjective term. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_469e3e2f | type |
In-Universe | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_469e3e2f | comment |
In-Universe, when popular theories are disproved, they tend to spawn Manes and even Bardos in their image. Nobody has figured out what happens when people decide that a true thing is true, then decide that the true thing is false. Probably something very bad. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_474e3977 | type |
You Have Failed Me | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_474e3977 | comment |
You Have Failed Me: Actually an effective tactic; killing a few of your Beholden after a failed Dirty Work check effectively removes and prevents all penalties for the rest of the chapter and lets you intimidate the survivors to ensure more dice. A Transgression, naturally. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4797a4ce | type |
Tricked Out Time | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4797a4ce | comment |
Tricked Out Time: The Guardians of Forever modus operandi. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4832a3bb | type |
Always Chaotic Evil | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4832a3bb | comment |
Always Chaotic Evil: Subverted Trope. While the snake-men of Lemuria are (currently) extinct, and while their evil conspiracy was... well, evil, one possible future the players can travel to sees them more-or-less peacefully integrated among modern humanity. Even in the bad old days, part of their motivation was a simple desire to return to their non-existant home. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4852f325 | type |
I Just Want to Be Normal | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4852f325 | comment |
A hereditary title. This fits the way young geniuses are recruited and trained as well as their position 'above' humanity in some sense (with a lot of geniuses wanting to be the same as normal humans it could also reflect their desire to be normal humans' peers in the non-heraldic sense). | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4852f325 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4852f325 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4afa0e25 | type |
Bio Punk | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4afa0e25 | comment |
Bio Punk: There's actually a couple different Aesthetics that do this. Black Plastic is the kind evolved from Cyberpunk, using an organic black rubber look even on non-organic stuff; it's designed to be creepy and Gigeresque, and some Geniuses meld it with Trash Praxis to make something that looks like anime-style Body Horror. Home Grown is a more ecological Aesthetic, originally for underwater-focused Geniuses, with warm bioluminescence and plants everywhere. It has elements of Solarpunk, and combining it with Alembic was a brief fad that's now considered extremely dorky. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4afa0e25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4afa0e25 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4bc00353 | type |
Multiple Reference Pun | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4bc00353 | comment |
Multiple Reference Pun: The player faction calls itself "The Peerage", which brings to mind; A hereditary title. This fits the way young geniuses are recruited and trained as well as their position 'above' humanity in some sense (with a lot of geniuses wanting to be the same as normal humans it could also reflect their desire to be normal humans' peers in the non-heraldic sense). The idea of academic concept of a "peer review" (which is what they provide not by reviewing each other's work, but by reminding one another that they're insane and shouldn't go too far). Both at once, in the way that geniuses tend to award themselves academic titles they haven't earned (the fluff text stats that asking a "Doctor" if they actually have a doctorate is as polite as asking if they have a drug addiction). | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4bc00353 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4bc00353 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4bf3d8d7 | type |
Personality Powers | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4bf3d8d7 | comment |
Personality Powers: Sorta. Geniuses get a favored "Axiom" (branch of Mad Science) based on their Catalyst, which is the thing that stained their Breakthrough: Destruction for Grimms (Rage), Transformation for Hoffnungs (Vision), Improvement for Klagens (Loss), Control for Neids (Banishment) and Discovery for Staunens (Curiosity). However, Geniuses also get two other favored Axioms, so their Catalyst doesn't totally dictate their abilities. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4bf3d8d7 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4c4bebf4 | type |
Artistic License – Paleontology | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4c4bebf4 | comment |
Artistic License – Paleontology: In the Hollow Earth, you can find every single mistake of zoology ever made, all living side by side. And Nazis. Though they may count too, what with their race theories. And if you're really unlucky, Nazi Dinosaurs. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4c6205c5 | type |
New Technology Is Evil | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4c6205c5 | comment |
New Technology Is Evil: Lemuria often thinks so, with each Baramin defined by when they believe humanity's technological and cultural development took a turn in the wrong direction. Sometimes their views aren't that bizarre, the Atomists are still upset about the death of the space age dreams. However you have Oracles who are still complaining about new Aristotle's organon and want to bring back the good old ways espoused by Plato. Downplayed by the Elders of the Third Law, one of the few Fellowships that accepts both Lemurians and Peers. The Elders don't consider new tech inherently evil, but they do believe all technology should be fully savored and explored before moving on to the next discovery. That's why they all use Renaissance level gear while hunting down Illuminated who use science for nefarious purposes. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4c6205c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4c6205c5 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4cb90f31 | type |
Three Laws-Compliant | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4cb90f31 | comment |
Three Laws-Compliant: Subverted. "Programming permanent psychological limitations into an intelligent being" is an Obligation-5 sin (the same level as arson, to name one). If your creation can think and choose for itself, it must be allowed to think and choose for itself; forcing it down specific moral roads is a form of slavery. (Note that the definition means doing something similar to a human also counts.) | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4cb90f31 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4cb90f31 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4ce53a3c | type |
Aversion | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4ce53a3c | comment |
A very specific Aversion outlined in the first edition book was everyone involved in the Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer most of all. Both the Peerage and the Lemurians kept strict tabs on the group, not wanting to risk the Havoc that might be wrought by a Genius's take on the world's first prototype nuclear weapon. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4ce53a3c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4d070ee3 | type |
Power Perversion Potential | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4d070ee3 | comment |
Power Perversion Potential: Extremely high— this is a game where customized individuals, Mind Control devices and Transformation Rays are common stock inventions. A lot of these applications, though, are Transgressions of some kind. Many are relatively minor— indulging certain odd tastes will weird out much of society, while using Wonders for fun shows a lack of respect for the dangerous power of mad science. Going too far will result in your Obligation going down, and hard. "Love potions" and other forms of sexual mind control are 100% analogous to rape and only a step above mass murder. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4d070ee3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4dbd3706 | type |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4dbd3706 | comment |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Inverted. A sudden paradigm shift in the Consensus causes a Maniac Storm, usually enough to spawn a Bardo or at least a new type of Mane or three, but straightforward belief doesn't do anything in and of itself. Sometimes the Geniuses can see them coming; the Martian Empire, for example, despite causing massive Inspired casualties in their initial invasion, was something many Geniuses had been preparing for for years, which is why we're not all speaking... whatever language it is Martians speak. This same bizarre existence-due-to-not-being-able-to-exist also means that Manes are subject to Havoc just like Wonders, and are affected in very similar ways. Also averted with how wonders work. Ultimately it doesn't matter at all if a Genius believes his own theories or not. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4dbd3706 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4dbd3706 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4f88342a | type |
Smug Super | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4f88342a | comment |
Smug Super: If the Peerage's stereotypes sections are anything to go by, the default attitude of Geniuses toward mere mortals is mild contempt. The Peerage does try to combat this way of thinking, though, which is more than can be said of Lemuria. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4f88342a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4fc4e676 | type |
Sandal Punk | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4fc4e676 | comment |
Sandal Punk: The Macedon aesthetic is based around Hero of Alexandria, steam and bronze. The conscious use of this as an Aesthetic dates back to the Renaissance, and it tends to come into fashion every few decades. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_4fc4e676 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_501de366 | type |
Temporal Paradox | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_501de366 | comment |
Temporal paradoxes don't affect Manes. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_501de366 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_501de366 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_511728ae | type |
Magic Versus Science | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_511728ae | comment |
Magic Versus Science: Geniuses and Mages just naturally don't get along most of the time, though the Free Council and the Scholastics have reached an understanding. This comes in very handy when they have to perform hasty swaps whenever a particular unusual Mage turns out to be a new catalysed Genius or vice versa. On the other hand, their respective Ancient Conspiracies seem to be incapable of noticing each other, and no-one knows why. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_511728ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_51616227 | type |
Power Born of Madness | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_51616227 | comment |
Power Born of Madness: All over the place. Geniuses are so crazy they can break bend the laws of physics. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_51616227 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_520680ca | type |
Not Wearing Tights | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_520680ca | comment |
Not Wearing Tights: Averted, the Iridium Sentinels are unashamedly superheroes, if more Iron Man than spandex. An entire section in the part for storytellers lists superheroes as a possible campaign, by name. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_520680ca | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_525df529 | type |
Not Using the "Z" Word | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_525df529 | comment |
Not Using the "Z" Word: The Peerage averts this trope; all Peers are well aware that they're Mad Scientists, and refer to themselves as such. Conversely, Lemuria and other Unmada will be happy to tell you that they are legitimate scientists, and quite sane. Completely sane. Utterly sane. Sane. Sane. Sane. SANE, DAMN YOU! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_525df529 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_533bc7ae | type |
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_533bc7ae | comment |
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Nothing about the technology itself, but permanently altering your physical form is a Transgression that can ding your Obligation quite severely if the changes are significant enough; nothing distances you from humanity quite like turning yourself into a giant mechanical dragon. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_533bc7ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_533bc7ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | type |
Snake People | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | comment |
Snake People: The Lemurians (the real ones) are snake people from the now disproved continent of Lemuria, as well as the obligatory conspiracy theories about secret reptile overlords. Some Ophidians look like that, limbless, but most of the current ones are humanoid, as the sourcebook's Description of Third Race Infiltrators says: | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_537b4ea | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Name-checked in the storytelling section, which uses the term to describe the villain's "large, dangerous, entirely physical adversary that may or may not be a giant fire-breathing lizard". | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_53f5119f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_53f5119f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_546e23f6 | type |
Evilutionary Biologist | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_546e23f6 | comment |
Evilutionary Biologist: The reason the rest of the Peerage is leery of the Progenitors. A valid concern, considering what became of the preceding Foundation. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_546e23f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_546e23f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_546e23f6 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_54bdd7a1 | type |
Phlebotinum du Jour | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_54bdd7a1 | comment |
Phlebotinum du Jour: Every Genius has a different idea of what this is or should be, and any item on the list can be the source of a Genius' power. Flame Wars inevitably ensue. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_54bdd7a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_54bdd7a1 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_54d6f53f | type |
Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_54d6f53f | comment |
Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Time-travelers have it for their own jaunts, and by necessity the Guardians of Forever have it no matter what. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_54d6f53f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_55232afa | type |
Politically Incorrect Hero | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_55232afa | comment |
Politically Incorrect Hero: The Peerage and the Directors in particular used to be just as racist as Lemuria, but they cleaned up their act around the same time as mundane society did. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_55232afa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_55af5099 | type |
Rube Goldberg Device | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_55af5099 | comment |
Rube Goldberg Device: An entirely feasible aesthetic choice. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_55af5099 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_55af5099 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_55af5099 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_56585e87 | type |
Combat Clairvoyance | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_56585e87 | comment |
Combat Clairvoyance: Using a high rank Apokalypsi wonder in combat grants this. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_56585e87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_56585e87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_56585e87 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_56ff2e35 | type |
Bat Deduction | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_56ff2e35 | comment |
Bat Deduction: In the second edition this is one of the benefits of Mania, a genius can deduce information from something completely unrelated. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_56ff2e35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5874eb12 | type |
Organic Technology | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5874eb12 | comment |
In the section giving examples of Wonder design aesthetics, the combination of H.R.Geiger -esque Organic Technology and ramshackle Homemade Inventions is nicknamed "Crawling Rusty Meat". | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5874eb12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_59aa1d0b | type |
Recycled IN SPACE! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_59aa1d0b | comment |
Recycled IN SPACE!: Sometimes, Genius can look a lot like Mage: The Ascension WITH (PSEUDO)SCIENCE! There is at least one small difference which completely inverts the settings from each other: Mages know the hidden truths of reality, Geniuses are madmen who usually know less than a good scientist. Those Geniuses who were competent scientists are painfully aware that what they do isn't, in strictest terms, "real." So while Mages get to pat themselves on the back for being oh so enlightened, the Inspired have to live with the knowledge that their perceptions are hopelessly skewed forever. Makes Illumination all the more tempting... It is more like Technocracy Guide with better Science!!!. To elaborate all the parallels: Lemuria is run by a "Third Race" of Snake People. The Order of Hermes, the classic wizards, almost-leaders of the Traditions and the sorcerous overlords the Order of Reason had to overthrow, spotted three snakes on their Sigil during the Dark Ages. (They only have one in the modern setting.) Etherites and Progenitors are clear. Navigators and Artificers bear old names of Void Engineers and Iteration X respectively. The Numericals' concept is basically Virtual Adepts in Lemuria!! Scholastics and Directors seem to correspond to the NWO and the Syndicate. Phenomenologists look like a Take That! to the Cult of Ecstasy, Post-modernism in general or a Shout-Out to the Science Wars Ironically while the above puts the Technocracy Conventions as Peers and the Traditions as Lemuria, Moochava says that the Atomists were explicitly based on the Technocracy as a whole plus Rand, Heinlein & Niven enthusiasts found on web forums. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_59aa1d0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5b0eaf89 | type |
Upgrade Artifact | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5b0eaf89 | comment |
Upgrade Artifact Instant Expert: It may not be immediately evident, but the benefits an Exelixi 3 Wonder can provide include fighting styles. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5b0eaf89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5b0eaf89 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5b0eaf89 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5b6e57e | type |
