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The digital version of #Lovecraftesque showed up in my mailbox yesterday.

The digital version of #Lovecraftesque showed up in my mailbox yesterday. I just might get to run it tonight, and I’m so excited.

Had my daughters second birthday party yesterday and the wife and i played some Dungeon World after the guests left.

Had my daughters second birthday party yesterday and the wife and i played some Dungeon World after the guests left. We decided to give “Into The Briarwood” a try. It was allot of fun! Lasted about 2.5 hours.

The big baddie wad Olivander Wickensprout and the quest was for the lost Golden Crystal Chalice. The creature was a 6 legged, mutated one eyed unicorn(we were a bit drunk and tired lol).

So much fun!

PbtA Games Question:

How many PbtA games don’t have a strong and clear fictional genre or trope they’re emulating? Or change it up so much that it detaches from the original? I’m thinking about this after trying to work through Legacy and figure out how to approach it at the table. It cites Stalker, Fallout, and Mad Max) as sources, but it also cites the Civilization video game. So we’ve got two very different approaches blended for a hybrid genre (generational post-apocalyptic) that isn’t as well represented (He mentions Canticle for Leibowitz).

So are there other PbtA games presenting something most players won’t have a fictional touchstone for?

(Alternately have I missed a library of multigenerational PA stories?)

John Alexander, I hope you don’t mind me sharing this with the Gauntlet community.

John Alexander, I hope you don’t mind me sharing this with the Gauntlet community. I know there’s plenty of Masks fans here, and this looks SO dang cool.

Originally shared by John Alexander

Phoenix and Sphinx Misha B ‘S character for Seth Harris ‘s Masks game. She is a Joined, one of the new playbooks. my cat Moody is determined to ‘help’ post this. Luckily he waited to this point rather than when I was working on it.

There appear to be 2 major struggles in our Undying game (and probably in Undying as a game);

The communal struggle for Status, and the personal struggle for Humanity.

My character is spectacularly failing at both, and Fraser Simons’ newly turned predator seems to be already in the new Princeps’ good books, though I can see their Humanity coming in to question before long.

This game feels very good at maintaining our focus towards those struggles, redirecting our movements (and Moves) back in the direction of these questions. Even the most humane among us have gruesome, primal survival needs, even the most solitary of us can’t exist entirely without the community.

Thanks Eadwin Tomlinson for running a fun game

Jason and David’s new Ramshackle Crow AP has me super-nostalgic for the Planescape supplements of my youth.

Jason and David’s new Ramshackle Crow AP has me super-nostalgic for the Planescape supplements of my youth. Would there be any interest If I tried to adapt some old Planescape scenarios to Dungeon World in order to run on Hangouts? (It would probably have to be on Thursdays.)

Andy Hauge Michael G.

Andy Hauge Michael G. Barford and I had a fantastic time with Microscope! We did something a little different with our game and decided that this session would be about the rise, fall, and legacy of an empire in a low magic fantasy setting. We had giant man-made water craft the size of several small islands, tribes cultivating dangerous spore-producing mushrooms, and a metal that fell from the sky that was lighter than water.

The part I want to highlight that was different than my other experiences was that we had almost all the action in this fantasy setting, but then occasionally would go to our “End of the bookend” period that we used as a modern, contemporary setting. This was amazing as it gave us a chance to step back and watch a scene of people in a modern era at a museum looking at objects from the past and reading about them, and sometimes the information from their history books was dead wrong to what happened in the past. We did not use this tactic often but it added a richer sense of the process being a part of history.

Also at the end we discussed what games we would want to play in the world we created. We discussed In a Wicked Age, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and others. What do you all think are good games to dive into your Microscope generated worlds?

Again, a big thanks to my players, Michael (a first time Hangouts player!) and Andy!

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