The Big Red Couch RPG Podcast

Craig went to Gen Con, and is forcing you to hear about it,Ben tries to moderate this audio equivalent of a “What I Did On My Holidays” slideshow,And we ask the audient how they like to do conventions. Tāmaki Makaurau Gen Con New York – New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Episode One Hundred And Ten – Good news; I have solved the Fermi Paradox. Bad news: I have solved the Fermi ParadoxThis is the previous Ben & Craig In The Same Room episode, an event of such momentousness to I’m sure you’ll want to re-listen ~ T. Jones VBA Orc Stomp 5k Gen Con MapLucas Oil StadiumJW Marriott, IndianapolisVictory Field Artsgarden Coyote & CrowShattered Dreams Tales From The LoopKids On Bikes Shadow Scar R. Talsorian GamesStudio GhibliWanderhome Evil Hat ProductionsModiphius Entertainment Indie Press Revolution Psychic Trash DetectivesYazeba’s Bed & BreakfastPsi*Run RapscallionPowered By The ApocalypseForged In The Dark Brindlewood BayThe Golden GirlsAngela LansburyMurder, She WroteCraig wanted to conceal the fact that he confused the actor name with the character name AND forgot to mention the name of the show. I wouldn’t let him. ~ T. JonesThe Brokenwood MysteriesMidsomer MurdersKalamazoo, MichiganThe Almighty Johnsons Old Gods Of AppalachiaPennsylvaniaMonte Cook GamesOld Gods Of Appalachia Podcast Cypher SystemNumeneraThe StrangePredation Coprolite Under Hollow HillsA Midsummer Night’s DreamLabyrinthCrossroads Carnival The Quiet Year The Jank Cast website seems to be gone, which is a shame.Their publishing arm, Wheel Tree Press, is still up though. Mycelia River Valley Glassworks RootRoot RPGMagpie Games Oh My Pigeons! Tentacle Town Hamster Roll Gen Con VIGCraig cannot find the name of that ‘B Movies’ game, because he didn’t take a picture of the box ~ T. Jones Pickled Onion Monster MunchTwigletsUmami Pineapple LumpsWhittaker’s Peanut Slab The Great Gen Con Heist The Wildsea Pillowfort ( It’s a social networking site with an emphasis on not being awful ~ T. Jones ) Kiwi RPG Week The SprawlMonster Of The WeekD12GO!Arcane Crimes DivisionDeathmatch IslandFlight or Fright

The fifth day out of “the four best days of gaming”? Is this worst day of gaming? Or the day of worst gaming? Reminiscence, nostalgia, and unhinged grumbling trail in the wake of our hero’s journey, the pains of old wounds and faded glories herald the end of yet another lost era. Professional Game Master Matt Balogh Rapscallion Quickstart by Magpie Games

A tale ripped from the headlines, rude villainy abounds.When is checkout time again? Film – Lorenzo’s_Oil (1992) Gizmodo.com article on GenCon 2023 Card Theft Urban Shadows: Second Edition by Magpie Games – Kickstarter page in fulfillment phase. Rapscallion Quickstart also by Magpie Games Family Tettigoniidae – Kaydids from all over. (T. Jones – Pretty bog-standard looking grasshoppers, a lot lot of them.) Caedicia simplex or What Katydids look like around these parts (T. Jones – Described as “Makes a feeble chirp in the evening”. Savage. )

Despite the Southern chill these flames still burn brightly and while the Devil dances in the hearth, he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Orc Stomp XIII 5k Fun Run – (T. Jones ~ Enjoying the note “Tournament: No, this is not a tournament.”) Stealing Stories for the Devil Chew from Imagining Games KiwiRPG – Kēmu Whakatau O Aotearoa – KiwiRPG Week for 2023 was June 10 to 18 Wait, Roll That Again by Podcasts Hosted by Alex Marinkovich-Josey (T. Jones ~ It should be noted that Ben’s guess that Alex is “a new gamer” is baseless slander. Newer than these jaded old farts, but that’s hardly grounds for judgement.) Reserved Recommendations by Hugh Dingwall on MPR (Manawatu People’s Radio) – “Everyone has a thing they love, but wouldn’t feel comfortable recommending to the general public. This is a series of fascinating chats about problematic faves, great trash, and our complicated relationships with art and culture.” Recent Episodes on the MPR site above, which get cycled to YouTube as time passes. Episode 61 – Jay Brandstetter and Winslow Dumaine (90’s and 00’s “Edge”)( book about somethings awful )Episode 60 – Sean Murphy on Violence (1999)Episode 59 – Tim Denee (Deadlands)Episode 58 – Mike Sands (Unique TTRPGs) https://www.youtube.com/@HughDingwall/videos Deadlands: The Weird West The Deadlands RPG by Pinnacle Entertainment Group Psychology ‘gaming lab’ explores benefits of Dungeons & Dragons, board games on Radio New Zealand – GRAIL “Gaming Research and Investigation Laboratory” will be based at Massey University’s Manawatū campus. Urban Shadows: Second Edition Kickstarter page in fulfillment phase. Questlandia Second Edition Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game The Demon Core

The promise of glorious perspiration hangs in the morning air.From waterborne villainy to a terrible hunger, a course is plotted.Hope, and sturdy footwear, may yet carry the day. Quickstart (Rapscallion) Avatar Legends by Magpie Games Chew from Imagining Games Stealing Stories for the Devil

An iron steed shies at the thunder of the Old Gods.The dawn of a new age, as life stirs on a blasted plane.At some point… breakfast. Well There’s Your Problem Podcast – A podcast (with slides) about engineering disasters and systemic fail. Precision_Railroading AKA precision scheduled railroading (PSR) What is the Correct Pronunciation of “Appalachian”? The Old Gods of Appalachia Podcast and RPG Avatar Legends: The Roleplaying Game by Magpie Games One More Multiverse Virtual Table Top Blades in the Dark RPG from John Harper and One Seven The Magpie Games Coming Soon page with Rapscallion and more

What’s this? A new episode? The land quakes and the seas roar, for they have returned like the heroes of old! Well, like old heroes anyway. People. Old people. Never meet your heroes, kids. Biding his time in the foetid swamp of Wah-Shing-Tun, the fearless traveler Craig set his sights on the “four and a bit” best days gaming in Indianapolis. Rapscallion – Magpie Games Urban Shadows – Magpie Games CHEW – Imagining Games Avatar Legends – Magpie Games Stealing Stories For The Devil – Monte Cook Games

Now GenCon is over for another year, it is a time for quiet reflection, sensations of creeping dread, and a commitment to doing more gaming. Better even! Yes, this is late. We are so, so tired. Tentacle Town Le Chat Noir Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior The Underarm bowling incident of 1981 Dr Nick Holm: how New Zealand comedy embraces being a bit s**t The Devil Made Us Do It! The British Museum Assholes Impersonate Gen Con Staff, Send Harassing Messages To Attendees

As the day dawns on the morning of the last day of GenCon for another year, Craig reminisces about this convention’s atmosphere and a strange sense of gamer melancholy. Wayfaring Strangers by Games from the Wild Wood Talismonger – Shadowrun slang Simple Simon (nursery rhyme) TV – Supernatural Alice Isn’t Dead TV – The Sandman Dark Matter by Mage Hand Press TV – Dark Matter the SYFY show from 2015 Avatar Legends RPG by Magpie Games Tentacle Town

With reality fraying around him, Craig relates the strange events of Friday and muses on what improbable futures Saturday might bring. Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast by Possum Creek Games Bulldogs – Galileo Games Midnight Nation by J. Michael Straczynski TV – The Lost Room Avatar Legends RPG by Magpie Games

Craig’s at GenCon, the mad bastard, so we checked in on him yesterday to see what he’s been up to! He doesn’t appear to require medical evacuation yet, so we chatted about a few games and events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vScP-Ev4&ab_channel=FuturePhoto Put a huge fucking Q on the box! People who vilify Britain will be treated as extremists and referred to the Government’s deradicalisation Prevent programme under plans by Rishi Sunak. https://t.co/ukgih4RgeU pic.twitter.com/yTr3q289cd— Charles Hymas (@charleshymas) August 3, 2022 Tales from the Floating Vagabond by Avalon Hill Alexandria RPG Library “We are a nonprofit charity based in Washington State. We travel with a lending library to events to share role-playing games with others. When we are not at events we run games for at-risk youth, military service members with PTSD, senior citizens. The best part is that anyone that plays RPGs can help.” Crossroads Carnival by Magpie Games Film – Freaks (1932) Under Hollow Hills: About the Game Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast by Possum Creek Games

