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Bored Ghost uses tabletop roleplaying games to create stories. Each week we release half of a tale born out a play. From independently published collaborative storytelling games to traditional Role-Playing Games, we try it all to tell stories. These tales and games are experiments.
"Maria: HEAD and HANDS need a mediator. THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART! Worker #1: But where is our mediator, Maria - ? Maria: Wait for him! He will surely come! Worker #2: We will wait, Maria...! But not much longer - - !" - Metropolis (1927)
The platform of a space elevator houses the electronic brains that control the drones on the planet below. They are tasked with cleaning up the Earth for the eventual return of the humans.
To learn more about how Dialect is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:
HLN 3618N2-4 "Helen" (Iris Explosion) - The very proper administrator.
PCO-800 "Seev" (Patrick Cartelli) - The supply and aquisitions unit.
Atmospheric Oversight 35,73.11.B "Atmos" (Kelsey Hercs) - The air cleaning unit with a strong sense of purpose.
LSM-748 "Fleshwise" (Ken Breese) - Genetics and organics unit in charge of repopulating the fauna.
B33DL3 (John Holt) - The excavation and reclamation of subsurface ecology.
The Setup:
Backdrop: The Earth has been left uninhabitable and the humans left, leaving a team of robots to rejuvenate the planet and await the return of the humans.
Main Location: Laika Station, a platform at the top of a Space Elevator. It is rooted in continental Asia.
Aspects: Doubt: WILL they/SHOULD they come back? (the humans) Task: Reverse Catastrophic Climate Change Creation: Art from (attempted?) Reproduction
The Language: Completion - The return of the humans Post-Completion - A time after the humans return Plete - An expletive, a blaspheme against the sacred eventual end PreZero - A theoretical time before the task began Standby - A term used to buy time while gathering thoughts before speaking, before continuing to speak Rubrik - The guiding principles of our combined programming (Over-Prime) Over-Prime - The combined goal of the tasks we are programmed to complete Prime - The task we are programmed to perform Variable Prime - An alternative task, The theory that a root task can shift based on interpretation of programming "THE PRIME IS OURS" - An declaration of ownership over ones self and identification as one of the group Indo - A vice where in you deliberately neglect maintenance so that repair requires extra effort. Sleep - A state of profound sadness, either born out of inactivity or leading to lethargy and inactivity EOM - An honorific, denoting that you have performed the most efficiently over the last Lunar cycle ATMOSEOM - A term for those that lord their efficiency over their peers Motaxu - The offspring of the drones and minds, constructed from organic and inorganic parts, sentient and outside the hive mind Mollies - A derogatory & dismissive term for the Motaxu Molly Maker - An insulting term for a member of the hive mind who creates and encourages the Motaxu Augmentation - Ritualistic offerings to the hive mind by the Motaxu The Disconnected - Anything outside the focus of the Rubrik, impossible to control or interface with, the unknown The Variable - A thing from outside Earth, not covered under programming or instruction, a complication VEOM - A religion of the Motaxu based on worship of the Variable Elysium - A satellite of decrepit hive minds
Go check out Kelsey's play "Can't You Tell" encore showing on July 7th, 2018. We'll update our social media when we have a specific link and you can follow her directly for updates!
Find Kelsey on twitter @zforzelma & instagram @zforzelman and her website kelseyhercs.com
Find Iris Explosion on twitter @IrisExplosion & instagram @1risexplosion and her website irisexplosion.com
Iris will be with d20 Burlesque at GenCon 2018 this year!
Find Patrick on twitter @patcartelli and check out his podcast Repeater
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld
Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
"If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it." - Sean Bean
The goblins are tasked with an important job: get the demon baby ready for the unholy wedding.
To learn more about how Goblin Quest is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:Shakespearean Sean Bean (John Holt) - The most dramatically minded of the Beans.
Stark Sean Bean (Ken Breese) - The Stoic Bean.
Shooter Sean Bean (D Gailey) - The Actions-Speak-Louder-Than-Words Bean.
The Movie:
"Shoot The Moon" A Sci-Fi action heist movie about agent Adam Furstman (as played by Sean Bean). He is looking for one last big score to set him up for life.
The Tasks:
Find D on twitter @mxnurd
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld
Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
"A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point." - Sean Bean
The goblins are tasked with an important job: get the demon baby ready for the unholy wedding.
To learn more about how Goblin Quest is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:Shakespearean Sean Bean (John Holt) - The most dramatically minded of the Beans.
Stark Sean Bean (Ken Breese) - The Stoic Bean.
Shooter Sean Bean (D Gailey) - The Actions-Speak-Louder-Than-Words Bean.
The Movie:
"Shoot The Moon" A Sci-Fi action heist movie about agent Adam Furstman (as played by Sean Bean). He is looking for one last big score to set him up for life.
The Tasks:
Find D on twitter @mxnurd
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld
Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
"Helena: Will they be happier when they can feel pain? Dr. Gall: On the contrary. But they will be technically more perfect." ― Karel Čapek, R.U.R.
