Eric Faber 🚀🐖

@airborneham.bsky.social

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Game Designer in a tiny town on Lake Superior (he/him) I like playing games in-person | https://linktr.ee/airborneham LARPs, TTRPGs, Board Games, Party Games

Northern WI, MN, and the UP of MI outlined in red on google maps.
Three dogs look disapprovingly at the camera while a hand holds Barkane, the RPG you play with your dog.
White board list reading: One Shots Alice is Missing Seven Part Pact Last Hand
The box art for Gibberers, with Japanese text displayed as stickers on a strange and alien box.
Wooden bug tokens on a cardboard stump, about to push each other around in Sumo Wresting mayhem.
Template art for a box top, featuring wood grain in the background with a classic manila file folder with the title "PLANT THE EVIDENCE" on it. A sticky note reads "the covert game of Finesse & Deception" and tape has "by Eric Faber" on the front, along with the title and player count, age suggestion, and time of play around the edges of the box.
You are either dumb or brave, likely both. The odds are stacked against you, no mission is safe. You have little in the way of resources, especially when compared to the industrial machine of The Gobblegarchy. They have guns and bullets hurt. Anything you do has a good chance of making your situation worse as much as it accomplishes your goals. You are the underdog to David and you’re trying to take on Goliath directly(4), and that mixed metaphor is the kind of thing someone like you thinks makes you cool.
The Players Everyone who participates in this game is a player. Nobody is more important than the other, or in charge of the game, or anything like that. A “game master” sure sounds like Potgobz capitalist propaganda to me. You’re all playing the game, telling a story together, and looking to have a good time taking down the Gobblegarchy. The person facilitating the world and events outside of the heroes’ control is as much a player as the person making decisions for the hero. It’s not a job to run an RPG for your friends(1). Odd Army instead makes the distinction between the Heroes and the Guide. These are the roles the players take on as they play and the terms that should be used instead. The Heroes are players who take on the role of individual protagonists that are leading(2) a Movement(3) to overthrow the Gobblegarchy. The Guide takes the role of nearly every other character and helps fill in the gaps of the story when the Heroes need outside input.
The most dapper of gentlemen dogs having a very handsome day at the beach on the shores of Lake Superior.
A very cute husky perched on the back of a couch looking down at a very cute cat lounging on the floor below.