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Season 2 Episode 4 is up! Go check it out
Whelp. Time to deep-dive Frank Frazetta.
DIE is back and so are we! The first episode of our season on DIE: Loaded is available now. Check it out here or on most podcast platforms!
In RRD's latest newsletter they've announced the first DIE expansion, Scenarios 1: Bizarre Love Triangles. You can (and should) sign up for updates on it here, as well as future adventures in the series. DIE RPG itself is also available to buy from retailers, as well as RRD directly. Here's the link to them.
See folks at Gencon next week.
Reading old 80s D&D clones and found the best villain scheme ever.
While everyone is conquering the world or bringing about the apocalypse, the Riddling Reaver (from Fighting Fantasy) is planning to use an ancient artifact to alter the universe. If he succeeds, rather then everyone's moral status being easily placed into one of nine unambiguous categories, Morality will be grey, blurry and impossible to uncontroversially define. At one point someone starts panicking about the terrible possibility of having evil people who don't know they're evil.
"This fuckers going to implement moral complexity in your game and it's up to you to stop him!" is such a high-concept extrapolation of the concept of an alignment system that I can't help but love it. The villain is coming in with postmodern accounts of intersubjectivism and someone needs to stop him reading them to the GM.
an anecdote i think ive neglected to share with you up until this point is about this one time when h.p. lovecraft was part of a round robin exercise with a bunch of other well-regarded pulp weird fiction writers
the resulting story, “the challenge from beyond” is, frankly, not….good. like, at all. what it is, however, is HILARIOUS, particularly when conan the barbarian creator robert e. howard, taking his turn at the writing wheel directly after that other howard, slam-dunks every single generally accepted round robin rule about not contradicting things that the previous writers have already introduced/established in the story, not dramatically shifting the tone, etc. STRAIGHT IN THE GARBAGE in one of the most gloriously petty displays of trolling/ Fuck That-itis i have ever seen in this kind of game (and i mostly hung out with the creative writing + theater crowd in college, soooo)
basically you have lovecraft being lovecraft, going on and on and on, making the protagonist faint from terror a solid three times in maybe 1,500 words (just a guess there, i didn’t actually bother to count), and concluding with a HORRIFIC REVELATION:
But even this vision of delirium was not what caused George Campbell to lapse a third time into unconsciousness. It took one more thing—one final, unbearable touch—to do that. As the nameless worm advanced with its glistening box, the reclining man caught in the mirror-like surface a glimpse of what should have been his own body. Yet—horribly verifying his disordered and unfamiliar sensations—it was not his own body at all that he saw reflected in the burnished metal. It was, instead, the loathsome, pale-grey bulk of one of the great centipedes.
yup. dude turns into a grotesque giant centipede alien monster and TOTALLY LOSES IT. truly, this hellish transformation is too great a burden for his fragile human mind to comprehend, let alone bear while remaining conscious, or sane–
but wait! ENTER ROBERT E. “CONAN THE BARBARIAN” HOWARD:
From that final lap of senselessness, he emerged with a full understanding of his situation. His mind was imprisoned in the body of a frightful native of an alien planet, while, somewhere on the other side of the universe, his own body was housing the monster’s personality. He fought down an unreasoning horror. Judged from a cosmic standpoint, why should his metamorphosis horrify him? Life and consciousness were the only realities in the universe. Form was unimportant. His present body was hideous only according to terrestrial standards. Fear and revulsion were drowned in the excitement of titanic adventure.
THE EXCITEMENT OF TITANIC ADVENTURE
talk about mood (and philosophical outlook on existence) whiplash, right??!
the best part, though, is that he KEEPS GOING ON LIKE THIS for about four more paragraphs:
What was his former body but a cloak, eventually to be cast off at death anyway? He had no sentimental illusions about the life from which he had been exiled. What had it ever given him save toil, poverty, continual frustration and repression? If this life before him offered no more, at least it offered no less. Intuition told him it offered more—much more. With the honesty possible only when life is stripped to its naked fundamentals, he realized that he remembered with pleasure only the physical delights of his former life. But he had long ago exhausted all the physical possibilities contained in that earthly body. Earth held no new thrills. But in the possession of this new, alien body he felt promises of strange, exotic joys.
etc., etc.
…and then george-as-centipede monster goes on a STRAIGHT UP BLOODTHIRSTY RAMPAGE like some arthropodian conan and then just totally CONQUERS THE FUCK out of the ENTIRE centipede planet because why not and someone please make john darnielle write a song about this, i am begging you
#……..how much metamorphosis fixit fic did rob e howard store like wine inside him
Robert E. Howard had one fucking speed and that speed was “titanic adventure.”
Robert E. Howard cosplayed as his own OC in nothing but his underwear and a fur cloak while wielding a spear and took pictures. Man was off the fucking chain
Given that you're working with RRD on the Die RPG, can you and Grant somehow be persuaded/bribed to make "Honey Heist: the comic" happen? I mean, I'd back the Kickstarter for that one.
