Squid Game Meditation (and why Werewolf/Mafia stinks)

Debuting art by my cousin 🙂 Childhood games made deadly for money. Squid Game is a Netflix show lots have been watching a talking about. It's a Korean gambling show filled with people in debt, but incredibly deadly and for the sick entertainment of others. It's like Hunger Games with money? Or Kaiji if you're …

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Cowpunk

Imagine a world... Drizzling black rain, sizzling neon signs. Dark corporations, stark poverty. Massive skyscrapers, passive onlookers. Midnight gangs, mid-fight scrappers. Enter the cowboy. A man out of time with too many dime-back novels in his head. Rides a horse alongside motorcycles. Colt versus machine gun. Upholds justice in a time of plutocracy. "This fool …

Union: Electric Bastionland + Attack on Titan

Spoilers. Read with care. I love the tabletop RPG Electric Bastionland. I've written about it a few times. I love the anime Attack on Titan. I'm watching season 4 right now. Oooooooh it's good. Listen as you read 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgBUP8TJqV8&ab_channel=kimmeh And now, here's the pitch for combining the two: You have a colossal debt. To …

The Deep Blue Beneath (Electric Bastionland)

Even the minnows have razorteeth... If you go down far enough in the Underground, you'll hit breathable water.Without a dive suit, you just continually float as if detached from gravity.Even if you have a suit, you move slowly through the waters.All sorts of bizarre sea life swim around you, sizing up your place on the …

Union: Electric Bastionland + Neverland

Play with me in this space... Would this be Electric NeverBastionland? Or Electric BastionNeverland? I'm in love with Neverland. I love the Disney cartoon, Hook (the Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Dante Basco one), Peter and the Starcatchers, and the original writings. My English teacher had me read the original in middle-school. Here's a Questing Beast …

Sails and Stars

"Intergalactic Bastionland" (the future child of Electric Bastionland) has sparked my imagination. From Chris's blog: The general concept for the Living Stars is: It’s not like real space.Everything is changing and moving.Each star represents something, has an agenda, and the means to act on it. That first bullet point has me chomping at the bit. Bending the …

Meditation on the Wyrd and Wild

This is my central image. This art comes from the book, by Charles Ferguson-Avery. I will be using Maze Rats to run Into the Wyrd and Wild. Here are noteworthy reviews of the product from Coins and Scrolls and Technical Grimoire. This post is a collection of inspirations. Technical Grimoire recent updated their Hunt generator. …

Diametrically Opposed States of Mind

Corona is driving me a little cabin-crazy. Creatively, it's spun me flopping forth and back to twin poles of fantasy: the grounded and the weird. First hand, the images of knights serving lords in the land of man and brutal warfare has me in thrall. There are fantasies of a world built on sweat and …

Union: Veins of the Earth + Mausritter = Hollow Knight

I consume a lot of media. I've also been trained by my liberal arts education (whoopee) to connect things and cross-pollenate them to make them awesome. It's a bad habit.  Anyways, I've already connected games like Maze Rats and Hot Springs Island with an integrated ruleset, so doing this for other modules and rulesets is …