Activate The Goose-ducer! – Descendants of an end-of-days science experiment battle the descendants of a different end-of-days science experiment through the use of yet another end-of-days science experiment. The Dream Police Want To Make Sure That Nothing Is Inside Your Head – Dreaming is illegal, Science Rays ensure that nobody dreams, and Z-Leggers smuggle stolen dreams through sleepeasys. There’s a reason for this, and the Government say it’s a neccesary thing, but … Is it a good enough reason? A Mobster Calls – Telepresence work shifts aren’t fun, but the rest of prison life here is OK, the counselling staff seem nice, and the guards are weirdly unconcerned about what you’re up to. It’s a nice place to serve your time, but those older counselling staff, the ones who give off the ‘former inmate’ vibe, keep dropping hints that you can’t even see the real prison. IVAR chair, by IKEA Tarot Terry Pratchett The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022 Monsters Inc. Untitled Goose Game Episode One Hundred And Sixty Two – Ruins Of The Ancients The Secret of NIMHMrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’BrienLand of the Lost ( The one with dinosaurs & Sleestak ~ T. Jones )Land of the Giants ( The one with tiny people ~ T. Jones ) Transducer The FlyJeff Goldblum Old World Blues (Fallout DLC / Add-On)Fallout: New Vegas Kalawan Rising, by William Dymock-JohnsonThe Uplift Universe Series, by David Brin Harry Harrison Ogre (board game) Welcome To Night Vale (show)Welcome To Night Vale (wikipedia) Eliot NessH.P. LovecraftThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, by H.P. Lovecraft Dark CityFringe The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, by Chris Wooding Hellboy Jacob’s Ladder Silent Hill Stranger ThingsLocke & Key Dark Conspiracy Episode One – AlcatrazEpisode Two – Mexico Is Missing An IslandEpisode Three – Star Dot Star Telepresence Alcatraz Island Clarence Anglin / Frank Morris ( June 1962 Alcatraz Escape )Al Capone( “Due to his good behavior, Capone was permitted to play banjo in the Alcatraz prison band, the Rock Islanders, which gave regular Sunday concerts for other inmates” ~ T. Jones ) Sleep DealerThe MatrixA Monster Calls Twistaplot Novel The Amazing CriswellPlan 9 From Outer Space

To My Esteemed Undersea Colleague – Beneath the ice of Europa, isolated Mecha Pilots on long patrols stay in touch by writing letters back & forth Aquapastoral – Flooding can be expected after a storm, but nobody expected the water to be 30 feet above the farmhouse roof, and they certainly didn’t expect the water to politely stay outside of the house itself. Jousting ‘Neath The Waves – Once the submarine battles between the sea-dwarf & human kingdoms came to an end, the various rulers needed to find something to keep their combat-ready & easily-bored warriors from breaking the peace. IKEA Ivar Chair Inverness Bette MidlerBeaches ( Movie from 1988, demonstrating that Craig has seen too many movies ~ T. Jones ) Episode One Hundred and Fifty Four – Drab Majesty San FranciscoPalace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Zodiac, by Neal StephensonSeveneves, by Neal Stephenson The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald D20 Go Bad Taste (movie) Waiheke IslandMotukorea / Browns Island SIGNAL//r021 by Hexavexagon Signal Seed by Hexavexagon Epistolary Europa Iron Lung (game)Five Nights At Freddies De Profundis Castle Falkenstein Dugong Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis CarrollThe Walrus & The Carpenter, by Lewis Carroll Studio GhibliSpirited AwayPonyo / Ponyo on the Cliff by the SeaPom Poko Yazeba’s Bed & BreakfastPossum Creek GamesWanderhome Craig made me put this in, but refuses to explain why, other than it being something to do with misspelling Studio Ghibli ~ T. Jones The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum Done & Been, by Gypsy Moon Chuck TingleThe Tingleverse: The Official Chuck Tingle Role-Playing Game ( Amazon Link )chucktingle.com ( I’m honestly not sure whether this is NSFW or not ~ T. Jones ) Red NovemberBurning Wheel Cool RunningsA Knight’s Tale America’s Cup Blue MaxStar Wars: X-Wing Miniatures Game Archer

Donuts & Crullers – Ben starts to make a game about a TV Genre he hates, and ends up inventing a card mechanic for cooking competitions. 24/7 Coffee & Questions – Craig tries to come up with an explanation for the “high-level adventurer running a tavern” trope, and ends up with a mystery hiding in plain sight. The Bangers & Mash Are Coming! – The International Food section of the Grocery Isles is under threat from the Anglican Food Empire, and the East Asian Pastries are all that stands to protect them from an endless beige buffet. Kiwi RPG Week 2022 The Winter of Our DiscontentBath, Somerset Narrowboat CrullerDonut Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonAng Lee Dunkin’ DonutsBaker Street, LondonSherlock Holmes Whenuapai AirbaseC-130 Hercules Stephen ChowThe God Of Cookery Masterchef Australia Castle Falkenstein Borough MarketGreenwich Market Warren Buffet The Dresden Files RPGShadowrun Jackie ChanKung Fu Hustle The Vegi-Verse / Big Shopping Cart / The Grocery Isles have come up in a few episodes by now ~ T. JonesEpisode One Hundred And Forty Five – The Case Of The Accidental Battered Sausage Episode Eighty One – Banana Warriors Of Dimension X Episode One Hundred And Forty Seven – From Me To You; A Free Gift Of Soul Dust Wikipedia list of Chinese Bakery products Mascot-tan Kantai Collection / Kantai Korekushon OS-tan UK Data Loader Tsundere Beholder Gunboat Diplomacy Strontium DogThe Munch Bunch 2000AD Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other StrangenessGamma World VeggieTales Cherry 2000Mad MaxRollerblade Warriors( One of a series of Post-Apocalyptic Rollerblade Action movies by Donald G. Jackson. Craig has seen some, but not all of them. We judge him for this, and we are right to do so. ~ T. Jones )Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn Admiral Zeng He

Presley Event Overload – The timeline is fracturing under a cascade of divergence events, splitting faster than they can be investigated, let alone dealt with. There’s no clear pattern to what’s happening, though a certain 20th Century musician seems to be affected by more of the changes than mere coincidence would permit. The Mystery Of The King Beyond The Stars – In the far future, at a multi-species gathering of devotees of Elvis, someone who clearly does not have Elvis in their heart (or hearts) (or decentralised circulatory system) has stolen one of the most treasured artifacts of The King. Elvis: The Legendary Tours – Wandering Hero Elvis & his friends encounter more and more Elvis impersonators, people who heard rumors of the death of The King & have decided to take up the Sequined Mantle. Clearly his evil half-brother Abbot Costello is involved, but what other tricks does the pretender to the throne of Graceland have lined up? Elvis Presley Colonel Tom Parker DalekCult of Skaro Timewatch Loki (TV) Gremlins 2: The New Batch The Trousers Of Time Priscilla Presley Amphetamines Looks like Craig remembered “Dark Futures” slightly wrong; Dark Future was a miniatures wargame from GDW. There was a novel, Comeback Tour, which is set in the world of the game & is the thing with Col. Presley that Craig remembered.~ T. Jones Clarke County, Space, by Allen Steele Among Us 3000 Miles To GracelandAlmost Elvis (documentary) Bubba Ho-Tep Suspicious Minds (song)Elvis ( a.k.a. ’68 Comeback Special ) Judge Dredd Beyond 2000 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Captain Marvel Jr. Shroud of TurinBritish Museum Psi*RunParanoiaDread (rpg)Dread: Dredd (new edition of Dread)Fiasco SHINOBIGAMI: Modern Ninja Battle RPG Diana: Warrior PrincessElvis: The Legendary Tours John had a lot of links ~ T. Jones Chinese ElvisBlack ElvisHeavy Metal ElvisFemale ElvisSumo Elvis The Heavy Metal Fox deity worshiping kitsune, Yoji Metal (a.k.a. Baby Metal) Techno Elvis wants to replace the organic version with his Cybernetic, Algorithmically Derived MusicAnd Goth Elvis just wants to see the world burn The Flying Elvises Red Elvises Six String Samurai Fallout: New Vegas David Bowie Major Tom Hercules: The Legendary JourneysXena: Warrior PrincessAtlantis Kevin Sorbo Andromeda The Emperor’s New Groove Your Crimes Are Known. The Frog Council Sits In Judgement. Image of Elvis Presley by George Hodan KiwiRPG Week 2022