Required Secondary Powers | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5b6e57e | comment |
The above Required Secondary Powers are also a good guide as to how much time and effort has to go into your average Cool Starship, Humongous Mecha, Do-Anything Robot, and other sci-fi standards. Generally worth it. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5b6e57e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5be7bcfa | type |
Older Than They Think | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5be7bcfa | comment |
Older Than They Think: The sourcebook reminds us that mad science is older than rayguns, robots and Frankenstein, with mention of mad alchemists, philosophers and inventors stretching back through history. On a related note, "Genius" as used here has a suspiciously apropos double meaning — a distinctly otherworldly one, at that. Given that the term dates back to ancient Rome, this should come as no surprise. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | type |
Central Theme | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | comment |
Central Theme: The nature of futility (especially the inability for anyone to control or direct culture/humanity). Despite a Genius' potentially world changing technology and intellect, at the end of the day they really can't do anything to majorly affect the world at large. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5ce7dbb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5d1eca88 | type |
Awesome McCoolname | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5d1eca88 | comment |
Awesome McCoolname: Some Geniuses take on new names. After all, if you can build a weather-control machine out of an air conditioner and an iPod, don't you have the right to call yourself Professor Atmospherium? | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5d1eca88 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5db59a03 | type |
Brown Note | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5db59a03 | comment |
Brown Note: You can make just about any variation you want, from music that causes love to a vat grown Eldritch Abomination that causes madness on sight. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5db59a03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5db59a03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5e7eb915 | type |
Clarke's Third Law | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5e7eb915 | comment |
The Science is Science rule — Mania is a very badly understood science, not magic — is called the Anticlark Corollary. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5f930b19 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5f930b19 | comment |
Named After Somebody Famous: In approximately ten thousand years, the most brutal dictator ever known to mankind will seize control of civilization. What does this despotic mastermind call himself? Yao Ming. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_5f930b19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_60414102 | type |
Zombie Apocalypse | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_60414102 | comment |
Zombie Apocalypse: Mentioned in the Klagen quote: | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_60414102 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_605b8f40 | type |
Bumbling Sidekick | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_605b8f40 | comment |
Bumbling Sidekick: A sad fact of life for some Beholden. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_605b8f40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6068c76b | type |
Clock Punk | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6068c76b | comment |
Actual Victorian Geniuses generally looked nothing like this. Those who didn't adopt a Baroque Aesthetic most commonly didn't use a conscious Aesthetic at all, and their laboratories looked like something out of a Universal Horror set. Nowadays, that's called the Universal Aesthetic; it's not used much anymore, but there's still many old laboratories in that style. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6068c76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_617a1d43 | type |
Conspiracy Kitchen Sink | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_617a1d43 | comment |
Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: Genius adds Lemuria and the peerage to the nWoD's already overcrowded shadows. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6369571f | type |
Never the Selves Shall Meet | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6369571f | comment |
Never the Selves Shall Meet: It's almost universally a bad idea to interact with your past self while on a time travel jaunt. With that in mind... | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6369571f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6369571f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6369571f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_643618e5 | type |
Replacement Goldfish | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_643618e5 | comment |
Replacement Goldfish: A Genius could easily view their creations as "children," or could go the Truly Single Parent route and use themselves as the basis for a biological Wonder. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Fighting from the Inside | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6500e9cc | comment |
Fighting from the Inside: Victims of Epikrato mind control can spend Willpower to do this. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6500e9cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6500e9cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6500e9cc | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6552b710 | type |
The Syndicate | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6552b710 | comment |
The Syndicate: The Pacific Gauntlet is a particularly nasty one. Originally an offshoot of Lemuria, the Gauntlet was formed after the Boxer Rebellion, to protect China from the depredations of the colonial powers (or at least secure Lemuria’s ideological hegemony in Asia). However, once the fighting was over, the Gauntlet discovered several powerful Bardos created by the despair and disillusionment of the Chinese people. The Gauntlet proceeded to plunder and enslave China’s broken dreams, establishing an international Maniacal crime ring. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6552b710 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6552b710 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6552b710 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_659ef759 | type |
Implacable Man | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_659ef759 | comment |
Implacable Man: Clockstoppers can pull a limited version of this trick with their "Natural Body" Void. Wonders and conventional technology like firearms and explosives don't do a blasted thing at higher levels, and at its strongest, any technology attempting to influence the Clockstopper fails. This includes medical technology, which is a blasted shame, because even at that rank, a right hook works just fine. Alternatively, there's the more uncommon method of dropping large animals on them such as rhinoceros and blue whales. And then there's the matter of magic... | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_659ef759 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_659ef759 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_659ef759 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6651bba7 | type |
Bio-Augmentation | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6651bba7 | comment |
Bio-Augmentation: The Progenitors are big on this. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6651bba7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6651bba7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6651bba7 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_66f69cd4 | type |
Invisibility Cloak | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_66f69cd4 | comment |
Invisibility Cloak: Either actual invisibility or a Bystander Syndrome-invoking mind trick. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_66f69cd4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_66f69cd4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_66f69cd4 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6700b479 | type |
Hybrid Monster | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6700b479 | comment |
Hybrid Monster: There's a process called "Grafting" that explicitly allows you to do this. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6700b479 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6700b479 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6700b479 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_673b2da6 | type |
Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_673b2da6 | comment |
Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Non-thinking Wonders abandoned by their Genius will quickly develop a rudimentary animal intelligence. Or explode. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_673b2da6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_673b2da6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_673b2da6 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_67b4153c | type |
Weird Science | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_67b4153c | comment |
Weird Science: This is a game about Weird Science, and as such it's everywhere. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_67b4153c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_67b4153c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_67b4153c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_68f95429 | type |
That's No Moon | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_68f95429 | comment |
That's No Moon: one of the available sizes. It'll take you years even with an army of Beholden, but you can build something of this scale. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_68f95429 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_68f95429 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_68f95429 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_697b5232 | type |
Those Wacky Nazis | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_697b5232 | comment |
Those Wacky Nazis: When the true horrors of Nazi Germany were exposed to the world and nearly all remaining faith in their ideology crumbled, Ubermensch Nazi Manes came into existence and took over the Hollow Earth. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_697b5232 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_697b5232 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_697b5232 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a2ae11f | type |
Improbable Weapon User | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a2ae11f | comment |
Improbable Weapon User: You can make some weird stuff with Katastrofi. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a2ae11f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a2ae11f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a2ae11f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a696742 | type |
The Power of Love | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: Seriously, there's nothing stopping enterprising Inspired from tapping into this. How exactly one goes about harvesting and refining raw love is all up to the Genius in question. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a696742 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a696742 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a696742 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a6b23ff | type |
Unfazed Everyman | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a6b23ff | comment |
Unfazed Everyman: Fortunate Beholden can turn out like this. For example, Erwin Tycho's Beholden are two guys from Central District who think exploring underground ruins with a crazy mad scientist cowboy is way cooler than fixing cars and playing X-Box. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a6b23ff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a6b23ff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6a6b23ff | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b4763f | type |
Morph Weapon | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b4763f | comment |
Morph Weapon: Metaptropi 4 lets your sword turn into a sword. Swiss-Army Weapon: Or you could attach a smartphone, a force field generator, a cure for leukemia and a corkscrew to your sword. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b4763f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b4763f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b4763f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b723294 | type |
Techno Babble | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b723294 | comment |
Techno Babble: Jabir. It's involuntary, and makes talking shop with the mundanes a real chore. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b723294 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b723294 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6b723294 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c275297 | type |
The Fettered | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c275297 | comment |
The Fettered: Paragons, Geniuses with Obligation 7+. The 1.1 Science Hero merit only improves the benefits. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c275297 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c275297 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c275297 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c3d1777 | type |
Magic A Is Magic A | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c3d1777 | comment |
Magic A Is Magic A: More like "Science A is Science A", but this is how Wonders operate. You can't just dump Mania into something and expect it to go "because it's enchanted". You must build the Wonder, following a specific theory or idea - even if that theory or idea is utter gibberish to anyone but you, as long as you think it works, it will work. Once the Wonder is built, it will continue to work exactly as you said it would work, without deviation or alteration. Two Geniuses can build two separate Wonders to do the same thing, using completely different ideas and viewpoints, and they'll both work exactly as their builders designed them to, even if the theories are utterly incompatible - but there has to be a theory. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c3d1777 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c3d1777 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6c3d1777 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ca5a8c2 | type |
Master Computer | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ca5a8c2 | comment |
Master Computer: You can build one very good AI and let it remote-control your other robots so they all benefit from its superior mental and social skills. At least one Bardo was run by a computer. And at least one Bardo is a computer network. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ca5a8c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ca5a8c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ca5a8c2 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6d57a234 | type |
Lemony Narrator | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6d57a234 | comment |
Lemony Narrator: The source book occasionally snarks about what the Inspired do and makes references to impressively bizarre historical events. For example: | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6d57a234 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6d57a234 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6d57a234 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6dec2f19 | type |
Swiss-Army Weapon | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6dec2f19 | comment |
Swiss-Army Weapon: Or you could attach a smartphone, a force field generator, a cure for leukemia and a corkscrew to your sword. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6dec2f19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6dec2f19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6dec2f19 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6e2997fe | type |
Intrinsic Vow | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6e2997fe | comment |
Intrinsic Vow: Beholden get a chance to break free of their state if they're ordered to perform an action way lower on the Karma Meter than they usually are. Morality is also the only views Beholden can hold on their own, even if they aren't able to explain why they feel that way. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6e2997fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6e2997fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6e2997fe | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ef09297 | type |
Masquerade | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ef09297 | comment |
Masquerade: As standard in the World of Darkness, but much lower-heat than usual. The Lemurians kept it up to better stick to their plans for humanity, while Rogues kept it up to hide from Lemuria. Currently the Peerage enforces it (if barely) because public use of Wonders frequently leads to disaster. It's been slipping more and more since Lemuria fell, and the "Future Timelines" suggest in a few hundred years it'll have completely broken. It's also self-reinforcing: As Moochava himself illustrates: "People ask me why geniuses in Genius: The Transgression don't just go public. Because this is how dumb you look." If you haven't completely lost it, you'll probably have tried once or twice at most and given up to focus on more important things. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ef09297 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ef09297 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6ef09297 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6fb07cc4 | type |
Science Is Wrong | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6fb07cc4 | comment |
Science Is Wrong: Averted, and much of the conflict between Geniuses stems from a refusal to admit the aversion. The Peerage recognizes that Geniuses are insane. Lemuria, on the other hand, claims that sane science is somehow flawed, and that only their theories have any validity. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6fb07cc4 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6fb07cc4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_6fb07cc4 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7040b6bc | type |
Understatement | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7040b6bc | comment |
Understatement: The sourcebook is full of very well-done examples. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7040b6bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7040b6bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7040b6bc | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | type |
Calling Your Attacks | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | comment |
Calling Your Attacks: You can build voice-activated weapons and bio-augmentations, but that's rather impractical. Words Can Break My Bones: Have to leave your raygun at the door? No problem. When negotiations break down, you'll be armed with your tongue! "My name is a killing word." | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_71bd62b9 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_729c69f3 | type |
Politically Incorrect Villain | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_729c69f3 | comment |
