Hungry Ghosts + Frostbitten & Mutilated Unboxing
click to enlargeSome hungry ghosts are pathetic, some are scornful, all feel they are owed something—by their living descendants or by others who failed to acknowledge them properly in life.Hungry...
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Most of the Demon City pictures are now up in a gallery in New York if you wanna see.Also there is a nifty interview with me about all kindsa things up at 3 Toadstools.---
View ArticleSome Things To Know About Cops & Crime
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View ArticleThe Flat Earth Paradox
(or: How Right-Wing Culture Takes Over Nerd Spaces Even Though Nerds Aren't Especially Right Wing)NerdsI wrote earlier about how the category "nerd"--from the 1950s--is largely something industrial...
View ArticleLOVE.
Shawn Cheng sent in some more designs. Click to enlarge...Just a prototype, we gotta get it so the moons line up with the paragraphsSupport the Demon City Patreon here.
View ArticleNo Dice.
So for a while I've been trying to figure out exactly how to get the tarot card further down into the guts of Demon City than it was. It just seemed like more and more the big question was why can't...
View ArticleGigacrawler Playtests
James Hutchings from over on the Teleleli blog:I'm writing a game based on Zak's Gigacrawler setting.It's a choose-your-own-adventure-style game for one player--similar in format to my free online game...
View ArticleThe Glistening Chamber Codex (or The Nyctythatic Text)
The earliest fragments containing any element of the text appear in Chalcolithic-era Sumeria in cuneiform script. It has been convincingly argued that they are not Sumerian in origin, showing a certain...
View ArticleDemon City Combat (using Tarot Cards)
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View ArticleThere's A Lot Of Screaming
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View ArticleWelcome /rpg Goons from the Something Awful Old-School D&D and Retroclone Thread
Hi there!Apparently, after 5 years and 101 pages of the first one, there's finally a new Old School and DIY D&D thread on Something Awful /rpg.And, surprisingly enough, it starts with shout-outs to...
View ArticleDemon City Character Gen (Revised)
For Demon City--with the notes to Shawn, my graphic designer, still in itp.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 36.0px Avenir} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Avenir;...
View ArticleThe 1600s, Lamentations and the Nympharium
It's an irony--or maybe just an incongruity--that, though Lamentations of the Flame Princess and I have had a long and mutually-beneficial RPG-publishing relationship, LotFP is officially set in the...
View ArticleRelevant Retropost: Distracted From Distraction By Distraction
...that's a line from TS Eliot. He was a well-educated creative genius and a grotesque anti-Semite, back in the days when that combination was still possible. It no longer is--so we'll have to listen...
View ArticleCommunicants
for Demon City, inspired by Daniel HaldermanIt is not known on behalf of whom the communicants communicate. They are only definitely one thing: not a horror.They communicate wisdom concerning weighty...
View ArticleDon Membreño and Julio Elespe
A set-up for Demon City..Don Membreño shook the soft hand of the pale Spaniard Julio Elespe.The Spaniard spoke: “I understand the parameters of your business: the cocaine is manufactured, the cocaine...
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