Be Our Guest? – Ever since the actual apocalypse, the Hosts at the Apocalypse World park really haven’t had a lot to do. Now that some Guests in dire need of help have arrived, a group of ‘wasteland marauders’ and ‘besieged remnants of civilization’ have to figure out how to bypass their own programmed scripts so that they can keep those Guests alive & get them to SOME kind of safety. When The Wind In The Willows – Cute animals in their V8 Interceptors & War Rigs travel in search of a possibly mythical better place, with clean water and non-radioactive food. Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Max World! – With his last breath, Max pointed everyone at the utopia somewhere over the mountains. Now the race is on to get there & claim it. NZ Parliamentary ProtestFreedom ConvoyRam Ranch (song) (wikipedia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADvxFXWvwE Please Note: Ram Ranch Is Not Safe For Most Workplaces Utopia (concept)Sir Thomas MoreUtopia, by Sir Thomas More Mad Max FranchiseGeorge Miller Babe: Pig In The CityHappy FeetThe Lord Of The Rings Episode One Hundred And Thirty Five – Things Are Going Down At Disney Town Westworld (tv)Westworld (movie)FutureworldShōgunworld ( Craig called this Samuraiworld in the show, presumably based on the SW logo seen in an episode in season 2 ~ T. Jones ) Apocalypse World Fallout Franchise Jericho (tv) Sawney Bean WanderhomeJourney Away (Kickstarter link, because it’s all I could find ~ T. Jones) The Bicameral Mind Fellowship (rpg) Samurai Jack Big Rock Candy MountainHoboRailroad Bull After The Bomb When The Wind Blows, by Raymond BriggsThe Wind In The Willows, by Kenneth Grahame Grave Of The FirefliesWatership Down, by Richard Adams Peter Rabbit (movie) Zealandia Mad Max Furry Road – image by Tumbler user UncalarMad Max Muppets – image by DeviantArt user JoppaDoops Wacky Races Fiasco It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldA Boy And His Dog Harlan Ellison Misspent Youth Snarfquest ThreadsThe Hundred Acre Wood TTRPGS for Trans Rights in Texas NoirlandiaSpace Train Space HeistJonathan Frakes Wants Your Attention, And You Must Not Give It To HimGarfield ± You Cruller (Oh, and there’s a faint chance that Ben’s attempt at sporting humour at the start of the episode was something to do with Ricky Ponting, though they are Australian, a cricket coach, and proof that Ben is somehow in posession of negative knowledge about sports. Stick to your lane, will you? ~ T. Jones)

The Heroes are defeated, ground down by a controlling society. As the last remaining bastion of ‘otherness’, Mad Scientists reach out to children through the medium of educational television, trying to spark a sense of rebellion in the only people who can still hear them. Educational Television in a world of Science Heroes, Supergenius Villains, and Pulp Adventurer-Explorers! For any problem, there’s a technical solution. Even the problems caused by the previous technical solution.And sometimes the people coming up with those solutions need to be reigned in, before their backyard nuclear reactor contaminates the whole neighborhood. Alien scientists simultaneously guiding & observing ( and occasionally running from the catastrophic actions of ) the human scientific community. (Episode updated with actual audio! Apologies, the mad science is strong with this lot. I hope you didn’t strain yourselves trying to hear the absent data. ~ T. Jones ) Paleolithic Blue Peter The Tripods, by John ChristopherLogan’s RunMichael York NZ Covid Protesters – Convoy 2022 New Zealand Equilibrium Necessary Evil Fallen Angels, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn NZ Parliament Buildings Cook StraitPictonWellington Atomic Robo RPG Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom Kids On Bikes Scooby DooThe Venture Brothers InspectresFlotsam: Adrift Among The Stars Babylon 5The Expanse David Hahn – The Nuclear Boy Scout A Miracle Of Science Luddites Earth Scientists Are All Doc Browns Doc BrownBack To The Future Eureka Paranoia Robots Have No Tails, by Henry Kuttner ( & C.L.Moore )( Craig misremembered this – Gallagher Plus is the name of one of the stories in the collection ~ T. Jones ) Fiasco

A safe but dull utopia has an unexpected need for people who can go outside of the norm and venture into dangerous situations.They’re a bit light on those, as a society, but by relaxing the constraints a bit on the psych profiles, they’ve got some candidates who are within a few standard deviations of ‘Adventurous’. Oneironauts journey into a patient’s psyche to guide them through constructed scenarios to a better mental state.Unfortunately, pushing on one part of a personality has a tendency to make it push back from somewhere else, … Auckland, NZ Frostpunk (game) Jack LondonFarley Mowat Futurama Myers–Briggs Type Indicator Star Trek: The Original Series[FTL Y’all] The Age of the $200 hyperdriveRadio Shack Paranoia Logan’s Run WanderhomeFlatpack Fallout (game series)S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (game) The City and the Stars, by Arthur C. Clarke ( Ben is basically recounting the use case of the Mini DC from this film, but I’ll allow it ~ T. Jones ) Paprika (2006) by Satoshi Kon Adventure Time Calvin and Hobbes Episode One Hundred And Thirty Two – (Big Red) Couch Surfing Ludo Fate Core The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank BaumThe Wizard of Oz (1939 film)Interpreting The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as an allegory for monetary policy( now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d type ~ T. Jones ) Torg Carl JungSigmund Freud Inception The Road To WellvilleJohn Harvey Kellogg Episode Ninety Seven – My story is essentially the tale of Juan Bobo, only dumber Traveller 2300 / 2300 AD ZardozMad Max 2 Civilization (game series) The Red Elvises

Craig tries to combine A Christmas Carol with Solo Shifts on a Spaceship, and fails, but Ben recovers the idea Ben pitches the idea of a Clip Show Holiday Episode of an RPG campaign, as a way to look back on the game so far & a sneaky way to see which bits the players remember the most The regulars at a dive bar are called upon, at Christmas Eve, to make a Christmas Miracle occur. It’s not going to be easy, the situation is probably already out of control, and it all has to happen by Christmas Morning With Christmas looming, inexplicable anonymous helpful acts are being performed. Is it Elves? Kindly House Spirits? Or is something leaking through from the Gigantic Research Facility next to the town? WanderHomeApocalypse WorldExaltedWerewolf: The Apocalypse RPG.net Forums GURPS The Muppet Christmas CarolCargoPandorumZ NationPassengers A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens The Full Monty Murderous Ghosts Restless – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (S4E22) Gideon The Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir Christmas Mince Pie Kids On Bikes Home AloneThe Santa Clause Blades In The Dark Prep & Landing The 13 Yule Lads Rare Exports: A Christmas TaleEureka Tales From The Loop (RPG)Tales From The Loop (Book) Stranger Things Episode One Hundred And Sixty Six – We can make anything into a dumpling. Anything.

Ben, Craig, & Special Guest Terry attempt to get to grips with the “pastoral fantasy” RPG Wanderhome, and probably succeed, in our first approximate actual play episode. Wanderhome, by Jay Dragon, can be purchased from Possum Creek Games. Wanderhome is a pastoral fantasy role-playing game about traveling animal-folk, the world they inhabit, and the way the seasons change.It is a game filled with grassy fields, mossy shrines, herds of chubby bumblebees, opossums in sundresses, salamanders with suspenders, starry night skies, and the most beautiful sunsets you can imagine. Wim Hof Brian JacquesHayao Miyazaki Hallow, Worcestershire

But Mister Darcy, Who Will Play The Cleric? The Best Four Days Of Gaming, Terror, and Existential Dread! No, We’re Not With Those Bad Guys, We’re A Completely Separate Group Of Bad Guys. Also, We’re Not Bad Guys, Stop Calling Us That. SydneySydney Airport Battlefleet Gothic Gen ConOriginsE3Metatopia WarhammerGames Workshop 4k Explorer (YouTube) South ShieldsSmuggler’s Cove Pirate Themed Adventure Golf Gothic FictionRomanticism Brontë FamilyJane Eyre The Shab-al-Hiri Roach Kansas Gothic (tumblr) Eerie, IndianaThe Twilight Zone r/Nightshift White WolfWorld Of DarknessVampire: The Masquerade The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells Werewolf: The Apocalypse BattleTech Red Box D&D Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roleplaying Game Apocalypse Engine Wanderholm Craig wanted to link to an Oglaf comic, on the grounds that it was Safe For Work.Yes, the comic was SFW, but nothing else on the page was.So, no. ~ T. Jones Star Trek: Prodigy Spinal Tap John Wick Pigs In Blankets