Politically Incorrect Villain: Lemuria's quaint little racial hierarchies do not endear that organization to the rest of the Inspired world. A number of other sample antagonists are also insanely bigoted, and, of course, we have the Nazis. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_729c69f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_729c69f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_729c69f3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_72e0023f | type |
Invoked Trope | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_72e0023f | comment |
The sourcebook reminds us that mad science is older than rayguns, robots and Frankenstein, with mention of mad alchemists, philosophers and inventors stretching back through history. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_72e0023f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_72e0023f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_72e0023f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_73418f96 | type |
Psychic-Assisted Suicide | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_73418f96 | comment |
Psychic-Assisted Suicide: The human survival instinct is too strong to force someone to commit suicide unless you're really good. Incredibly stupid behavior, oddly enough, is a perfectly reasonable suggestion. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_73418f96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_73418f96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_73418f96 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_747c12e1 | type |
Creating Life Is Bad | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_747c12e1 | comment |
Creating Life Is Bad: Very easy to do. And very easy to get a Transgression with. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_747c12e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_747c12e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_747c12e1 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7582930a | type |
Hollywood Science | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7582930a | comment |
Hollywood Science: Giving Mania to a wonder requires "Doing Science To It," characterized by knob flipping, switch turning, bolt tightening, and other methods of "Science." Transferring Mania from a wonder to a character requires "Doing Analysis," which involves staring at readouts from a machine whilst muttering to yourself, measuring with slide rules or calipers whilst muttering to yourself, or writing down data you've apparently gathered whilst muttering to yourself. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7582930a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7582930a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7582930a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_75979171 | type |
The Cuckoolander Was Right | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_75979171 | comment |
The Cuckoolander Was Right: Geniuses are insane, but they also tend to be genuinely more intelligent than mere mortals; mechanically, this translates into an extra dot in a mental attribute. Simply put, their reasoning might be incomprehensible, but they can still come up with the right answers. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_75979171 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_75979171 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_75979171 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_76c30df4 | type |
Will Not Tell a Lie | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_76c30df4 | comment |
Will Not Tell a Lie: Traditional Peers refuse to lie, including lies of omission and misdirection. This dates back to the Scholastics' origins as a Zoroastrian philosophy cult. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_76c30df4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_76c30df4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_76c30df4 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7789df57 | type |
Healing Shiv | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7789df57 | comment |
Healing Shiv: Exelixi Rays, which require a rank of Katastrofi to build. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7789df57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7789df57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7789df57 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7870735b | type |
From Bad to Worse | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7870735b | comment |
From Bad to Worse: Geniuses are mad. They can go madder. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7870735b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7870735b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7870735b | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175 | type |
Unequal Rites | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175 | comment |
Unequal Rites: There's a lot of snark wars fought over Aesthetics, since the style a Genius uses to create is often an expression of their philosophy of mad science. Steampunkers and Pod People are chronically at odds over both "which is cooler" and over whether the Pod People are obsessed with form over function. And the Aesthetics most associated with the Lemurians (Crystal Future, Oscilloscope, and to a lesser extent Ray Gun) will draw side-eye from Peers, who are probably wondering if you want your jetpack just a little too much. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7958175 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_796fa10c | type |
The Ageless | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_796fa10c | comment |
The Ageless: As of version 1.1, mastery of Exelixi and the proper Syllabus allow you to live for almost 2000 years. Get extremely lucky and you can live forever. And there's always the robotic god-body plan which has no time limit. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_796fa10c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_796fa10c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_796fa10c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a1856ba | type |
I Reject Your Reality | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a1856ba | comment |
I Reject Your Reality: The definition of Unmada. Phenomenologists reject their own reality whenever they think they'd be better off in a different one. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a1856ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a1856ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a1856ba | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a555627 | type |
Honest Corporate Executive | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a555627 | comment |
Zigzagged in the second edition with the Wollen catalyst. Mides are motivated by a desire for something like, say, money and value playing by the rules, but how that manifests depends on the Mides in question, one could be a Honest Corporate Executive, another could be a Gentleman Thief Fair-Play Villain. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a555627 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a555627 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7a555627 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7aa858c1 | type |
Consummate Liar | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7aa858c1 | comment |
Consummate Liar: Phenomenologists. Of the "Just Too Alien" sort. No matter how obviously false, a Phenomenologist genuinely believes whatever he's saying. Until he decides that's boring and decides to rewrite his entire philosophy. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7aa858c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7aa858c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7aa858c1 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7bcdd204 | type |
Good Powers, Bad People | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7bcdd204 | comment |
Good Powers, Bad People: Thulian Revanchists favor Exelixi. So did the Demiurges. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7bcdd204 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7bcdd204 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7bcdd204 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7c77081d | type |
Language Equals Thought | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7c77081d | comment |
Language Equals Thought: Linguistic determinism (the strong Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) is an alternate science that can be the basis of Wonders. It's particularly popular among Nazis, Phenomenologists...and Directors. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7c77081d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7c77081d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7c77081d | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7ccd3698 | type |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7ccd3698 | comment |
Growth Ray (needs Metaptropi) | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7ccd3698 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7ccd3698 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7ccd3698 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7d2ef873 | type |
Placebotinum Effect | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7d2ef873 | comment |
Placebotinum Effect: A possible explaination for a Genius' Wonders. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7d2ef873 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7d2ef873 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7d2ef873 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7dbd52b8 | type |
Light Is Good | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7dbd52b8 | comment |
The Oracles tend to use a quasi-religious, New Age-y aesthetic that makes them look like benevolent philosophers and holy men. While they certainly believe they're personifying a different trope, the truth is rather more sinister. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7dbd52b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7dbd52b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7dbd52b8 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7efe1c56 | type |
Critical Psychoanalysis Failure | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7efe1c56 | comment |
Critical Psychoanalysis Failure: What can happen if a mortal tries to analyze a Genius. In the opening fiction, a psychoanalyst working with a Genius actually becomes a Genius from contact with him. She later becomes an Illuminated and ends up starving to death as she tries to unravel the secret to immortality. It should be mentioned that said psychoanalyst apparently received Inspired-like thoughts before pushing them away, so she arguably had one foot in the door already. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7efe1c56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7efe1c56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7efe1c56 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f2c7fae | type |
Explosive Instrumentation | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f2c7fae | comment |
Explosive Instrumentation: A very likely possibility if you let a mere mortal start fiddling with your control panels. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f2c7fae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f2c7fae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f2c7fae | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f3be191 | type |
Impossibly Cool Clothes | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f3be191 | comment |
Impossibly Cool Clothes: Imagine Prostasia armor with the concealed variable. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f3be191 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f3be191 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7f3be191 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Peerage's defeat of Lemuria and total removal of the Nine Unknown Men means that no one is in control, no one is responsible, and no, you are not getting that rocket car with the robot chauffeur without some serious coin. (Note: it's the robot chauffeur that is really expensive.) | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7fbb2a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7fbb2a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_7fbb2a3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_816a4e80 | type |
Star Wars (Franchise) | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_816a4e80 | comment |
Others have resemblance to Star Wars, Warhammer 40,000 and Flash Gordon. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_816a4e80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_816a4e80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_816a4e80 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82464731 | type |
Humanity's Wake | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82464731 | comment |
In the future timeline, Year +100 Million is described as the Solar Wastelands. Humanity is extinct, but the various posthuman races exist in a Solar System of "barbarism, sorcery and super-science," from the jungles of Venus to the alien moons of Jupiter, all watched over and manipulated by ancient, mad AIs. +500M is the age of the Solar Transformations, which also take inspiration from this genre; it's a reborn Earth full of strange and wondrous new species like arboreal octopodes, mostly primitive but with some enclaves of super-science. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82464731 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82464731 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82464731 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82b48dc | type |
Stupid Jetpack Hitler | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82b48dc | comment |
Stupid Jetpack Hitler: The Nazis (from the Hollow Earth!) have their own Geniuses. They are not nice. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82b48dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82b48dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_82b48dc | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_834420aa | type |
BFS | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_834420aa | comment |
Though there's nothing but Size restrictions stopping you from attaching it to a melee weapon | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_834420aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_834420aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_834420aa | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83442cc3 | type |
EMP | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83442cc3 | comment |
EMP: Just in case you need to shut down a dangerous or inconvenient Wonder. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83442cc3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83442cc3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83442cc3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83856158 | type |
Worthless Yellow Rocks | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83856158 | comment |
Worthless Yellow Rocks: Sapphires— imaginary sapphires made of Mania, that is— aren’t that expensive on Mars. Then again, the Martians think we fit this trope by undervaluing water. Naturally much trading ensued. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83856158 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83856158 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83856158 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83adb272 | type |
Crystal Dragon Jesus | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83adb272 | comment |
Crystal Dragon Jesus: Professor Partridge Crown believes he's the Self-Eating Fire and that his only real enemy is the Metal Peacock God. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83adb272 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83adb272 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83adb272 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83cef301 | type |
Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83cef301 | comment |
Right for the Wrong Reasons: About half the answers a Genius comes up with, the other half being impossible intuition. How else could a Genius start with a disproved theory, perform calculations that are wrong, and still get a working spaceship? The Scholastics do put a lot of effort into being right for the right reasons, it's why their Wonders tend to have much more manageable flaws. It's not stated explicitly but Atomists probably do something similar, at least for their Wonders. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83cef301 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83cef301 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83cef301 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_845789b0 | type |
Superhero | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_845789b0 | comment |
Superhero: The Iridium Sentinels — masters of Powered Armor and defenders of the street. They range from paragons of justice to unhinged inventors who create military-grade hardware to use against street-level crime. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_845789b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_845789b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_845789b0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_84a0c3bb | type |
Natural End of Time | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_84a0c3bb | comment |
Past that point, time travelers find a slowly dying cosmos as history approaches the Natural End of Time. Five billion years hence, the last intelligent life on Earth lives in a blasted waste; ten billion years hence, the Sun is surrounded by a Dyson sphere home to nightmare beings birthed from ancient computers; one trillion years hence, a darkened universe twitches through its last motions; and past that, there is only eternal darkness and strange minds birthed from quantum foam. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_84a0c3bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_84a0c3bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_84a0c3bb | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_851dda8f | type |
Humanoid Abomination | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_851dda8f | comment |
Humanoid Abomination: How Mages see Geniuses, how Geniuses see powerful Clockstoppers, and how everyone sees the Illuminated (which usually includes themselves). The residents of the Metahuman Empire, one million years into the future. They look like humans, but are Geniuses of (by modern standards) limitless power with no connection to human morality. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_851dda8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_851dda8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_851dda8f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_86a00a8e | type |
If My Calculations Are Correct | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_86a00a8e | comment |
If My Calculations Are Correct: And they probably are. At least until a mere mortal sees them, anyway. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_86a00a8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_86a00a8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_86a00a8e | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_874176be | type |
Psychic Powers | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: Wonders of Apokalypsi and Epikrato often replicate these. You can also modify yourself until you are psychic. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_874176be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_874176be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_874176be | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8767b1f3 | type |
Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: The struggle between Lemuria and the Peerage, with both sides arguably becoming grayer over the years from opposite directions. Old Lemuria was an evil organization ruled by xenophobic snake-people dedicated to enslaving the human race, and the Peerage was a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits sworn to oppose them. However, even the Peerage was not all sweetness and light; plenty of Peers fell (and still fall) into the worst stereotype of the callous, arrogant Mad Scientist primarily concerned with self-glorification and breaking the rules just because they can. New Lemuria has somewhat more noble ideals, and a genuine desire to see humanity "set on the right track". The problem with that is that all Lemurians are totally crazy. The modern Peerage has a much more humanistic approach to mad science, but some Peers still show a worrying lack of concern for mere mortals. Interestingly, Grey morality was a deliberate choice for the Peerage, partly to avoid the risk of going too far and partly to keep membership open to everyone. As far as the Peerage is concerned, it's better that the morally grey end up Peers where everyone's watching out for everyone's mental health than to end up in Lemuria or isolated and begin descending into madness. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8767b1f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8767b1f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8767b1f3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: It won't be able to devour the Earth, but any Automaton can look the part, and with Epikrato and Katastrofi you can make it cause widespread madness and destruction. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8774fb47 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_87bb6874 | type |
Villain with Good Publicity | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_87bb6874 | comment |
Villain with Good Publicity: Both played straight and Inverted. When you hit Obligation-0, you stop taking the Social penalties associate with low Obligation. However, Paragons (Geniuses who keep their Obligation high) are naturally seen as trustworthy authority figures, and any attempts to tar their reputation take a fairly hefty penalty. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_87bb6874 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_87bb6874 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_87bb6874 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88e1831d | type |
Vast Bureaucracy | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88e1831d | comment |
Vast Bureaucracy: This is pretty much all that's left of Lemuria. It's disorganized and staffed by madmen, but it's better than nothing. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88e1831d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88e1831d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88e1831d | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0 | type |
Walking Techbane | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0 | comment |
Walking Techbane: The Clockstoppers. "Purify the Wounded Earth" lets them pull this trick at range. And then they can make your computer explode. Mere mortals are a lesser version due to their ability to cause havoc just by touching a wonder. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_88fa35e0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Doing so is difficult and dings your Karma Meter, with a high chance of Came Back Wrong, but it can be done. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8967e17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8967e17f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8967e17f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89b8822f | type |
Go Mad from the Revelation | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89b8822f | comment |
Go Mad from the Revelation: A commonplace form of Breakthrough. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89b8822f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89b8822f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89b8822f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89baee12 | type |
Space Opera | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89baee12 | comment |
Space Opera: One billion years into the future is the Age of the New Concordat. The Solar System resembles the Star Wars: A New Hope cantina scene; there's more aliens and posthumans around than you can shake a mug of space beer at, living in a society that's largely the twentieth century Recycled In Space. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89baee12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89baee12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_89baee12 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b221a63 | type |
Reed Richards Is Useless | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b221a63 | comment |
Reed Richards Is Useless: Averted in a few ways: While a cure for cancer or what-have-you is within the bounds of Mania, it wouldn't be applicable on a large scale; that kind of thing draws attention, and unless you'd care to try explaining to the FDA that no-one else can administer or create the cure because of Havoc, you probably want to keep things quiet. Other revolutionary inventions, like a universal translator or advanced cybernetics, would be completely unusable by the general public, again because of Havoc. And don't forget, all this tinkering is expensive. Finally, the future timeline indicates that eventually Geniuses will find a way to make Wonders available to everyone. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b221a63 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b221a63 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b221a63 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b6394c | type |
These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b6394c | comment |
These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: Possible cause for a Breakthrough, especially in Staunens. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b6394c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b6394c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b6394c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b75d86c | type |
Badass Santa | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b75d86c | comment |
Badass Santa: Well, "badass" in the sense that he's the most powerful Mane that ever lived. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b75d86c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b75d86c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b75d86c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b92d7d5 | type |
Magic Is a Monster Magnet | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b92d7d5 | comment |
Magic Is a Monster Magnet: Maniavores called Pretas are always on the lookout for their next meal, and while they can consume mundane intelligence to an extent, the best sources of energy are the Inspired and their Wonders. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b92d7d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b92d7d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8b92d7d5 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8c55e307 | type |
Ultimate Job Security | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8c55e307 | comment |
Ultimate Job Security: The Tenure merit gives you essentially complete security for your Resources, because despite being completely crazy, you're pretty much immune to being fired. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8c55e307 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8c55e307 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8c55e307 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d12bb8d | type |
Doomsday Device | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d12bb8d | comment |
Doomsday Device: You can build low-level doomsday devices at Katastrofi 5. You can't destroy Earth, but you can devastate a city. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d12bb8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d12bb8d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d12bb8d | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | type |
Timey-Wimey Ball | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | comment |
Timey-Wimey Ball: A deliberate example. Where to begin? The setting gleefully makes temporal paradoxes possible, if very unwise. The Time Police are slowly losing their grip on history and their own members despite existing at all points in time. Temporal paradoxes don't affect Manes. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8d23f3a7 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8de7402d | type |
Measuring the Marigolds | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8de7402d | comment |
Measuring the Marigolds: Mostly averted. Geniuses call their creations "Wonders" for a reason; your average Genius, assuming life hasn't completely beaten them down, is still at least a little in awe of how the world works and what they can do while still playing by its rules. Played frighteningly straight with the Illuminated, who often want to break the universe down into numbers and are willing to do hideous things to satisfy that curiosity. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8de7402d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8de7402d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8de7402d | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c28c | type |
Crystal Spires and Togas | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c28c | comment |
Crystal Spires and Togas: One of the common Aesthetics Geniuses use. Plenty of them use it ironically; using it sincerely is associated with Lemuria and looks a bit skeevy among the Peerage. It's also popular in the Perfected Vision Institute, where it's linked with Psychic Powers. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c28c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c28c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c28c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862 | type |
Ancient Conspiracy | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862 | comment |
Ancient Conspiracy: The Lemurians used to be this, but now, they're more or less a Vestigial Empire. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8e5c862 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f0dc93c | type |
Dangerous Forbidden Technique | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f0dc93c | comment |
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Deep Inspiration allows you to use Mania that you don't have. Unfortunately, this means your Inspiration is writing checks your mind can't cash; the more Mania you spend, the greater the penalty to the resulting Unmada check. Worse still, Unmada who use Deep Inspiration risk becoming Illuminated. To a lesser extent diatribes (expounding on your worldview to a prisoner, which can lead to you forgetting that it's untrue and insane) and "editing" (destroying evidence that contradicts your untrue and insane worldview). | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f0dc93c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f0dc93c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f0dc93c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f8e7d2b | type |
Spirit Cultivation Genre | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f8e7d2b | comment |
Spirit Cultivation Genre: The Celestial Dynasty (year +50,000 in the future timeline) is this Recycled In Space. A billion worlds exist within the River of Heaven, and people channel sufficiently-advanced technology that appears to be Ki Manipulation, becoming immortal and splitting moons in half with their bare hands. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f8e7d2b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f8e7d2b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_8f8e7d2b | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a | type |
Our Goblins Are Different | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a | comment |
Our Goblins Are Different: Paper Goblins are Manes created by the desire for a truly paperless society. There are several different sub-species formed from various printed media, such as newspaper goblins, handwritten goblins, and fiction goblins. They're quite intelligent, and are willing to work with Geniuses for the right price. And for some reason, they're mostly culturally Hispanic. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9136471a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_92cca75b | type |
Ret-Gone | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_92cca75b | comment |
Ret-Gone: The Terminals (Sufficiently Advanced Aliens or Gods, it's never made clear exactly which) were annihilated from the timeline. This can also happen to stupid PCs. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_92cca75b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_92cca75b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_92cca75b | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_93ce6293 | type |
Phlebotinum Breakdown | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_93ce6293 | comment |
Phlebotinum Breakdown: This is the definition of Havoc. Most of the time things can be solved by putting Mania into the malfunctioning Wonder until it shuts down, but if you're really unlucky... | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_93ce6293 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_93ce6293 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_93ce6293 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9578bb87 | type |
Canis Latinicus | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9578bb87 | comment |
Canis Latinicus: Even Genii Geniuses don't always get their Latin right. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9578bb87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9578bb87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9578bb87 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96144372 | type |
Aristocrats Are Evil | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96144372 | comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: Lemurians like to invoke this trope when dealing with the Peerage, calling it The Invisible Empire (it's worth noting that the later uses "peerage" in reference to the academic sensenote Which uses the broader definition of the word "someone's equals", as in "peer review", rather than in the sense of "hereditary title".. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96144372 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96144372 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96144372 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_966b4df0 | type |
Time Police | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_966b4df0 | comment |
The Guardians of Forever are in charge of making sure that our timeline isn't screwed with any more than it already has. They're also a demoralized, frequently corrupt force who are fighting a losing battle. Imagine what that means for us. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_966b4df0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_966b4df0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_966b4df0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96fbeaf | type |
There Are No Therapists | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96fbeaf | comment |
There Are No Therapists: Double Subverted; there are plenty of psychologists and therapists. They're as mad as everyone else, or they will be after talking to you. They tend to specialise in manipulation. Amusingly enough, the sourcebook opens with a therapist talking with one of the Inspired. It does not end well. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96fbeaf | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96fbeaf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_96fbeaf | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9723e2cd | type |
Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9723e2cd | comment |
Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: Your character must answer this immediately upon creation. Wonders don't come out of thin air, and Mania can only take you so far. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9723e2cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9723e2cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9723e2cd | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9785b592 | type |
The Fatalist | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9785b592 | comment |
The Fatalist: Mechanists, who accept their triumphs, defeats and atrocities as predestined. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9785b592 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9785b592 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9785b592 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_97d97c28 | type |
Revenge Before Reason | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_97d97c28 | comment |
Revenge Before Reason: Both Grimms and Neids tend toward this, with Grimms content to utterly destroy their perceived enemies, and Neids demanding recognition for their "brilliance". | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_97d97c28 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_97d97c28 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_97d97c28 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_99db4d48 | type |
Necessary Fail | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_99db4d48 | comment |
Necessary Fail: The timeline that led to the existence of the Terminals is generally accepted to have been good for the universe as a whole, but it wasn't without its own horrors. Of note was the genocidal dictator Helmut Schenk, whom the Guardians of Forever were obliged to replace with Adolf Hitler. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_99db4d48 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_99db4d48 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_99db4d48 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9a0870ae | type |
Screw Yourself | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9a0870ae | comment |
Screw Yourself: Although most ways of doing it are either major Transgressions or just really, really stupid. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9a0870ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9a0870ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9a0870ae | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9aa3d869 | type |
Creative Sterility | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9aa3d869 | comment |
Creative Sterility: A Clockstopper is a mortal with no spark. They're often aggressive and their mere presence can destroy the products of creativity and intelligence. Some of them can actually render it near impossible to think. Do not expect a rational argument from them. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9aa3d869 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9aa3d869 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9aa3d869 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9bee1a7f | type |
Eldritch Location | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: Bardos, places that it has been shown don't/can't exist. You can visit them. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9bee1a7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9bee1a7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9bee1a7f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1d1e31 | type |
Black Box | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1d1e31 | comment |
