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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.
"When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart." ― William Gibson, Zero History
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
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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!
"Circus can't just be beautiful. It has to be weird. It has to be frightening." ― Elizabeth Schulte Martin, Everything You Came to See
Three kids find a power beyond comprehension.
To learn more about how Home By Dark is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:Frank Lodi (Brian Jones) - A shy, big-for-his-age, 14 yr old lummox.
Nick McGuinty (Ken Breese) - An 11year old with hope in his heart, and Streaks' step-brother.
Will "Streaks" Bothan (John Holt) - A 13yr old skater kid, and stepbrother to Nick.
The setup for this game:
The Setting: Summer, mid 60's, Pottersville, CA (A small suburban California town)
The Secret: A nascent AI in the form of a balloon with the ability to shape reality.
The Pursuer: Interlopers from another dimension bent on becoming like unto gods in our reality, hiding behind the facade of a circus.
The Danger: The presence of these things from outside our dimension is destabilizing our reality.
Assets: An Acoustic Guitar An Engraved Mag-Lite A Baseball Bat
Locations: Sunnyfalls, a failed and decrepit suburban development The town pool The Downs, acres of fields and sparse undeveloped forest behind our housing development
Find Brian on twitter @alowroar
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!
"With theatre, you have to be ready for anything." Willem Dafoe
Bullying is a serious issue that demands serious art.
To learn more about how Follow is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:Main - Gwen Rush (Ken Breese) - the student director Secondary - Melvin Sparks - the sound and light tech
Main - Samantha Perkins (Stacey Moverley) - stage manager Secondary - John Todd - the understudy
Main - Kennerth Foley (John Holt) - a washed up actor Secondary - Mrs Duffy - Head of the Drama Department
The Show for this game:
The Show: A high school student production. The Cast & Crew: A newly formed crew, They've never done this before.
Find Stacey on instagram @stadomo
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 way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror." Tim Curry
Bullying is a serious issue that demands serious art.
To learn more about how Follow is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:Main - Gwen Rush (Ken Breese) - the student director Secondary - Melvin Sparks - the sound and light tech
Main - Samantha Perkins (Stacey Moverley) - stage manager Secondary - John Todd - the understudy
Main - Kennerth Foley (John Holt) - a washed up actor Secondary - Mrs Duffy - Head of the Drama Department
The Show for this game:
The Show: A high school student production. The Cast & Crew: A newly formed crew, They've never done this before.
Find Stacey on instagram @stadomo
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!
"When I'm good I'm good, brother but when I'm bad I'm better." Rowdy Roddy Piper
The art of wrestling is in surviving outside the ring.
To learn more about how Fiasco is played check out our primer episode.
The Characters:
Leo "Yeti" Faccetti (Ken Breese) the hairy face of the promotion.
The Red Beret - Beater-Nick Flowers (John Holt) a cokehead and the heel of the promotion.
The Candyman - Steve St. Sands (D Gailey) coke dealer and face aspirant.
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!
"Wrestling is ballet with violence."
-Jesse Ventura
The art of wrestling is in surviving outside the ring.
To learn more about how Fiasco is played check out our primer episode.
The Characters:
Leo "Yeti" Faccetti (Ken Breese) the hairy face of the promotion.
The Red Beret - Beater-Nick Flowers (John Holt) a cokehead and the heel of the promotion.
The Candyman - Steve St. Sands (D Gailey) coke dealer and face aspirant.
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!
I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?" Stand By Me
Three middle school kids in a factory town at the foot of a mountain range find adventure together in the mid-eighties.
To learn more about how Tales from the Loop is played check out our primer episode.
The World: Pittsfield and the Lenox Loop.
Pittsfield, MA - in the Berkshire mountains on the border of NY and Western MA. In the 1940's General Electric was contracted by the government to supply parts and electrical equipment. GE were also paired with MIT and a Federal Research Facility to carve a particle accelerator into the deep rock beneath the mountain range just south in Lenox, MA. They also carved cooling towers from the rock itself. The loop passes just under Pittsfield proper. The center of the city are large GE transformers, power lines and the bustling GE plant.
To the south, a mile or two down South St, HWY 20 is the turn off to Bousquet Mountain, a ski area. A bit further south are the cooling towers and the subsurface labs.
