![]() This tends to be the games that I prefer: ones that do one very focused thing very well, with a very specific setting or story to tell. Puppetland is set in a land of puppets after Punch brutally murdered the puppetmaker and crowned himself the new Maker of Puppets, skinning the human Maker and making puppets from his flesh. The Clay the Woke is about a weird bronze age-ish city full of humans and a handful of minotaurs made from clay, surrounded by an infinite jungle of bizarre godlike beings. The Last Place on Earth is about Robert Scott's doomed 1912 expedition to the South Pole. Now the machine is broken, and the king is cruel and corrupt, and you're part of the ape revolution. The King Machine is set in a kingdom of ape-people, where the machine previously made sure the king of the apes was noble and just. Complicating this, an ancient telepathic species of roach has been released on campus and is now seeking out slaves to rebuild its long-dead empire. The Shab-al-Hiri Roach Notes & Resources Shadows in the Fog This is an occult. Lacuna is specifically about agents of a shadowy organization entering the collective unconscious, which manifests as a surreal city. In the Shab al-Hiri Roach, you play professors desperately seeking to advance their own reputation on campus, preferably by showing up their colleagues. The Shab-al-Hiri Roach (added Sep 27, 2006) A horror role-playing game set in a 1920s New England college, which mixes academic status fights with Lovecraftian horror. Ganakagok - about a mythical people (roughly modeled after Inuit culture) living so far north they have never seen the sun. Polaris - not the scifi one, the one about immortal elves living in the frozen north dealing with the downfall of their civilization. Uncle Gordo's House is set in the sprawling cluttered house the local eccentric willed to a random gang of kids when he died.Ī Green and Narrow Bed is set at a meeting of the Kansas Widows’ Benevolent Society in 1866Īvon Dasset is set on Octoduring the English Civil War and features a fearsome (historically accurate) war poodleĮxtremely specific games by other people: The Shab Al-Hiri Roach is set at a specific (fictional) New England University in 1919, with specific named NPC that have to show up to specific named social events throughout the academic year. Its a chance to hang with folks you see maybe twice a year. A lot of Jason Morningstar's games are very specific in setting: Even if I didnt play in any games I would have had a good time. ![]()
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