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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.
"Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The nuclear furnace that baths us with live giving rays has belched out a wave of death. A crew of three are all that stand in between Earth and certain destruction.
To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode.
The Characters:
Dr. Childers Cube (John Holt) the radiation sickness expert Doctor.
Dr. Franklin Cortez (Chris Diercksen) brilliant engineer and conceptual designer of the Allen.
Lt. Cmdr. Red Roberts (Ken Breese) experimental space pilot and veteran of clandestine space wars.
The Mission:
The Crisis - A solar flare is racing towards Earth and will shear away the atmosphere.
The Limit - An experimental solar sail ship is the only vehicle that could be capable of reflecting the brunt of the wave.
The Plan - Get in the path of the wave with enough distance from the Earth to safely deflect the flare for its duration.
The Assets:
Repair Drones
Turbo Octo Boosters
Metallic Fabric Foil
Find Chris on twitter @c_diercks and check out his theatrical group Team Awesome Robot.
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!
"Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end." — Stephenie Meyer
The nuclear furnace that baths us with live giving rays has belched out a wave of death. A crew of three are all that stand in between Earth and certain destruction.
To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode.
The Characters:
Dr. Childers Cube (John Holt) the radiation sickness expert Doctor.
Dr. Franklin Cortez (Chris Diercksen) brilliant engineer and conceptual designer of the Allen.
Lt. Cmdr. Red Roberts (Ken Breese) experimental space pilot and veteran of clandestine space wars.
The Mission:
The Crisis - A solar flare is racing towards Earth and will shear away the atmosphere.
The Limit - An experimental solar sail ship is the only vehicle that could be capable of reflecting the brunt of the wave.
The Plan - Get in the path of the wave with enough distance from the Earth to safely deflect the flare for its duration.
The Assets:
Repair Drones
Turbo Octo Boosters
Metallic Fabric Foil
Find Chris on twitter @c_diercks and check out his theatrical group Team Awesome Robot.
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!
"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated." - Mary Shelley
Within the confines of a long abandoned missile silo a cult of Victorian horror-science performs mad experiments.
To learn more about how Dialect is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:Lisa Spillson "Lula" (Ken Breese) - The historian and descendant of Mary Shelley.
Dr. Francis Tine "The Monster" (John Holt) - The head honcho.
Dr. Becker, MD PHD "Vicktor" (Joe Desimone) - A devotee to the teachings and text of Mary Shelley.
The Setup:
Backdrop: A cult built on an interpretation of Victorian science fiction has retreated from the world.
Main Location: The Castle - an abandoned missile silo in a field of such silos in the perimeter of a radioactive accident.
Aspects (2nd Age): Mary Shelley is our Prophet Proactive Evolution Quarantine Zone Fully Buried
Aspects (3rd Age): Mary Shelley is our Prophet New Hierarchy of Saints Proactive Evolution Quarantine Zone Fully Buried
The Language:Genesis - The rollout into the future apocalypse. To the cultists; the act of bringing on the end. The the outsiders; genocide. Swapper - Genetic glue, a tech developed by the cult. Lula - An expression of love, a term of endearment. Adams - The subjects of experiment, children raise for this purpose. Igor - The new messiah.
Find Joe DeSimone @iheartfargo and his Make Room work HERE!
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 I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!" ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
Within the confines of a long abandoned missile silo a cult of Victorian horror-science performs mad experiments.
To learn more about how Dialect is played check out our primer episode.
The characters for this game:Lisa Spillson "Lula" (Ken Breese) - The historian and descendant of Mary Shelley.
Dr. Francis Tine "The Monster" (John Holt) - The head honcho.
Dr. Becker, MD PHD "Vicktor" (Joe Desimone) - A devotee to the teachings and text of Mary Shelley.
The Setup:
Backdrop: A cult built on an interpretation of Victorian science fiction has retreated from the world.
Main Location: The Castle - an abandoned missile silo in a field of such silos in the perimeter of a radioactive accident.
Aspects: Mary Shelley is our Prophet Proactive Evolution Quarantine Zone
The Language:Genesis - The rollout into the future apocalypse. Swapper - Genetic glue, a tech developed by the cult. Lula - An expression of love, a term of endearment. Adams - The subjects of experiment, children raise for this purpose. Igor - The new messiah.
Find Joe DeSimone @iheartfargo and his Make Room work HERE!
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 zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at." David Sedaris
How to make the creatures of the Zoo more profitable?
To learn more about how Fiasco is played check out our primer episode.
The Characters:
Ted Flimshaw (David Slivken) - One of the older Zoo employees, a mammal expert.
Joe DaBiggs (John Holt) - An outside consultant brought in to increase the Zoo's profits.
Drew Dreyfuss (Will Holt) - The lizard house keeper, a reptile obsessive.
The Tilt:
Paranoia: What seems like dumb luck isn't. Things are afoot. Guilt: Betrayed by Friends.
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Will on instagram @nantucket_sommelier
Find David and his travel company on instagram @huckleberrytravel, and online generally at huckleberrytravel.com
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 noblest art is that of making others happy." P.T Barnum
How to make the creatures of the Zoo more profitable?
To learn more about how Fiasco is played check out our primer episode.
The Characters:
Ted Flimshaw (David Slivken) - One of the older Zoo employees, a mammal expert.
Joe DaBiggs (John Holt) - An outside consultant brought in to increase the Zoo's profits.
Drew Dreyfuss (Will Holt) - The lizard house keeper, a reptile obsessive.