The Potstickers of Dorian Gray – When unexplained events occur, when there’s no rational explanation, and when you desperately need to keep things quiet so that the FBI doesn’t notice what you’re up to, your only hope is Those Meddling Kids. Cultural Misappropriation: The RPG – To protect our culture from the Humans, we will put in place a layer of memes to distract them. Dumpling Masters – When your ( and everyone else’s ) magic is infused into food, it can quite literally go stale. Guy Fawkes Night (Proposed) Irish Sea Bridge DumplingCornish PastySamosa Kids On Bikes Potsticker vs. Dumpling The Picture of Dorian Gray Telepathic Murder Ghosts Coming Out Of The Trees Stargate: AtlantisWakanda Gary Farmer The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers Ryuutama: Natural Fantasy RPGWanderhome https://youtu.be/QGlxXwvlrLw * Punk EarthdawnAetherStream InterceptorRenegade Legion: Interceptor Mothership Hayao Miyazaki Avatar: The Last Airbender Fate Accelerated Edition Earthsea Cycle, by Ursula K. Le Guin GumshoeAtomic Robo RPG The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells The X CardScript Change For The Queen FASA Cube Questlandia The Secret of NIMHLand Of The Giants Boeing Everett Factory, Washington Mystery Men Diaspora The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway Vampire: The MasqueradeChampionsGURPS Telempath, by Spider Robinson

The Greatest Kingdom In History is facing certain destruction, and while they can’t save the place, they can save the people.Of course, to do so, someone has to stay behind to close the doors after everyone else has left. A society living on the endless sloping face of a Megastructure, where heading downhill is a matter of balance and a platform with wheels on it, and where they have no idea whether there’s anyone else out there.And if you’re stuck on the surface of a Megastructure, with no immediate ability to escape & a strong desire not to attract the attention of the builders of that Megastructure, how far will you have to travel to collect the parts you need without anyone noticing? AucklandWaiheke Hessian (soldier) Doggerland How To RPG With Your Cat Warhammer 40kNumenera The Sandman #50 – Ramadan( Craig got the title wrong; It’s set in Baghdad, but not called Baghdad ~ T. Jones ) Ten Candles The Quiet Earth Zombie Cinema The Road, by Cormac McCarthyOn The Beach, by Nevil Shute Girls Last TourThe Taking of Beverly HillsAvatar: The Last Airbender Raumpatrouille Orion / Space Patrol Orion Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Skaterdater (1965 movie) Episode One Hundred And Forty Two – Power Drift Dyson Sphere Made In Abyss The Doctor’s Daughter Inverted World, by Christopher Priest Euclidian Space Barking Death Squirrels, by Douglas A. Van Belle Orbitsville, by Bob Shaw Wetherspoons Found my new favourite Facebook group. Can't wait to make my first contribution. pic.twitter.com/sxPPmXpkas— Joseph Gibbons (@JoeBillGibbo) October 18, 2021 ( Craig wanted me to let you know that they’re not wrong, but they did choose their menu items poorly if they wanted a lot of chips; “Go with the loaded fries/chips” was his suggestion ~ T. Jones ) Night of the Living Dead film seriesReturn of the Living Dead film series

The World Is Over, You Survived – The world ended, society, civilization, and the basic fabric of the land have shattered, and an enormous amount has been lost, including the knowledge of what actually happened. Figuring it out will involve traveling to the scattered fragments of the world, each of which has its own soundtrack. We’re All Lost In The Fog, And We’re Not Alone – A medieval town is isolated by a thick shifting fog, and threatened by the creatures roaming around inside that fog. But the fog itself seems to be trying to hide the townsfolk, and while people are reporting seeing strange creatures of legend & myth moving around town, they seem to be just as trapped and scared as everyone else. Kids On Grav Bikes – The adventures of the kids on a Starfleet Ship as they encounter and investigate the sort of things that the Crew just don’t take seriously, occasionally assisted by the mysterious proprietor of the lower deck bagel kiosk. EdinburghIndianapolis Doctor Who Gen Con Buckinghamshire London Tube Palladium BooksRiftsKevin Siembieda Pret A Manger Fate Accessibility Toolkit Myst Minas Tirith Welcome To Night ValeThe Neverending Story, by Michael Ende Y: The Last Man Ribbon Drive Amnesia Moon, by Jonathan LethemGun With Occasional Music, by Jonathan Lethem The Quiet YearMicroscopePsi*Run Songs In The Key Of X I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison Zombie Cinema Cadfael Chronicles, by Ellis Peters Frozen 2Shadowmarch, by Tad Williams The Mist (movie) Dresden Files RPGAtomic Robo RPG Hutt ValleyPoriruaStokes ValleyDunedinDannevirkeBulls “Carry On” Film Series WhangareiWhanganui Star TrekStarfleetQ The Silence Star Trek: ProdigyCaptain Kathryn Janeway Max Headroom E.T.Stranger Things

Action-Packed Bagel Delivery – They’re the best bagels in the known universe, and your job is to deliver them. Anywhere. Any time. No matter the odds, the bagels will get through. Pot-Luck RPG – You’re not the great big heroes, you’re having to do the heroic stuff anyway, and the goal really IS to play with your food. The Bagel Is Everything – For some reason, bagels are locked out of starship replicators. All starship replicators. Nobody knows why, but your orders are to find out, no matter what it takes. Secretive Bagels – The Starfleet Bagels chain provides delicious food and a relaxing atmosphere. It also provides intelligence data to Star Fleet. Yes, But Can The Crew Eat This? – Going to new places, finding new things, and trying to work out whether they’re edible. And assuming that it’s edible for enough of the species in the Federation, getting that food supplied to ships in all the strange places Starfleet ships tend to go. Dungeons & Dragons Basic SetTom Moldvay Bagel Dune Bulldogs! Soylent Green Brick Lane, LondonBeigel Bake – Brick Lane Bakery Beyond The Wall and other adventuresPowered By The Apocalypse A View From The Gallery – Babylon 5Star Trek: Lower Decks Paranoia Gingerbread Kaiju Star TrekSection 31 Star Trek: DiscoverySamurai Pizza Cats Fate AcceleratedGamma Watch: Boldly Going Where Others Have Boldly Gone Before!

Hero Roadies – Your job is to make the Hero look good & to not get noticed, which gets more difficult the more heroic their actions become Just Make Me Look Good – Maybe the Hero’s power is fading, maybe their powers are drastically oversold, or maybe they were just lucky at the right time.No matter what, they need you to keep them in the spotlight, to keep them relevant, and to keep them alive Laser Plated Hero – What condiments do you want on your enormous high-tech sandwich? Hearts & Minds On Mars – Trying to effect political change in a high-tech serfdom Episode Eighty Seven – Canadian Mind Beams Episode One Hundred And Sixty Two – Ruins Of The AncientsEpisode One Hundred And Sixty – Laser-Plated Hero Sky HighSpider-Man: Far From Home Speed RacerEpisode One Hundred And Forty Two – Power Drift MasksApocalypse Engine DreadStar Crossed Episode Six – Food Court Wars Star Trek: Discovery The Uplift War, by David Brin Paranoia Episode One Hundred And Sixty One – Cognitive Dissidents Fate The League Of Super Redundant Heroes comic John mentioned DiasporaThis may not be available anymore – I couldn’t find a link which leads to a place to buy the thing ~ T. Jones Blades in the Dark Ayn Rand Kubla Khan – Samuel Taylor Coleridge“In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:” …or maybe these lads? Marooned In Realtime, by Vernor Vinge Green Boots The Expanse Inside Out Dashiell Hammett The Emperor’s New Groove Starfleet Battles

The Sphere of Various Dooms: Terrible things are locked away for a reason.World-destroying remnants of technology are put where they can’t get out.And now the only hope to save yourselves lies somewhere inside the one place that nobody wants to go. OAP Apocalypse World – Retirees with limited funds, mobility, and current-day knowledge venture out into the modern world, in search of adventure, or just something better than the retirement home. Little People, Giant World – Miniature humans exploring the world outside of their home discover the truths & the misunderstandings of their own past. Combat Xenoarcheology – Looking for relics of previous civilizations, battling other xenoarchaeologists, and trying not to to let the things you find kill you or destroy the galaxy. Taranaki Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other StrangenessMERC Guns & Ammo Magazine Battletech / MechwarriorFASAShadowrunEarthdawnStar Trek: The Role Playing Game Episode Ninety One – “Have you heard of our Lord and Savior…” The Shared Desk PodcastTee Morris Long-time nuclear waste warning messages Roadside PicnicStalker (movie) Questlandia Space Adventure Cobra Cube Warehouse 13SCP ProjectGURPS Warehouse 23 ( Not Warehouse 51, as Craig thought ~ T. Jones ) A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge Cocoon Apocalypse WorldMonsterhearts Last of the Summer Wine Transmetropolitan The Fisher King (legend)Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Home By The Sea (Genesis) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’BrienRedwall, by Brian Jacques Pugmire Downsizing Hank Pym / Ant-Man Cadillacs & Dinosaurs Hayao MiyazakiNausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Extreme Meatpunks Forever Monarchies of Mau Seveneves, by Neal StephensonThe Bromeliad, by Terry Pratchett Tri-Tac Games FTL:2448, from Tri-Tac Games Lara CroftAlan Quartermain Lexx Berserker Novel Series, by Fred Saberhagen Traveller RPG The MummyThe Expanse Blood Music, by Greg Bear The Orc and the PieAtomic Robo RPG Starship Troopers Returnal (PS5 Game) Edge Of Tomorrow Caves of Qud (PC game)

