https://www.curufea.com/ 2026-06-02T19:26:36+00:00 https://www.curufea.com/ https://www.curufea.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2020-08-04T05:11:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=factionpbta:basics:characters&rev=1596517906&do=diff 04 The Characters The players other than the Grandfather play the protagonists of the game. They are all members of Faction Paradox. * Have a look at the start * The Chosen One (an Idealist) You are the last scion of Faction Paradox. A character for the headstrong and driven. text/html 2020-08-04T05:11:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=factionpbta:basics:coterie&rev=1596517896&do=diff 05 The Coterie The coterie is the collection of protagonists that includes the player characters. They all share a common Coterie Playbook which tracks collective start and states the coterie shares. It also provides a relatively safe base of operations and method of transport as well as preferred mission or adventure types for the game. text/html 2020-08-04T05:11:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=factionpbta:basics:grandfather&rev=1596517886&do=diff 06 The Grandfather The premise of the Faction and its founding is the Grandfather Paradox - so named for the time travel paradox of killing your own Grandfather before you were born. Many of the rituals of the Faction involve praying to, or invoking the idea/concept of the Grandfather. These rules will refer to the person running the game as text/html 2020-08-04T05:10:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=factionpbta:basics:magic&rev=1596517825&do=diff 02 It's Magic Yes and no. It's all a matter of sophistry. Is technobabble in Star Trek magic? Are they performing rituals to have things work? People are doing nonsensical things with physical objects and spouting nonsense words - moving perspex cards round inside lit boxes, or moving fingers symbolically on glass plates full of esoteric glyphs. text/html 2020-08-04T05:10:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=factionpbta:basics:players&rev=1596517837&do=diff 03 The Players As a player in the game you are creating a fiction with other players in the game. The fiction is the imaginary story that you collaborate on which informs later choices you make. It has intuitive rules that often follow real life or if they diverge, they do so in ways that you and your fellow players have decided on together. text/html 2020-08-04T05:08:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=factionpbta:basics:setting&rev=1596517728&do=diff 01 The Setting Imagine all of time and space, the entire universe and everything in it. Imagine multiple dimensions, alternate realities, alternate Earths where the Roman Empire conquered the world or where Germany won the second world war. Imagine different timelines where the choices you made in your life went the other way. Now people all of those things with aliens of all shapes and sizes, with technologies so close to magic they're indistinguishable. This is our stage. text/html 2020-08-04T01:31:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=factionpbta:basics:start&rev=1596504671&do=diff 01 The Basics Because… there are monsters in the world, Justine. They can walk the Earth without seeming any more real than fairy-stories. They make their plans while everyone else is asleep, and they can move the walls of the maze without anybody ever knowing it. And sometimes… one has to be those monsters.basics index text/html 2020-08-04T05:12:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=factionpbta:basics:who&rev=1596517941&do=diff 07 Doctor Who Ever since there were creative differences after the first 4-5 books that had Faction Paradox in them, official media for the Faction has not had a Doctor Who license from the BBC. So apart from the Sontarans (because the creator of that race also writes for the Faction) - all trademarked phrases have been dropped from FP material. I lapse between FP terms and DW terms throughout these rules, so a short translation table will help. If this ever becomes an