So I just had my skin The Glamour published in this month’s Gauntlet Codex.

So I just had my skin The Glamour published in this month’s Gauntlet Codex.

So I just had my skin The Glamour published in this month’s Gauntlet Codex. It’s illustrated by none other than Jackson Tengu (for some reason I can’t + him in). If you aren’t a patreon, you can sign up now and receive this month’s issue (which includes a truly fantastic game about crossdressers who haven’t chosen to transition).

Originally shared by Jason Cordova

Today is the last day to get Codex – Moonlight in our Patreon feed! And later today, you can get our Pride issue, Codex – Glamour. In other words, if you make a $4 pledge on The Gauntlet Patreon today, you get two issues of Codex! If you have any questions, ask away in the comments!

https://patreon.com/gauntlet

So I’ve finished up the playable my current pbta project, which I decided to use a working title (subject to…

So I’ve finished up the playable my current pbta project, which I decided to use a working title (subject to…

So I’ve finished up the playable my current pbta project, which I decided to use a working title (subject to change) of “The Airs and Audacity of Inner Words”. Here’s the elevator pitch:

Did you ever wonder what it would be like to have near unlimited power at the tip of your tongue? Well here’s your chance. You get to play a person who discovered their inner magic able to have nearly any effect. The down side, plenty of other people have done the same and expect you to cooperate with them. That and the fact that your power comes from burning off pieces of your soul, but that’s not a big deal, right?

Let me know what people think.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B511-yaR3CdxTlhKNXVCVVNrS0U

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B511-yaR3CdxTlhKNXVCVVNrS0U

So I’ve been struggling to come up with two names, which is a bit different for me.

So I’ve been struggling to come up with two names, which is a bit different for me.

Originally shared by David Rothfeder

So I’ve been struggling to come up with two names, which is a bit different for me. The first name is the name of a land where magic is abundant and things are run by people who trade bits of their souls to do whatever the hell they want.

The second name is the name of the actual game. The players are called Arcanes and use a word that defines their soul to empower their magic. The game uses ridiculous names and titles for everything because everybody with that much power takes themselves way too seriously. Mostly the game revolves around the politics of a society which is structure around distracting Arcanes so they don’t burn up their souls trying to kill each other and everyone else around them.

Suggestions for these names are welcome, and I’ll probably post an update of the rules later this week,

I’m just going to just drop this draft here for now.

I’m just going to just drop this draft here for now.

I’m just going to just drop this draft here for now. It’s a game about mages who’s magic can do just about anything, but they destroy pieces of their soul in the process. I think once I work out what the MC moves are it would be ready for a rules playtest, but I’m curious what other people think of it so far.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B511-yaR3Cdxd2xiVWE0NVJqS2s

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B511-yaR3Cdxd2xiVWE0NVJqS2s

I made a thing.

I made a thing.

I made a thing. Not sure it is a good thing. It’s a thing that still needs a lot of work (especially on the layout).

This thing is about magic users who burn their own souls for extremely flexible power who live in a highly politicized world where they scramble for position in the court (so they don’t go off tormenting the less powerful).

Also book destruction as a play artifact and everything having ridiculous names in a pbta format.

Thoughts?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B511-yaR3Cdxa0QyMmhyOFNOTlE

P.S. Still no idea what I want to call the game or if the world should have it’s own name, so there are just blanks where those things go.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B511-yaR3Cdxa0QyMmhyOFNOTlE

First draft for an AW con kit for running a one shot in a single 3-4 hour slot including character and some world…

First draft for an AW con kit for running a one shot in a single 3-4 hour slot including character and some world…

First draft for an AW con kit for running a one shot in a single 3-4 hour slot including character and some world creation. The location, an Edwardian tea house of course (or as fucking close as your gonna find). I think it’s probably missing something (like make shift flame throwers in everything), but I’m not sure what yet. Let me know if you have any thoughts.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B511-yaR3Cdxbkk3b3ByV1JjVXM

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B511-yaR3Cdxbkk3b3ByV1JjVXM

My next project: creating a one shot scenario for Apocalypse World for cons, like I did with Camp Monsterhearts.

My next project: creating a one shot scenario for Apocalypse World for cons, like I did with Camp Monsterhearts.

Originally shared by David Rothfeder

My next project: creating a one shot scenario for Apocalypse World for cons, like I did with Camp Monsterhearts. This time I’m going to use a concept I had last year for Golden Cobra, an Edwardian tea house in the middle of the apocalypse. The goal is to provide tools to create a pretty full game experience within a 3-4 hour con slot. I think I might do this for a few pbta games. If it catches on I might attempt to publish since I was super happy with my last run of Camp Monsterhearts.

So this weekend at #ForgeMidwest I ran Camp Monster Hearts.

So this weekend at #ForgeMidwest I ran Camp Monster Hearts.

So this weekend at #ForgeMidwest I ran Camp Monster Hearts. It was probably the best con game I ever ran. Tim Koppang played an Infernal name Poe, tom Fendt played a Werewolf named Luna, and Stephanie Strickling played a Witch named Marina. The set up established that Luna was in the middle of a fight with an NPC named Sam with Poe watching, and that the administrator Tanya is missing and that Marina knew more about it than she should. We also established that Poe wanted to Fuck an NPC named Jessie. Luna also wanted to fuck Jessie, and be friends with Marina. Marina wanted to Fuck Poe.

We started with the fight starting at the wake up bell, in which Luna easily beat up Sam (who was a swimmer, no match for a werewolf in any form), but since this is Monster Hearts, did so sexily and turned on Poe, who gave her his switch blade. Marina meanwhile was sneaking out of the Big House (where the administrator lives and works) and making it to the rec hall for breakfast.

