Josh D | Vaulted Pyramid

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It also opens up the players to make other combat moves to Enhance their allies attacks and Impair their enemies. That’s really the key that folks tend to miss.

This also affects enemies too. For your 4 armed robot example, if they used their arms to attack the same PC twice or more on their turn, then you’re only keeping the highest damage die there.

It relies upon side initiative. Everyone declares what they want to do on their turn and you resolve simultaneously.

It comes from Electric Bastionland. It’s to keep singular monsters scary and prevent combat from being trivialized by the action economy, which is an issue with side initiative.

Midnight of the Century. Black, red, and white image showing a woman screaming and split into multiple faces in front of a stark forest. A mid-'90s pre-apocalyptic serial killer investigation roleplaying game. Writing and Design Colin Le Sueur.

Two page spread from Midnight of the Century. Investigators. Creating an Investigator. The second page is a full page image of an Investigator smoking a cigarette and examining a piece of film.

Confrontation spread from Midnight of the Century. The first page shows a man in shadow (not Luke Gearing) and the second page is an example of play for running Confrontations.

Two page spread from Midnight of the Century. Investigation Generator. Detailed procedure on one page, quick procedure on the other. There's a stark black and white image of a man standing under a streetlight at night.

I know some of you folks are likely getting tired of seeing me post about #MidnightOfTheCentury, but I'm so damned proud of this #TTRPG.

Thankfully, the end's in sight. Here's version that's 95% complete, crammed with the coolest stuff.

This is who we are.

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We have some new Liminal Horror apparel up on @cottonbureau.com

@emo-sludge.com made some killer designs for these (available in a ton of different options).

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Now imagine a 460 page book 🫠

But also, fuck Adobe. I'd rather bash my head into my desk before giving them a cent I didn't have to.

I ran my Public Access campaign back in 2023 and it’s still something I’ve been dreaming about.

Curling was the perfect “watch as a child when being home sick aligns with the Olympics”, as it used to be on those random channels no one really watched. Kinda jazzed that it’s now like one of the premier sports at the Olympics these days.

You know, as a brand that was built primarily out of advertising and graphic design over actual substance, it’s rather fitting that Liquid Death is now using AI ads.

Fennell has stated in interviews that she’s adapting “a memory of the book” and not necessarily attempting a faithful adaptation of the text. Which is why the title is stylized in quotes. I haven’t see it yet, but to me that concept is vastly more interesting than a straight adaptation.

This sounds like one of those logic puzzles. Yesterday, a Canadian speed skater beat the all time Olympic world record for the 500m race. For his efforts, he was awarded the bronze medal.

If you want a book with the scope of Hull Breach, but dialed in to focus on a connected setting that makes the material even easier to deploy, this is the one for you!

I also conveniently wrote a scenario for it.

Jason X is an abysmal dogshit movie... and yet I love it???

More information I don’t know what to do with: David Bowie’s final album Blackstar was heavily influenced by Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly, which released halfway through the recording process and reassured Bowie that he should let go and be experimental with it.

Ah yes! That's a good one to look at. I've got a copy sitting in a pile somewhere. Ideal it'd be neat to find a way to get a group in on the action instead of it being solo. Maybe just a duet would be more viable.

"Flip a card to unveil the ghost and roll a die to see how good of a picture you took" or some bullshit like that. But would that be "scary"? Probably not.

With Dread in mind, I do wonder if there's a way to get a physical action in there. Like may some kind of card pulling game with a wagering mechanic that still has some skill to it. Not that I particularly enjoy card RPGs either way.

Do you think there's a way to create a Fatal Frame TTRPG in a manner that's actually fun to play and isn't just "horror game that happens to have a camera that deals d6 damage to ghosts"? The whole game is based around the visual component, so can that experience be emulated in theater of the mind?

My money is on two playable protagonists like Alan Wake 2. They already updated Jesse’s model for the AW2 DLC after all. Whether or not she has the suit we’ll have to wait and see. (There’s also the theory that Jesse and Dylan were the same person, but were fractured at some point)

It was awesome talking to Chris about a favorite Mothership module of mine, Picket Line Tango on the Ansible Uplink!

The Goonies is an interesting one (I just rewatched it like 2 weeks ago) where the main characters are not engaging with it, but the story was inspired by Santo Cristo de Burgos, a 17th century Spanish ship built in the Philippines to facilitate trade between Asia and “New Spain” (Mexico).

2013’s Tomb Raider takes a novel approach with Lara being this naïve recent graduate who wants to make a mark but ends up getting stranded on the island, making it more of a “survival” narrative than one that focuses too heavily on the tomb raiding.

Uncharted does an interesting job with this by making it pretty explicit that Nate and Sully are thieves. They may be fighting worse thieves, but their actions are framed by the narrative as being morally gray.

National Treasure came pretty dang close by using America’s mythology. Though its sequel couldn’t resist the allure of the “hidden Native American city of gold”.

Do you think it’s possible to create an adventure movie with the charm of Indiana Jones or The Mummy without the imperialist fantasy?

UHF Contact: modern horror TTRPG adventure collection Struggle for survival in this analog horror zine!

Just launched UHF Contact, an adventure collection for Liminal Horror with art by David Szilagyi

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Whenever I need a pick me up, I remind myself that there are currently 61 published novels that began as Reylo fanfics. That list expands to over 200 if we’re talking just being inspired by the pairing. At least one of them has been turned into a movie that’s already wrapped filming.

I'm under the impression that this is basically "bare minimal mechanic conversion to start playtesting", with the vibes coming later. Having read a bunch of Chris's playtests in the past, they all go through pretty radical changes. So we shall see!

Public Access spawned one of my favorite RPG campaigns of all time. I’ve been champing at the bit for the physical version, so I’m happy it’s finally coming.