Find John on twitter @LordJoho
Find Will on instagram @nantucket_sommelier
Find David and his travel company on instagram @huckleberrytravel, and online generally at huckleberrytravel.com
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!
". . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is the human race, and against the legislator of the universe, which is nature. ― Maximilien Robespierre, Robespierre
Killer trees in the age of reason and the reign of terror.
To learn more about how Follow is played check out our primer episode.
The Setting:The 18th century France in the summer, the flames of revolution sweep the country.
The Killer:
Animated plants, possibly brought to life by an archaeological artifact.
The Characters:
Fromage the hyperactive executioner.
Ovaltine the flirtatious grandmother.
Boothe Van Smeen the tireless gamesman.
Rosalie the haughty milkmaid.
Flemme De'Brooks the half-witted revolutionary.
Morgan the avant-garde revolutionary.
Madamoiselle Satine the saucy maid.
Joulie Moirot the inquisitive youth.
Lil' Jaque the criminal mastermind.
Madame Coraline the true believing astrologer.
Monsieur Fleur the meticulous head of house.
Alain the constipated general.
Find Lucian Kahn on twitter @oh_theogony and find his game Dead Friend for purchase on DriveThruRPG.
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!
"Kill the king but spare the man." ― Thomas Paine
Killer trees in the age of reason and the reign of terror.
To learn more about how Follow is played check out our primer episode.
The Setting:The 18th century France in the summer, the flames of revolution sweep the country.
The Killer:
Animated plants, possibly brought to life by an archaeological artifact.
The Characters:
Fromage the hyperactive executioner.
Ovaltine the flirtatious grandmother.
Boothe Van Smeen the tireless gamesman.
Rosalie the haughty milkmaid.
Flemme De'Brooks the half-witted revolutionary.
Morgan the avant-garde revolutionary.
Madamoiselle Satine the saucy maid.
Joulie Moirot the inquisitive youth.
Lil' Jaque the criminal mastermind.
Madame Coraline the true believing astrologer.
Monsieur Fleur the meticulous head of house.
Alain the constipated general.
Find Lucian Kahn on twitter @oh_theogony and find his game Dead Friend for purchase on DriveThruRPG.
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!
"No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart." – Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
This colony base with its military mission teeters on the edge of disaster.
To learn more about how Follow is played check out our primer episode.
Quest: The ColonyA generational colony ship has been sent to do an end run around the inhabited worlds of a species the humans of Earth have declared war upon. They are tasked with establishing a colony as a beachhead to launch attacks on the enemy flank. An engineering team has been sent in a smaller ship, the Lightbearer-Alpha just ahead of the colony ship to establish the infrastructure for the landing.
The challenges: Hostile Megafauna in an Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere as well as Dissent & Disagreement amongst the team.
The Characters:
(Dalton) Main Character: Sibin Ukker (the Youth) - A brash young person who wants to uphold the Earth traditions, to never forget where they come from and desires respect from Jorges. Minor Character: Nils Gezzun (the Homesteader)
(Ken Breese) Main Character: Shar-Banu (the Freethinker) - A documentarian who wants a new society, free of Earth's norms and desires Sibin's help in presenting the data to that end. Minor Character: Milow Beans (the Builder/Engineer)
(John Holt) Main Character: Jorges Cao (the Visionary/Planner) - A driven engineer and architect who wants to tame the land and build a shining city while desiring Shar-Banu's help in keeping the others convinced that all is going well. Minor Character: Kana (the Loner)
The Challenges:
(1) Deal with Dangerous Wildlife - a 3 week task (2) Treat a disease afflicting the colony - a 2 day task (3) Prevent Schism in the Community - a 2 week task
Find Dalton Gray on twitter @Daltonomous and learn more about what he's up to @StateofPlayNYC, Come Out & Play and the Adventure Society
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!
"No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart." – Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
This colony base with its military mission teeters on the edge of disaster.
To learn more about how Follow is played check out our primer episode.
Quest: The ColonyA generational colony ship has been sent to do an end run around the inhabited worlds of a species the humans of Earth have declared war upon. They are tasked with establishing a colony as a beachhead to launch attacks on the enemy flank. An engineering team has been sent in a smaller ship, the Lightbearer-Alpha just ahead of the colony ship to establish the infrastructure for the landing.
The challenges: Hostile Megafauna in an Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere as well as Dissent & Disagreement amongst the team.
The Characters:
(Dalton) Main Character: Sibin Ukker (the Youth) - A brash young person who wants to uphold the Earth traditions, to never forget where they come from and desires respect from Jorges. Minor Character: Nils Gezzun (the Homesteader)
(Ken Breese) Main Character: Shar-Banu (the Freethinker) - A documentarian who wants a new society, free of Earth's norms and desires Sibin's help in presenting the data to that end. Minor Character: Milow Beans (the Builder/Engineer)
(John Holt) Main Character: Jorges Cao (the Visionary/Planner) - A driven engineer and architect who wants to tame the land and build a shining city while desiring Shar-Banu's help in keeping the others convinced that all is going well. Minor Character: Kana (the Loner)
The Challenges:
(1) Deal with Dangerous Wildlife - a 3 week task (2) Treat a disease afflicting the colony - a 2 day task (3) Prevent Schism in the Community - a 2 week task
Find Dalton Gray on twitter @Daltonomous and learn more about what he's up to @StateofPlayNYC, Come Out & Play and the Adventure Society
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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