We played two games for Story Game Sunday this week: Epidiah Ravachol’s Invisible Empire and Grant Howitt’s Kobold…

We played two games for Story Game Sunday this week: Epidiah Ravachol’s Invisible Empire and Grant Howitt’s Kobold Quest.

I quite like Invisible Empire. We’ve talked about it on the podcast before, but it is a hack of Swords Without Master in which you play various members of the court of the Silent Emperor, each doing their best to impress him with their tales of Dread and Awe (and without getting themselves killed). One of the game’s best features is the table of different ways the Silent Emperor might execute you. A favorite from our session:

“Plucked by six necromancers from your future tomb on the first, third and ninth anniversary of your death and dragged into the past to devour yourself.” 

Kobold Quest is a lot like Goblin Quest, but instead of a bunch of goblins going on a really stupid quest, it is about a bunch of kobolds trying to build a really stupid contraption to help them satisfy the demands of their dragon king. It was a ton of fun. One of the cutest things that happened in our game was the procurement of a “dire kitten,” which was just a normal-sized, adult cat. We also had a gang of kobolds who told incredibly filthy, un-funny jokes, a la The Aristocrats, and a particularly disgusting kobold named Lisa, who had a hinged jaw and could swallow (and regurgitate) anything if given enough time. 

Thanks to everyone who came out: Steve Mains Kyle Kowalski Kyle McCauley and Daniel Lewis.