tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post7227159258793307461..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: A Weird Dread MachineTreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-38256263038971110992014-10-06T11:24:14.895-04:002014-10-06T11:24:14.895-04:00@greg - You're welcome.@greg - You're welcome.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-17074484880392682832014-10-06T06:02:49.511-04:002014-10-06T06:02:49.511-04:00That is a very nice layout and an impressive amoun...That is a very nice layout and an impressive amount of game material as well. Cool stuff! Jim Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05006833955333061262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-90353837595692263392014-10-05T18:49:36.351-04:002014-10-05T18:49:36.351-04:00This sounds friggin awesome! Thanks Gus and thanks...This sounds friggin awesome! Thanks Gus and thanks Trey for the heads-up.Greg Gorgonmilkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15397374629757817360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-65301824226037082292014-10-05T14:53:47.429-04:002014-10-05T14:53:47.429-04:00Thanks for the further elucidation, Gus. It's ...Thanks for the further elucidation, Gus. It's good stuff. I think anyone can find a use for it.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-12687804293689008612014-10-05T12:13:31.408-04:002014-10-05T12:13:31.408-04:00Thanks for sharing this Trey. I guess what I mean...Thanks for sharing this Trey. I guess what I meant in the preamble is that almost every other PDF up there is for either ASE's Land of 1,000 towers (unabashedly gonzo science fantasy) or my own "Fallen Empire" setting (unplayed and mostly something I'm fiddling with trying to sidestep Fantasy roleplay genre tropes, or at least push them towards Virconium and away from Tolkien).<br /><br />Dread Machine and the smaller Prison of the Hated Pretender are meant to be easy enough to drop into anyone's campaign - world's full of Scottish Beer Dwarves and Sad Beauty Elves where St. Cuthbert's priory sits in the midst of Homlett Square. Yet I don't want to write "Orcs in a cave - the Adventure" (as I like to call B10 King's Festival) so my sensibilities seep in - but with Dread Machine I'm putting effort into constraining them.<br /><br />I explicitly want the technological elements to ancient alchemy from another sinister plane not cuddly steampunk up for adaption by clever players. I also set the weird in a distant area and constrain it. The murderously rustic halfings of the Yellow land aren't especially weird in any kind of non-vanilla fantasy way - and one can always rename them "Stinkfoots". My goal was sort of a journey into weirder and weirder as the players first cross the Yellow Land, then delve into the strange canyon and finally into the machine itself.Gus Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872819206286105195noreply@blogger.com