So what made me choose this particular title to start off with instead Well, this sourcebook is special because it has the involvement of actual conspiracy theorists. My original plan was to review 100 Conspiracies and 100 Conspirators by James Desborough, who you are probably familiar with if you read the Grognards.txt thread, but the constant repetition of the same “ wants to kill, players protect them” plot points repeatedly sapped my will to live before I could actually get to the creative or stupid/offensive parts. UFO ALIEN INVASION SCRIPT HOURS SERIESIs a good introductory look at conspiracy theories from Victorian anti-Freemason sentiment up to modern Trutherism if you are into that – but the Clinton years seemed to have a perfect storm of the sentiment that fuels conspiracy theories and squeezed the genre into fiction in a big way with media such as the X-Files series and the rather bluntly-named film Conspiracy Theory. The conspiracy theory has been around for far longer in both reality and fiction, of course – the book RPG developers sure as hell do, to the point where it was extremely difficult to figure out what thing I wanted to cover first in the genre, even with the caveat of “no starting on a setting with further sourcebooks below it before Cerulean Seas is done”, which eliminated Conspiracy X and a few others right off the bat. Do you remember the conspiracy genre boom of the 90s? I do. Welcome to post one of two for this book with a rather interesting-looking cover. Part 1 posted by Fossilized Rappy Original SA post
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