Much more seriously (although I probably would back that Kickstarter), any particular thoughts about RPG adaptations of stories and story/comic adaptations of RPGs? It occurs to me that you've done this in both directions, and I can't think of anyone else who has.
Joking aside, I'd love to see RRD do comics. There's some great universes there which would work great in comics
This could go on much longer, I suspect, but I'm going to try and keep it simple.
Comic adaptations of RPGs
There's a key thing here - most comic adaptations of an RPG isn't an adaptation of an RPG. It's an adaptation of the game world where the story is set. This is a significantly different thing.
Exceptions are telling, in that they lean a lot more into the explicit conventions of RPGs, to play with, parody or critique. These are rarely actually direct adaptations of a world. People don't read a D&D comic to have characters keep on having short rests to get their hit points back, or whatever.
In reality, comic adaptations of RPGs are less like an adaption, and more like a tone piece - like the pieces of fiction in an RPG manual. They're about what the game is trying to evoke (and sometimes not even then, right?)
RPG adaptations of comics
I'd note that DIE isn't actually an adaptation of DIE the comic. They were developed simultaneously together, with elements appearing first in one or the other, and being ported back over. They're both me trying to execute an idea in the ways which best suit each medium.
Classically, most RPG conversions of comics is basically the same as any piece of fiction. The only real difference to converting a comic to a novel is that you've got a bunch more free art to use in your manual with a comic, which saves money.
I'd say the best RPG conversions are those which understand the art they're converting and create a game which allows players to experience their version of that. This doesn't mean they're the best game (though they may be) but they understand what is interesting about the fiction they're converting. More commonly (though perhaps less so now) is basically just taking the fiction and lobbing it all into whatever RPG world you have.
Compare and contrast MERPS from teh 1980s and The One Ring from the 2010. MERPS is a cut down version of Rolemaster, and while it has a bunch of tolkein detail, it doesn't ever really feel anything like Middle-Earth. It's just an RPG set in Middle Earth. Conversely, The One Ring is all about walking and feeling sad because you're walking, and having your hope and despair score go up. It understands and shows the understanding of middle-earth in a way which MERPS simply didn't.
People often talk about Powered by the Apocalypse games as Genre Emulation (which isn't 100% necessarily true - it can be, but that's a goal a designer may have). In PBTA you dig down to the fiction and work out what elements need to be mechanised for it to feel like the fiction they're representing. I think that's true of any game adaptation - it involves looking, thinking and working out how you can put that magic in a bottle.
TL:DR: I did not keep it simple.
It’s 8am and I just finished DIE. How the fuck am I supposed to go to class now?
DIE is all about classes. It should have prepared you.
Everyone shut up there's a Napoleonic Man of War simulator
you can't control the ship directly you have to direct orders and its complicated and i am in love
also i nearly crashed the ship in the tutorial 10/10
@ltwilliammowett and i would tag everyone i know in the age of sail fandom but that would be a lot because everyone needs to know about this
Dave Arneson crawling out of his grave to play this game
DIE #1 | DIE #20
written by Kieron Gillen; art by Stephanie Hans; lettering by Clayton Cowles
The DIE RPG kickstarter is now live. Admire our video! Purr at the art and design!
We funded in 16 minutes, which is amazing, and now are working on those stretchgoals.
Hurrah!
Stephanie's cover! Coo!
DIE RPG kickstarter goes live on May 12th.
Sign up here to be notificated when it does.
Stephanie's cover! Coo!
DIE RPG kickstarter goes live on May 12th.
Sign up here to be notificated when it does.
Gen and Drew sit down with Kieron and Stephanie to talk about the end of DIE. Our Tumblr: DIE-compressed.tumblr.com Our Twitter: @diecompressed Our Email: The journaling game mentioned in this episode is The Wretched by Chris Bissette: https://loottheroom.itch.io/wretched DIE, by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, and Clayton Cowles, Rian Hughs, and Chrissy Williams is published by Image Comics. Our intro and outro theme is “oh no oh no no no no no” by the Windom Earle All-Stars off of the album A Series of Minor Personal Tragedies. The “Oh no” loop we use is originally from the song “Remember” by The Shangri-Las
We had this advert in the last issue, so announcing the big news about the rpg. Rook Rowan & Decard are publishing us and you can sign up to be contacted when we launch here.
We did an interview with Dicebreaker here, where we go into all manner of details.
We were planning on running the campaign in November, but due to the world situation, we've decided to delay until Spring next year.
As said, want to be prodded when it starts? Sign up here.
After months of negotiating successor contracts to the Producer-IATSE Basic Agreement, and the Theatrical and Television Motion Picture Are
The IATSE just voted to authorize a nationwide strike in order to get better working hours and conditions for on-set workers. The changes the union wants would benefit not just union members, but all on-set workers as well, including on-set vfx, like myself.
The petition above is for non-member allies, and if you're interesting in supporting the union's cause, it'd be great if you would sign.
Quick 3D recreation of the Issue 20 cover.