Loco Ludus

Barney talks about the overlap between 2000AD’s Judge Dredd Mega-City One and Games Workshop’s Necromunda which took place in 1987.

Barney reflects on the process of revising RPG scenarios after running a game of Electric Bastionland for the amazing Grognard Files crew. And a message from Spencer @ Keep Off the Borderlands offers a chance to consider absurdity, surrealism, brevity and literacy. Listen to the Grognard Files!!! Leave me a message!

Barney reflects further on Electric Bastionland and discusses one feature that he finds particularly excellent. Call ins on Mausritter from Colin Spikepit and Spencer Free Thrall. Jason has to ask again for the Fury of Dracula hack... Nemesis sci-fi horror board game reviewed. Liam Thompson’s Sanctions RPG. Goblin’s Henchman’s new hex flower In the Heart of the Delve & Dangerous. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/314715 But the open question is this: how and how much do you as GM tailor a game in response to player numbers, personalities, interests and experience?

In answer to a plea from Colin Spikepit, Barney discusses running Isaac Williams’ neat Mausritter RPG and offers a couple of small modifications to the rules.

Barney reflects on succeeding to wipe out last Saturday’s game team. Thanks to Colin @ Spikepit, Andy @ Expedition to the Grizzly Peaks and Jason @ Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast for their call-ins.

Barney reflects on last Wednesday’s game, Isle of Death, using Death Robot a Jungle and Electric Bastionland

Barney‘s offer of a lethal run through Death Robot Jungle using the Electric Bastionland system has some takers! Hear Spencer @ Keep off the Borderlands, Jason @ Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast, Colin @ Spikepit and Joe @ Hindsightless / Weal or Woe book their one-way* tickets! Others, too, are taking the trip (eg. Cody M. @ No Save for You!) or are thinking about it. Get in touch if you want to risk life and limb! *Return tickets are available on request, but must be collected in person.

Following a physically-distanced high-five endorsement from Colin “Spikepit” Green, Barney unboxes the LP RPG setting DEATH ROBOT JUNGLE from Games Omnivorous/Exalted Funeral and the multi-media brainchild of Andre Novoa, Manuel Pinheiro, Jason Bradley Thompson and Alex Figueira. At the end Barney throws down the gauntlet... (with a shout out to People and Other Diseases). Get Death Robot Jungle here: https://www.exaltedfuneral.com/products/death-robot-jungle or here: https://gamesomnivorous.com/product/random-psych-weirdness/death-robot-jungle/ You can also listen to the music here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0g1hRqhPebcxprBBKcH0e7?nd=1 Get in touch with Loco Ludus: [email protected] or leave a message on the Anchor page...

Barney and Spencer (from Keep Off the Borderlands) continue their musings about the great roleplay capital city, Bastion, and the fallout from Chris McDowall's RPG rules systems Electric Bastionland and Into the Odd. They discuss solo roleplaying and Ray Otus' Oracle gaming tool (link below), Barney's Amberwood borough in Bastion (see Electric Bastionland rules p.326-8), Mausritter (which utilises the ItO rules) (link below) and, last but not least, they roll up a pair of Rook Tamers (Emmy Allen's special failed career. See Electric Bastionland rules p.56-7). 

You can find the first episode of The Bastion Social in the Keep off the Borderlands feed here: https://anchor.fm/free-thrall/episodes/The-Bastion-Social-001-Electric-Bastionland-ebl194/a-a1nip54

Ray Otus' Oracle: https://rayotus.itch.io/oracle

Mausritter: https://losing-games.itch.io/mausritter

Get Electric Bastionland here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/308100/Electric-Bastionland

Keep up with Chris McDowall at http://www.bastionland.com/ and by listening to his podcast commentaries about the making of Electric Bastionland here: https://anchor.fm/bastionland

In this interview, Barney speaks with Andre Novoa, the main man behind new publishing venture, Games Omnivorous. They discuss Andre’s 17th Century Minimalist rules and all the swashbuckling that comes with it (!!!), the publishing house’s exciting Manifestus Omnivorous and Random Psych Weirdness lines - in particular TODAY’s new release: Death Robo Jungle!!!!

Here’s the link:

https://gamesomnivorous.com