Dejah Thoris turns 100
…well, she’s probably supposed to be at least 200, I think – reds live a long time and she was no teenager when John Carter first met her in 1865. But it’s a hundred years since the first publication...
View ArticleWhat G+ game should I run (apart from Monkey Magic)?
So this is currently the idlest of idle questions. I won’t be running a game at least until I’ve got back into playing more regularly, and given my schedule I shouldn’t be running a game at all, and...
View Articlereal lost continents are the best lost continents: Carcosa wacky races and...
FIRST, the reason I’ve been silent for a while is I’ve been noodling about writing a little Carcosa/Toxic Tartary Wacky Races game for (among other things) Flailsnails on Google+. The bare outline: -...
View ArticleOn the ship as megadungeon
So now everyone’s on the science fantasy tip, I’m going Atlantean. Here, have some ghost ship encounters, underwater weapons and similar trouble. Edited to add: +Brendan Strejcek of Untimately kindly...
View ArticleJim Lad and Tin Knocker: Classes for a Romantic Cornwall campaign
so +Stuart Robertson (of Strange Magic) piped up on the old “how to refigure demi-humans for a humanocentric game” concertina again, and I loves me a rollicking sea tune. Here’s your basic 7 classes...
View ArticleThe Grand Prizes from Carcosa Wacky Races
…are still partly secret, but they have now been (mostly) collected. The race is over, the angel has died and collapsed into the crater it made in the ground, Chixi’lu got melted into glass, and out of...
View Articletrade goods by theft rating
Somehow over the past 2 weeks I’ve missed a great series of posts by Telecanter about procedural/random trading games. Right at the beginning of that series he asked about lists of trade goods and what...
View ArticleWant some real history? Don’t value your eyesight too much? Have some ship plans
model of a 1938 liner cabin for all your death on the Nile needs. Click on the picture for pretty much the same size image here on the Dystopian Pokeverse or click on the text link right there in the...
View Articleby the way… Dubrovnik
no posts in a long time, and this one’s quick and lazy… But Dubrovnik’s about as perfect a coastal fantasy fortress town as you could ask to find. And I for one didn’t know about it. Here, have some...
View ArticleCountercolonial Heistcrawl: some maps
Over the past year or so I’ve concluded that the best way to make progress on CCH is to start a campaign, and for that I need some campaign materials – factions, equipment/units, characters… and maps....
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