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Memories of Akkad

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:36:37 +0100

“Yeah, well… you all know why we’re in this dark, damp hole tonight, far from ears and eyes. In a moment, we’ll be planning our next Operation, but first, we have something to do.

We have goodbyes to say, to our brother-in-arms, Chaplain Owl. Heck, I’ll never know how he picked that codename, but it was a fine codename, the kind that will continue to puzzle the Shadow Police for a while. Chap’ was, I don’t know, maybe 20? Clearly, ten years ago, when the walls of Akkad fell, he was just a kid. Some of us were fighting in the streets, or in the catacombs, or on biplanes, or in the Dreaming. All of us had our freedom stolen, and our future, especially the kids.

Perfect Reality (Working Title)

Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:06:21 +0100

This world still looks very much like our own. Governments, companies, global warming, Internet of Things, online porn, spam, spyware everywhere. The web itself has evolved into immersive Augmented Reality-like experiences backed by both glasses, holograms and pseudo-solid fields dubbed Perfect Reality. Telling the real from the virtual slowly becomes impossible. Tele-commuting has replaced many workplaces and massive automation has killed many jobs but due to peak energy and the cost of sophisticated AI mean that people still need to work and you’ll still find a few humans at your local restaurant, clinic or childcare center. Perfect Reality has shaped a society of distributed yet insular communities with entirely distinct lifestyles, which interact each other mostly through a global LARP/strategy hybrid game called The Alterlight. Democracy and capitalism still exists in many countries, but once a government or a large company have picked objectives, they delegate most of their strategy to AI experts. Medicine has continued improving and a few dozen types of muscular, nervous or encephalic brain implants have become affordable [FIXME: Is this cyberware? Wetware? Nanotech? Something else entirely?]

Now available: The Reality Choir - A sourcebook for Core Earth's Covert War

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 22:20:50 +0100

Well, looks like it’s finished at last!

Let’s introduce

An Infiniverse supplement for Torg: Eternity. Everything you need to handle Covert Operations in Torg: Eternity, from covert agencies to theaters of operations to gear, to a Covert Operations generator!

Torg Eternity: The Covert Reality War Preview #5 – The Earth Defense Force

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:22:53 +0100

When the Delphi Council approached the Pan-Pacific Alliance to join forces against the Invasion, Pan-Pacifica rejected the invitation.

But the Pan-Pacific Alliance had another plan.

The Earth Defense Force.

This is a fifth preview of a Torg: Eternity Infiniverse Supplement called The Covert Reality War.

Have fun!

Torg Eternity: The Covert Reality War Preview #4 – The Federation of Saladin

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:04:00 +0100

At its core, the Delphi Council is the CIA, and it is no secret that the CIA is not very popular in many Muslim countries.

So, when Muslims decided that they needed to protect themselves, something happened.

Welcome to the Federation of Saladin.

This is a fourth preview of a Torg: Eternity Infiniverse Supplement called The Covert Reality War.

Have fun!

Torg Eternity: The Covert Reality War Preview #3 – Le Bureau des Tempêtes

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:24:55 +0200

The Delphi Council is clearly a US-centric Agency, so it was only a matter of time before a EU-backed counterpart arose. But with Spain presiding over the EU and Spain having granted Emergency Powers to Jean Malraux, what will this Agency look like?

Welcome to the Storm Office – Le Bureau des Tempêtes.

This is a third preview of a Torg: Eternity Infiniverse Supplement called The Covert Reality War.

Have fun!

Torg Eternity: The Covert Reality War Preview #2 – Theaters of Operations

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 22:30:28 +0200

Torg is a game of world-hopping. One day, the Heroes are in Aysle, the next one in Yucatan, and the day after, in a VTOL jet bringing them to an oil rig in the Pacific.

But what are they doing here? What about these frenemy agencies?

This is a second preview of a Torg: The Covert Reality War, dedicated to the theater of operations of the Reality Choir.

Theaters of Operations.

Torg Eternity: The Covert Reality War Preview #1 – The Delphi Council

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:56:35 +0200

This is a first preview of a Torg: Eternity Infiniverse supplement on Intelligence Agencies during the Reality War.

The Delphi Council.

Have fun!

The Space·Time Deck: Printer Proofs have arrived!

Thu, 06 Dec 2018 16:44:41 -0500

Printer proofs for the Space·Time Deck have arrived…

…and they look great!

