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Meme of the astronaut pointing a gun at another astronaut, going "Wait, the whole world is Argentina?" "It always was, pibe."
Image of a screaming, lingerie-wearing nun, wielding a giant mace and a book. The anatomy posturing is poorly though out, and the foreshortening is bad.
Photo of my campaign notebook with a two-page spread hand-drawn map sketch.
Selfie of me winking, holding one finger up.
"Hey! How do I get to do art for your magazine? It looks rad as hell. I don't have a portfolio, but I do have an instragram, and can send some other personal works as well."
The faint smell of ash can be felt even down these catacombs, maddening my brain with false hopes.
LOOTERS "the proclamation" part 1.
LOOTERS Smash & Grab cover art.
A photo of my dog Pardo, wearing a pink balaclava.
"I wake up, there's another coronacion de gloria" Argentinian meme.
Pic of my dog wearing a knitted balaclava
Photo of my dog Pardo laying on the couch, wearing a pink crochet balaclava
Fantasy rockstars In dungeoncore there's two kinds of protagonists: murderhobos and fantasy rockstars. Murderhobos are old-school style characters: fragile and immoral adventurers born to miserable lives and prone to quick unceremonious deaths, crawling into dungeons hungry for gold. Fantasy rockstars, on the other hand, are modern, empowered adventurers, chosen to achieve epic destinies, displaying an outstanding array of power and skill; closer to superheroes than their murderhobo counterparts. But there’s a main difference that sets adventurers and superheroes apart: adventurers expect a reward. Fantasy rockstars aren't any more altruistic than murderhobos, they’re just better fit for success. ENTOMBED is a game about fantasy rockstars. So let’s dive into who these characters are. Fantasy rockstars crash into town, hungry for adventure: showcasing their powerful magics and superhuman abilities to the peasantry with the intent of wowing them into giving quests in exchange for profit and glory. Then—after a long day of dungeon delving, monster slaying, and hex crawling—they return with arms full of blood-soaked gold to drop on the townsfolk, with no regards to their precariously balanced feudal economy. Fantasy rockstars are both folk heroes and disruptors, and they’re as likely to save a town than to leave it in ruins. To make matters worse, ENTOMBED focuses on the worst kind of fantasy rockstars. The self destructive, selfish adventurers who meddle with issues that are way over their heads just to turn a quick profit. When playing ENTOMBED , think not of the Fellowship of the Ring, think of past-their-prime Metallica: a bunch of entitled assholes who wield power and influence, but are just as likely to snap at each other and break up than to slay the local dragon.
Status Status determines which social strata your party has access to, who you may work for, and what level of rewards you can get. Every time you get 8 points of reputation, have 0-unrest, and can pay up the requirements, you may advance the group Status.
Unrest: When unrest is sown amongst your companions, log it. At 3, 9, 12 and 15 points of unrest, you reach a milestone. 12 The breakup. The PC who owes the most has to leave the group before the beginning of the next adventure or immediately after the end of the current. Whenever you reach an unrest milestone, everyone involved in the conflict marks advancement. You may lower your group Status to avoid any of these conflicts. If you’re at the lowest status and can’t reduce it, you lose the game.
Make or Break When you’re struggling to persevere over an overwhelming situation mark 1-unrest and roll+Steel. On a 10+ you soldier on. On a 7-9 choose one: ◆ You’re disoriented, suffer a -2ongoing during this situation. ◆ You’re spooked and can’t support, help or lead any action until you get a breather. ◆ You cower until someone pulls you up. Ask who gets your back. You owe them now. On a 12+, you come out stronger, mark advancement.
- Collapsed thorax: drop your actions and fall on your knees. Every action you take forces you to endure. If you had a plate, it is completely ruined now. Scar: -1 Might. - Exposed fracture: you drop on your knees or drop whatever you were holding and cannot use that leg or arm. You are bleeding and must make or break to keep fighting. Scar: maybe a limp.
