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Two weeks ago, I released an early unplaytested version of a TTRPG called The Long Defeat ( which I would be honored if you would check out! ). The core idea it's built around is "running a Mothership game with the materials from The One Ring ." NPC stat blocks from TOR, for instance, are fully compatible, even though the system is different. It is ideally played using the proprietary TOR dice. I…
"Sauron" J.R.R. Tolkien It's in the very earliest stages but I'm working on a Tolkienesque TTRPG that fits my particular style. It's basically Mothership ( Cloud Empress in particular) puppeteering the body of The One Ring RPG Weekend at Bernie's style. I acknowledge that that's probably not a helpful description but I think it's the most accurate. Check it out here !
As I announced with my participation in the City '26 challenge, I'm working on my own Star Wars pastiche setting. The advantage to having an unofficial setting is that, first off, I can publish things, and second off, I have more freedom. Now, as an insightful redditor named ConflictStar once said: Star Wars works best when it is used as a lens by filmmakers and storytellers to reinterpret their…
A4. Finance District Principal Feature The financial heart of both the city and the entire Republic. Most prominent is the Kathoom Stock Exchange, alongside hundreds of banks and firms. NPC: Wu Zloth. Bank teller. Painfully slow, gravely voice. Seems to enjoy your suffering. Encounters Several salarymen, stumbling back from the bar after after-work drinks. Several salarymen, arguing over who has…
I'm participating in City '26 ! In doing so, I will be introducing a new setting that I've had on the backburner for a while: a shameless Star Wars pastiche that I can do whatever I want with. I'll probably make a post at some point detailing the broad overview of the universe but for now I'll just be focused on this one city - my Nar Shaddaa. Kathoom is the moon of the planet Boracon in the…
The Underworld is a horrible place. No sane person would ever willingly enter it. But nevertheless there exists an artistic movement popular amongst many nobles called the katabatic . It is based around a romanticized vision of the life of an adventurer and an idealized imagining of the Underworld’s landscapes. This has often manifested in literature, poetry, music, and paintings. But recently, it…
First off, the basics. Put Le Mat (the Fool) back in the Major Arcana deck; it is now worth four. Instead, L'Empereur (The Emperor) is going to play the Fool's role in the Minor Arcana deck. This is purely for thematic reasons - quoting from the KiY Tarot 's guide booklet: Tales of this deck had been told since the early 1700s. They consisted of a simple story. Somewhere was a fabulous deck of…
Man, I suck at this whole "blogging" thing. Been over a year since my last post, but I'm gonna make an effort to write more from now on (hopefully this doesn't age poorly). As it happens, two events have inspiringly coincided. Rise Up Comus has announced a Worm Jam to make third party content for his tarot card-based RPG, His Majesty the Worm (which is excellent and you should all pick up). At the…
Archangel Michael , Ivanka Demchuk Been giving more thought to the eschatological Cold War setting I posted about last time and have been mulling over the nature of angels. The trouble with angels as characters is that the traditional Christian understanding makes their psyche almost impossible to comprehend. Like human beings, angels possess free will, but unlike humans, they lack an intellect as…
Following a discussion of the hymn For the Beauty of the Earth So, naturally, I had to start writing something... 1963 AC (After Creation): In the middle of Hell, there’s a small little enclave of heaven; well, not Heaven-heaven, but compared to what’s around it? You betcha. Those crafty apes lucky enough to not screw themselves up too badly end up here: Limbo. Just next door is Pandaemonium. When…
Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl. - H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival The first thing a dwergaz sees upon hatching is rotten flesh. It slumps out of it's egg and begins to eat all it can see, growing fat on this decaying feast. But as it corpulence increases, it finds itself trapped by bone and skin; soon, like an…