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The Gentleman Gamer: Mummy: The Curse RPG Review 

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In which the gentleman in question reviews Mummy: The Curse, the newest World of Darkness setting by Onyx Path Publishing.
Mummy sees you take on the role of one of the Arisen. Immortal servants of unknowable Judges, driven to serve the machinations of those that blessed / cursed them with eternal life. Their existence is fraught with the balance of power and memory. Too much of one subdues the other, so what happens when a Mummy requires both?
Mummy: The Curse can be purchased through rpg.drivethrust...

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@AspelShuyin
@AspelShuyin 10 лет назад
Have you done Demon: The Descent yet? I've seen it in other videos on your shelf.
@364dragonrider
@364dragonrider 8 лет назад
I can imagine one idea. A lot of people like to say that rather than like most WoD games, where the idea is to be more human, in mummy the idea is to be less human. Now I'm sitting here and thinking: "What if they didn't? What if there was some conflict there?" For example, I'm currently coming up with an idea that is essentially RWBY, but the huntsman and huntresses are creatures from the WoD. For example, Ruby is a changeling, Weiss is a vampire, Blake is a bastet, and Yang is a beast. Now in this campaign idea, Pyrrha is a mummy. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. When pyrrha falls for jaune, that would provide some conflict as pyyrha becomes closer to a human, does she want to drop it, stay a powerful mummy forever, or does she decide she wants to stay with Jaune, become human, grow old and die with him?
@godofzombi
@godofzombi 11 лет назад
Actually I'd be a bit angry if my cult had turned my tomb into a mcdonalds... But I guess there are worse ways to awaken. Like finding the corpses of your cult members, who died in the act of reviving you, gunned down by SWAT troopers. Troopers who are probably still be nearby...
@c.a.suleiman2448
@c.a.suleiman2448 11 лет назад
Nice review, Matthew. Thank you for finding the time (and manner) to get it done.
@davidducker
@davidducker 11 лет назад
what about a campaign where you rise in the years 200 (rome), 700 (dark ages), 1200 (crusades), 1700 (age of sail) and 2200 (solar colonies) and continuously oppose a rival cult serving a god in opposition to your own? that sounds like a winner to me
@kinagrill
@kinagrill 4 года назад
You could use a setting of the 1490s, at the time of Conquistadors.... perhaps your cult had migrated from Ancient Egypt, around the world, ending up in the southern americas - aka. Aztec Empire. You could have been an initial cause for the Aztec Belief? It'd be a cool alternate take on Hernan Cortez or Columbus arriving - Taking away Relics and YOU, the Arisen, awakes once more - your cult having been fighting with their lives to keep those relics safe.... time to get them back. Perhaps there'd be some maritime adventure to it, maybe you'd end up going to spain, maybe you end up fighting Vampires that had instigated the original thieves to bring those relics of yours to spain, so they could try and use them to gain true immortality, not merely undeath. Could be very cool :)
@pikewerfer
@pikewerfer 10 лет назад
seems to be pretty different from MtR..... must take a look.
@Nhytewulf
@Nhytewulf 11 лет назад
The POD Hunter the Vigil book i got from DriveTrough is not that great. It is bound very well, but the paper quality is not great and the print looks like photocopied. It is nothing the quality like my other White Wolf book. Maybe this has improved since last year. I am a burned child and wount buy a POD again.
@HiddenDragon555
@HiddenDragon555 10 лет назад
Couldn't an Arisen make notes for when he wakes up next? Obviously protecting them in some form and preferably in a way only he/she could get it of course.
@S0L1nv1ctus
@S0L1nv1ctus 9 лет назад
Well without enough Memory , it would be as if the mummy would read a story about a Person with the same Name . She could use the Intel of Notes or Diaries , but she would have zero connection to it , maybe she even didint use it because she thinks its just a hoax or a trap (or just forgot what a notebook is)
@HiddenDragon555
@HiddenDragon555 9 лет назад
S0L1nv1ctus I guess that would be a problem.
@HPCthulhu2011
@HPCthulhu2011 10 лет назад
I remember decades ago having a tough time with Ravenloft's (Mummy) Touch of Death adventure even though the (Zombie) Night of the Walking Dead worked out very easily. There was an old movie called The Keep, which was scary at the time. There was a Mummy in that movie, and it was a creature that stayed hidden in the keep. Now this WoD book should be full of ideas and details on this classic monster. They went to vampire and werewolves in the movies. There used to be a creature from the lagoon that was a classic monster and of course the Frankenstein monster.
@lynchfan21
@lynchfan21 11 лет назад
Sorry, the correct title of the story is "Murder Mysteries" and it is in the collection titled "Smoke and Mirrors." But "Angel Heart" and Charlie Stross's novel "Glasshouse" provide some excellent inspiration.