Ronin Time Bureaucrats: The Most Benevolent Administrators

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:33:50 -0500

The Most Benevolent Administrators are believed to be leftovers of a dead branch of the Time Bureaucracy. They may be found scattered around time and space. While they look quite harmless – who would fear something that appears essentially to be photocopier on wheel tracks – the sheets of paper that they print sometimes make them very dangerous.

Most Benevolent Administrators are generally Poets and Philosophers, able of deep reflections on the nature of the human psyche, among others. They are also extremely perceptive and their writings are eloquent as very few human beings can be. Surprisingly, they often use these skills, combined, for the perceived benefits of others. Wherever a Most Benevolent Administrator shows up – which may be pretty much anywhere in Space·Time – expect that within a few months, people will be inventing Social Security and Universities and Parliaments, building Cathedrals, Towers of Babel and Starships and Utopias. Sadly, very few civilizations can survive such a level of ascension, and the rule of a Most Benevolent Administrator most often ends with bloody revolutions, invasions, cataclysms or self-immolation.

N-Dimensional Tourists: In two sheets

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:31:50 -0500

This is a two-sheets comic-book tutorial for N-Dimensional Tourists. Leave it lying on your tables and use it to create worlds, characters, plot twists and more!

Download the high-resolution pdf.

The Plotonomicon: In One Sheet

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:26:52 -0500

This is a one-sheet comic-book tutorial for the Plotonomicon. Leave it lying on your tables and use it to create worlds, characters, plot twists and more!

![The Plotonomicon Comic - Part 1](/images/plotonomicon/Plotonomicon Comics-1.png) ![The Plotonomicon Comic - Part 2](/images/plotonomicon/Plotonomicon Comics-2.png) ![The Plotonomicon Comic - Part 3](/images/plotonomicon/Plotonomicon Comics-3.png)

Download the high-resolution pdf.

The Plotonomicon: Creating Worlds

Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:10:37 +0100

In the Plotonomicon, creating a world is, much like creating a character, a series of Questions. Where creating a player’s character is generally a dialogue between the GM and that player, creating a world is one that involves everybody around the table.

Before starting, you’ll need to decide how much detail you want to put in your world – there’s no limit to how much time you can spend creating a world, if you enjoy doing so, but maybe you want to use that world immediately.

N-Dimensional Tourists: Stronger Together

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:48:15 +0100

Together, we’re stronger. Well-prepared, we’re stronger. Well-fed, well-rested, well-equipped, well-informed, well-trained, that’s even better. Well, whenever you group be together, or ensure that you’re well-prepared, well-fed, well-rested, well-equipped, well-informed, well-trained or pretty much anything else, you are Creating an Advantage.

As most things in N-Dimensional Tourists, Advantages are basically Aspects and may represent just about anything that makes sense in-story. It could be a strong character providing the team with Muscle during a streetfight, or a Hand-up for climbing. It could be an anime scientist building Mechs to defeat the alien invasion, or a super-villain scientist providing Green Rocks that absorb Ultraman’s power, etc.

N-Dimensional Tourists: Aspects and your Sleeve

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:09:13 +0100

While we have met Aspects a few times in this manual, so far, we have mostly contented ourselves with writing them down. Some are on your character sheet, some have been used to describe NPCs, or consequences of actions. In this chapter, we will discuss further what Aspects are and how they maybe used, both for the benefit of your character and against them.

Aspects in Narration

Role-Playing Game Pitch: Kingdom Came

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 11:56:38 +0100

Rejoice, for the Kingdom of Death is no more.

It was first reported Last Thursday, at 0421 GMT and it happened all over the globe: the dead have returned to walk among the living. They are disoriented, surely, and returned from Heaven or Hell or other places, but they are peaceful, for the most part.

What most of them are no more is human. For all the dead have returned, all since the first step of our kind, or possibly before, and few of them have a body to return to. The fresh ones, the ones who had died just a few moments after the event, those woke up without a pulse and continued their day without realizing that something was amiss. The decayed ones, the ones who had been in the ground or under the water for weeks or years or centuries, those woke up as creatures of their own nightmares, without context or explanation.

Plotonomicon: Let's not prepare anything

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:29:51 +0100

All good things start with stories. It’s not just a buzzphrase, by the way. If you are building a story, whether you are role-playing, storytelling for an audience or writing a book, the story comes first and everything else tends to follow naturally.