Slay When you lunge forward to slay a mighty beast, GM lays out the field, you roll+Might. On a 10+ you and everyone you're leading chooses 1. On a 7-9 everyone chooses 1, but the last wolf has to choose 1 from the miss list; no last wolf? Then the GM chooses who. On a 12+ you choose 1 extra: ◆ You run through, dodging the monster's attacks. Position yourself one reach increment closer. ◆ You hurt the creature with a timely attack. Inflict harm by metal or magic. ◆ You reach a safe spot, far from the monster's reach. You can even reload. Get one reach increment farther, and suffer no retaliation. ◆ You find a weak spot, deal 1-harm ap on your or an ally's next attack. ◆ You catch the monster's attention, sparing a companion from retaliation. ◆ You set up an advantageous position for yourself or an ally, get an insight or +1forward. On a miss, everyone chooses 1: ◆ You get thrown around, make or break. ◆ Catch a powerful blow, suffer it at +1-harm. ◆ You get captured, moments away from being devoured, crushed or smothered. After all actions are solved, the beast will engage any companions within reach; unless you chose to avoid the monster's attacks, suffer harm as established. After attacking, it may reposition itself one reach increment towards any direction. At the end of the move the GM checks the monster’s morale to determine if it keeps on fighting.
Miracles: you can rip open the gates of Heaven and channel divine Will upon the mortal world. Check the Miracle work section (p. XX), tell the GM what you want to accomplish, and roll+Will—on a 10+ the miracle manifests as pleaded, on a 12+ you are also marked as chosen, physically changed by the miracle. On a 7-9, it either requires a great sacrifice, or something goes wrong. On a miss, brace for catastrophe.
A party of adventurers, numbering a pariah elf, a fingerless harlequin, a swashbuckling troll-man, and a resurrected mystic.
"This is relevant to my interests"
Zephyr box set photo
A screenshot of Shadowrun Dragonfall dialog box with Dietrich. The dialog says: [He regards you with a critical eye.] I was the front man of a punk band, boss. Fuck no. I can't sing.
A photo of my campaign notebook with dice, letter handouts, the Torchbearer 2E books and some pencils.
Nail polish art made to look like eyeballs.
Fantasy in my Backyard back cover and cover, showing a saturated urban collage in sundown illumination, with fantasy creatures hanging out: - A fisher cat fishing hats from a rooftop. - A shadow sleep paralysis demon running a delivery bike. - A loong snaking around tall buildings. - A bigfoot with glasses and a hawaiian shirt. - A basketball playing Dracula. - A selfie-taking medusa
Fantasy in my Backyard cover sketch thumbnail variants.
Woodprint showing a horse-man creature throwing lightning bolts out of his mouth.
Fantasy in my Backyard zine mockup
The Ethereals - Three stone-spirits of the forest encounter the adventurers on the wilderness, keeping them at bay, as they try to decide on running, fighting or parlaying.
Sue Sylvester with badly drawn cat ears and nose, saying "I am going to create an environment that is so Jellical."
Something important for would-be tabletop game designers - I totally understand if you want to put some social/party game elements into your design, but you need to NOT include effects like “Hug another player”, even if you think it would be funny.
Beavis shouting: "This is my great portfolio!"
Portfolio page 15: Image 1: character design sheet of a halfling wielding an oversized sword and a cauldron adapted to work as a backpack. Image 2: a character design sheet of a wizard, casting a spell that takes the shape of a symbolic crow, while wielding a carrying stick. Small thumbnail of a comic page.
Portfolio page 12: Image 1: Scene of a group of adventurers irrupting on a tomb filled with gold. The skeleton of a king lies with a sword and a crown, while a vampire lurks in the dark. Image 2: a group of adventurers admiring new equipment as a merchant looks from behind. Image 3, 4, 5 and 6: symbolic representations of four character classes, the Thief, the Sorcerer, the Cleric and the Warrior.
Portfolio page 8: Image 1: a group of knights in power-armor, looting a recenly killed group of merchants. Image 2: a group of nomadic merchants riding a tryceratops. Image 3: a wise elder drawing a map on sand, while her two apprentices patiently look and learn. Image 4: a necromancer conjuring an spiral orb on a powerful yellow background.
Portfolio page 4: Image 1: wide scene of a group of adventurers exploring the underground canyons of the underworld, while being secretly watched by a group of dark elves, ready to ambush them. Image 2: A capture elf, casting a spell upon 3 orks who are attacking her, inside a crowded gladiatorial arena. Image 3: A trio of adventurers desperately escaping from an unseen creature wielding scimitars in its tentacles, the thief is escaping with a strange idol, the mage is pointing the way forward, while the fighter and the dwarf try to bash down a door. Image 4: A dwarf traversing an underground river while carrying equipment, while a halfling uses his head as a stone to skip across.