In a world of global peace, that has forgotten the machines of war, the harmony is broken with the incursion of autonomous killing machines, vestiges of a lost age.
To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode.
The Characters:
Sofia Morales (D Gailey) the tech obsessed Engineer.
Professor Cyndy Diamont (John Holt) anthropological computer scientist.
Brouge Craklin P.H.D. (Ken Breese) military historian.
The Mission:
The Crises - A doomsday weapon from a bygone age has awakened in the frozen north.
The Limit - Time has forgotten the weapons of the past but the historians and hobbyists remember.
The Plan - Get to the "brain" and reprogram the mechs to blast themselves into the sun.
The Assets:
Employee Manual for Site X
3d Topographical heat map of the doomsday compound
A six-shooter pistol borrowed from a museum
Find D on twitter @mxnurd
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld
Our Bored Ghost theme comes from the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
"The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves." ― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
In a world of global peace, that has forgotten the machines of war, the harmony is broken with the incursion of autonomous killing machines, vestiges of a lost age.
To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode.
The Characters:
Sofia Morales (D Gailey) the tech obsessed Engineer.
Professor Cyndy Diamont (John Holt) anthropological computer scientist.
Brouge Craklin P.H.D. (Ken Breese) military historian.
The Mission:
The Crises - A doomsday weapon from a bygone age has awakened in the frozen north.
The Limit - Time has forgotten the weapons of the past but the historians and hobbyists remember.
The Plan - Get to the "brain" and reprogram the mechs to blast themselves into the sun.
The Assets:
Employee Manual for Site X
3d Topographical heat map of the doomsday compound
A six-shooter pistol borrowed from a museum
Find D on twitter @mxnurd
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld
Our Bored Ghost theme comes from the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
Supplementary
Our Last Best HopeThis is a brief overview that lays out the basic of setting an a rules summary of Our Last Best Hope by designer by Mark Diaz Truman. Purchase a copy here at Magpie Games.
Recommended number of players: 3-5 players, Play time 3-4 hours on average.
Our Last Best Hope is a GMless game where your characters are on a mission to save the planet and/or humanity. There are additional missions and hacks available in supplementary books and downloads.
We recommend picking the PDF and or Physical copy from publisher.
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworldOur Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
"The yells and yammering, croaking, gibbering and jabbering, howls and growls and curses, shrieking and shrinking that followed were beyond description. Several hundred wildcats and wolves being roasted slowly alive together would not have compared with it." ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
The goblins are tasked with an important job: get the demon baby ready for the unholy wedding.
To learn more about how Goblin Quest is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:The Plugfingers (Ken Breese) - A clutch of three-eyed goblins wielding the plunging stick.
The Squishy (John Holt) - A clutch of one-eyed goblins who wield the one glove to hold it all.
The Butterboots (Tim Rodriguez) - A clutch of big-footed goblins wielding the darning needle of fashion.
The Tasks:
Find Tim on twitter @dicefoodlodging and Tim's Mobile Fiasco App for iOS on iTunes, and for Android on Google Play.
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld
Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
"Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the common tabby. They share a name, but one is a nice thing to curl up with on a rainy afternoon, and the other is found in the muck at the bottom of polluted rivers and has bits of debris sticking to it." ― T. Kingfisher
The goblins are tasked with an important job: get the demon baby ready for the unholy wedding.
To learn more about how Goblin Quest is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:
The Plugfingers (Ken Breese) - A clutch of three-eyed goblins wielding the plunging stick.
The Squishy (John Holt) - A clutch of one-eyed goblins who wield the one glove to hold it all.
The Butterboots (Tim Rodriguez) - A clutch of big-footed goblins wielding the darning needle of fashion.
The Tasks:
Find Tim on twitter @dicefoodlodging and Tim's Mobile Fiasco App for iOS on iTunes, and for Android on Google Play.
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld
Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
Supplementary
Goblin QuestThis is a brief overview that lays out the basic of setting an a rules summary of Goblin Quest by designer by Grant Howitt. Purchase a copy here.
Recommended number of players: 2-6 players, Play time 2-4 hours on average.
Goblin Quest is a GMless game where your characters will die in droves. There are GM variants and multiple Hacks available.
We recommend picking the PDF and or Physical copy from publisher. The character & quest sheets can be printed and you only need a handful of 6-sided dice to play.
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworldOur Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
"He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern." ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
In the future a libertarian corporate tech city chews up the people as they scrabble to reach the top.
To learn more about how Kingdom is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:Thrush Ballpeen (John Holt) - An enhanced prize fighter.
Willow Floors (Ken Breese) - A magic wielding barista.
Vice President (Tim Rodriguez) - A corporate player.
The Kingdom for this game:
New Auckland, a country sized city anchored in the Pacific.
Threats:
Locations:
Find Tim on twitter @dicefoodlodging and Tim's Mobile Fiasco App for iOS on iTunes, and for Android on Google Play.
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard
Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld
Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways.
Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!
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