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Conspiracy X (New Millennium Entertainment, 1996) | Retro RPG
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Conspiracy X (New Millennium Entertainment, 1996) | Retro RPG
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Description: On the surface the world looks very much like the one outside your bedroom window. The same people are walking the same dirty streets, the same animals rummage through the same garbage, and the same mindless drivel is shown on the same television stations.
Sometimes that world just doesn't seem right. You wake up in the morning and get the feeling that something isn't as it should be. Why do certain figures appear out of nowhere and become famous overnight? Why do the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer? What is the government really paying for when it shells out 75 bucks for a screwdriver? Why is it the more questions you ask the less answers you get?
Why is it any answer always leads to another question?
Sometimes you cannot see what defines your world. This is the nature of conspiracies. This is the nature of Conspiracy X.
Conspiracy X takes place in a world of dark secrets and hidden agendas where the only certainty is nothing is what it seems. The president might not be human... and the sign carrying paranoid on the street corner ranting about CIA mind control satellites may very well be right.
In other words, a world just like yours, if you could see beyond the lies...
Welcome to the World of Conspiracy X
#rpg #conspiracyx
This has been one of my most successful games to run, I’ve had several campaigns go for years.
Where it really shines is the sourcebooks. Each adds a ton of lore and that lore in each connects to the others, it really connects up everything in an amazing way that players get to slowly piece together (and the GM does too as they get all the books lol).
For example without spoiling it I grabbed the Cryptozoology sourcebook thinking it’d just be a cool bestiary for one-off sessions and was blindsided to learn it includes several big-players in the big picture and something critical to understanding a lot of what’s going on behind the scenes.
And then the Sub-Rosa book reveals some deep dark secrets about the one group that had seemed like they might have genuinely been “good guys”.
It’s masterfully done.
While I play the Unisystem version these days (though I house rule away the nonsense range on Remote Viewing) the old books have tons of lore that didn’t fit the condensed new edition sourcebooks (though each of the new ones do add some cool new elements the one extraterrestrial book couldn’t fit everything in the original 3 alien sourcebooks). And the axe et cards work better with a full deck of them (I snapped up a deck plus some official Conspiracy X dice from an official Kickstarter for the last Unisystem sourcebook.. that again added whole new layers to the lore).
I've heard nothing but good things about the sourcebooks for Conspiracy X, and remember them all on the shelves back in the day, but sadly I never picked them up. Many thanks for sharing, very much appreciated.
Conspiracy X was an innovating game, but as pointed out in this review, it was largely overtaken by Delta Green as a Call of Cthulhu supplement/setting and also the Guide to the Technocracy for Mage: The Ascension (WoD) when that came out. I also note that the psychic ‘Archetypes’ concept was actually adopted in a way in Unknown Armies.
Conspiracy X has a more traditional conspiracy back-setting, but was a little more predictable because of this and struggled to maintain a market niche in comparison to the other big lines.
Like most of us, I was totally drawn into the conspiracy based tales of the 90's, with the X-Files, etc. So I picked this up, along with Delta Green, and I think it was just down to me reading Delta Green first which made me like it better. They just seemed too alike, although there's loads to love in Conspiracy X.
loved this game and its background. Eden studios is still around but has not put out new stuff since 2014. I remember there was a future sourcebook where there is an post apocalypse alternate future where the players struggle vs. a Saurian invasion
It was a game I never got any of the sourcebooks for, but am now discovering and they sound great.
@@RPGGamer yah at the time in terms of the genre I was playing Classic world of darkness, Delta Green, COC, and a little bit of Chill(Pacesetter). This game struck me as trying to get to the level of flavour of WOD and Delta Green. The sourcebooks were well written and nicely made and the way they set up the whole world with aliens and magic etc. and their explanations were quite interesting, also in this game rather than playing say Fox and moulder being pawns and footmen of the conspiracy you play the cigarette smoking man as the main puppet master of the conspiracy. which was different than other RPG game of the genre
Great review, appreciate you taking a deeper dive into one of my favourite game settings. It is interesting that the 90s saw the rise of a number of games of this type (zeitgeist of the time I suspect). I feel the early 2000s changed the view of the world a lot (especially the idea of government conspiracy after 9/11), and its only really the last decade that these have come back into vogue.
I'd also suggest looking into the 2nd edition (which uses the Unisystem mechanics) as that run of books does a lot to bring the setting together in a more coherent manner).
I hadn't really given a thought to what 911 did to conspiracy theories, I do guess they went from being a more fringe wacky thing which seemed harmless, to more dangerous, and more recently even more so.