So let us start with, once again, a story.

Hope renewed

Our story is set in a fantasy archipelago inhabited by dozens of sentient species, and loosely inspired from Ancient Greece, with larger ships. One by one, the islands have fallen to the powerful and evil Spartan Legion, whose overlord now rules the archipelago nearly uncontested.

N-Dimensional Tourists: Meeting Challenges

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 19:19:49 +0100

So your character needs to find a key, lost somewhere in the mess left by the previous owner, or perhaps to pick the lock. Or maybe that piano needs to be moved into the living room, or you need to find a way through an opaque bureaucratic process, or to look innocent in front of a judge, or intimidating in front of a lowly thug. Or perhaps you’re fishing in a river or piloting your starship or settling a duel with another Musketeer before the Guards of the Cardinal show up? Or perhaps your character is an entire religion, attempting to gain converts in a new land, or a team of medics and researchers, fighting step by step against an unknown pandemic?

The Plotonomicon: A Tutorial

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 23:26:01 +0100

You know what? Let’s keep explanations for later. Let’s start with some action!

Imagine cars racing in the streets of Rio de Janeiro. It’s the present. Two of the heroes (let’s call them Desmond and Erika) share a sportscar, driving as fast as they can away from the HQ of Evil Corporation, where they just stole a USB stick. Our third hero (Frank) is in the gadget van, driving more slowly while keeping an eye on a map of traffic lights. A dozen of armed thugs on motorcycles are after Desmond and Erika. Also, imagine you have never visited Rio de Janeiro, you have no clue what the city looks like, and you haven’t prepped this pursuit.

The Plotonomicon: The Space Time Deck

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:45:25 +0100

The Space·Time Deck is a deck of 67 cards and a few blanks, loosely inspired from Tarot decks, and designed to aid with story improv, including Role-Playing Games and other forms of Storytelling.

Each of the cards is designed to be interpreted on its own, and to be used as part of a narrative role-playing ruleset. For both reasons, cards have both illustrations and symbols.

The Space·Time Deck is used throughout the Plotonomicon for building plots, characters, places, factions, twists, etc. and throughout the N-Dimensional Tourists as a base for resolving obstacles, conflicts, etc.

The Space Time Deck

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:45:25 +0100

The Space·Time Deck is a deck of 67 cards and a few blanks, loosely inspired from Tarot decks, and designed to aid with story improv, including Role-Playing Games and other forms of Storytelling.

Each of the cards is designed to be interpreted on its own, and to be used as part of a narrative role-playing ruleset. For both reasons, cards have both illustrations and symbols.

The Space Time Deck

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 13:45:25 +0100

The Space·Time Deck is a deck of 67 cards and a few blanks, loosely inspired from Tarot decks, and designed to aid with story improv, including Role-Playing Games and other forms of Storytelling.

Each of the cards is designed to be interpreted on its own, and to be used as part of a narrative role-playing ruleset. For both reasons, cards have both illustrations and symbols.

The Plotonomicon: About This Book

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:22:48 +0100

As all good things do, this book starts with a story.

It’s the story of a Game Master (let’s call her Alice), who spent weeks preparing a campaign for her players. Maybe the Players’s Characters were to be a company of heroes, who would save the land from a dragon. Or maybe they were students in magics, who were expected to find the sinister secrets of the Sorcerous Highschool. Or maybe they were survivors of a zombie apocalypse, who were to spend each of their days hiding from hordes of shambling undead.

N-Dimensional Tourists: Conflict Resolution

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:15:18 +0200

THIS CONTENT IS DEPRECATED

Playtesting has indicated that these rules don’t work as well as hoped.

We’ll leave them here for historical reasons, but newer versions of N-Dimensional Tourists do not use these rules.

These rules describes how to resolve Conflicts between two parties or more during a role-playing game using the N-Dimensional Tourists ruleset. This mechanism is designed to be generic enough to handle pretty much any kind, while remaining mostly narrative.

N-Dimensional Tourists: On your Character Sheet

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:30:53 +0100

In N-Dimensional Tourists, each major character is defined by:

A Card, which is used during improv.
Any number of Aspects, which determine what the character can do;
5 Attributes, which determine how good a character is at their tasks;
Any number of Specialties, which let them use Attributes in unusual manners;
At least one Weakness, which makes their life more complicated.