@HPCthulhu2011
@HPCthulhu2011 10 лет назад
Mr Gamer, in the Ravenloft book about the Ancient Dead, a comparison is made between a litch and an ancient dead. Under point number four it does mention that the full extent of the monsters powers are there from the start where as a lich accumulates more power and knowledge during its existence. You might know that White Wolf did temporarily purchase the rights from wizards of the Coast to publish Ravenloft. They were the Kargat members for years.
@heraldofthemetalgods2620
@heraldofthemetalgods2620 Год назад
there be ants in ma pants them i must fight for da cheese
@Darkfire966z
@Darkfire966z 11 лет назад
Thanks for your review of Mummy: The Curse. I demoed this game at my city's Gaming Convention but found it difficult to run as a one shot. I let all the players play as the Arisen and left cult involvement as NPC's. The concept was that the PC's were to take part in an auction where a mysterious alchemist was auctioning off numerous supernatural items, including a rank 5 amulet called "The Collar of Shapesh", a powerful relic of Irem that reflects damage inflicted on the wearer back on the attacker. Suffice to say there was a vampire (and his ghouls) and a Cabal of Mages who also wanted the relic. Despite a good plot, the players thought it would have worked better with 1 mummy and his/her cult.
@TheGentlemanGamer
@TheGentlemanGamer 10 лет назад
I'm currently running a game where everyone plays an Arisen, and it's going very well.
@SuperFantasyChannel
@SuperFantasyChannel 10 лет назад
Mr. GentlemenGamer would you be willing to re-release the mummy the curse google+ session you played with C.A. Suleiman, Ander Wood, Mark Rein Hagen and yourself as Storyteller?
@TheGentlemanGamer
@TheGentlemanGamer 10 лет назад
I can't at this present time, due to one of the players being
@Elround4
@Elround4 10 лет назад
It would be interesting to see how a Purified Immortal would interact with a Mummy. The cover art of WOD: Immortals does suggest such a meeting being possible. ^^ A guild/cult with many Purified members comes to mind. On another note, the concept of "starting with no memories that are later regained" could done with the Purified who've temporarily died in their mind/spirit state with some remaining essence. Perhaps you could throw them in as player characters who suffered such a fate in Twilight and then slowly regain their former nature along with the mummy characters.
@TheGentlemanGamer
@TheGentlemanGamer 10 лет назад
I have started crossing the two over in the game I'm running of Mummy in fact... ;)
@DarkerDaysRadio
@DarkerDaysRadio 11 лет назад
Perhaps of use to people is Darker Days Radio #45 where we look at how Mummy can cross over with other games in the World of Darkness, as these other games can provide some great antagonists - or even cultists.
@DarkerDaysRadio
@DarkerDaysRadio 11 лет назад
Also for those wanting some background behind some of the art in the book, Darker Days Radio #44 has our interview with C.A. Suleiman, and the artist for much of the work, Samuel Araya. Also, do you agree with our own 'unboxing' of this book, that it is a bit of a shame the the book cover style is not quite in fitting with the previous NWoD core books?
@TheWorldsOnFire
@TheWorldsOnFire 11 лет назад
Never understood problems with power disparity. So long as you can make one character, class, or race distinct enough from another, that should be enough for people. I will play a Ghoul in a game of Vampire because there are somethings that a Vampire, despite all there power, cannot do that a Ghoul can. It's a different experience. So long as you don't make the players feel impotent all the time, there should be no problem.
@SuperFantasyChannel
@SuperFantasyChannel 10 лет назад
Being what Mr. Gentlemen? Because Ander is no longer indisposed. So do you think you'd be willing to release it again?
@TheGentlemanGamer
@TheGentlemanGamer 10 лет назад
Not while one of the players has a criminal record, no.
@slavaukraini1991
@slavaukraini1991 11 лет назад
Loved the review, and the intro was especially engaging as one would expect from the Gentleman Gamer ;) I'll be looking at this more closely for sure
@whatislife42
@whatislife42 11 лет назад
Whats funny is I have been on a major Mummy the Cursed kick these past few days. Been reading the book, dreaming up characters, npc's, plots and themes, and now this wonderful review video. Looks like I'm destined to run Mummy. Also, I completely agree with you on some of the weird places some of the things were, It threw me off a few times when I kept trying to find out where the 'Deeds' section was because it just seemed so disconnected from the guilds, judges and so forth.