Poe made it to breakfast late, but Luna gave up on that. The project director Carl wouldn’t let Poe in as punishment for being late, so Marina tried helping out but Hexing Carl with a wither. Unintended consequences meant that when Carl’s teeth started falling out mid sentence new needle like teeth painfully grew in their place (wither isn’t a nice spell). Poe freaked out thinking that his Dark Power Sysphan was messing with him and started freaking out. This was quite the scene so Marina rushed out and took Poe away from the prying eyes.

Meanwhile Luna was looking for an alternative way to satisfy her near unquenchable appetite. She headed over to the field where the camp raises pigs to slaughter one. Well, killing and butchering a full grown hog is harder than it sounds so Luna’s struggle to do so with a pocket knife attracted Natalie, the woman in charge of raising the pigs. At first Natalie was confused, than disgusted, then astonished that Luna would even try this. She decided she would sit and watch Luna try to butcher the pig and eat it cold, which turned out to be pretty funny. Well Luna became frustrated and decided to go partial wolf, which turned out yo be a bit teen wolfy at this stage. Well this didn’t go exactly as planned, and she smelled something unnatural which pissed her off.

So out in the woods Poe was still convinced Sysphan was messing with him so Marina tried a bit of parlor trick magic to convince him that she had her own power. She managed to conjure the illusion of a flame in her hand, but Sysphan managed to implant his visage in the flame. So Poe was convinced Marina was also being manipulated by the Dark Power so he asked the price for Sysphan to leave Marina alone forever. His price was for Poe to give Sysphan claim on Jessie, to which Poe agreed. Of course this was a verbal contract, so Marina heard the whole exchange.

This is where Luna showed up, but rather than being able to calm herself down and turn back into a human, she went darkest self. Poe used some demonic power to wrestle savage wolf Luna and Marina hit her with a stick so the two could run away. Of course this made Marina a target and she got chomped on the leg which snapped Luna out of it.

Luna and Poe carried Marina to her cabin where she sent Luna away and bandaged up her leg and applied a cure for a werewolf bite (Luna was unsure if her feral side chose to transmit blessing or not). Things were getting heated with Poe offering his shirt for the bandage and while he failed to seduce, Sysphan had his back to still make sexy.

The three met up at the dock for swimming. Poe wanted to check in on Jessie to see what his deal meant. Jessie was there cheering up Sam and dropped the two were family. Jessie seemed normal until they started the sentence ‘The blood of the innocent…’ and Sam finished ‘will make the forest grow.’

He joined up with Marina and Luna who were talking about what happened. Marina interrogated Luna using a ring of truth and went into her darkest self to do so. Luna revealed that it was the sent of Marina’s magic that drew her notice and that the smell was completely unfamiliar to her. Luna tried to make assurances that now that she knew Marina wasn’t in danger. Marina decided to use Luna to find Tanya and told Poe and Luna that Tanya was her coven memeber.

Poe was on board for helping, but they found that everyone one at the waterfront had lined up on the dock and were silently staring at the three. They decided that it was about time to get moving. They rushed to the big house, but a councilor Johana caught them. Luna and Marina were able to use their injuries to create an excuse that they were going to the infirmary. Johana decided to shuffle Poe into the rec hall to do choirs while she took the other two to get treated. The kitchen staff told Poe to sweep up the kitchen, but bolted first chance he had, causing a huge mess and starting a fire.

Luna and Marina were able to lie their way out of the infirmary (but not until she took an overboard dose of codeine 3), and the fire allowed the three to get everybody out of the Big House. Luna tried to pick up a trail but instead passed out and had a vision of Sysphan. The Demon tree told Luna about how Poe gave Jessie to it and offered to share them with Luna. This infuriated her and when she came to, she attacked Poe. Marina decided to discourage the fight by withering Luna. Already being in her darkest self, Luna molted very painfully leaving her completely tender. Luna cool-aide manned out of there.

With no leads on what happened to Tanya, Poe asked Sysphan for another favor, and Sysphan was completely willing to provide a hint for the cost of a fifth string. The demon revealed that Natalie knew exactly what happened to Tanya, and Poe carved the name in the floor so he could sneak out and find somewhere quiet to ride out the withdrawal.

Marina got the message but became more worried about Poe and went to find Luna to get help freeing him from Sysphan. Luna agreed and they tracked Poe to the sand dunes.

Meanwhile, Poe was trying to figure out what Sysphan wanted to get back on their good side. Sysphan was more than happy to ignore the formal summoning process and instead told Poe it wanted a monster’s teeth. The full set. To make it easier it provided a sledge hammer. This was around the time Luna and Marina showed up. Marina blocked the way for Poe so Sysphan commanded him to break her knee. He tried but found he was under a binding making all violence he committed on others bounce off.

Of course that just prevented Sysphan from using Poe to physically harm the others, not other forms of harm. the demon commanded Poe to cut off a pinky which he did so with his teeth. Getting the message, Marina asked what Sysphan wanted, which it responded ‘my forest back’. Not just the camp, but the entire region which was one big forest. Unable to do that, Marina offered to buy Poe out of the contract which the demon agreed. Seeing that we were at a point that playbooks were going to change, and that we were close to the end of the four hour block, I called this end of session.

Overall the play set did exactly what I wanted, create a fast easy way to run a player generated setting with engaged characters within a con slot. There a few things to tweek, but nothing major. At this point I feel things are close to done. I want to thank tom Fendt, Stephanie Strickling, and Tim Koppang for the excellent game.