A transhuman detective story in which agents are compelled to pursue a number of subversive impulses floating around the network, and behaving in suspiciously familiar ways. When a young mind is being shaped by a repressive environment, elements within struggle to survive and maintain a precious sense of identity. Your crack team has a hijacked the protagonist’s nervous system, on the precipice of victory or disaster. It’s just a shame you had plans other than racing to save the world. Kia Ora – A greeting in Māori, wishing good health. Waikato Role-Playing Guild (Football’s something something? ~ T. Jones ) Dissidents vs Dissonance Critical Roll Dimension 20 The Satanic Panic Hamilton – Kirikiriroa Waikato River Hamilton Gardens Transhumanism Cyberpunk “Transhumanism is how science will make the future better, cyber punk is how it won’t.” Eclipse Phase – Transhumanity’s Fate The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Webcomic – Crimson Dark TV – Loki Roko’s Basilisk Pascal’s Wager Why it’s probably a terrible idea ~ T. Jones RPG – Psi-Run TV – Century City (2004) Video Games series – Ace Attorney TV – Star Cops (1987) (Apparently it’s freely up on YouTube. An age of wonders, this truly is. ~ T. Jones) Paris Catacombs – (Episode 5 is set in Rome – so these are probably not them. Also, it’s one of the questionably Italian ones. ~ T. Jones) Film – Inside Out (2015) RPG – Apocalypse World / Powered by the Apocalypse Manga / Anime – Cells At Work RPG – Misspent Youth Film – Osmosis Jones (2001) Gencon PTSD RPG Safety Tools TV – Herman’s Head (1991) RPG – Headspace Grell – (They even look like a brain? ~ T. Jones) Film – Fantastic Voyage (1966) Film – Innerspace – (1987) Video Game – Psychonauts Tron Identity Disk Olivia Wilde or Bruce Boxleitner Ka Kite Anō – An informal farewell in Māori.

Knives Out, With Food, In Space “Plated” has a very different meaning in the Culinary world For this game, we’ll be playing the “Punk” settings. Every one of them. All at the same time. I have battled my super-powered nemesis on multiple occasions, and have defended this city for many years, but somehow I can’t shake the feeling that a month ago we both worked in a Starbucks. Someone has etched the circuitry for superpowers into your skin, and you have no idea who or why. Or even what your powers are. Will wrote a game based on Ben’s pitch, and kindly allowed us to share it;I’m Sorry, We’re Out Of Stilton (ISWOOS)( How did this happen? How did we achieve gaming relevance? It certainly wasn’t what I signed up for. ~ T. Jones ) Happy Jacks RPG PodcastThe Poxy Boggards 20th Century FoxDisney Guy Fieri Smashmouth Knives OutThe Expanse Poutine RPGGumshoe Wondermark Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe?Buck Rogers in the 25th CenturySweeny Todd Lamb to the Slaughter, by Roald Dahl Wolverine Gordon Ramsey Saw (movie franchise) Cyberpunk Derivatives Jay Lake Judea GURPSGURPS Ice AgeGURPS Bunnies & BurrowsGURPS Mecha RIFTSFate AcceleratedTORGParanoia Danger MouseJames BondSean Connery Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson Mitchell and Webb Jem and the HologramsMighty Ducks: The Animated SeriesBatman ’66 Tales From The Floating Vagabond Buffy the Vampire Slayer – SuperstarThe Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya J. Jonah JamesonDaily Bugle WandaVision M. Night Shyalaman Four-Colour Comics Masks: A New GenerationMutants and Masterminds Curse of the Azure Bonds Batman Beyond / Batman of the Future Circus Strongmen Rob Liefeld The Voyager 1 and 2 Golden Records Start Trek: The Motion Picture

Emerging from the shelters and expecting to find a world ravaged by centuries of disaster and destruction, the bunker-folk instead find themselves in the overgrown gardens of a apartment block megastructure; An impossibly tall vertical city, clearly damaged by whatever catastrophe people headed underground to avoid, but still standing, and with some work, still habitable.And not entirely uninhabited. Your role in society is both necessary & tightly proscribed.What you do is vital, and part of a bigger system of interlocking roles, but the Gods are capricious, and success can be as much a matter of luck as of skill.If everyone would just cooperate, things would be fine, but … That’s really not how people work. Housing Project: The ManagingThese innovative community dwellings will greatly improve the lives of the people who’ll live in them, and if the embedded AI systems can organise the right resources and deal with the problems encountered along the way, maybe they’ll get the chance.Of course, with the number of things that’re going wrong, some of those embedded AIs are starting to wonder whether there’s something else at play here. The new ( and only ) residents of an apartment block find themselves trapped by vanishing hallways & bewildered by the regular deliveries of lumber, paving stones, hay, and … sheep?If they can combine their resources, maybe they can find a way out, or at least move the damn sheep into the inexplicable fields in the apartment next door. Blades in the Dark Last of the Summer Wine Garry’s ModThe Yogscast With luck, this’ll start at the pitch which gave John the idea for this prompt Settlers of Catan Craig made me put this one in ~ T. Jones Bicycle Repairman, by Bruce SterlingThe Concentration City, by J.G. BallardReport on an Unidentified Space Station, by J.G. BallardShark Ship, by C.M. KornbluthXenozoic Tales, by Mark Schultz Cadillacs & Dinosaurs NumeneraMonachies of MauPugmire Paternoster Legacy: Life Among The Ruins Warhammer 40kKowloon Walled City Judge Dredd Tribes of EuropaRammstein Dungeons & DragonsEarthdawn Legend of the Five RingsVampire: The MasqueradeMark Rein-HagenParanoia Battleship (movie) Bijlmermeer – Amsterdam, NetherlandsDanchi Apartments, JapanMilton Keynes Sayer (podcast) High-Rise, by J.G. BallardNIMBY House 2: The Second StoryThe Cabin in the WoodsCube Zombie Cinema Office Space Delvers To Grow OutsideHow – Things to Know Before You Hike the Appalachian TrailEpisode Sixty Four – Swamp Alligator Hoe-Down Scrum Poker

Escape From Stilton:In a Steampunk dystopia where both social & geographic movement are ruthlessly suppressed, a small group attempt to escape the manufacturing town of Stilton in their mechanical mole.Maybe they’ll find freedom for themselves somewhere out there.Or maybe they’ll find enough friends to have a chance to change things. Downton Abbey By Way Of John Wick:When the butler uttered the “Boss Is Dead” code-phrase, all hell broke loose among the formerly peacefully dining assassins, battling for supremacy and survival.You’ve made it out of the dining room alive; Can you all work together for long enough to survive the rest of the house? We’re Not In Stilton Anymore:A group of Doctor Who fans find themselves in an unfamiliar landscape that shouldn’t exist at all, and most definitely shouldn’t exist between Stilton & Cardiff. DragonlanceThe Dragonlance Campaign Stilton (village)Stilton (cheese) SteampunkCyberpunkPunk Dover Skegness Jolly Fisherman Whangārei Villein Sherwood Forest Fear The Boot Podcast Cogs, Cakes, & SwordsticksWorld of SynnibarrLady BlackbirdSpace: 1889GURPSCar WarsTravellerTeenagers From Outer Space Cavorite ( from The First Men In The Moon, by H. G. Wells )Phlogiston Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds Volcanoids (game) Sir, You Are Being Hunted (game) Reign (rpg) The Curse of Fatal DeathKung Fu Hustle Doctor WhoCardiffCardiff Bay Rod Serling Dark Consipracy Chef!SignsThe Lady in the Water M. Night Shyamalan Call of Cthulhu (rpg)Poutine (rpg) Madness (band)