@hipnosapista
@hipnosapista 11 лет назад
I feel there are a lot of interesting mechanics that could be made in this game between the players for creations of character and setting... For example, what if the ones who decide how the mummy will be wont be the ones who play it? And the one who will play the mummy decide which will be e characters assisting them, but not which players to attach to it? Also I could let eery player secretly tell me a random fact about history of the mummy from before... Idk, so many options. I find this to
@godofzombi
@godofzombi 11 лет назад
My GM hasd informed me in advance, if we get around to playing mummy the curse i'm not to play a carbon copy of Imhotep/Ardeth Bey/ Anakaris from the classic universal mummy movies. Damn. ah well Nyarlathotep reference it is then! :D
@NewWaveMasquerade
@NewWaveMasquerade 11 лет назад
This Mummy game sounds quite interesting indeed and the cover of the book looks wonderful as well as the artwork inside, I think I may add this to my RPG drive thru wish list. For a WOD fan like myself who’s not familiar with either the old and new versions of Mummy, I wonder how different they are from each other.
@RaemanTom
@RaemanTom 11 лет назад
Finally got around to seeing this. Top shelf review as always, and a very interesting sounding game indeed!
@TheGentlemanGamer
@TheGentlemanGamer 10 лет назад
Cheers!
@Officer5o
@Officer5o 9 лет назад
Good to see this one was made, It took me two years to come across it but worth it!!
@jshmorris4
@jshmorris4 6 лет назад
I'm into the mummy RPG. Unbandaged 1.
@Elround4
@Elround4 10 лет назад
How does the power level of a Gnosis and Arcanum 10 Achmage/Archmaster/Seeker (that book had too many terms, ugh) from Imperial Mysteries compare to a recently awakened Arisen?
@Willifrex
@Willifrex 10 лет назад
God-like power of the Archmage that can make people vampires, werewolves, humans, create another version of yourself, and exist in multiple realities at once. Compared to a recently arisen? Yeah they are not balanced.
@Elround4
@Elround4 10 лет назад
Willifrex But don't their highest leveled spells require them to go reality hopping for Quintessence and can't they still be killed if you happen to be *lucky enough* to stumble upon any unprepared one in the current reality he/she actually inhabits? Furthermore, going back to their Golden Road still requires concetration ; aka a roll of Composure and Wits, and thus even a dice pool of 20 (10 Geonosis means they can push their attributes up to 10) still has a chance of failure. If we ignore the hassle of the (*reality saving*) Pax Arcanum for this hypothetical conflict,place said conflict where paradox is not an issue, say the Archmage has no Quintessence, yet he/she has enough Arcane Experience for the fight, and say the Archmage has to think on his/her feat instead of preparing; how does an Archmasters Golden Road augmented spell (say a forces spell that could at the max: have 10 potency, target 256+ people, attack 100+ sized targets, 2+ mile radius AoF, last 20+ turns, and are literally infinite when prolonged) compare to the full might of an Arisen's magic?
@lynchfan21
@lynchfan21 11 лет назад
The brilliance of the mummy meta-plot is that is gnostic neo-noir engine. Find inspiration in Neil gaiman's murder mystery which involves the murder of an Angel in heaven
@TheSwamper
@TheSwamper 11 лет назад
It sounds very interesting. I look forward to trying it. You reviewed it quite well, thank you.
@alexishoarau187
@alexishoarau187 11 лет назад
Excellent review, Mummy the curse is one of my favorite lecture with Promethean & Geist in the new WoD. And your great introduction really help to understand the curse of the Arisen.
@DioceseTemplar
@DioceseTemplar 11 лет назад
Amazing review and beginning story as usual. I love when you review games by starting with some splat. Your Changeling the Lost has been the go to video for me when trying to explain it to prospective players. A true gift friend.
@godofzombi
@godofzombi 11 лет назад
A crossover with vampire the requiem would be awesome! a Mekhet of the Lancea sanctum would fit right in with the mummies.
@tyrant-den884
@tyrant-den884 6 лет назад
This would be a cool Indy video game.
@Eronicavel
@Eronicavel 11 лет назад
This seems like a very interesting game. I wonder if there is someone online who is looking for players...
@hipnosapista
@hipnosapista 11 лет назад
Be interesting for long one offs. I would be really interested to play this game.
@godofzombi
@godofzombi 11 лет назад
Will you do a video on Demon the descent and/or the god-machine chronicle?
@TheKahiron
@TheKahiron 11 лет назад
Nice review. Premise sounds great, will definitely give it a try.
@Bfish20
@Bfish20 11 лет назад
Good review. I'm definitely going to put this on my to buy list.
@MultiKarius
@MultiKarius 11 лет назад
Great review, I should look at this game more closely.
@eggmansizzle
@eggmansizzle 11 лет назад
Been waiting for a vid from you on Mummy! Good stuff.
@hellsing507
@hellsing507 10 лет назад
Great review
@TheGentlemanGamer
@TheGentlemanGamer 10 лет назад
Thanks for saying so!
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