Portfolio Cover with my name, and the image of a giant skull with a d20 for a die, and monsters coming out of its mouth, with a psichedellic concentric background.
ENTOMBED GM sheet, with a half-drawn map of the Grey Kingdoms, focused on the eastern duchies of the Kingdom of Bevena, and its borders with the Free City of Ükriž, the Haunted Kingdom of Morne, and the Mountains of Zem.
Woodprint on paper with tools, showing a representation of Orobas as a human-horse hybrid biting lightning over the Temple of Ra
Crab Fied AKA The Cancer Knight
The Adventurer King, for Looters, Mordite Press (in development)
"I realized very recently that I don't like "storygames" at all. Not one bit. I've never read one that I liked. I've never played one that I found enjoyable. Not one. Ever. Hence the thread title. Now, that said... I have absolutely no idea what makes storygames so repulsive to me. I can't easily pin down one factor that makes me feel the way that I do. I do, however, know what I like (thank goodness for that). So what do I like? I like "old school" rules with most narrative power consolidated in a central role (i.e., a GM). I like task-based resolution systems. I like adventure modules. And pre-scripted campaigns (I guess the kids are calling them "adventure paths" these days). I like pre-built worlds of fantasy (and sci-fi). I like funky dice (though, sometimes, rolling lots of one kind of die makes up for a lack of funky dice). So, that's what I like, generally speaking."
Abe Simpson saying "and it will happen to you"
"Mostly! It was indeed coined by Clinton. It was after yet another discussion on RPGNet back in the day where this discussion was popularized nearly monthly, "X (game from some Forge developer) is NOT an RPG!" The very topic at the time that set the ball rolling was this: "My Life With Master is NOT an RPG because it has an endgame condition. Role-playing games by necessity (and apparently definition) open-ended." There were more games from that year disparaged as not RPGs because they had these endgame conditions or rules on "what you feel/think" (nuh-uh, no game is gonna dictate to me what my character thinks!), a stable of characters and not just one, and on and on. But mostly it was the endgame thing that kind of set us off a bit, particularly Clinton. Because any way you slice it, MLWM is a fucking role- playing game. Might not be as contentious a stance now, but a few years ago it was. Two things happened from that discussion: 1) My definition of Role-Playing Game solidified in my mind, and became the standard for what I do and do not think of as an RPG. "Do you PLAY a ROLE? Then it's a ROLE PLAYING GAME." (usually using the word "fucking" in each of those sentences) Interestingly enough: By this definition, unless you drift Universalis, Universalis isn't a role-playing game (unless you squint, because you really don't play a role all that much), which is a stance I later discovered that Ralph and Mike (the designers) had been yelling in people's faces since day one! :-) 2) Clinton posted some eye-rolling post on the blog he was using at the time, basically throwing up his hands at this idiocy, saying basically (in intent, not literally), "Alright. Fuck it, let's just call them "story games" instead." (I registered the domain that afternoon! Was actually considering using it as a gaming imprint/ "company" until the idea to make a forum came along, and here we are)"
World Wide Web logo
The Adventurer King, for Looters, Mordite Press (in development)
Photo showing two sketches for their improved Ur-bot companion: Left: a scraggy, rougish pirate robot chasis provided by the Maelstrom (Scoundrel playbook). Right: a sleek, knightly, fully armored chasis provided by the Concordiat Knights (Mystic playbook).
Full color digital bust portrait $75 Full party lineup $50 per character
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ― Antonio Gramsci
Setting timeline showing different eras of history. The Godslay is an era defined by mortals killing gods, and plagued by murder, tragedy and mayhem, with the last decades sunk in civil war. The upcoming Age of Sorcery is marked with the awakening of Zlamak, the queen of the underworld. A mouse-drawn red arrow captioned "Game starts here" marks the gap between "the Godslay" and "the Age of Sorcery" as the start of the campaign.
Gif of Avatar the wizard pulling a gun from under his sleeve.
Hard Wired Island reprint book photo.
"I have no mouth and I must scream" short story cover art
Portfolio Cover showing an open pink skull on a concentric waves ink background. The skull has a d20 as the left eye, and monsters spewing out of its mouth.
Photo of the two core Unknown Armies 3rd Edition books.
Selfie showing a streak of white hair
Photo of the player's characters portrats stickers on top of the Torchbearer books and some dice.