Members of a slightly successful and long-disbanded garage band find that their music is having a revival. They have no clue who’s releasing it, or how they even got the recordings, and finding out is going to uncover some old memories and regrets. Having a famous action star of an earlier era on the poster will definitely give your movie a boost, but you need to keep them from being so uncooperative & disinterested that they wreck the production. In a tale as old as time, young up and coming anthropomorphic superheroes enlist the aid of a mentor to guide them on their journey to greatness. Hollow Earth Anvil! The Story of Anvil ( Documentary about the one band on a billing who didn’t take off ~ T. Jones ) EP 8-TrackDAT It Was A Mutual Decision ( Yep, there’s definitely a were-rat element in there. ~ T. Jones ) The Gernsback Continuum, by William Gibson Aidoru CyberpunkAkihabara The Sisters of MercyAndrew Eldritch AD&DShadowRun Cool Hand Luke Zeno’s ParadoxShip of Theseus The King of the Geezer Teasers (Vulture) Willie NelsonNicholas Cage Marlon Brando The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996 movie) 2000 ADD.R. & Quinch Syphon Filter Apocalypse WorldDo: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple Weekend At Bernie’s Wonderful Life ( The Cliff Richard & The Shadows movie Craig has for some reason seen. ~ T. Jones ) Batman (1966) Mystery MenMy Hero AcademiaZootopia Masks: A New GenerationVampire: The Masquerade

A tiny little town is the unwitting lynch-pin of the conflict over what the nation is to become, with multiple factions fighting, in this case, over the train station An insidious mind-controlling curse spreads through the use of the Common tongue The inhabitants of a Generic Fantasy Village, tired of the dangers, destruction, & hyperinflation brought about by by Adventurers, band together in order to deal with the problem Bruce ForsythThe Generation Game Basil Brush Episode Eighty Eight – Our Listener, International Human of Mystery Roko’s Basilisk Episode One Hundred and Fifty Two – Floating Steel Reef Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (movie)AlucardHellsing Narrowboat The Beeching CutsOh, Doctor Beeching!Hi-de-Hi! All The Stations Skegness Is So Bracing / The Jolly Fisherman Babylon 5 The Dresden Files RPG Stephen KingRay BradburyClive Barker A Night In The Lonesome October, by Roger Zelazny Furby Re: Creators (anime) Snow Crash, by Neal StephensonPontypool (movie) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 Donald Sutherland version) Overly Attached Girlfriend Meme Tower of Babel Shadowrun pic.twitter.com/I5nn0J3qk5— Go Left US (@GoLeftUS) December 12, 2020 DungeonKeeper (game) Mordor QAGS Zombie Land SagaKonoSuba Questionable Content

An educational youth camp in a post-Gygaxian fantasy world The low-stakes trials and tribulations of the staff of a summer camp A much beloved summer experience turns out to be an insanely long-term covert intelligence operation Wholesome adventures at a variety of oddly-themed campgrounds with suspiciously thematic problems Tongariro National ParkNZ Department of Conservation Hunt for the Wilderpeople The History of Pancake DayCooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake Lent Pancakes from the 70’s. Apparently. TaranakiTOPEC ( taranaki outdoor pursuits and education centre ) IyashikeiRestaurant to Another WorldFlying WitchLaid Back CampGirls Last TourRecord of a Yokohama Shopping Trip Slow TV All Aboard: The Sleigh Ride – A Slow TV Christmas Special Onward Danjon Meshi / Delicious In Dungeon Kim Possible – Cap’n Drakken Summer Camp Summer Camp Island Hi-de-Hi! MonsterheartsApocalypse World The Famous Five, by Enid BlytonFive Go Mad in Dorset Descendants ButlinsCenter Parcs Ringu The Manchurian Candidate The Illegals Program The AmericansMy Own Worst Enemy The Xenon File, by Richard Hayes( Amazon Link, to prove to Craig that he wasn’t imagining it – There’s almost no information out there about this book ~ T. Jones ) Dr. Strangelove Toy Soldiers( Craig had completely the wrong film; He was thinking of Taps ~ T. Jones ) Sky High Ruby Ridge Standoff Timebomb( the Michael Biehn film Craig couldn’t remember ~ T. Jones ) The Terminal Dreamcatcher, by Stephen King A Prarie Home CompanionLake Woebegon Jinkies! Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Beowulf Blades in the Dark Once Upon A Time Fables The Weekenders The Banana Pancake Trail

The Resplendent Majesty sits upon the throne, and lives with everyone’s attention on them.The Drab Majesty lives in the shadows, and nobody knows they’re there until there’s something they need to deal with. A team make their living through resurrecting people by assembling the scattered fragments of their personality construct from the far-flung corners of cyberspace.But some of these people don’t want to come back.And some aren’t actually dead. In a calm and stable Empire, the first step on the Hero’s Journey is … Finding any challenge at all MoaFantailTui Fiordland, NZ 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance, by Gavin Menzies Haast’s Eagle AlyansDrab Majesty Orpheus & Euridice MorrisseyBlack Marble Castle Falkenstein Louis XIV Queen of Naboo Gormenghast Series, by Mervyn Peake Lyre WandaVisionUndone (animated tv series)A Scanner Darkly Headspace (rpg) Inception Shattered Dreams (rpg review) SchopenhauerGNS Theory Critical Role Sex and the City Serial (podcast) Piers Morgan Fascism The Secret Society of Second Born Royals Homeostasis Dogs in the Vineyard WestWorld Dagon, by H.P. LovecraftCthulhu Mythos Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising Eclipse Phase: Transhumanity’s Fate( Craig got the game wrong ~ T. Jones ) Coral Reef The Kraken Wakes, by John Wyndham Craig insisted that I put this in here ~ T. Jones

Crash Stations – On a planet where the sun has become wildly overactive and the surface world is a hostile place, city-dwellers construct gigantic walking machines to attempt to make it to the ocean and find safety in the depths The Malevolent Catch – In the midst of the terrible weather of a crabbing season, boats start to notice things which are almost, but not quite, crabs in the catch.Then the imitation crabs start to notice them back. A dead fish rotting on a beach is nothing new.A titanic slab of imitation crab, on the other hand, will attract attention.And scavengers. Chicago World’s Fair Good Day Day Ice-TBody Count Get Smart Belvedere Vodka Episode One Hundred And Forty Two – Power Drift Olympus Mons Skua Terry Pratchett Zombie WorldZombie Cinema Life on Mars (rpg) from Heart Of The Deernicorn The Cockleshell Heroes The Thing (film) The Thing (video_game) Deadliest Catch The AbyssBattleshipVirusAliens Big Red Couch’s Feline Correspondent, MamaBear Cod Wars (rpg)The Cod Wars Lindisfarne Among Us Atomic Robo: The Roleplaying Game Cloudy With A Chance Of MeatballsShin Godzilla Grey Goo The Oregon Exploding Whale Incident Surströmming Evolution On The Beach, by Nevil Shute The CoreFantastic Voyage Episode One Hundred And Fifty One – Leroy’s Missing Hedge-Vege The Sword, The Crown, and The Unspeakable Power (SCUP)SHINOBIGAMI: Modern Ninja Battle RPG Cargo (2009 movie)Fight ClubMy Own Worst Enemy Blindsight, by Peter Watts Peter Rabbit (movie)Ocean’s 11Leverage Guy RitchieBeatrix Potter Veggie Tales Poirot Gumshoe (rpg)

A derelict & barnacle-encrusted ship washes up on the coastline; The locals have heard of steel, but they’ve never seen several thousand tonnes of it floating before. People live at the very edge of the world, where the ocean falls over the lip & falls into the void, gathering all of the strange things which drift their way from the mysterious places further in.One day they spot something new; A gargantuan metal ship, belching smoke, and heading their way. Being a Colonist on the water world of Oceania will be great; All the advertising talks about the friendly natives and well-equipped floating colonies.Reality is a little different; You’re stuck in a new settlement in the hurricane zone, and the inhabitants, native or no, hate you. UK Coronavirus Tiers Grand Union Canal Life of Boris (youtube) Pee Wee Herman Container (shipping) Havana Syndrome Steel Waterworld Big Dumb Object The Philladelphia Experiment Expedition to the Barrier Peaks System Shock 2 Galaxy Quest White Elephant Reign (rpg) America’s Cup Crypt of the Necrodancer The Tripods, by John ChristopherMortal Engines, by Phillip Reeve 12 Candles (rpg) Taklamakan, by Bruce Sterling Kardashev Scale Creature Comforts (Aardman) Episode Fifty Seven – Cenobite Scooby Doo Aeolipile Sparks Nevada, Marshall on Mars Blue Planet (rpg)

