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They Came From Beneath the Sea! $19.99
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They Came From Beneath the Sea!
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by Anthony C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/18/2023 13:01:28

An excellent game for Campy, cheesy and low budget films!



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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They Came From Beneath the Sea!
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by Chris J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 01/14/2022 08:37:25

TCFBTS! is what would happen if Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchet was asked to rewrite the RPG adaptation of Roger Corman's Jaws (After Spielberg was eaten by the mechanical Bruce). It's got a lot of love and affection for the genre, but isn't afraid to recognise the occasional absurdities, or to play up the tropes we've all come to know. As a big fan of the horror/comedy/b-movie genres, i've enjoyed the balance it allows you to take in the game, and you can vere wildly from one tone to another without it breaking your immersion - in fact, it just enhances it.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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They Came From Beneath the Sea!
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by Paul E. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/09/2021 16:36:42

As a fan of sci-fi and B-movies, I found this a great book with a fun and surprised detailed setting leaning into its 50's sci-fi movie inspirations, while carefully balancing the Red Menace, McCarthyism and other elements of the time period. There is an impressively wide host of over thirty threats, from the all-consuming Aquatepillars, to the mankind-impersonating Crab-People, to the monstrous Centopus the hundred-legged cephalopod. Spread among the threats are a host of plot threads and adventure seeds that immediately made me think of half a dozen adventures I'd be excited to run with this game. The PCs are similarly drawn from the stock characters of the source material, with players inhabiting the Everyman, the Scientist, the G-Man or others. A major conceit of the game is that while the characters are inhabiting the situations as described, the players have a meta level that the game is also a movie, allowing some fun elements like the characters' ability to build up a meta-currency that allows...See more



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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They Came From Beneath the Sea!
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by Andrea B. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/27/2020 13:54:52

Just have my copy of They Came from Beneath the Sea today! I played this amazing 1950s b-movie game during FabCon On line this summer with Matthew Dawnkins! What can i say more?



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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They Came From Beneath the Sea!
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by Henrik J. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 10/01/2020 20:07:44

I've made a video review of this game on the link here: https://youtu.be/-Abh1O7tCP0



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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They Came From Beneath the Sea!
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by Alex D. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 09/25/2020 11:14:51

The book does a great chance of providing both Storytellers and Players a tool box to tell a unique story. By emulating the fiction rather than the reality, by leaning into the tropes and allowing them to codified the game avoids being a comedy game and instead challengesw the players to lean into the tropes and the fiction challenging them to think less about what they know (hard skilling) and more about what the story needs.

This version of the Storypath system is familiar to anyone who has played any World of Darkness or Scion game but the meta powers are where the game comes into its own.

You will like this if:

  1. Your group likes horror but isn't afraid to have a giggle.
  2. You see your game as a moive or tv show (with the camera panning and cutting away to X).
  3. You enjoy in running a idealised version of the real world (or historical periods).
  4. You want to se what happens when a trope has a mechanical backiong to it.
  5. You like d10 dice pools systems

Art does a great job of capturing the feeling of the game without distracting. The Bestiary is expansive (including creatures from beneath the sea, aleins, cyborgs and my personal favorite the COMMUNISTS!)

I sprang for the Preium colour version and it holds up to the retail version of other Onyx path books. The card decks are interesting and there are online rollers for if you want to use them without printing them out.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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They Came From Beneath the Sea!
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by David F. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/31/2020 12:10:06

I played this at a convention and had an amazing time. I have never laughed that much while playing a TTRPG. Highly recommended.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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