T w e n t y S i d e d
My former partner in webcomics Shawn Gaston passed this note along to me:
Would you do me a favor and share a link to the Streets of Bedlam Kickstarter with your readers? I’m doing the arts for it, and we’re already 300% funded, but if we hit $10,000 before the Kickstarter ends, Ed Lima (Borderlands, Doom 3) will compose a bitching soundtrack for the game.
Streets of Bedlam is a tabletop RPG game / setting. I don’t really understand Kickstarter or how it works, but for those of you into kicking and starting things, this may fall into your area of expertise. You can read more about Streets of Bedlam at the official Streets of Bedlam website, which is conveniently located on the internet.
D&D Campaign
WAY back in 2005, I wrote about a D&D campaign I was running. The campaign is still there, in the bottom-most strata of the archives.
The Plot-Driven Door
You know how videogames sometimes do that thing where it's preposterously hard to go through a simple door? This one is really bad.
Deus Ex and The Treachery of Labels
Deus Ex Mankind Divided was a clumsy, tone-deaf allegory that thought it was clever, and it managed to annoy people of all political stripes.
Self-Balancing Gameplay
There's a wonderful way to balance difficulty in RPGs, and designers try to prevent it. For some reason.
Good to be the King?
Which would you rather be: A king in the middle ages, or a lower-income laborer in the 21st century?
You’re a good man!
I should also mention, anyone who pitches in at least $5 will be immortalized as an NPC in the game.
/shill
Grah! Why is the Samaritan named the stereotypical ‘Seamus’ and not the relevant ‘Shamus’? Would have been such a great little touch…
(Unrelatedly, anything happening on the Clockworks front, Shawn?)
Heh.
Borderlands had a soundtrack?
Yes/no/maybe?
http://www.youtube.com/user/ultddave#g/c/02FE63E9A66AEE6E
Thanks for the heads up on the Kickstarter, Shamus. I try to help Kickstart projects for friends, family, and products that I would want to buy/want to see in publication. If you ever see anything there that YOU want to see happen, chances are WE want to see it happen; so make sure to put them up on your blog.!
Hey Shamus – relevant to your previous column and this one:
You noted that this blog has moved away from sit-down RPGs. Are you still playing any games, or has that fallen out of your life as you play more computer games instead? While I enjoy your dissection of the online games, I do miss some of your earlier columns about traditional RPGs.
I miss it too. I haven’t rolled the dice in over a year. I’m busy. My gaming group has, for the most part, gotten married. It’s the first thing we talk about when we bump into each other, but it’s so hard making a game happen.
“Streets of Bedlam is a tabletop RPG game / setting.”
“is a tabletop RPG game / setting”
“RPG game”
grr
Yeah, guilty.
Worse: I had to read your comment four times before I saw my error.
Oh, look, I go to click the link and it’s already past the $10,000 mark. ;)
Yeah, it’s been a pretty crazy day.
ZOMG you changed the text coding help! I just saw this! Love the examples, thanks!
Oh, and isn’t kickstarter more or less the same as rockethub (except bigger)? I assume you remember how that works from Extra Credits’ foray on there.