Architectural Horror and the Night Clerk Zine – Episode 199
Architectural horror is a subgenre of intention. Novels like House of Leaves, movies like The Shining, the Saw series, and games like Control can all be called architectural horror, but what does that mean? Rob Stith of the Orpheus Protocol and I talk about the genre and my new scenario, The Night Clerk, which is now funding on Backerkit! If you want to know what the three types of architectural horror are, listen to this episode.
Back The Night Clerk on Backerkit!
The Orpheus Protocol RPG is now on DrivethruRPG.
Shout Outs
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk: The spiritual sequel to Jet Set Radio. A beautiful and fun game.
- The Remnant 2: A new action RPG with great gameplay.
- Bad Movie Bible: A fun Youtube channel discussing b-movies.
- Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer: A love letter to 90s FPS games and teenage edgelord silliness.
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Game Designer Workshop: The Night Clerk Zine – System-less Scenarios with Caleb Stokes
A system-less RPG scenario is designed to be able to run in any system for a particular genre. Writing one is just as challenging as writing one for a single system. I’m launching a crowdfunding campaign on Backerkit for The Night Clerk, a system-less modern horror scenario, as a zine. In this episode, Caleb Stokes, author of No Security a collection of system-less scenarios, and I talk about them. I also go a bit into using Backerkit as a creator. We also discuss architectural horror and what that term means.
Sign up on the Backerkit pre-launch page to receive notification when the project goes live. It should start in early September!
Check out Hebanon Games Open Design for more info on Red Markets Second Edition!
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D20 Swinginess and Combat – Episode 198
Many RPGs use d20s for resolving combat, like D&D, 13th Age, and Lancer. Caleb and I have been playing a lot of d20 games recently and we wanted to talk about the nature of d20 combat. It’s a very swingy system, where every combatant can miss in a single round, resulting in nothing happening. Can this problem be fixed?
Caleb is running a Red Markets 2E playtest campaign. Go to Hebanon Games to listen and access the beta draft rules. Caleb’s also running a bunch of Delta Green on Dead Channels.
Shout Outs
- Deadly Dowagers: A fun board game about marrying rich men and murdering them for their estates.
- Monk and Robot: A novel series about a traveling robot and monk.
- Shiny Happy People: a documentary series about the evils of the Duggar family.
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline: a film based on the book of the same name.
- Worst of the Worst: A Youtube video essay series about the bottom level of combat sports.
- Starship Troopers: Extermination – a co-op shooter about blowing up alien bugs and building bases.
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