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We got together to read & talk about ideas from BRC Foreign Correspondent TAZ, who had some thoughts about Space-Wreck Exploration & Goblin Paradise.
Planetes
Memories (a.k.a. Otomo Katsuhiro’s Memories)
Hospital Station, by James White
World War 2.0, by John Birmingham
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Craig is spectacularly unimaginative, looking at young Graboids wanting to tread the boards & see their names in lights.
Tonya imagines a world ruled and changed by Graboids, with scattered pockets of humanity making their homes in zoos, the last islands of non-graboid life.
Kev considers a Graboid-infested New York in The Days After Ragnarok, then moves on to the strange events aboard the colony ship “Manhattan”.
Ben, who has been working All Of The Hours, suggests The Graboids Take Las Vegas, and has some thoughts upon the difference between pitching a game and spoiling an idea.
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Craig imagines a strange & injured messenger arriving on a stormy night with a call to action, Ben thinks the video itself is a doorway to change & revolution in a stark & sterile future, Tonya sees the music video as the first part of an Alternate Reality Game, and Kevin wonders what happens if very determined & resourceful people see non-existent hidden messages in your communications.
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Kev mixes The Goonies, The Dirty Dozen, & a dash of Gremlins, all while wondering what, exactly, a Goblin Paradise might look like, and how you’d find one if you needed to.
Craig heads for the movie Labyrinth by a roundabout route, and contemplates both massive political upheaval and the Terrible Madness Of The Goblin King.
Ben starts with the French cinema during World War Two and ends up with an all-Goblin theater troupe.
Tonya traces the roots of the word ‘Goblin’, and takes us, through household gods and mine-spirits, to the last desperate search for a home for the scattered members of the Goblin diaspora
{Tonya sez:- I did a web search on this phrase when we drew the card, and as a result watched the movie ‘Legend’ for the first time. There is a reason that the movie is not mentioned in the show. There are parts of Tom Cruise and his Magic Pants that I never need to see again.}
The answer to that question is: All Right-Thinking People.
The folks at Bundle of Holding have figured that out and want to help: their current bundle collects a huge amount of the Unknown Armies game line, and will likely add more before the sale closes in slightly-less-than-70-hours (less than 3 days) from the time this post goes live.
You get both the Core book and the One Shots collection of modules, which includes the infamous “Jailbreak” scenario that everyone should experience once, along with a bunch of other goodies.
If you also participated in the earlier Fate-themed Bundle of Holding, you’ll have The Kerberos Club. That means if you get in on this bundle, you have everything you need to use the BRC’s adaptation of “Jailbreak” into Strange Fate.
You know. Hypothetically speaking.
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The Big Red Couch’s Foreign Correspondent, Taz, had a few ideas about the President’s missing Earth Chakra.
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In which Kevin imagines the Stargasso of stranded ships, Craig wonders how to rescue colonist stranded by the march of progress, Ben contemplates asteroid-hopping miner-archaeologists, and Tonya has some thoughts on what you might find in a spacecraft graveyard.
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Tonya introduces us to Autograph-Hunting in a village filled with Stars of the Silver Screen. And their relatives.
Kev wonders about the role of a Police Force in a village with more than the usual number of Mad Scientists, trying to stop a strange town from getting any stranger.
Ben considers Mad Science Rehab.
Craig wonders about the one place on Earth where all of this Weird-Ass stuff actually works.
Important Note!: For the next week or so, Bundle of Holding have a pay-what-you want sale on Fate-related PDFs with no bookmarking or DRM. For any price you want, you get Fate Core, Fate Accelerated, Full Moon, and Spirit of the Century. If you pay more than the average, you unlock The Kerberos Club, Legends of Anglerre and Starblazer Adventures.
That’s a crazily good deal, and Fate Core, Fate Accelerated and The Kerberos Club are very highly recommended. Given how often they feature in our Game Resources page, that should already be pretty obvious…
And now we return you to our regularly-scheduled Show Notes.
Greetings all! In the background for the last while, we’ve been working on reorganising the Game Resources page in response to feedback. The new version has more structure we can use to grow in future without it becoming unwieldy, and has a bunch of extra content.
On the page, you will find:
– A Questionable Content hack of Fate Accelerated Edition (FAE) with Approaches designed for a QC context, along with a bunch of character write-ups using the hack.
– FAE characters from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Gravity Falls and Homestuck
– Rules meaning you can use Strange Fate from The Kerberos Club to run the infamous “Jailbreak” scenario from Unknown Armies, and all you need is the book that contains the module itself.
– Character and City Generation for a Dresden Files RPG game that members of the BRC are playing/running together.
Plus many other gems. We plan to keep adding to the Game Resources section, and if you see something interesting listed as a bulletpoint but there’s no link yet, it’s a sign we’re working on adding it in future.
Curious to see what you think!
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Episode Five – Bond: Behind The Scenes
Fate Accelerated Edition
Yesterday’s Tomorrow, by John Wick
James Bond Movie Theme
Skyfall
Mission: Impossible
Leverage
Mission: Impossible TV Series Theme
The Green Hornet – Movie
The Green Hornet – TV Series
Episode Twelve – Starbutt Magic-Horse And The Existential Vacuum Of Modern Acquaintance