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Whiskey, Blood and Dust's avatar

Nice review! I've been wanting to try out a game like that. I'm going to put this on list for when I finish my current solo games.

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R. G. Miga's avatar

sounds tremendous.

i've also heard of people (including J.F. Martel of Weird Studies) accidentally generating some spooky world-crossing phenomena with tabletop RPGs like this.

anybody doing chaos magick could probably have a ball with hypersigils in a format like this...

(he said, schemingly).

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Jack Edward's avatar

ooooo, you got a link to that?

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R. G. Miga's avatar

(sorry if this is a duplicate reply) taking care of a sick kid atm so can't listen to the ep, but i think it's the beginning of this one: https://runesoup.com/2023/05/ufos-art-and-the-imaginal-with-j-f-martel/

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David Alastair Hayden's avatar

I just bought a copy. Looking forward to using it!

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Logan Juliano, PhD's avatar

This sounds fun!

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Alysson Lago's avatar

New subscriber here that came from YouTube as well! I’m loving everything here, thank you for your thoughts on all these things we enjoy.

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RobinPlays's avatar

That sounds like a really cool game. I’m going to check it out! Thanks for the write up!

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Randall Hayes's avatar

Thanks especially for the sci-fi suggestions at the end. I'm running a class and the star cluster mini-game in DIASPORA was great as a demo but I feel like students may need more scaffolding for their final projects.

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Jack Edward's avatar

Oh, The Perilous Void is awesome. Stars Without Number is amazing, but a little trad -- still, it'll get you to a star map in no time (check out the Sectors Without Number online tool).

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Randall Hayes's avatar

Very cool. My class is going to be using real stars and planets, though we'll still have to make up most of the details.

https://openexoplanetcatalogue.com/

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Richard Stevens's avatar

Reminds me of a very similar game called “Dawn of Worlds” where the players create a world and history through different ages. Similar ideas but executed differently.

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Jack Edward's avatar

Dawn of Worlds is an inspiration for Worldwizard! I think one of the only two games listed as inspiration.

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Will Marlowe's avatar

Thanks for the rec! LOVE this, and just bought it.

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Robert's avatar

This sounds right up my alley, I collect world-history/creation games as reference for my game in development. Two of which came to mind Red Aegis by the James Brothers, an RPG with 4X elements and history creation, and Seeds of War, another 4x meets RPG concept. It is by Nicholas Nayaert published by Specta Solutions.

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Troy Church's avatar

Great review. Definitely going to buy Worldwizard.

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ToPguy's avatar

This looks awesome. I can't wait to use this. Thanks for writing this up. I'll definitely be using this next time I start a game

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Tom Pleasant's avatar

Man, I've used Freebooters 1st Ed for so many games. It's brilliant. Just bought World Wizard on your recommendation and looking forward to reading it.

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Jack Edward's avatar

Have you seen the 2e playtest? It’s insanely fucking cool

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Cassidy's avatar

There's at least one person here interested in hearing about your Brindlewood campaign.

And I think being a sci-fi GM is great. It's a skill I wouldn't be good at. It's not a genre I feel knowledgeable enough about to run a game and improvise with.

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Jack Edward's avatar

Hey, I'd run sci-fi campaigns all of the time, but my core core core group who's really down for epic campaigns just doesn't' love sci-fi as much.

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Connor Kuykendall's avatar

I’m one of your new subscribers that came from YouTube! I absolutely love your GM advice and learning from your experiences with different games/systems. I also have Blades in the Dark on my bookshelf, but I’ve pushed playing it due to the “unlimited” situations my players can put me in. I don’t think my improv is that good… yet.

Anyways, can’t wait until your next post! Hope all is well, and I will forever be crossing my fingers for the next Play Materials YouTube vid. I took a screenshot of your paper UDT from one of your videos and tried to replicate it with… moderate success. Currently running Shadowdark with it in my first ever sandbox campaign!

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K.J. Montgomery's avatar

"I'm writing fiction again." 🤩 I'm eager to see what you come up with!

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