Note: Stirling E. Lanier's novel “Hiero’s Journey” is now available in eBook format. This is of interest to any #TTRPG player who needs more material to expand their #GammaWorld campaign.
Fighting mutants and evil telepaths in post-apocalyptic Earth, oh yes!
In other news, had Session Zero for the upcoming #GammaWorld game last night. It went well!
A friend of mine came up with the idea that my character, samurai rabbit Harvey Chanbara, was trained in martial arts by an archeotech holographic representation of the RZA inside the mysterious "36th Chamber." Which is just somebody's ancient basement home theater setup stocked with a library of martial arts movies.
Which is to say, a friend of mine's gonna run #GammaWorld at some point, and so the character coming to mind is an Usagi Yojimbo/Six String Samurai mashup.
My wife & I enjoyed this a lot.
Had Gamma World/Fallout vibes.
Twists weren't really surprising, and the sci-fi premise was vaguely ridiculous.
But the action was good. And the effects were plentiful, decent, and well placed.
The acting was solid, if not award winning. And, rather than sarcastic or disappointing jerks, characters felt more grounded than I expected, displaying a modicum of empathy, maturity, or understanding.
In the #postapocalyptic future, members of a musical Cryptic Alliance called the Fire-Singers travel the #GammaWorld. They perform, study, and debate all 8 versions of their sacred hymn that were written between 1989 and 2232, hoping to somehow, somewhere, discover who started the fire.
If you're running #MCC, #Umerica, #GammaWorld, or any other #MutantFuture#ttrpg, you're doing a disservice to yourself and your players if you're not liberally stealing from every single part of these plans for communicating the locations and dangers of nuclear waste meant to least for 10,000 years. Terrifying architecture, arcane symbology, nuclear priests, color changing cats with songs about them, enormous basalt pads. It's wild!
Twenty quick questions answered about the town of Riverbend and its surroundings, the setting for the new Tuesday actual play posts for #GammaWorld#ttrpg
Time capsules can be the story hook for a variety of #GammaWorld adventures featuring a fake prophecies ("The Ancients will impart their knowledge to us on the chosen day...") and/or a treasure hunts ("but we don't know where it's buried").
Please respond by saying what sorts of TTRPG things you're pretty likely to either talk about or respond to if you see them.
This can be a list of games (D&D! Tribe 8! Fate!) or categories (the weirdest of indie stuff! NSR! Anything PBtA!), topics (Worldbuilding! Publishing!), stuff you're making, meta-commentary (The State Of The Industry), and so on.
Then maybe share, and if the replies are building up, check them for new people.
@LeviKornelsen
I post about and play #DnD (and occasionally #GammaWorld and some other systems) on an actual-play podcast called Total Party Kill. It's both audio and video, and I usually remember to post here when we livestream our recording sessions.
This thread is a fab idea! Thanks for thinking of it!