This Week's Guests: Pestilence & Death!

And the paranormal mercenary game you need to check out

This Week’s post is a sickness-induced plunge into cosy nostalgia.

Note: As usual, this post is coming a week later than it was written for Patreon. I'm back in good health now!

So one of the boons of being self-employed is that you can just take a day off work whenever you want.

The reality is that you usually feel like you absolutely must not do that.

So today I'm not feeling great. Nothing too serious, but I might have phoned in sick in my previous job. 

Can you see where this is going?

While I've been working as normal today, my mind has crumbled at the task of writing a thoughtful post for the week, so instead you can look at some pictures from a book that came in the post for me.

It's a reprinting of the Usborne Book of the Future from 1979. A familiar sight, even though it predated my birth. Much has been said about the charm of the 1970s vision of the future, but this book in particular fills me with warm nostalgia. 

I even reckon this makes for the decent seeds of a Traveller supplement, or Ask the Stars if you're fancy. I especially love the page on "Ristos".

So enjoy, and I'll be back on top form next week.

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Elsewhere

Bastionland Broadcasting is back with a readthrough of FIST, the game of paranormal mercenaries that’s currently blowing up on Kickstarter.

When I get talking about the origins of Into the Odd I’ll often reference Searchers of the Unknown, and I’m always amazed how many people haven’t heard of it! It’s tricky to find these days, but this document has a heap of variants of the original game. Ignore them for now, print page 5 only, and try running a module of your choice with it. It’s an experience I’d recommend for everybody, and it genuinely changed my outlook on games.

More artwork is pouring in for Mythic Bastionland. Make sure you’re sign up for updates on the Kickstarter, launching 7th November. Now enjoy these horrible Seers that Alec has made.

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Coming Soon

Over on Patreon we’re talking about Death.

From the Oddpocrypha section of Mythic Bastionland, talking about Death. The keen-eyed among you will notice some terminology change from the current playtest document, but the new version will be released soon.

PLAY

Tal has been spotted sneaking into a guarded tower. Their Spirit has already been depleted on the journey and from using Deflect, and now their Guard has been depleted by the first volley of arrows. Moss ducks out of sight of the enemies but Tal runs for the tower.

The sentries roll high on their attack dice and Tal has no choice but to take the damage reducing their VIG to 0, meaning they are Slain outright. 

Ref: Oh, wow. One of the arrows flies straight into Tal’s throat… they fall to the ground, a pool of blood forming. They’re slain.

Moss: What!?

Expect the full post here and on the blog next week. Thanks for reading Bastionland Presser! Subscribe for free to receive new posts straight into your inbox.