Black Box: Wonders to anyone not a Genius, and Inspiration itself. Centuries of research, and Geniuses still don't know much at all about what makes them the way they are. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1d1e31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1d1e31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c1d1e31 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c45b5a2 | type |
What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: If it’s intelligent it's exactly the same as a human. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c45b5a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c45b5a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c45b5a2 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c7e3137 | type |
Hyperspace Arsenal | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c7e3137 | comment |
Hyperspace Arsenal: Masters of Metaptropi can make Wonders that are Bigger on the Inside. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c7e3137 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c7e3137 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9c7e3137 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9d6427ec | type |
Time Travel | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9d6427ec | comment |
Time Travel: "... is almost always a bad idea." After that statement, there's an entire section dedicated to dealing with time travel and all the messes that come with it. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9d6427ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9d6427ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9d6427ec | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9f8fc4ba | type |
AndZoidberg | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9f8fc4ba | comment |
And Nazis. Though they may count too, what with their race theories. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9f8fc4ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9f8fc4ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9f8fc4ba | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9fbf8969 | type |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9fbf8969 | comment |
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Pretty hard, partly due to the inherently magical nature of Inspired technology, which results in massive and horrible failure whenever Muggles so much as handle them. Mostly because a lot of geniuses are too insane to have a rational business plan. The easiest way to do it would be launching satellites into orbit. And that's not even counting the kind of shenanigans someone with rank-5 Apokalypsi can do. Zigzagged in the second edition with the Wollen catalyst. Mides are motivated by a desire for something like, say, money and value playing by the rules, but how that manifests depends on the Mides in question, one could be a Honest Corporate Executive, another could be a Gentleman Thief Fair-Play Villain. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9fbf8969 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9fbf8969 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_9fbf8969 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a0149e0e | type |
Clock Roaches | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a0149e0e | comment |
Clock Roaches: "Time-wasps" are mentioned in passing. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a0149e0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a0149e0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a0149e0e | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a04eb363 | type |
Lizard Folk | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a04eb363 | comment |
Lemuria is run by a "Third Race" of Snake People. The Order of Hermes, the classic wizards, almost-leaders of the Traditions and the sorcerous overlords the Order of Reason had to overthrow, spotted three snakes on their Sigil during the Dark Ages. (They only have one in the modern setting.) | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a04eb363 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a04eb363 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a04eb363 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a19a70f8 | type |
Evil Luddite | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a19a70f8 | comment |
Evil Luddite: The Clockstoppers, some of them can also brainwash normal humans into acting this way. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a19a70f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a19a70f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a19a70f8 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a1c0cab7 | type |
New Tech Is Not Cheap | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a1c0cab7 | comment |
New Tech Is Not Cheap: This recommends that Geniuses are able to account for how, exactly, they pay for those wonderful toys. It stops short of having the Storyteller request an itemized budget from the players. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a1c0cab7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a1c0cab7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a1c0cab7 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a211849 | type |
Life Energy | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a211849 | comment |
Life Energy: Some kind of "vital force" does exist in the World of Darkness. However, it's not really scientifically testable, and Geniuses who try just create another theory to use with Inspiration and Mania. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a211849 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a211849 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a211849 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2484b0e | type |
The Beautiful Elite | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2484b0e | comment |
The Beautiful Elite: The Nazis are all very attractive. At least, those that reach adulthood. To quote the character description for the sample Ubermenschen Genius: | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2484b0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2484b0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2484b0e | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2f1b41d | type |
Robot Me | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2f1b41d | comment |
Robot Me: With enough Axioms and integral Wonders, you could make a reasonable facsimile of many of the other inhabitants of the New World of Darkness. This can be a very useful reskin option for lazy Storytellers. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2f1b41d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2f1b41d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a2f1b41d | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a448674 | type |
Gratuitous Latin | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a448674 | comment |
Gratuitous Latin: If a Lemurian actually uses proper Latin, run. They're either very old or very obsessive; either way, that spells trouble. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a448674 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a448674 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a448674 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4be7043 | type |
Da Chief | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4be7043 | comment |
Da Chief: Mister Shark is this trope, despite being a Maori navigator from the 17th century. He runs the Time Police responsible for the 16th through 21st centuries mostly on force of personality and is an extremely powerful Genius in his own right. And he has a time-travelling canoe. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4be7043 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4be7043 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4be7043 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4f2570d | type |
Muggles | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4f2570d | comment |
Mere mortals are a lesser version due to their ability to cause havoc just by touching a wonder. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4f2570d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4f2570d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a4f2570d | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a567f7f2 | type |
I Want My Jet Pack | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a567f7f2 | comment |
Lemuria often thinks so, with each Baramin defined by when they believe humanity's technological and cultural development took a turn in the wrong direction. Sometimes their views aren't that bizarre, the Atomists are still upset about the death of the space age dreams. However you have Oracles who are still complaining about new Aristotle's organon and want to bring back the good old ways espoused by Plato. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a567f7f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a567f7f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a567f7f2 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f7120 | type |
Physical God | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f7120 | comment |
While you are out time-traveling, watch how far into the future you go or you might bump into a trans-human Genius, whose abilities, behavior, and power within their realm seem disturbingly familiar. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f7120 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f7120 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a60f7120 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a632f7fa | type |
Cool Train | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a632f7fa | comment |
Cool Train (Rather rare) | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a632f7fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a632f7fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a632f7fa | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a6e8221e | type |
Status Quo Is God | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a6e8221e | comment |
Status Quo Is God: The Terminals tried to enforce this trope, and failed to do so about as badly as it's possible to fail at anything. Their servants have lightened up, but still try to keep the big things stable. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a6e8221e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a6e8221e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a6e8221e | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7ae714 | type |
Planetary Romance | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7ae714 | comment |
Planetary Romance: The Martian Empire is a bardo created from the dream of life on Mars; an ancient and decadent civilization, technologically-impoverished but with libraries full of ancient wonder, built around canals that don't exist. They tried to invade Earth once, but now they're content with being a tourist trap for Geniuses and trying to trade for their knowledge. In the future timeline, Year +100 Million is described as the Solar Wastelands. Humanity is extinct, but the various posthuman races exist in a Solar System of "barbarism, sorcery and super-science," from the jungles of Venus to the alien moons of Jupiter, all watched over and manipulated by ancient, mad AIs. +500M is the age of the Solar Transformations, which also take inspiration from this genre; it's a reborn Earth full of strange and wondrous new species like arboreal octopodes, mostly primitive but with some enclaves of super-science. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7ae714 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7ae714 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7ae714 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7bb930 | type |
Prestige Class | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7bb930 | comment |
Prestige Class: Fellowships, research groups dedicated to studying narrow fields and that grant bonuses to wonders within that field. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7bb930 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7bb930 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a7bb930 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a808063f | type |
Black-and-White Insanity | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a808063f | comment |
Black-and-White Insanity: The Oracles' hat. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a808063f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a808063f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a808063f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a8a04f6f | type |
And I Must Scream | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: Mechanists either deny free will or believe they are being controlled by an outside force. Unfortunately for them they're Reality Warpers. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a8a04f6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a8a04f6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a8a04f6f | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a96b8b63 | type |
Space Marine | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a96b8b63 | comment |
Navigators and Artificers bear old names of Void Engineers and Iteration X respectively. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a96b8b63 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a96b8b63 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_a96b8b63 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa5a450 | type |
No Transhumanism Allowed | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa5a450 | comment |
No Trans Humanism Allowed: Averted! High-Inspiration Geniuses can become transhuman in terms of physical and mental ability even without the use of Wonders. That said, transhuman Geniuses face definite challenges when interacting with mere mortals, and their Obligation usually takes a hit as they struggle to connect to the mundane world. A certain phrase comes to mind. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa5a450 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa5a450 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa5a450 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa7b6e26 | type |
Muggle | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa7b6e26 | comment |
Havoc can fall into this. Muggles touching Wonders can make them go crazy. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa7b6e26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa7b6e26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aa7b6e26 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aabe2fb | type |
Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aabe2fb | comment |
Deliberate Values Dissonance: Crops up now and then. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aabe2fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aabe2fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_aabe2fb | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ac1c4bf7 | type |
Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ac1c4bf7 | comment |
Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Nothing stops you from giving your robot butler a plasma cannon. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ac1c4bf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ac1c4bf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ac1c4bf7 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_acc265c6 | type |
Rollerblade Good | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_acc265c6 | comment |
Skafoi for any kind of movement more complicated than just walking/rolling around. There is a large, loosely-connected organization of Geniuses who specialise in Powered Armour. They use it to fight crime. The above Required Secondary Powers are also a good guide as to how much time and effort has to go into your average Cool Starship, Humongous Mecha, Do-Anything Robot, and other sci-fi standards. Generally worth it. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_acc265c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_acc265c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_acc265c6 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
The Clockstoppers. "Purify the Wounded Earth" lets them pull this trick at range. And then they can make your computer explode. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad1db87c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad1db87c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad1db87c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4578de | type |
Hollow World | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4578de | comment |
Hollow World: The Hollow Earth pocket reality. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4578de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4578de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4578de | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4f656 | type |
Transhuman Aliens | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4f656 | comment |
Transhuman Aliens: Humanity as a whole transcends the human state for the first time around 100,000 years in the future, though some Illuminated manage it before then. By year +1 million, the people of the Metahuman Empire are impossibly powerful and completely alien gods. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4f656 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4f656 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad4f656 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad551ef4 | type |
Robot Maid | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad551ef4 | comment |
Robot Maid Battle Butler: Or upgrading/creating a normal butler with Wonders. Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Nothing stops you from giving your robot butler a plasma cannon. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad551ef4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad551ef4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ad551ef4 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_af98df4e | type |
They Called Me Mad! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_af98df4e | comment |
They Called Me Mad!: You are mad. But generally associated with the Neids: it's how they Catalyze in the first place. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_af98df4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_af98df4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_af98df4e | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afc52a86 | type |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afc52a86 | comment |
Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: In a game about Mad Science, this isn't just expected but frequent. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afc52a86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afc52a86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afc52a86 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afd71b8a | type |
Inside a Computer System | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afd71b8a | comment |
The Grid looks like TRON. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afd71b8a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afd71b8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_afd71b8a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b04fdcc4 | type |
Loners Are Freaks | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b04fdcc4 | comment |
Loners Are Freaks: "Actions that physically or psychologically distance the Genius from humanity" are about mid-level Transgressions; at higher Obligation, going without human contact for a day is a Transgression. It's no accident that staying at the top of the Obligation meter requires more than normal sociability. When you're on solid ground, you can relax; when you're on the Slippery Slope, you need to keep trudging upward. Also leads to Cybernetics Will Eat Your Soul and therefore (indirectly) to Immortality Immorality. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b04fdcc4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b04fdcc4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b04fdcc4 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b06aaffa | type |