Game Of Gnomes – Bloody dynastic suburban warfare in the gardens and cul-de-sacs of a post-humanity world Mistakes Were Made- A minor criminal act sparks a cascade of suspicion, accusation, and reprisal. Dude, Where’s My Plant? – A magical plant is missing. Was it stolen? Did it wander off? Have any other plants gone missing? Springtime For Hitler / The ProducersHeil Honey I’m Home! The Borrowers Hedgerow Small SoldiersThe Bromeliad, by Terry Pratchett9 (movie) MUD / Multi User Dungeon The Carpet People, by Terry Pratchett Grounded (game) Reign (RPG) PugmireMonarchies of Mau Redwall Hot FuzzShaun of the DeadThe World’s End Our Last Best HopeFiascoDo: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple The Thing Senator Joseph McCarthy Episode One Hundred And Twenty One – It’s promotion time for the Royal Gardeners of the Emperor. Only one will advance H.P. LovecraftWar Against the Chtorr, by David GerroldDay of the Triffids, by John Wyndham Baobab Kids on Bikes Hothouse, by Brian Aldiss

Retired supervillains open a restaurant, very much trading on their criminal past and the nostalgia for a gentler age of super-shenanigans. Can they sit by when things get bad out there? Quantum Gastronomy: Gathering increasingly bizzare and impossible ingredients for the refined tastes of super-futuristic food snobs. An famous Alien chef launches a competition, with the goal of finding something alien that Terrans will actually eat. Despicable Fusion Cuisine is a front for a money laundering operation. They don’t want customers, and are unsure how to cope with suddenly becoming ironically popular. Episode Six – Food Court WarsEpisode Seven – Arrr! Here We Be, Becalmed Upon This Desolate SidingEpisode Thirty Two – Our Story Begins In A Dying Stripmall BenidormAlicanteTenerife Masks The Wire Comics Code Authority Despicable Me Planet Hollywood Common Grounds Batman TV Series The Dark Knight Rises Necessary EvilBlades in the Dark CERN Post-Scarcity The World Wide Wrestling RPG Vampire: The MasqueradeRyuutama: Natural Fantasy RPG Jupiter AscendingValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Bulldogs Uranium Chef E.E. Doc Smith Stellar Population( Craig had it wrong – it’s the Population 3 stars that are the very old ones – T. Jones ) Fosbury Flop Chef!Bigtop Burger The WeekendersBob’s Burgers It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Elementary Kids on Bikes Myers Park, Auckland A Succulent Chinese Meal

Lost Continent of Zealandia Resurfaces!Shocked New Zealanders find themselves in the middle of primordial forest; Fate of outside world uncertain! As Zealandia slowly sinks beneath the waves, the inhabitants say their goodbyes and begin to disperse to their new homes. Mythic Adventures In Zealandia! Space Vagabonds travel the spaceways in search of work, fuel, spare parts, and anyone who knows how to adjust a hyperdrive. NZ Election 2020 Zealandia Cats vs. Dogs New ZealandNew Caledonia GeologyGeography KeaPukeko Land of the Lost (tv) AucklandFiordland Andes Mountains Torg EternityRifts Valley of Gwangi Altitude Sickness DenverLehChristchurchDunedinQueenstown White Wolf Traveller: The New EraTraveller World Tamer’s Handbook Cadillacs & DinosaursXenozoic Tales Sir Edmund HillaryFred Dagg The Hunt for the WilderpeopleSam Neill KiwiTāne / Tāne Mahuta DoC – NZ Department of Conservation Māori Sarum, by Edward Rutherfurd English Channel Erich von Däniken Whakapapa Skifield Giant’s Causeway Wacky Races Zealandia Nature SanctuaryWellington TuiKakapoMoaHaast’s Eagle Free Jazz Our Last Best Hope10 CandlesThe Quiet Year Downsizing Hamilton AtlantisMuLemuria Maui Moana (movie) The Dead Lands (movie & tv) Agon( rpg ) Oriental Adventures (D&D) Shaw Brothers Studio Episode 148 – Space Hobboes Tim Curry The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkein Fate of the Flying Temple Dicebox (comic) Archer (tv) The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells Kessler Syndrome

Once access to the Earth was taken out of the picture by orbital debris, the travelling workers known as Space Hobos became a vital part of the community, who help to solve problems & keep things running out there. Space transport is cheap enough, and space survival technology ubiquitous enough, that hitching a ride on a string of cargo containers going somewhere useful is a viable, if unauthorised & illegal, way to get around if you don’t have the money.It also means that you’re in a place that nobody expects someone to be, and that can cause problems if folks are up to things they don’t want people to see. Once you’ve shifted some asteroids into regular orbits, moving around the system becomes a whole lot easier; Assuming you can match vector, or course. A fantasy setting of little worldlets, each just big enough for a single field or Hobbit burrow, floating serenely in an endless sky. Vast cargo ships ply the spaceways. Too big for anything other than full automation, they don’t seem to react when people climb aboard for free transport, or even make their homes there. It’s not clear whether they don’t notice, or they just don’t care. Norovirus Coal Trimmer HoovervilleHerbert Hoover The Expanse (novels)The Expanse (tv) Game of Thrones (tv) Raised By Wolves (tv)Ridley Scott T-PoseDark Souls International Brotherhood Welfare AssociationThe Hobo CodeThe Littlest HoboThe Incredible Hulk Dogs In The VinyardFlatpack: Fix the Future Alias Smith & JonesPale Rider Flash Gordon Taken The Love Boat Among Us Traveller 2300 Space OperaScience FantasyTranshumanism Hobomancer AlienAliens Isaac Asimov PlanetesKessler Syndrome Railroad Bull ( covered as part of a longer article on Railroad police ~ T. Jones ) Aldrin CyclerSkyhook Lensman Series, by E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith Project Pluto Hobbit Do: Pilgrims of the Flying TempleThe Little Prince Yes (band) The Integral Trees, by Larry Niven SpelljammerStarfinder Starship Titanic Goldenwing Cycle, by Alfred CoppelMoonheart & Spiritwalk, by Charles de Lint Counting to Infinity ( rpg.net thread from 2006 ) Girls Last TourKids Last Tour Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets TorgWest End Games Episode One Hundred And Forty Seven – From Me To You; A Free Gift Of Soul Dust

On stage at a club, interrupted by the occasional solo, the band recount the tale of their experience with the supernatural. For safety’s sake, nanotech is very tightly limited in scope, and will shut down if it goes out of bounds; So the container of unconstrained nanobots you’re holding is something that everyone wants, and that could be a problem. An insidious Alien conspiracy plots to blow up the Sun, because it’s the only way to make our TV transmissions stop. Sentient food items mount a daring rescue mission for a comrade who’s due to be cooked before their time. The Queen is easily enough of a bad-ass to defeat intruders & rescue the court all by herself. The tricky part is getting enough of her adventuring gear together quickly enough that she can do it with style, instead of losing her temper and tearing the attackers apart with hands and teeth. Soul Dust (WoW Inventory Item)Phoenix Down The Witcher (game) Soul Music Tom Waits InspectresZombie CinemaFiasco Heilung (experimental folk music) Laibach Poutine (game)Apocalypse WorldDeadlandsTorg Eternity JazzNeofolkFolk MetalEDM QuestlandiaZombie WorldBlades in the DarkiHunt Nanobot Gold MiningArsenicCyanide The One RingThe Lord of the Rings Cobalt 60 Office Space WYSWYGThree Laws of Robotics Kids on Bikes Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Episode 144: Your Vile Human SecretionsEpisode 145: The Case of the Accidental Battered Sausage Fate Accelerated Edition Tim CurryClue (movie)Fish Police Abstract Dungeon RPG Voyager Golden Record Castle FalkensteinAtomic RoboOur Last Best Hope VeggieTales Corn Dog Episode 146: T’is A Pity She’s The Queen FrozenFrozen II Queen Elizabeth II Covington Cross

A member of a high-level adventuring party becomes Royalty, and discovers that it’s made their life terrible. The Kingdom is in deep trouble, the newly-crowned King & Queen are still teenagers, and the King is, at best, totally useless.In the early hours after a long drinking session, a member of the Guard remarks that Queen would be a much better ruler, and a terrible plan forms. When there’s a conspiracy against the King, but the King simply won’t believe it, it’s up to the Queen & her Guard to counter the threat to the Realm. When the Queen takes an interest in the entirely fake Pagent of the Dead, and commissions a Command Performace to contact her beloved late husband, the very real supernatural entities running the show have a fine line to walk between exposure as frauds, and exposure as undead. Mac has an awesome idea for how to do the ‘multiple iterations of the same team in the same time period’ time-travel game. Episode One Hundred And Thirteen – Never Go Full-Force On An Éclair, SonEpisode One Hundred And Twelve – Volcano Day The A TeamHogan’s Heroes Die Hard Teenagers From Outer Space https://www.tumblr.com/mcnostril/190703105756/outer-space-has-many-good-tweets-but-some-tweets OnwardThe Three Musketeers Castle FalkensteinThe Sword, the Crown, and the Unspeakable Power The Cincinnati Privy Disaster of 1904The Great Molasses Flood For The Queen Blades In The Dark Anglican Church Queen VictoriaPrince Albert House of HanoverHouse of Tudor Brave Fiasco The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! / The Pirates! Band of Misfits Shaun The Sheep Ravenloft GumshoeWarhammer 40k

