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This might be too late, but here's a few things you might do with it: - Children of the Night: The Created had a mechanical golem possess a house and an adventure based on it. The cosmopolitan culture of that adventure might not work in Falknovia though. -This option would only be if you don't mind ...

I always thought one of the things of Lovecraftian horror that might work best was not the monsters themselves, but all of the cults that worshipped them. If a person gave up his identity and empathy and turned his back on humanity when witnessing an alien horror and decides to even start up a cult ...

3) So many powerful and deadly Dracovs. He has some potent blood. But I thought one of his curses was that his offspring would always be weak, lesser and dissapointing. Hence the importance of Vlad jr, the one good and strong son who isn't a dissapointment. And yet... It would matter little how goo...

Further along the path the fire mage might become a blazing bones or a pyre elemental. I second giving him bonuses for fire magic. Making him vulnerable (or at least really bothered by) holy water might be a good exchange. Or perhaps the need to constantly keep warm/close to fires as the fire inside...

How useful is this book if you intend to scrap most of the rules contained therein and just use it as inspiration for something with different mechanics?

I have played several other games in the past, including several Palladium system (don't care for Rifts all that much though). I ran a fairly long-running investigative Nightbane, and I ran a semi-horrific Heroes Unlimited game about several refugee mutants who just happened to keep on being wrapped...

Is the visage in the monster section the same one that was from the 2E Planescape module Dead Gods?

The only thing I could think of is that if you could somehow apply a Contingency spell to lesser restoration or the like to occur when you got hit by such a draining effect.

I hope this things comes out. A lot happened in Asian history that is worthy of exploring in game- opium wars, millenarian cults, etc.

Wasn't there an article in one of the netbooks a while back about an illithid spelljamming craft that crash landed on Gothic Earth? The illithid sent some sort of mind worms to take control of its victims and to make them into a sort of half-illithid? Also, if there's near extinct illithid involved,...

This is a really great idea. The researcher one sounds promising. He could be a former student of Mordenheim or apprentice to Frantisek Markov (both sound like they would be involved in this sort of thing) who shares the hateful human supremecy beliefs of Vlad Drakov and Falknovia. I think the Wildl...