Tuesday Table: Fortean Phenomena

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A lot of games deal with strange phenomena, but even games that take place in a completely rational world can benefit from the occasional reference to strangeness. Weird happenings (and the inevitable stories about them) can provide local flavor, give an eccentric GMC something to rant about, or can serve as a cover for the bad guys (and they would’ve gotten away with it too, if it hadn’t been for those pesky PCs).

  1. Time Slip
  2. Alien Abduction
  3. Haunting/Poltergeist Activity
  4. Mass Delusion/Panic
  5. Strange Disappearance
  6. Ostension of an Urban Legend
  7. Religious Experience (stigmata, miracle, Jesus appears on a taco)
  8. Out-of-Place Animal
  9. Crop Circles
  10. Cult Activity
  11. Conspiracy Theory
  12. Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
  13. Biological/Medical Anomaly
  14. Man With No Name (amnesiac, feral child)
  15. Spontaneous Human Combustion
  16. Anomalous Archaeological Find
  17. Strange Things Fall From The Sky (frogs, fish, blood)
  18. Cryptid Sighting (bigfoot, lake monster, chupacabra)
  19. Fringe Science (cold fusion, time travel, orgone)
  20. Wild Talents (ESP, telekinesis, clairvoyance)

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