L’autre jour j’ai fait un aller-retour d’ascenseur émotionnel en apprenant en un seul mail que :
Into the Odd Remastered va sortir en français dans toute sa beauté originelle 🤩
La maquette est déjà finie et on ne m’a pas proposé de m’en charger 😭
Je m’occupe en revanche de la maquette de Paris Dessous, un des deux suppléments Mark of the Odd de création française et proposés par Les XII Singes 😎
This is a 28 page “temple-crawling adventure” written by Munkao ostensibly for Into the Odd and Cairn (but actually largely system-agnostic), and set in the South-East Asian inspired world of Kala Mandala. I don’t think transferring it into other settings should be that much of an issue, as long as one can come up with a reason why there’s a vaguely Asian-coded monastic community around to set this at. My personal setting is set around a sort of crossroads of cultures so I have absolutely no issue with that), and this might fit in great in some of the areas I haven’t worked out that much yet.
The mission as it is is not one that lends itself to the usual loot and pillage gaming: Het Thamsya is a fledgling temple school in a larger collective, dedicated to the path of Automata. The founder of this school has nearly finished a decade long meditation, but giant (belying the title) wasps have created a nest in the back of the building while everyone else was busy not disturbing the meditator. Your mission now, if you should accept it, is to carry the meditating monk out of there, without waking him.
The complications arise from the guards set by your mission objective (automata of various kinds), the wasps, and a bunch of other intruders that have entered without anyone knowing. Interestingly the wasp nest is detailed much more than you’d think, and there are things going on in there that are way more complicated than what you’d expect, as there’s some bizarre bio-horror twist lying in wait. Which makes for a fascinating chart of faction relations based on the instincts of the wasps and the commands left for the automata and how they interact with one another.
I do feel like I am missing some context for the world of Kala Mandala, as I am not quite sure what some of the things reference. On the other hand it’s easy to just plug in whatever association comes up and go with it. The scenario offers a compelling mission and plenty of complications to make for some interesting play. I think this might be interesting to play with multiple groups to see how either of them make it through.
First RPG i played (this year)
First RPG I ever Played was D&D. Nuff said about that, so I’ll focus on this year, and that was #ForbiddenLands, as the Symbaroum Group, sadly, didn’t take off.
Anyway, Forbidden Lands is a nice and sadly neglected/underrated Hex Crawler by #FreeLeague with a lot of OSR energy going for it. It uses the Year Zero engine and is appropriately deadly, forcing players to make better use of their wits than their character sheets.
I love it.
Please respond by saying what sorts of TTRPG things you're pretty likely to either talk about or respond to if you see them.
This can be a list of games (D&D! Tribe 8! Fate!) or categories (the weirdest of indie stuff! NSR! Anything PBtA!), topics (Worldbuilding! Publishing!), stuff you're making, meta-commentary (The State Of The Industry), and so on.
Then maybe share, and if the replies are building up, check them for new people.
Hi! #introduction time :) I'm a public librarian and fan of games of all kinds! (Video games, board games, tabletop RPGs, solo and journaling RPGs, etc.)
I'm a fan of #Starforged and #Ironsworn, along with #OSE and #IntoTheOdd, among others.
I also love collecting high-quality physical books and I dabble in bookbinding. I have dreams of making my own solo RPG one day (soon?).