Minor non-player characters are typically described in even broader strokes, at least until the story calls upon them to be defined in more details.

N-Dimensional Tourists

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:30:22 +0100

N-Dimensional Tourists is a lightweight, generic ruleset for fiction-first, narrative roleplaying. Instead of dice, it uses the Space·Time Deck.

Space·Time Deck: The Suit of Unknown

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 22:22:49 +0200

Well, after the Triumphs and four suits (Paper, Rock, Blade, Serpent), it is time to conclude the Space·Time Deck with its last suit: the Suit of Unknown (you are free to call it the Suit of Spock)!

Unknown symbolizes:

imagination;
intuition;
perception;
illusions;
dreams.

Whenever you draw a card of this suit, you are encouraged to integrate any of these concepts to your interpretation.

The cards:

Ruler
Dragon
Treasure
Soldier
Builder
Seeker
Lover
Servant
Home
Foot (blank, customizable)
Teddy bear (blank, customizable)

Credits

Cards David Teller. Available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (source: author).
Out There logo A resolution diagram of the game «Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock». Wikipedia user DMacs. Available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (source: Wikipedia).
Ruler Frank E. Schoonover - Cover of A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published by McClurg. Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Dragon Photograph by Wikipedia User Colin – Paisley Abbey gargoyle 10. Replacement from 1991. “Alien”. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Treasure Wikipedia user Madman2001 – A drawing of the lid of the tomb of Maya ruler Pacal the Great. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Soldier Henry Fuseli – Macbeth consulting the vision of the armed head. Oil on canvas with original inscribed frame, 1793. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (source: Folger Shakespeare Library).
Builder Plate found on page 7 of Marey Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, captioned “FRANKENSTEIN AT WORK IN HIS LABORATORY.” Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Seeker Photo by Diego Delso – Aerial view of the “Owlman” aka “Astronaut”, the most enigmatic geoglyph of the Nazca Lines, which are located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Lover Film poster Plan 9 from Outer Space. Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Servant Photo by Jean Pezzali – Crâne déformé pour des raisons esthétiques. Musée de Nasca. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Home A “flat-Earth” map drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1893. Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Home A good child and a bad child (wearing dunce cap with ass’s ears) in a schoolroom, from The Affectionate Parent’s Gift, 1828. Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).

Thanks

Many thanks to jlorenzo, pnkfelix, nickwedig, Alamantus, mxfraud, GiantKumquat, Solal for their help!

Space·Time Deck: The Suit of Serpents

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:37:23 +0200

Did you think the Space·Time Deck was done after

Were it only that it were so simple!

Here’s the fourth suit: the Suit of Serpents.

Serpents traditionally symbolize:

speed;
stealth;
adaptation;
survival;
lies;
forbidden knowledge;
forbidden power;
temptation.

The cards:

Ruler
Dragon
Treasure
Soldier
Builder
Seeker
Lover
Servant
Home
Foot (blank, customizable)
Teddy bear (blank, customizable)

Credits

Cards David Teller. Available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (source: author).
Serpent logo A resolution diagram of the game «Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock». Wikipedia user DMacs. Available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (source: Wikipedia).
Ruler Merlin and Vivien in The yellow book : an illustrated quarterly, 1895. Believed to be Public Domain (source: Flicker Commons.
Dragon The samurai Hanagami Danjo no jo Arakage in Izumo stabbing a giant salamander with his short sword. Public Domain(source: Wikimedia Commons).
Treasure Hans Canon – Der Salamander. Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Soldier Émile Bayard – Mélusine. Illustration from The History of Magic. Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Builder Illumination of a 15th century manuscript of Historia Regum Britanniae showing king of the Britons Vortigern and Ambros watching the fight between two dragons. Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Seeker Photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra – Tenture de l’Apocalypse: Satan (le Dragon) remet à La Bête de la mer (à droite) le pouvoir figuré par un sceptre (détail du panneau III.40). Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Lover Isobel Lilian Gloag – The Knight and the Mermaid or The Kiss of the Enchantress. Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Servant Devotions to Nagadevata. Believed to be Public Domain (source: Wikimedia Commons).
Home Snakes & Ladders, Game of Heaven & Hell. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license (source: Wikimedia Commons).

