Episode 544: Sean Connery’s Speedo
April 21st, 2023 | Robin
The Gaming Hut makes knowing reference to the Gaming Hut as beloved Patreon backer Joshua Hillerup asks how one might make a game that is to roleplaying what Community was to the sitcom.
Malaise gives way to corrupt hedonism as the Cinema Hut science fiction essentials series reaches the mid 70s.
In The Business of Gaming we wonder what the crumbling state of social media means to guerrilla marketing for tabletop products.
Finally in Ken’s Time Machine estimable backer Neil Barnes proposes that our chrono-hero do something about replacing mere decimal mathematics with a Base-12 system.
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The skies above New Olympus are patrolled by caped crusaders, but these superior beings are far from heroes. They wield their powers with reckless disregard, serving the interests of corporate overseers, and silencing those who oppose their will. You are Klara Koenig, investigative journalist for The Pedestrian newspaper, and you intend to prove the privileged superhuman elite do not yet hold a monopoly on justice. Welcome to Alteregomania: the newest setting for the GUMSHOE One-2-One system.
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I’m amazed that neither of you mentioned Mike Pondsmith’s licensed _Dream Park_ RPG, which was about the most meta thing you can create. The game book in your hands was the “home version” of the elaborate holographic RPGs played in the eponymous futuristic amusement park, as described in the “tie-in novels” by Niven and Barnes. In the game you play characters playing Dream Park roleplaying games — some of which are televised and have fan communities, etc.
I wrote about it at greater length here: https://www.jamescambias.com/blog/2017/08/island-of-lost-games-dream-park.html
I was a little surprised that discussion didn’t mention DIE, of which Ken and Robin are certainly aware… Okay, I’ve only skimmed the RPG (which I suspect would need a very specific group of players, and a GM who isn’t me), and the comic is light on comedic irony, but it does seem relevant.
I will be taking a stab at running the new Monty Python RPG (sorry, cocurricular reenactment programme) some time, which may hit similar ideas from a different angle.
Hexadecimal is base sixteen: “six and ten”. I think Ken meant duodecimal – “two and ten”.