The kids live in a small spread-out development south of Pittsfield. Their neighborhood is made up of Loop employees and GE factory families, as well as a smattering of people that perform seasonal work at the ski lodge. The kids are all students at Herberg Middle School.
Starting in the 80's the demand for transformers has dwindled and GE has been ratcheting down production. The past few years have been unseasonably warm, some blame the factory output, some blame the thrumming cooling tower and the Lenox loop. Whatever the case the ski tourism has been hit hard, further depressing the area.
The Kids:
Ollie Barker - Bookworm (Dan McCoy) soft-spoken book-learned kid, tends to sit apart, observing.
Chad Dawson - Popular Kid (Stuart Wellington) big mouth & big hair, uses his confidence, comfortable family standing, and sunglasses to charm his way through the early teen years.
Rush "Spud" McKenzie - Hick (Ken Breese) rough and tumble, more at home in the woods with his dog Hobo than stuck in school.
Find Dan McCoy on twitter @dankmccoy
Find Stuart Wellington on twitter @flophousecat
Find Stuart and Dan's podcast The Flophouse on the flophousepodcast.com and on the MaxFun network. You can also follow the podcast on twitter @theflophousepod
Find Stuart's podcast Till Def Do Us Parrdy on soundcloud and through itunes. You can also follow the show on twitter @tilldef
If you're in NYC make sure to get over to The Hinterlands, Stuart's bar in Brooklyn
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!
This is a brief overview that lays out the basic of setting an a rules summary of Tales from the Loop by designer by Modiphius Entertainment. modiphius.net
Recommended number of players: GM and 2 to 4 players, Play time 2-4 hours on average.
Tales from the Loop is a GM'd game that encourages the players collaborate with the Game Master to tell the story.
We recommend picking the PDF and or Physical copy from publisher. The character types can be printed and you only need a handful of 6-sided dice to roll against trouble.
"Be excellent to each other, and party on dudes!" – Abraham Lincoln
Three middle school kids in a factory town at the foot of a mountain range find adventure together in the mid-eighties. To learn more about how Tales from the Loop is played check out our primer episode.
The World: Pittsfield and the Lenox Loop.
Pittsfield, MA - in the Berkshire mountains on the border of NY and Western MA. In the 1940's GE was contracted by the government to supply parts and electrical equipment. GE were also paired with MIT and a Federal Research Facility to carve a particle accelerator into the deep rock beneath the mountain range just south in Lenox, MA. They also carved cooling towers from the rock itself. The loop passes just under Pittsfield proper. The center of the city are large GE transformers and power lines and the bustling GE plant.
To the south, a mile or two down South St, HWY 20 is the turn off to Bousquet Mountain, a ski area. A bit further south are the cooling towers and the subsurface labs.
The kids live in a small spread-out development south of Pittsfield. There neighborhood is made up of Loop employees and GE factory families, as well as a smattering of people that perform seasonal work at the ski lodge. The kids are all students at Herberg Middle School.
Starting in the 80's the demand for transformers has dwindled and GE has been ratcheting down production. The past few years have been unseasonably warm, some blame the factory output, some blame the thrumming cooling tower and the Lenox loop. Whatever the case the ski tourism has been hit hard, further depressing the area.
The Kids:
Ollie Barker - Bookworm (Dan McCoy) soft-spoken book-learned kid, tends to sit apart, observing.
Chad Dawson - Popular Kid (Stuart Wellington) big mouth & big hair, uses his confidence, comfortable family standing, and sunglasses to charm his way through the early teen years.
Rush "Spud" McKenzie - Hick (Ken Breese) rough and tumble, more at home in the woods with his dog Hobo than stuck in school. Find Dan McCoy on twitter @dankmccoy
Find Stuart Wellington on twitter @flophousecat
Find Stuart and Dan's podcast The Flophouse on the flophousepodcast.com and on the MaxFun network. You can also follow the podcast on twitter @theflophousepod
Find Stuart's podcast Till Def Do Us Parrdy on soundcloud and through itunes. You can also follow the show on twitter @tilldef
If you're in NYC make sure to get over to The Hinterlands, Stuart's bar in Brooklyn
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!
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