Thanks

Many thanks to jlorenzo, pnkfelix, nickwedig, Alamantus, mxfraud, GiantKumquat for their help!

Conflict Resolution With the Space·Time Deck

Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:35:18 +0200

Most Role-Playing Games resolve conflicts with dice. But since we have a Space·Time Deck at hand (or any other kind of Tarot-like Deck), let’s see if we can use it to bring about a different manner of resolving conflicts.

About Conflicts

A Conflict is a scene in which two parties or more have agendas, which cannot be fulfilled simultaneously. In most role-playing games, the most common form of conflict is the combat, but that is by no mean the only form possible: conflict could be car races, social wit, political campaigns, chess, battlefield strategy, attempting to ruin your opponent’s reputation or fortune, popularity contests, football matches, etc.

Space·Time Deck: The Suit of Scissors (or Blades)

Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:50:23 +0200

After the Suit of Paper and the Suit of Rock, here comes the Suit of Scissor (or perhaps Blades – name to be finalized).

Warning Museum-level nudity.

Scissors/blade traditionally symbolize:

forced change;
violence;
destiny;
death.

The cards:

Ruler
Dragon
Treasure
Soldier
Builder
Seeker
Lover
Servant
Home
Foot (blank, customizable)
Teddy bear (blank, customizable)

Note that the blue borders are not part of the cards. They are just there to delimit the safe-to-draw zone. Printed cards should have a little white margin between the part you can see above and the border.

Ronin Time Bureaucrats: Afterlife and the Time Adjustment Foundation

Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:40:20 +0200

While the Time Federation is forever limited by its Prime Directive, the militarist branches managed to get away with murder, kidnapping and torture by finessing paradoxes. Some cadres of the Time Federation wanted the ability to counter-attack, and managed to create a covert operations branch called the Time Adjustment Foundation. And further is exactly where it goes.

Space·Time Deck: The Suit of Rock

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:04:23 +0200

After the Suit of Paper, here comes the Suit of Rock.

Warning Museum-level nudity.

Rock traditionally symbolizes:

stability;
reliability;
power.

The cards:

Ruler
Dragon
Treasure
Soldier
Builder
Seeker
Lover
Servant
Home
Foot (blank, customizable)
Teddy bear (blank, customizable)

Space·Time Deck: The Suit of Paper

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:37:23 +0200

A few weeks ago, we introduced the Trump Cards of the Space·Time Deck. It’s time for a second delivery: the Suit of Paper.

Paper traditionally symbolizes:

knowledge and wisdom;
deduction;
riches;
fragility.

The cards:

Ruler
Dragon
Treasure
Soldier
Builder
Seeker
Lover
Servant
Home
Foot (blank, customizable)
Teddy bear (blank, customizable)

Space·Time Deck: On the way to proof printing!

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:04:31 +0200

The 22 Trump Cards of the Space·Time Deck are now on their way to proof printing! We should receive the proofs in early December. If everything is alright, we should be able to sell them through DriveThru by End of Year.

Role-Playing Game Pitch: Toys of the Gods

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 18:46:04 +0200

There are gods in this story, almighty or as near can be. This is not their story.

These gods shape and make history of mankind, Earth and beyond. This is not the story of mankind, Earth or beyond.

Let it be known that the gods have children, and that some of these children will ascend to godhood, while others will stop mere heroes or monsters, and the rest will fail and fall. This is not the story of children, or heroes, or monsters, or failing and falling.

An Idea for a future Role-Playing Game: Wandering Spirits

Mon, 01 Oct 2018 14:00:04 +0200

Here’s a possible idea for a setting. It owns to Hurlements, Nephilim, Highlander, Continuum.

The story is set on our Earth, past, present and future.

The heroes are immortal, Wandering Spirits. They have existed on Earth since before Mankind, and will still be there after Mankind. In a way, they are gods: free to roam at will, to experience it all, without fear of consequences. In another way, they are but prisoners, condemned to live and relive the history of the world, either as passive observers, or as mere humans, borrowed for a day or a lifetime.

Improvising with the Space·Time Deck: V. Hello, you gorgeous!

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 12:05:58 +0200

This is an extract from the Plotonomicon.

Note that we have just changed the picture from

The old picture (The Slaughter of the Innocents) one was considered too violent – while both are museum pieces, the first one depicts mass murder of children, and was thus discarded as not-safe-for-children’s-hands.