Thanks for making me think, I've heard good things about 2nd edition, and will check it out at some point.
Love your flip-thrus of these books from the 1990s. A lot of rpg books had low-quality art. But this one has good art.
Cheers for the comment, the art styles were really variable, and sometimes you can see they deliberately tried to make a book look scruffy and roughly put together, and spent ages getting the style exactly right.
I remember our group being part of the playtesters so long ago. Wow, blast from the past!
Cool stuff. Glad to have brought back some memories.
I remember first finding out about this game via the excellent write up about it in the 'Arcane' RPG magazine; I ran a couple of campaigns of the 1E NME/Eden Studios version - both cut short due to real life issues, rather than any fault of the game/setting, so we didn't really get far into the underlying plots of Con X - but even with the clunky 2d6 system behind the 1E version, both the players and myself as the GM still had a fun time while it lasted.
I did end up getting the three Alien books ('Nemesis' for the Greys, 'Exodus' for the Saurians, and 'Atlantis Rising' for the Atlanteans), which did expand the scope of the games considerably past that of the base game (enough that some of the players referred to one of the campaigns as "F@#$ing Atlanteans!!", given how prone Atlanteans were to meddling in everything the PCs came across). I did also get the 'Forsaken Rites' book, but never really used it much - as cool as the idea of the Seepage was, I felt the Supernatural side of tye game was underdeveloped from the start, and never really improved (that, and White Wolf's World of Darkness games, also released back in the 90's, seemed to do a much better job with the Supernatural anyway).
Over the years I also picked up the GURPS and 2E versions (the latter using Eden's 'Unisystem' rules) of the game, and I do hope to run at least *one* of these versions at some point in the future - though there seems to be less interest in it nowadays, what with the lack of what can be described as 'Pre-Millenial Tension' (ie no one is worrying anymore about Alien Invasion/the Day of Revelation/Y2K or any of the apocalyptic, esoteric scenarios people were both openly and low-key worried about heading into the 2000's that shows like 'The X-Files', 'Millenium', and 'Dark Skies' were tapping into). Still, the hope lives on that it'll happen one day, in one form or other 😆
I'm often interested in settings like this; modern with magic, psychics, and monsters. Although not so much stuff like the 'Grey' aliens and Lizard People. Picked up the GURPS edition of Conspiracy X but never really delved deep into it. Could be quite fun, though.
Arcane magazine was absolutely amazing, back in the day I had one of my articles accepted for print, but the magazine went out of production before they got around to publishing it :(
I found out about so many games through it, and although RPG's are now more popular than ever, it felt like there was a more vibrant and interesting industry back then.
Your description of the sourcebooks makes me wish I'd picked some of them up, as they all sound like they'd be interesting to have a look through.
With all the UAP stuff in the headlines now might be the best time since the 90’s for the game.
With all the UAP stuff in the headlines now might be the best time since the 90’s for the game.
With all the UAP stuff in the headlines now might be the best time since the 90’s for the game.
I remember reading a supplement called Forsaken rites which is the magic sourcebook for conspiracy X, interesting history of magic and its origins, in that yes magic ties in with psychic ability and Magic is a refinement of psychic ability which draws from the seepage, and magic can corrupt (that is why you get supernatural creatures like werewolves vampires etc. ). As I recall(I havent read the book in 20 years, sold my copy in Ebay a decade ago), back eons ago, the Greys ruled the planet and men were created by the greys and made as slaves. however man developed psychic abilities and magic was created with the help of another race(which we call Faeries) beat back the Greys and break away from their subjugation. The Atlanteans look human but they are an alien race. and the Saurians look at earth as their lost homeworld they left millions of years ago before even man walked the earth and when they came back they saw it overrun by us. blasphemy.
Hadn't heard of that one and just looked it up, some very deep lore stuff in there, very cool, and many thanks for bringing it to my attention.
thanks for the memory :)
Not a problem, love sharing this stuff which only us oldies remember.
This game is just Tri Tac's Bureau 13 modernized. And also better production, definitely better.
I'd totally forgotten about Bureau 13, and I think because there was only 3 years between them being released, in my head I'd merged them both into the same game. Thanks for reminding me of another cool game.
@@RPGGamer You are welcome. You do know that Tri Tac had a game that Star Gate TOTALLY ripped off right? Fringworthy. I think they also had a game named - Babes&Bunnies With Guns, I think was the name. Couple of other games that I can't remember off hand. Of course Richard passed away in '16 I think; memory is fuzzy there, before Covid though.