Bifurcated Weapon | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b06aaffa | comment |
Bifurcated Weapon: Yes, Integrated Wonders let you attach a sword to your sword. Morph Weapon: Metaptropi 4 lets your sword turn into a sword. Swiss-Army Weapon: Or you could attach a smartphone, a force field generator, a cure for leukemia and a corkscrew to your sword. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b06aaffa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b06aaffa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b06aaffa | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b17f6a27 | type |
I Did What I Had to Do | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b17f6a27 | comment |
I Did What I Had to Do: It's implicit that great atrocities were committed by both sides during the Invisible Wars. Nevertheless, most Peers believe they acted out of necessity. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b17f6a27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b17f6a27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b17f6a27 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b1f18adb | type |
Ray Gun | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b1f18adb | comment |
Ray Gun: Via Katastrofi. Variants include: | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b1f18adb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b1f18adb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b1f18adb | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b26cc887 | type |
Just Between You and Me | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b26cc887 | comment |
Just Between You and Me: Justified — that process is called a "diatribe" and it gives you Mania. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b26cc887 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b26cc887 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b26cc887 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b352279a | type |
Attack of the Killer Whatever | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b352279a | comment |
Attack of the Killer Whatever: With the right Axioms, you can make anything from plant women to flying monkeys to an evil room. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b352279a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b352279a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b352279a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b3deb1c6 | type |
Sexbot | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b3deb1c6 | comment |
Sexbot: The epitome of disturbing. Also a major Transgression if it's sentient. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b3deb1c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b3deb1c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b3deb1c6 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b408c009 | type |
City of Adventure | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b408c009 | comment |
City of Adventure: Seattle, probably because it's got a crapload of technological companies.* And all the other big cities were claimed by the real WoD. As of 2014, Seattle has also become the setting of official nWoD gameline Demon: The Descent. Despite being a pretty nice place for mortals, the Inspired population of the city is rather dangerous and there're the remnants of a dangerous Bardo just beneath the surface, with Lemurians hopelessly trying to revive it. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b408c009 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b408c009 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b408c009 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b426973b | type |
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b426973b | comment |
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Averted. Transforming a living thing has no effect on its mind; trying to turn a bloodthirsty dinosaur into a docile rabbit results in a bloodthirsty rabbit. The exception is transformation of living things to non-living things, that results in unconsciousness on the part of the victim until they're reverted. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b426973b | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b426973b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b426973b | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b47d95be | type |
No OSHA Compliance | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b47d95be | comment |
No OSHA Compliance: To put it very mildly. More than a few Geniuses have been killed in the midst of their work, because they were more concerned about finishing their Wonders than making sure they weren't exposed to horrific toxins, deadly radiation or other such hazards. This gets particularly bad if a mortal gets into a Genius' workshop and starts causing Havoc. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b47d95be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b47d95be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b47d95be | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Phenomenologists look like a Take That! to the Cult of Ecstasy, Post-modernism in general or a Shout-Out to the Science Wars | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b53077b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b53077b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b53077b3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b55e8979 | type |
Science Hero | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b55e8979 | comment |
Science Hero: Always popular with the players. It's even a merit now, which lets you reduce penalties from Jabir and increase the character's social bonus from high Obligation (if any), as long as you stay above Obligation 6. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b55e8979 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b55e8979 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b55e8979 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
The setting gleefully makes temporal paradoxes possible, if very unwise. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b58b4e3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b58b4e3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b58b4e3c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b72ae7 | type |
Omnidisciplinary Scientist | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b72ae7 | comment |
Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Occurs in two separate ways: The game mechanics encourage players to gain expertise in multiple fields. A Genius never suffers from using an old skill in a new context; if they know how to drive a car, they can drive anything else, whether they're rolling down the highway in a Mack truck or piloting a spaceship. | |
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One Stat to Rule Them All | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b798d379 | comment |
One Stat to Rule Them All: Not coming far without Intelligence. Also, don't treat mental skills as a Dump Stat unless you are Too Dumb to Live. It is about Mad Scientists, after all. You can use Wits instead when kitbashing, which can sort of allow you to get by on that instead, but even if you can reduce, eliminate, or afford to ignore the inherent penalties suffered for doing so, kitbashed wonders are always temporary. | |
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Came Back Wrong | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_b983a56b | comment |
Came Back Wrong: Unless you are very, very lucky, any attempt raising the dead brings them back evil and insane. If you really screw up you might get a batch of Pandorans. On the other hand, you can deliberately attempt to bring a corpse back as a Promethean or a vampire. 'Course, you still run the risk of really pissing off whoever you brought back. Fun Fact: They might not be HAPPY that they are a walking wasteland, and depending on how you did it, it may be impossible for them to interact with normal humans due to the possibility of Havoc (if they are being kept alive by Wonders, at least) | |
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Power Nullifier | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ba0e3912 | comment |
Power Nullifier: At its highest level the Clockstopper Void Purify the Wounded Earth automatically disables all nearby wonders. | |
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Transformation Ray | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ba56f91c | comment |
Transformation Ray: Anything into anything else. | |
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Incredible Shrinking Man | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_bab7fceb | comment |
Shrink Ray (also needs Metaptropi) | |
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Tragic Dream | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_bdf2a460 | comment |
Tragic Dream: In keeping with the central theme of futility a lot of Mad Scientist have this. Some Geniuses have a tragic dream because they're mad and lack the social skills and organisational skills needed to accomplish a task, or because attempts to do regular science end up turning into mad science. Just as often it's because their dream itself is fundamentally nonsense. For example Seattle's Atomists are trying to create a utopia. They genuinely believe a "fascist police state governed by all-seeing technology" would be utopia, which makes achieving their dream impossible. | |
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Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_beb91a53 | comment |
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Lampshaded in the sourcebook. "Do you have a beautiful daughter? If so, be careful ― if you turn evil she'll probably betray you to the hero and let the monster eat you." | |
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Translator Microbes | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_bf487e2b | comment |
Translator Microbes: Universal Translators can be made with Apokalypsi. | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c042eee9 | type |
Invisible to Normals | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c042eee9 | comment |
Invisible to Normals: Averted. Ordinary people can see a Wonder just fine. This is a law of mad science commonly referred to as "Mulder's Lament." On the other hand, everything goes to hell when they start touching it. | |
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Weaksauce Weakness | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c09dbbbb | comment |
Weaksauce Weakness: Some Wonders have Faults that can fall into this trope. Vehicles that behave like tediously legal bureaucrats (flight plans must be filed, lane changes must be signaled, and the proper traffic lanes must be adhered to or the vehicle stalls) steal the limelight, but weapons that you literally have to convince to work for you and robots that will switch sides at the first opportunity are also pretty up there. Geniuses themselves have one very obvious limitation: a powerful Genius can build doomsday devices, resurrection machines, or a suit of Powered Armour that reaches godlike levels of power out of components whose total cost is very high in the long run. Havoc can fall into this. Muggles touching Wonders can make them go crazy. A potential fault is 'must be plugged into electrical outlet'. Okay for a computer. Less so for a submarine. | |
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Life Drinker | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c25b1a4 | comment |
Life Drinker: All "manes" (creatures created in realities produced by the excess mental energy of dis proven theories), orphans (Mad Scientist inventions that have broken loose and gone mad) and any Genius who takes it have the "Calculus Vampire" merit which allows them to drain Mania (essentially mad science/brainpower as a sort of energy), which the first two groups must feed on. | |
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Science Marches On | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c309f9d1 | comment |
Science Marches On: In-Universe, when popular theories are disproved, they tend to spawn Manes and even Bardos in their image. Nobody has figured out what happens when people decide that a true thing is true, then decide that the true thing is false. Probably something very bad. A non in-universe example; the book says that among the archaeological errors can be found in the Hollow Earth is the Brontosaurus. However, since the book was written, real-world scientists have determined that Brontosaurus is in fact a valid genus distinct from Apatosaurus. | |
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Satan | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c3bafbce | comment |
Some Illuminated tend to be a bit fanciful in their self-concepts — you get a fair number of them thinking they're the Devil. That is, if they haven't gone to the other extreme. | |
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Mad Scientist Laboratory | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c3cc5fa0 | comment |
Mad Scientist Laboratory: Every Genius or Collaborative worth their salt has one, and they come in every style you can imagine. The traditional movie version is an Aesthetic of its own, called Universal (named after Universal Horror) and built around Jacob's ladders and 19th-century glassware. Almost nobody actually makes labs like this anymore, but many labs over a century old still look like this. | |
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Appropriated Appellation | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c4842ab1 | comment |
Appropriated Appellation: "Pod People" was originally derogatory slang for Everything Is An I Pod In The Future. Pod People themselves started using it later. | |
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The Soulless | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c4dc0698 | comment |
The Soulless: One of the more popular interpretations of the Illuminated. | |
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Gentleman and a Scholar | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c514c2c4 | comment |
Gentleman and a Scholar: Jabir makes playing this kind of character slightly difficult, but some social skills (particularly expression) are extremely useful for a Genius to have. | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c5f0119c | comment |
Insane Troll Logic: The Phenomenologist modus operandi. The nicer ones tend to be Ethical Hedonists, but even they could take a turn for the deep end at any given moment. | |
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We Want Our Jerk Back! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c631f304 | comment |
We Want Our Jerk Back!: We Want Our Nefarious Madmen Back: After the last Invisible War, the Peerage actually allowed Lemuria to put itself back together. Needless to say, this wasn't done out of affection so much as the fact that the Lemurians had a better handle on managing the Inspired world. Furthermore, the Peerage defined itself almost exclusively by not being Lemuria, and the risk of instability in the absence of a common enemy frightened the Peerage bigwigs. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Several of the terms (Void Engineers, Etherites, Hollow Ones, Progenitors, and so on) used are repurposed oMage terminology. The Phantom Foundation's members are commonly referred to as Karnackis. Their field teams are Ghostbusters with the Serial Numbers Filed Off. There is a little known program in the Muslim world that according to reports either focuses on pyrotechnics or summoning aliens from distant stars. "Pinky: Slang term for a useless Beholden." There is an Aesthetic for Wonders called "Pod People" whose design principles seem very familiar. "Wesley: An underage Genius." The Navigator's introduction to Skafoi is nicknamed the "TimeCube Volume". In the section giving examples of Wonder design aesthetics, the combination of H.R.Geiger -esque Organic Technology and ramshackle Homemade Inventions is nicknamed "Crawling Rusty Meat". The first evidence of the Numericals was in September 1993: in fact, that's how they started. One of the Sample Wonders in the appendix is the Walking Eye. Mars is a mixture of The War of the Worlds and John Carter of Mars. With Greys. The Grid looks like TRON. Hilariously, the first 'future timeline' is basically Left Behind. ... if God was a supercomputer who uploaded all the really moral people and then decided to kick off a Zombie Apocalypse. Because this is still Genius. Others have resemblance to Star Wars, Warhammer 40,000 and Flash Gordon. The origin of the term "Beholden" comes from a Genius known for shouting "Gentlemen... BEHOLD!" Then there's the "Multi — Tool" wonder: a mechanical manipulation and repair device, "... resembling a large screwdriver" A well liked robot called Stitchin' Bitch was listed among the deceased from a recent attack on the Orphanatorium. May he rest in peace. Yao Ming's plan to take over the solar system looks a lot like Sauron's. The inability of Geniuses to communicate their ideas is called Jabir, in reference to the Sufi mystic and polymath JÄ�bir ibn HayyÄ�n, for whom the word "gibberish" might be named. The laws of mad science each have a formal name and a nickname. The Nicknames are all shoutouts. The Law of Broken Theory — Geniuses are not real scientists — is called Popper's Little Secret. The Science is Science rule — Mania is a very badly understood science, not magic — is called the Anticlark Corollary. The Black Box Law — you can never really understand how a Wonder works — is called Goldblum's Diatribe. The Mere Mortal Law — Mortals cause havoc — is called Gilligan's Rule. The Obvious Truth Law — Mortals can see Wonders just fine — is called Mulder's Lament. The 2nd edition has a Fellowship for kid geniuses called the Kidz Klub they believe adults are part of a big conspiracy to opress children and use an aesthetic called "Treehouse Technology" | |
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Cool Starship | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c7b5445c | comment |
Cool Starship: Needs at least one dot each in two unrelated Axioms for the purposes of life support and radiation shielding. | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c89f0472 | type |
Troperiffic | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c89f0472 | comment |
Troperiffic: This game pretty much consists entirely of Mad Scientist tropes, and treats the Applied Phlebotinum tropes as blueprints. Look at how many tropes are on the page and then realize we still have more to go. That about sums it up. This probably explains why it's so popular on TVTropes. The Future Timeline contains just about every genre of science fiction known to mankind, with the core tropes of each setting distilled and on display. | |
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It Can Think | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_c95d04f2 | comment |
It Can Think: God help you if an Orphan mutates into something smarter. | |
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We ARE Struggling Together | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_cbdd9a55 | comment |