This new version gets rid of almost all violence, and offers much more symbolism, hence much more freedom of improv.

Interpretations

Default interpretations:

Project: Ronin Time Bureaucrats

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:19:16 +0200

We’re currently working on a Role-Playing Game called Ronin Time Bureaucrats.

Expect brains-over-brawn, improv and handwavy time paradoxes.

You can find the latest draft (mostly complete, unformatted) online. Even in this unfinished form, don’t hesitate to leave feedbak!

Stay tuned for more!

The Plotonomicon

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:18:34 +0200

Oops, the heroes have ruined the story, again. They managed to get Camelot invaded by the peaceful Seelie while King Arthur was at war, to kill teenage Karl Marx while vacationing in Space·Time or to blow up the Magical University where the entire campaign was meant to take place. Also, they have just entered the Unknowable Dungeon of Unspeakable Death, for which you have no maps, or they are due to meet the Ambassador of the Qfew’dhi Confederation, the one you just invented by pushing random keys on your keyboard.

Guess it’s time to switch to improv mode!

How will King Arthur Pendragon react to news of the invasion?

How will history readjust itself without Karl Marx?

How will the Unseen Council protect the Mundane Sphere without the Sevenfold Anchor?

What evil lurks in the Unknowable Dungeon of Unspeakable Death?

What does a Qfew’dhi even look like?

This blog knows! The Space·Time Deck knows!

(well, or at least, they can help you improvise an answer)

If you are a Game Master, a Player, a Writer, or any kind of Storyteller, this book and its companion Space·Time Deck are designed for you. Because you may need to improvise characters on the fly, to explore dungeons without maps, to spice up fights and altercations and pursuits and confrontations of all sorts, to come up with exotic planets, unheard of magical creatures, threats past and future, not to mention stories, stories-within-stories and ultimate plot twists, all of this without breaking pace.

Don’t worry, we are here for you. We bring you improv and storytelling tricks and techniques, examples, and a tarot-like deck of cards designed to help you keep your stories varied, interesting and fun!

We're on DriveThruRPG!

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:09:24 +0200

After a few weeks spent composing, recomposing and polishing our Fate comic book tutorial, it’s now available on DriveThruRPG for pay-as-you-want, starting at $0.

As previously, the license allows you to share, reproduce and modify, provided you maintain credits, so feel free to bring it to your playing table.

We’re working on making it available print-on-demand.

Thanks to all the fine folks on Reddit communities /u/RPGdesign and /u/FATErpg for the feedback, and thanks to Evil Hat for making such a great game!

Improv(is)ing stories with cards

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 19:01:39 +0200

Earlier, we have posted the Space·Time Deck.

It’s a set of cards, designed to help with improv.

But why cards?

In theory, an improv Storyteller should be able to use anything as support for improvisation. That’s true whether they’re performing for an audience, or improvising a plot for an ongoing Role-Playing Game, or improvising their character as a RPG player, or writing a book.

Do you know the ideal improviser? His name is Keyser Söze. In Usual Suspects, he manages to come up with a plot twist just by looking at his coffee cup.

Introducing the Space·Time Deck

Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:43:09 +0200

The Space·Time Deck is a card deck designed to be used as an improv tool, both for storytelling and role-playing games.

The Excuse.
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VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
XX.
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Cheatsheet Front
Cheatsheet Back

A comic book tutorial for Fate Core

Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:04:50 +0200

If you are interested in improv/narrative role-playing games, you may have heard of Fate Core, a great ruleset made by Evil Hat exactly for this purpose. It’s simple, it’s excellent, and it’s missing a tutorial, so here is one:

As you can see, it fits in one sheet, and it’s designed to be printed and brought with you at your table.

I’d like to make it available in other languages – if you wish to help, don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Ronin Time Bureaucrats: Is there an afterlife?

Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:24:40 +0200

Is there an afterlife?

Why, of course, there is, and you came to the right place!

Ronin Time Bureaucrats

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 09:30:43 +0200

« Nobody remembers with certainty in which year the Great Snafu took place, but people generally agree that it was on a September, or perhaps on a Saturday afternoon, on some even-numbered millenium. Also, it involved blowing up the Universe, which made pretty much everybody unhappy, except for a few people who had been waiting for this opportunity to loudly exclaim “I told you so”, and even they were not happy for long.