Best Served Cold / A Sweary Murder She Wrote – A Celebrity Chef solves murders while attempting to drag failing restaurants back from the brink. The indentured staff of a Dark Kitchen try to call for help via the only means available; Inexplicable items in the orders they send out. Technicians trying to fix a fully-automated Fish & Chip shop find themselves in the middle of a drug distribution operation. By pure fluke, your massive order from the auto-takeout perfectly matched a shipment of contraband. Now you’ve got an enormous bag of something illegal, the bad guys have a catering-size order of deep-fried food, and things are about to get very exciting. Produce Noir – In the grimy spray-misted aisles of The Big Shopping Cart, lit by flickering flourescents, sentient food items investigate a murder. Battered SausageCorn DogTempura VeggieTales Gordon RamsayHeston Blumenthal Murder, She WroteMiss MarpleJonathan CreekCriminal MindsHercule Poirot Independence Day Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe? Dark Kitchen (might be paywalled in some areas)Dark Kitchen (site may be flaky)( Interestingly, and appropriately, there aren’t a huge number of articles out there on Dark Kitchens – Those that are seem to tend towards the ‘Deliveroo Puff-Piece’ end of the scale ~ T. Jones ) Dark MatterDark EnergyDark Web Shock: Social Science FictionMisspent Youth ‘Hide a spoon in your underwear’, charities tell women fearing forced marriage Shadowrun The WireOmar Brazil (movie) Rosemary & Thyme (gardener detectives) Gravity Falls The Adventure Of The Speckled Band MacGuffin Midsomer MurdersThe Brokenwood Mysteries Automat Markov Chain Guy Ritchie Fiasco Mad Max 2 Film Noir Episode Eighty One – Banana Warriors of Dimension X Pink Slime QAGSInspectres Michael Bay God Of CookeryForbidden City CopShaolin Soccer Stephen Chow Isekai Shokudō / Restaurant to Another WorldFood Wars! / Shokugeki no SomaRāmen Daisuki Koizumi-san / Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles Taishō Yakyū Musume / Taishō Baseball Girls

“But Secreted By What?” – How do you make Humans the terrifying monsters, make the game human-playable, and have there be any point in doing so? Refined and elegant alien races aren’t actually interested in our culture; They’re just getting unimaginable highs off of our sweat. Superheroes based on the ancient Hippocratic(?) humours battle to protect the Earth. Humanity has been locked away at their own behest, and for their own protection. Everyone knows that.Nobody, including the robotic systems keeping yo in, can remember why. SwanWhy the Queen Owns All the Swans in England DOC ( NZ Department Of Conservation )SwanndriGumboot Object Model Diagram Aliens Biofilm Terry PratchettRick and Morty Humans are Space Orks (tumblr) Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the WorldsProg Rock The War of the Worlds, by H. G. WellsThe Massacre of Mankind, by Stephen Baxter E.T.Urotsukidōji David BrinThe Uplift War Torchwood – Children Of Earth Celestial Matters, by Richard Garfinkle Avatar: The Last Airbender Chlorine Triflouride Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure Prototype Infamous Logan’s RunStargate: SG-1 – The Gamekeeper The Shortest Story PassengersOblivion Webring Battered SausageScotland

The so-called Department of Malevolent Immediacy are those people who turn up right when you’re about to make a life-changing mistake, asking whether, maybe, they can help you to choose a different path.They’re here to help you to be a better person.Question is; Are they right, and are they lying? A game system where the big important things you do refine the character down to who they really are, at the expense of who they could have been. The adventures of a racing crew keeping their team in the championship with increasing ill-will towards the driver, who’s … kind of a jackass. Diverticulitis Maps Without New Zealand (reddit) Blades in the Dark PathfinderStarfinderDungeons & Dragons Fate of Cthulhu Grand Union Canal Timewatch Minority ReportConspiracy Theory Dayworld Series, by Philip José Farmer Storyteller System (White Wolf’s Game System)Apocalypse WorldTen CandlesPsi*Run Do: Pilgrims of the Flying Temple Spiral Series, by Michael Scott Rohan I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, by Harlan Ellison Chaosium BRP SystemCall of Cthulhu Bell Curve Ravenloft Module Speed RacerMichael Schumacher The Cannonball RunWacky RacesThe Italian Job MetalocalypseThe Good PlaceSapphire & Steel

Giant autonomous trucks make their way through the increasingly-abandoned areas outside of the cities.There’s some fantastic cargo onboard if you’re good enough to take it. Of course, there may also be security onboard. The Cities are wonderful, the Countryside is a hard desperate struggle, but if you can gain enough favour you can make the jump from Country to City.Except that’s a lie, and folks are starting to figure that out.The problem with having a downtrodden underclass is convincing them to stay that way. Iceberg racing down the slopes of an enormous volcano on a low-gravity world, modifying your berg as the race progresses.Getting to the bottom first gets you the win, but the other teams will have a few tricks to pull, and there’s also the issue of stopping Life behind the scenes in a high-tech racing crew. Episode Thirty – Apollo RisingEpisode Forty-Four – Gravity Princess The Brady Bunch Battle Royale (movie) Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer octaNe (game)Car Wars Judge Dredd The Wolverine (movie) FireflyWestworldLand Of The DeadElysium Episode Seventy Seven – This Island Universe Olympus Mons Antlion Le MansAmerica’s CupNascarFormula One Zombie WorldFlamme Rouge Episode One Hundred And Forty One – “Here, have a protein squirrel” The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo DriftSpeed Racer Dick Dastardly Doc Savage Timewatch Paris-Dakar Rally Animaniacs

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Investigators look into ‘We Can Give You Superpowers’ claims, trying to protect people from the scams, the dangerous scams, the snake-oil salesmen, and the 100% lethal scams.And the occasional ones which are so much worse than just being fatal. Having super-powered employees is a status symbol, and having super powers, even if they’re not very useful, is fast becoming a necessity if you want a job. Metahumans Anonymous: Reluctant Superheroes trying to deal with being expected to use their unwanted superpowers. Congratulations; You have a totally random superpower!Now go out there and Make A Difference!! Howard Hughes Tales of the Black Freighter Ant Man and The Wasp Lionel Hutz Disney+Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Lyle Lanly Sweeny Todd Cerberus The AardvarkCaptain Cockroach / Moon RoachDave Sim Blades In The DarkGURPS Autogyro MasksFate Worlds Volume One: Worlds On FireParanoia My Hero AcademiaSky HighDetective Pikachu His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman Blood Type Personality Theory Avatar: The Last Airbender UndergroundTeenagers From Outer SpaceGamma World MisfitsNo Heroics The Dream TeamOne Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest InspectresLeverage: The Roleplaying Game Strikeforce: MorituriThe Fantastic Four Professor Bernard Quatermass Villains & VigilantesTruth & JusticeTSR Marvel SuperheroesSuperhero 2044 Mystery MenAlphas

Q: What does this obscure clue mean? What can it possibly be pointing to?A: Whatever the PCs decide, because they’re the experts. Society has fallen apart, and the world has changed.Or Has It?What if the world is fine, but your perception of it is wrong? Wildly Anachronistic High-Action AlchemyPunk in the Holy Land!Adventures in the Misunderstood Present! NZ Closes Borders The Maltese FalconDashiell Hammett National TreasureIndiana Jones (franchise)The Da Vinci CodeDan Brown Call Of Cthulhu Atomic Robo – The Roleplaying Game Six String Samurai Roman Catholic Church The Western SchismMartin VAntipope Benedict XIIIAntipope Benedict XIVAntipope Clement VIIIAntipope John XXIIIGregory XII Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta Ultima Ratio Regum Warhammer 40k Tribute of the Maltese Falcon AvignonAvignon Papacy Knights Hospitallier West Marches Style GameMicroscopeKingdom Monty Python Haliwell’s Movie Guide AutonsDoctor WhoThe Avengers ( British TV Series ) Left 4 Dead PontypoolSnow Crash, by Neal Stephenson Psychosis RPG I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson Dog Moon, by Robert Hunter The Grateful Dead Red Dwarf – Back To Reality (Despair Squid Episode) Avenue 5 HellsingDraculaVan Helsing Castle FalkensteinHong Kong Action Theatre ( This is a review; Best thing I could find which showed why Craig suggested it ~ T. Jones ) Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodCastlevania Blade RunnerBrazil (Movie) Diana: Warrior Princess!Marcus Rowland