We ARE Struggling Together: A villainous example would be Lemuria itself; all Lemurians agree that human development needs careful guidance, and that Geniuses are the ones who must act as guides. That's all they agree on. The Baramins are prone to infighting, as is to be expected when a bunch of Insufferable Geniuses try to cooperate. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Villanous Directors can fall into this. | |
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Epileptic Trees | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ccdd6905 | comment |
Also an in-universe theory about the nature of Inspiration. Especially since some of the Illuminated see themselves as Eldritch Abominations in human form. Then again, Illuminated are all insane. | |
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The Aesthetics of Technology | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_cd52fd56 | comment |
The Aesthetics of Technology: A Genius' Aesthetic is a manifestation of how they think super-advanced technology should look. For some Geniuses, their Aesthetic is their idea of Rule of Cool, others use an Aesthetic with a sense of irony, or a postmodernist examination of what it means to be mad science. Unmada can't do this; their belief is that their worldview is The Truth, and so their Aesthetic reflects that, and making a Wonder in a different style ranges from difficult to impossible. | |
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Toxic Friend Influence | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_cdad4b25 | comment |
Toxic Friend Influence: Unmada Manes (the Manes spawned or attracted by the fields Unmada produce) can guard areas, offer advice, or act as an information network for the Unmada in question. They also have vested interest in making sure the Genius stays crazy. | |
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_cdc4a218 | comment |
Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Played With. You can kill Hitler, but it won't do anything (except get the Time Police mad at you.) Hitler has been killed six times over, so the setting's Time Police started cloning him. Not that they like it, mind you. There's an office pool if the next guy to clone Hitler kills himself out of guilt. Heck, if you head back to 1921 Hamburg, you can get a tour of the cloning facility. And Hitler wasn't the original German dictator behind WWII, the time police just decided cloning was going be easier than finding replacements. | |
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Flat-Earth Atheist | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_cf1b706e | comment |
Flat-Earth Atheist: This is actually a potential theory to use for a Genius' mad science or a Bardo, since the World of Darkness is a world of spirits and vampires (not to mention Geniuses), so a purely material universe makes as little sense as the Luminiferous Ether. Thus, paradoxically, rejection of supernaturalism is itself supernaturalism. | |
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Steampunk | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_cf6d4bad | comment |
Steampunk: The latest fad among mad scientists; brass goggles, radium guns, rivets everywhere. Actual Victorian Geniuses generally looked nothing like this. Those who didn't adopt a Baroque Aesthetic most commonly didn't use a conscious Aesthetic at all, and their laboratories looked like something out of a Universal Horror set. Nowadays, that's called the Universal Aesthetic; it's not used much anymore, but there's still many old laboratories in that style. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain: The nicer Lemurians. | |
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Creating Life Is Awesome | |
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Creating Life Is Awesome: Creating life is considered perfectly acceptable. Creating intelligent life is considered a modest Transgression more because it's socially frowned upon than because it's automatically unethical. Mad Scientists tend to do both anyway. | |
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Postmodernism | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d17eaa9f | comment |
Postmodernism: The Hermetic Order of the 28 Spheres take a distinctly postmodern approach to mad science, styling their Wonders as magic artifacts to play with concepts like Magic-Powered Pseudoscience and Clarke's Third Law. | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d243518d | comment |
And Hitler wasn't the original German dictator behind WWII, the time police just decided cloning was going be easier than finding replacements. | |
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Alchemy Is Magic | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d251db87 | comment |
Alchemy Is Magic: The traditional form of the Alembic aesthetic has Geniuses do Science in what looks like a traditional alchemical laboratory complete with mortar and pestle. Sometimes they add glowy runes and other overtly "magical" elements to this; most Geniuses think that that's kind of silly. The Ten Thousand Fans are a Program (independent Foundation) whose organizing principle is including Chinese alchemy and traditional medicine in their practice, and their Axioms focus on restoration and transformation. They're getting big enough that the Peerage is considering offering them membership and recognizing their alchemy as "mad chemistry." | |
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Teen Genius | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d280a296 | comment |
Teen Genius: Uncommon, but the casual term for them is Wesleys. Try not to hold it against them. | |
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Incendiary Exponent | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d323d090 | comment |
Incendiary Exponent: Invoked in the section on Storytelling, along with High-Altitude Battle. | |
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1.0 | |
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WorldHalfEmpty | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d37c028d | comment |
World Half Empty: As this is set in the New World of Darkness, this trope is present in spades. One bit that stands out is that a massive 20% of all Geniuses will eventually become Illuminated. Half of these Illuminated succumb more or less immediately after their Breakthrough. The Guardians of Forever are in charge of making sure that our timeline isn't screwed with any more than it already has. They're also a demoralized, frequently corrupt force who are fighting a losing battle. Imagine what that means for us. | |
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| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d397657d | comment |
Unlike normal Automata, Manes created via Automata factories are in no way loyal to the Genius who created them. And God help the Genius once these new humans find out that merely interacting with regular people puts them at risk of insanity or death. Calculus Vampirism is also considered a pretty hefty Transgression, which is likely to make these clones murderously insane given repeated use (not to mention that Calculus Vampirism is effectively torture, and they have no choice but to repeatedly do this to people if they merely want to survive). | |
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Morally Ambiguous Doctorate | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d3aad64a | comment |
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: A third of Geniuses have a legitimate degree, another third just say they do or just stick Doctor or Professor in their name. | |
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Our Monsters Are Weird | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d42fb539 | comment |
Our Monsters Are Weird: Yes, yes they are. From mutant Orphans, to avatars of broken faith, to evil disembodied infectious Yetis born from the mind of a crazy Polish sculptor, the Inspired world has no shortage of bizarre monsters lurking in the shadows. And if you have the right Axioms, you can make new ones yourself. | |
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Imported Alien Phlebotinum | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d45ad2f5 | comment |
Imported Alien Phlebotinum: You can visit places that were once widely believed to exist, then proved not to, and bring some of their technology home, including the Martian Empire. Imported super-science is explicitly equivalent to that built by a Genius. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d46ddfa2 | comment |
Cloud Cuckoolander: Staunens can be like this. As the Neids put it, "The cosmos has its boot on your throat, and you're admiring the shoelaces." | |
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Comes Great Responsibility | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d581ba71 | comment |
Comes Great Responsibility: Your Morality stat is called Obligation. | |
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We Didn't Start the Führer | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d6a33187 | comment |
We Didn't Start the Führer: Well, not this Fuhrer. Helmut Schenck was the original genocidal mastermind of the Twentieth Century. When a time-traveller knocked him off, the Guardians of Forever took a Viennese art student and turned him into the new dictator of Germany, and have been cloning him whenever some time traveler decides to violate Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d71d51fd | comment |
The End of the World as We Know It: It's actually a little tricky to cause this. You'd need an awful lot of doomcannons, to start with, and some way to get past the Time Police. So, if you're feeling ambitious enough to tackle a project like this, it's probably best to gather a cabal of like-minded individuals and brainwash the heck out of 'em; can't have any second thoughts now, can we? The odds are against you here, but never say die, eh? | |
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The Unfettered | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d839c530 | comment |
The Unfettered: The Illuminated, who have lost all human morality. They often fail to understand such distinctions as living and dead, organic and inorganic, or one person and another, and they eagerly weld such disparate elements together in their creations. | |
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Immortality Seeker | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d959f4db | comment |
Immortality Seeker: Dr. Jonas Cliver, the Genius from the story in the book's prologue. Also, his intellectual heirs; they're looking for true immortality, not a Mania-fueled longevity, nor a Wondrous immortal body. Their quest ends horribly for all of them. | |
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Battle Butler | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_d9d8fd35 | comment |
Battle Butler: Or upgrading/creating a normal butler with Wonders. | |
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A God Am I | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: Some Illuminated think of themselves this way. Given what they are, that may not be entirely inaccurate. | |
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All Theories Are True | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_dc5ca303 | comment |
All Theories Are True: You can use any to build Wonders. Lemuria believes that the trope is actually true Meanwhile, many Lemurians and most Peers think this trope is just a trick. The Hermetic Order of the 28 Spheres especially focuses on the fact that All Theories Are False, since Geniuses don't do real science, and all their theories (as long as they're self-consistent) work equally well as frameworks for Maniacal devices. Therefore, it honestly doesn't matter what theory you base your Wonders on, because everything works. They have a lot of fun with this while simultaneously trolling more serious-minded Geniuses. Most of their raison d'etre focuses around subverting expectations and testing the limits of what Mania considers a "workable theory". Paradigm shifts can also lead to the creation of Manes or even Bardos, thus making them somewhat real retroactively. | |
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Words Can Break My Bones | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_dc791d50 | comment |
Words Can Break My Bones: Have to leave your raygun at the door? No problem. When negotiations break down, you'll be armed with your tongue! | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: The primary benefit of high Obligation is the trust of others when acting from a position of knowledge and authority. | |
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Only Mostly Dead | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_dd5faec5 | comment |
Only Mostly Dead: The "basic" form of resurrection essentially works this way. As far as mad science is concerned, anyone who's less than an hour dead, hasn't died of age or suffered massive brain trauma hasn't really had their ticket punched, and can be resurrected without risking the Karma Meter or dangerous failures. | |
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Universal Driver's License | |
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Universal Driver's License: An explicit ability of Geniuses. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_dda99fa8 | comment |
Despair Event Horizon: A possible form of Breakthrough. It won't necessarily create a Klagen, though. | |
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Vision Quest | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_de9c7ad5 | comment |
Vision Quest: One of the many forms a Genius's Thesis can take. | |
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Everything Sensor | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_deca6032 | comment |
Apokalypsi for scanners and communication. | |
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1.0 | |
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Love Is in the Air | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_df1baa1f | comment |
Love Is in the Air / Love Potion: Messing with someone's emotions is a minor Transgression. Taking sexual advantage of them afterwards is a huge one, on par with mundane rape. | |
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Historical Villain Upgrade | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e16217f8 | comment |
Historical Villain Upgrade: Nikola Tesla was a member of the Evil Counterpart organization. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e2ccee25 | comment |
Animal Motifs: Lemuria is often described in terms of a serpent or dragon. Given the organization's origins, this shouldn't come as a surprise. | |
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Morality Pet | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e3b0cd87 | comment |
Morality Pet: In second edition Geniuses can have Touchstones, people who keep them relatively sane, this could be anyone from the nice delivery girl who delivers food to your lair and worries about your health to the vigilante who sends you to a Bedlam House over and over instead of killing you hoping you get better (you won't). | |
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I Hate You, Vampire Dad | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e3fcfa4a | comment |
I Hate You, Vampire Dad: Not unheard of. The Peerage (and Lemuria, for that matter) encourages Geniuses to take responsibility for the education of anyone who became Inspired as a result of seeing their Wonders. But not everyone wants to be a Genius, particularly if they had aspirations to an actual career in science. Argentine St. Croix, for example, killed the man responsible for her Breakthrough almost immediately after going mad. Zig-zagged with Doctor Ibanez. At first she's excited by the new ideas, and then she's afraid of letting some alien intelligence implant insane thoughts in her head. But when the time comes she says "I want this." Later her mentor reveals he provoked her Breakthrough solely to betray her and use her inventions to become immortal. She doesn't seem that angry about this, and they have a pleasant conversation until he starves to death and she cuts open his head to put his brain in a machine. Eventually, she becomes an Illuminated and starves to death so arguably becoming a mad scientist was bad for her. | |
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Load-Bearing Boss | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e4cf1ef0 | comment |
Load-Bearing Boss: God help you if you kill a Genius in his Laboratory full of Wonders. Chances are good that you'll start a chain reaction of explosions and feral Orphans. | |
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The Igor | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5120d | comment |
The Igor: Beholden, otherwise ordinary people who see they world exactly as the Genius sees it and thus can handle Wonders without wrecking them, fill this role. In fact, "Igor" is a slang term for a Beholden. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5120d | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e529d5c3 | type |
Torches and Pitchforks | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e529d5c3 | comment |
Torches and Pitchforks: The appropriately-named Clockstopper Void "Brotherhood of Righteousness." | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e529d5c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e529d5c3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161 | type |
Expy | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161 | comment |
Expy: Clones, robot duplicates; you know you want to. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5421161 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e543a655 | type |
Light Is Not Good | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e543a655 | comment |
Light Is Not Good: It's mentioned several times that the Illuminated have embraced the light of Inspiration. The Oracles tend to use a quasi-religious, New Age-y aesthetic that makes them look like benevolent philosophers and holy men. While they certainly believe they're personifying a different trope, the truth is rather more sinister. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e543a655 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e543a655 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e543a655 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5455dac | type |
Mana | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5455dac | comment |
Mana: Mania, the pure creative energy that powers a Genius's Wonders. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5455dac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5455dac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5455dac | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5e6640b | type |
Flanderization | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5e6640b | comment |
Also subverted, in that "more defined" often means "more streamlined" for a Genius. A high-Inspiration Genius becomes enormously powerful, but plenty fall into archetypes and rote behaviour. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5e6640b | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5e6640b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e5e6640b | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e74e8d62 | type |
Weather Dissonance | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e74e8d62 | comment |
Weather Dissonance: Spotting unnatural weather conditions is something every Genius can do. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e74e8d62 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e74e8d62 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e74e8d62 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e794cb54 | type |
