Tag: Game Design
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The Forest of Doom
I recently came across a project design document that I wrote for The Forest of Doom computer game in mid-1984. I post it here as a bit of gaming history. 180 Note The world was yet new. My Dad helped me put the document together: he was then younger than I am now.
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The Clue Track
I heard Leon Garber in my head: Think about everything you’ve seen and everything you’ve heard. Work the clues. I hadn’t heard much. But I had seen a lot of things. I guessed they were all clues. What had Eliot said in Boston? About the LA gangbanger? His profits must run to millions of dollars…
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World-spanning Pulp Conclusions
Not all those who wander are lost. Tolkien The post on Gévaudan means that I’ve completed the first stage of the World-spanning Pulp project I began at the start of the winter. This is the tweaked summary of the campaign originally generated by the dice. Location: Mansion in New York City Client: Mimi Hardacre, beautiful…
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The Devil in NYC
Anyone following Weird Pulp will know that I played through a procedurally-generated “Weird Menace” scenario. I’ve now taken the details and turned the solo play through into a scenario suitable for a GM and some players, called “The Devil in NYC”. Statistics are provided for Mythras. Once again, I’m struck how generating stat blocks for…
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100 posts
The previous post was the 100th on this blog. It took me four months to do that, so a rate of 25 posts per month. I’ll probably slacken that rate somewhat now that I’ve made it to base camp. My SMART goals were to: create a blog, make 100 posts, and post plenty of useable…
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BIG Pulp Explosions
They left the automobile beside the rutty road, and as they went up the winding walk of crumbling bricks, almost lost in the tangle of rank growth, pigeons rose from the balustrades in a fluttering, feathery crowd and swept away with a low thunder of beating wings. ‘Pigeons from Hell’ (1938) Who were we kidding?…
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Perimeter Security
Fences, walls, intelligent detection technology, and the latest surveillance measures: today the options for comprehensive perimeter security around a property are more diverse and complex than ever before. And that’s a good thing. Whether for VIPs, airports, forensics, penal institutions, industrial properties with high security requirements (such as logistics or chemical companies), solar facilities, outside…
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Mythras Air Pageant of 1930
Thanks to Raiders of the Lost Ark most Pulp RPGs red-line air travel. This is a most welcome abstraction. However, there are exceptions to the rule, either because a scenario takes place on an aeroplane or because encounters happen on the journey. Of course it rather telegraphs the action if a sudden interest in how…
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Mythras Pulp Guns
I also think that, for some reason or the other, Chapman isn’t telling the truth. Though it may be a foible with him, it seems ridiculous for a district attorney to carry a .28 caliber pistol. I’ve never yet known a police official or a man who habitually carries weapons to use anything less than…