I watched two very different movies this week: Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires and Pig. Objectively, Pig is the better movie. Imagine John Wick as written by foodies -- his dog is a truffle-hunting pig. 7GV, conversely, was a hot mess, and yet ... so full of creator-juice!!! It's a clear mixup of Hammer Horror and Shaw Bros Wuxia. Could easily be turned into an RPG scenario.
Written in 1930, predicting the future in fictional hindsight. Also Martian cloud people and human-created human giant brains with vestigial bodies and factory lungs. Yep.
More world building talk, with Andy
https://anchor.fm/plundergrounds/episodes/328-Gygax-75-with-DuvelmanDice-e1jug2r
I'm getting addicted to note-taking in Obsidian. I'm hoping this isn't note-taking for the sake of note-taking and that it will inform my projects. I do think it will. It has already proven useful in terms of output - you can see my G75 work in Obsidian export form at my Patreon for instance (open to non-patrons).
The SPI game mentioned in my last post was John Carter: Warlord of Mars. See it here: https://waynesbooks.games/2019/11/05/john-carter-warlord-of-mars-adventure-game-spi-1979/
One clear no-no with Gamesience dice is to use acetone. You might have guessed that but I was desperate to rehab this old d20. Someone had inked whole sides with nail polish (?) and I couldn’t get it off with my go-to (dry erase board wipes) or anything else short of sanding it offf. Acetone worked but partially melted the surface of the die. Compare the acetone “blurred” die left to the minty fresh one on the right which I got inside an SPI game I bought on eBay.
I guess the point being that it's easy to overlook the experiences you have in search of experiences you want.
@KevinAllenJr Did you write the game Primitive, "back in the day?"
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