Powered by a Forsaken Child | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e794cb54 | comment |
Powered by a Forsaken Child: Larvae are components for Wonders that require moral sacrifice, such as... well, the heart of a little orphan boy. The Trope Namer is directly quoted in the section describing Larvae. With the Technomancer Merit, a genius can convert any sort of metanormal energy (Glamour, Mana, Vitae) into Mania. Yes, it is possible to turn blood into Science. You can Cram a fairly potent spirit into a tube and suck essence out of the thing — of course, doing so has a nasty tendency to piss off the other spirits in the area who'll then make trouble for you. And lord help you if the local Werewolves find out. Nothing quite says "Bad Day" like a pack of pissed off werewolves ripping your laboratory apart, destroying months of research, wonders, and possibly yourself if you don't either get out of there or pull out the death ray and start going to town. If you are also using another popular fan game Princess: The Hopeful, you can literally create a wonder that runs on The Power of Love, The Power of Trust, and The Power of Friendship, i.e. Wisps. Those Wacky Nazis can get extra Mania by using their Atrocity Halls. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e794cb54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e794cb54 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799 | type |
Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Blue-and-Orange Morality: The Illuminated are hopelessly insane, and their motives are incomprehensible. Many of them don't even remember how morality works. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_e8e56799 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eaa8a7d8 | type |
Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers! | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eaa8a7d8 | comment |
Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Which has a nasty tendency to lead to irredeemable madness. Starting to see a pattern? | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eaa8a7d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eaa8a7d8 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb4086e3 | type |
Big Creepy-Crawlies | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb4086e3 | comment |
Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Malcolm T. Washington Fellowship, a Fellowship that accepts only Geniuses of African-American or African-Canadian heritage, are specialists in this field. This might seem like a rather narrow charge, but it turns out that there are a lot of very smart, slightly crazy black people who really really want to work with giant bugs, especially when there's grant money involved. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb4086e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb4086e3 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb8e12d6 | type |
Rules Lawyer | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb8e12d6 | comment |
Rules Lawyer: In-Universe, the Hermetic Order of the 28 Spheres are a Fellowship based around rules-lawyering the idea that Science is Science. A Wonder works according to some theory's laws of physics, and the Hermetics are the kind of people who want to stretch what "some theory" means well beyond the breaking point. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb8e12d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb8e12d6 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb9eaecd | type |
Jet Pack | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb9eaecd | comment |
Jet Pack: Or jet boots. Or Icarus wings. Or you could just turn yourself into something that flies. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb9eaecd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb9eaecd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eb9eaecd | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ebcf99b5 | type |
The Unmasqued World | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ebcf99b5 | comment |
The Unmasqued World: Around 300 years in the future, humans stop causing Phlebotinum Breakdown in Wonders, and the line between science and mad science disappears because everyone has access to Wonders. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ebcf99b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ebcf99b5 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ec0bf4a1 | type |
Take Over the World | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ec0bf4a1 | comment |
Take Over the World: Successfully done by Lemuria (or so they claim), and a common goal of Overlords and Hoffnungs. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ec0bf4a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ec0bf4a1 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ec7da60a | type |
Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ec7da60a | comment |
Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Used, but downplayed. The game identifies Nikola Tesla, Robert Hooke and Leonardo da Vinci as famous Geniuses from history. It is also possible that that there were other lonesomes who managed to work in mundane science. Not every famous scientist, scholar, or inventor was a genius, the game emphasises. A good trait of a scientist is being able to convey complicated ideas simply and clearly. Geniuses are literally incapable of this thanks to Jabir. A very specific Aversion outlined in the first edition book was everyone involved in the Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer most of all. Both the Peerage and the Lemurians kept strict tabs on the group, not wanting to risk the Havoc that might be wrought by a Genius's take on the world's first prototype nuclear weapon. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ec7da60a | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ec7da60a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ec7da60a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ed6d2a0a | type |
The Mad Hatter | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ed6d2a0a | comment |
The Mad Hatter: The Peerage takes pains to remind its members that all Geniuses are mad; it helps keep them from going too far. Lemurians think they're sane. They also have an insane worldview that's notably non human-centric. This is not a good combination. A delightfully recursive example shows up: Dr. Vienna's madness means he's an unconscious reality warper whose powers constantly prove him right. He knows this and takes steps to counter it with logic, which his reality warping prevents from succeeding. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ed6d2a0a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_edb16be9 | type |
Phony Degree | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_edb16be9 | comment |
Phony Degree: In Genius society, around half of the "Doctors" you'll meet just claimed the title without actually earning the degree. Among Geniuses, it's highly impolite to question this. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_edb16be9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_edb16be9 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eee99653 | type |
Can't Have Sex, Ever | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eee99653 | comment |
Can't Have Sex, Ever: Manes and biological Wonders can't be fiddled with by mortals without risking Havoc. And some of those Manes look and act just like normal people... | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eee99653 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eee99653 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ef60bed2 | type |
To the Future, and Beyond | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ef60bed2 | comment |
To the Future, and Beyond: Time travel is a dodgy proposition, since trips to the same era doesn't reliably bring you to the same events, but a general progression of epochs is established as the most common destinations that time-travellers find themselves in: The near future, up to about fifty years hence, is mostly home to the immediate descendants of modern cultures, and to people using slightly more advanced versions of modern technology; this is usually similar enough to current tech that it if is brought back it doesn't count as Wonders. Travelers heading ten years in the future usually find themselves amidst The Rapture; travel to fifty years hence instead brings you to an ice age where robots are warring against humanity. A few hundred years on, technology becomes more complex — internal AI is often seen among scientists, police officers, and spies — and the line between regular people and Geniuses starts to blur. A hundred years in the future, the serpent masters of Lemuria use its control of the Internet to take over humanity's computerized brains and rule the world, but their rule eventually slips and they're assimilated into human civilization. Two hundred years later, the Martian Empire manages to make itself real and takes over the Solar System, beginning a golden age of interstellar culture. Travel thousands of years ahead, and humanity begins to be more and more altered; life extension and the digital preservation of deceased minds are common. A thousand years in the future, the Solar System is a patchwork of human and posthuman nations. Ten thousand years hence, its worlds are ruled by a cruel despot. Tens of thousands of years hence, humans possess immense personal power thanks to ages of genetic and technological augmentation. 50,000 years in the future, a civilization of godlike, immortal people rules the stars; 100,000 years hence, the world is a sterile waste, sometimes replaced by complex megastructures, while humanity's minds live as gods in digital worlds. Millions of years from the present, metahumanity resembles modern folk about as much as we do apes. Powerful, undying and fey, they live in Dyson spheres, digital simulations and stranger things, and their morality rarely resembles that of modern men. Hundreds of millions of years from now, humanity and metahumanity are gone, but new life inhabits Earth. In 100 million years, androids, beast-men and stranded aliens live in barbaric societies amidst the ruins of ancient technology and ancient, mad machines on a new supercontinent and on the terraformed Solar worlds. 500 million years hence, new intelligences evolve from far-future animals in a primitive Earth under a tired Sun. A billion years from now, the Solar System is an interstellar hub for travelers, criminals and scoundrels from countless alien races. Past that point, time travelers find a slowly dying cosmos as history approaches the Natural End of Time. Five billion years hence, the last intelligent life on Earth lives in a blasted waste; ten billion years hence, the Sun is surrounded by a Dyson sphere home to nightmare beings birthed from ancient computers; one trillion years hence, a darkened universe twitches through its last motions; and past that, there is only eternal darkness and strange minds birthed from quantum foam. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ef60bed2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_ef60bed2 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eff83d77 | type |
Mundane Utility | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eff83d77 | comment |
Mundane Utility: A creative Genius has an unbelievable potential for Mundane Utility. However, using wonders in this way is a (very, very minor) ding on the Karma Meter, like in Mage. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eff83d77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_eff83d77 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f09a2e19 | type |
Time Travel for Fun and Profit | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f09a2e19 | comment |
Time Travel for Fun and Profit: Obviously. The Guardians tolerate a little messing around, and many Geniuses use that to their advantage. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f09a2e19 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1716087 | type |
Goggles Do Something Unusual | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1716087 | comment |
Goggles Do Something Unusual: A handy hands-free alternative to regular scanners. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1716087 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1716087 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1716087 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1919d5b | type |
Being Evil Sucks | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1919d5b | comment |
Being Evil Sucks: As is standard for the World of Darkness, falling down the Karma Meter screws with a Genius. The less Obligation they have, the less of what's in there is really them, as they're taken over by their own brilliance. Their social skills are stunted, which means difficulty keeping the resources necessary for that Mad Science flowing, and if it goes down too far, they become Illuminated, incapable of interacting with others or making moral decisions. At that point, most other geniuses will hunt them down before they can become a real threat to everyone else. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1919d5b | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1d6144a | type |
War Is Hell | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1d6144a | comment |
War Is Hell: The Invisible Wars were not fun. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1d6144a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1d6144a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f1d6144a | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f283319c | type |
Tortured Monster | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f283319c | comment |
Tortured Monster: The Cold Ones, the last surviving beings after the heat death of the universe, existing as fluctuations in the cosmic emptiness. All they can do is lie there and think, and whenever they can, they try to trap and feed on time travelers for their delicious heat and matter — and maybe travel into a world where things exist. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f283319c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f283319c | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f4ade120 | type |
Scaramanga Special | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f4ade120 | comment |
Scaramanga Special: The "Concealed" Variable can be used in this capacity. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f4ade120 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f4ade120 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f4ade120 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f68664dc | type |
Science Is Bad | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f68664dc | comment |
Science Is Bad: Clockstoppers certainly think so. The extremes some of them take this to can be downright horrifying. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f68664dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f68664dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f68664dc | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76842b1 | type |
The Fundamentalist | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76842b1 | comment |
The Fundamentalist: Oracles and Etherites, with morality and their pet mad-scientific theories, respectively. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76842b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76842b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76842b1 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76b8969 | type |
Anthropomorphic Personification | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76b8969 | comment |
Anthropomorphic Personification: Manes are commonly personifications of ideas that used to be widely believed, most commonly disproved scientific theories. Clockstoppers are not actually personifications, but no one would blame you if you thought they were walking avatars of Anti-Intellectualism. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76b8969 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76b8969 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f76b8969 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f87c42d4 | type |
Video Game Cruelty Potential | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f87c42d4 | comment |
Video Game Cruelty Potential: Aside from the obvious applications of Mind Control, a Transformation Ray or a Doomsday Device, there are Illuminated who apply this trope to real life. In all cases except the Illuminated, though, this results in a Karma Meter hit. The Illuminated only don't take hits because they no longer have a Karma Meter. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f87c42d4 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f93d8d52 | type |
Girlfriend in Canada | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f93d8d52 | comment |
Girlfriend in Canada: A type of Mane in second edition. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f93d8d52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f93d8d52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f93d8d52 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f95027af | type |
Spy Satellites | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f95027af | comment |
Spy Satellites: Unless you're scanning outer space, there's no real advantage to placing scanners in orbit. Presumably a spysat with Skafoi 3 would actually be useful. | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f95027af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_f95027af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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The Power of Friendship | |
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The Power of Friendship: Well, the power of communalism, anyway. The Foundations' Grants (special abilities) are fueled by Mania contributed by their members. It takes about one-thousand Geniuses working together to maintain a Foundation, Baramin, or independent Program. | |
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Robot Buddy | |
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Robot Buddy: This can actually happen accidentally — complex Orphan Wonders of Geniuses with higher Obligation can develop their own, and with it, a connection to humanity. | |
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Phlebotinum Bomb | |
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Phlebotinum Bomb: Weapons can be built to only affect specific targets. You could make a rust ray, a ghost gun, anti-clothing lasers... | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: The nastier Hoffnungs. Not just Hoffnungs either; even Klagens who just want to fix things can fall into this very easily... And all of the Lemurians, Geniuses who haven't gotten the memo that they literally cheat reality and think that something Went Horribly Wrong in the past, and they have to fix it in the present. They range the gamut from Knight Templars to playable Anti Villains. | |
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MacGyvering | |
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MacGyvering: A Genius can "kitbash" a Wonder together in hours, minutes, or even seconds if they're powerful or have bought the right merit. | |
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Perpetual Poverty | |
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Perpetual Poverty: Geniuses need resources to create Wonders; mad science can make money, but only with upfront investment and business acumen, and insanity is a real disadvantage in a normal job. It's reached the point where the Artificers have literally started unionizing to provide themselves with communal workspace and accommodation. | |
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