tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post5668370984188176598..comments2024-03-25T19:47:36.154-07:00Comments on Goblin Punch: Lumpy Space MonkeysArnold Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12603155377769597516noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-25860953262856517012021-01-19T23:32:17.196-08:002021-01-19T23:32:17.196-08:00Axis Mundi has lived rent free in my head since I ...Axis Mundi has lived rent free in my head since I read it 5 years ago. Annon #8107https://www.blogger.com/profile/16869484989966434932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-61688090800802310892020-05-07T20:36:26.871-07:002020-05-07T20:36:26.871-07:00Sure! Right now they're specialists based in a...Sure! Right now they're specialists based in a Mall, going out on occasional missions around the ship, mostly maintanence and stuff. They aren't allowed to tell fellow Mall inhabitants how fucked up it is out there on pain of court martial or exile, which helps build paranoia and mistrust in their blatantly lying authority figures.<br /><br />Long term I'm going to drop clues about potentially freeing the ship of the AIs influence by making it to the bridge, and give them an opportunity to go rogue to do so. In actuality Apollo's going to use them as bait to root out Somnus and Gaia so he can finish them off for good, then proceed to nuke the planet and large swathes of the ship itself and cement humanity's future.<br /><br />Notable villians: The three Furies of Gaia, the Rabble Rousers (a race of slavers with big lipless mouths for heads), Gaia, Vulcan and Apollo, a former party member warped by the maledictus, Thirsty Tom (a big fleshy worm of hollow gnashing bone tubes, made of hundreds of dead vampires, Nobody (Always horribly wounded, always smiling really wide, always incredibly violent. If you kill him you become him).<br /><br />Notable NPCs: Corpses, a wandering junk trader who can only speak using a sack full of pre-recorded messages; A civillization of clones of a party member; The Tollman, a collector who trades information and gear for objects of sentimental value; that one puddle of grey liquid that keeps flirting with you; that tapeworm thing with armchairs strapped to its back that's screaming out its reasonable rates as a taxi service. That woman-like thing in that bar who gave your friend a pill that turned him into an immobile but still living bucket of skin.<br /><br />Notable Quests: Journey into the heart of the Macys. Recover a bouquet of Voidflowers from the Blackthroat farms outside of the ship. Find some food before you starve. Figure out how your high school track team T-shirt ended up shoved behind this boiler. Live fifty years in a self-sustained biosphere with the rest of the party, then die of old age and find yourself back as you were before you entered, but across the room and with the novels you wrote during that time in your inventory.I liked that jokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17862670615584595391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-12671434488842667022019-11-25T06:42:16.965-08:002019-11-25T06:42:16.965-08:00I figured I'd drop by and say I've also be...I figured I'd drop by and say I've also been running this game on and off for my friends for a couple of years now. We're about to start a season 3 of the game, and having one of my players recount sessions and sessions of content from about 2 years ago gave me the warm and fuzzies.<br /><br />We started out with your default apollo intro in my game, with the players gradually coming to realise that there was more to the axis than apollo was letting on, and that he (and by extension I) were gaslighting them. Turns out we weren't 'just starting again, because sorry guys, I made it too hard...' That was the first run of the game, where we used the actual AM playtest packet.<br /><br />The next run, we used a modified stars without number system and the players played as followers of Gaia. I started with them working with samuel beckett to steal ceres from her people, and bring her back to gaia. Just malediction things follow. After this, they were given the mission to find an apollo spy among the priesthood initiates. It became a mix of the trials of hercules with a whodunnit spy mystery that had my players making webs and lists of evidence and theories and also praying it wasnt one of the initiates they liked. <br /><br />I think this iteration is going to be an apocalypse world game set in the aft sections of the ship, where the players have to eke out a living as part of a minor faction and investigate strange warped <br /> distress messages that apollo seems to have been encrypting from something that identifies itself as A-5-3.<br /><br />Anyway, if you read this Arnold, my players and I fucking love all of your work and I've have been anonymously chipping in a few dollarydoos on patreon the last year or two because everything you make is gold.<br /><br />I also ran house of hours. My players loved that headfuck.Benn120https://www.blogger.com/profile/09978987344361038070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-79962412793693513292019-11-13T01:04:45.572-08:002019-11-13T01:04:45.572-08:00Can you tell me more? What are the quests? Who a...Can you tell me more? What are the quests? Who are the bad guys?Arnold Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12603155377769597516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-63014988375442615962019-11-12T22:46:49.881-08:002019-11-12T22:46:49.881-08:00I've been running an Axis Mundi game for about...I've been running an Axis Mundi game for about three years now, it's the game that's gotten most of my friends into D&D. For my part it's opened up the way I GM. The Axis Mundi is a perfect nightmare transcriber, every horrible thought I have can be made flesh in its endless bowels. I think the top-down lore approach of the campaign is an incredible opportunity for improv and for allowing your creativity to be directed into strange new directions. It's made my world a much stranger and more complicated place, and more importantly it gives me an excuse to hang out with friends I love who live hours away.<br /><br />I'm running a marathon session this Sunday, the first of many. This time I'm hoping for a continuing campaign, less death (though still probably a lot) and maybe even some answers. The party is intent on finally figuring out what the fuck is going on. I'm just excited to go back to that horrible place with my friends.I liked that jokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17862670615584595391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-67103169127050895052018-07-21T00:23:01.655-07:002018-07-21T00:23:01.655-07:00Beautiful. I wanna play this, but it would work so...Beautiful. I wanna play this, but it would work so, so well as a novel.Phasma Felishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040805980444135697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-60940398464835329412016-07-11T16:34:14.419-07:002016-07-11T16:34:14.419-07:00Neato.Neato.EmperorErvinmarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16457005027989255412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-19182869250035087802016-06-04T16:13:46.544-07:002016-06-04T16:13:46.544-07:00It is brilliantly twisted. I used it as an exampl...It is brilliantly twisted. I used it as an example of campaigning on a generation ship done right.RocketDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05737339078433321350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-85736096960132292032015-05-03T01:21:17.894-07:002015-05-03T01:21:17.894-07:00Honestly, just brilliant!Honestly, just brilliant!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06860715562401910924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-78886332551358603862014-02-13T19:15:18.366-08:002014-02-13T19:15:18.366-08:00This would be a ton of fun! Gene Wolfe's &quo...This would be a ton of fun! Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the Long Sun" should go on that reading list as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-73691518091662215042013-11-06T01:02:52.404-08:002013-11-06T01:02:52.404-08:00Further reading: Metamorphosis Alpha as well maybe...Further reading: Metamorphosis Alpha as well maybe.jbeltmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02264520619277158883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4754170279177021419.post-33804742832986570152013-09-19T01:50:41.506-07:002013-09-19T01:50:41.506-07:00No one ever commented on this. And that's a sh...No one ever commented on this. And that's a shame. Because this is the most beautiful fucking thing I have read all week.<br /><br />Also it's killing me that I cannot find more on killing Franz. I am literally scouring the site here.Maxim Golubchikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01744683730688693751noreply@blogger.com