WE COME FROM THE FUTURE ... the future of the Lair of Secrets podcast, that is! David and Ken talk about their latest geeky undertakings, including a return to Atomic Robo, WandaVision, X of Swords, the Forbidden Lands RPG, and even more speculative fiction novels before turning to the main topic: Kickstarter's Zinequest 3.

Ken finally read Atomic Robo

See Episode 3 …. Which was like yesterday for you, and months ago for us. Great stuff.

Atomic Robo & the Fightin Scientists of Tesladyne

Make Mine WandaVision

Ken and his kids love it. He may love it more as an X-Men (and thus, Scarlet Witch) fan.

X of Swords

Ken finally read Marvel’s massive summer crossover, which harkens back to the Chris Claremont/Alan Davis era of Excalibur. Yeah, you heard that right, X-Nerds!

Ken started The Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson. He should be done reading it sometime in 2022.

1,232 pages (57 hours, 26 minutes in audiobook form)

Space Sweepers - Korean film with an international cast.

David's Gaming

Army Corps of Engineers: Special Operations Group powered by FATE Condensed

Captured a Batsquatch in Washington State

When the fearsome batsquatch was finally subdued it was "high as a kite" and "curious about humans"

Started and ended a Star Wars d6 game

Not all games are for everyone

Ran a one-shot Spirit of the Century

ALMOST ran the Gamma World hex crawl again

Planning for either a D&D or Forbidden Lands game to replace the Star Wars game

I know very little about Forbidden Lands, but I have heard it is good, seems very hex-crawl-like

Why not a Burning Wheel game? I don’t think it’s right for this group.

Books that David is reading

The Flowers of Vashnoi - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Invisible Library - Cogman Genevieve

Zinequest 3

Official Kickstarter Page

Zinequest 2021 @ Bone Box Chant – A huge list of all of the active and upcoming zines being published as part of Zinequest 3.

Thru-Hiker: A Journaling Game of Long-Distance Hiking – Sounds like the perfect intersection of outdoor and gaming geekery. By Daniel Perez

Infinite March – A zine about working as agents to support (or tear down) the Temporal Empire and its eternal rule.

Planar Compass Issue 2 – Explore the Astral Sea with this Old School Essentials-compatible zine. Includes new monsters, a “living dungeon”, astral navigation rules, and (of course) pirates.

Creature Feature – a ZineQuest 3 monster TTRPG anthology. There’s not much up about this one, but it had me at “Creature Feature”.

Hope is Not a Plan - An solo, journaling-style RPG zine about "the existential dread of professional project management". Given that a big chunk of Ken's day job deals with project management, he can relate to the "dread" part.

The Vast in the Dark - A zine about "Exploring Ruins in an Infinite World", It features "brutalist alien flavor", no prep world generation, and optional horror rules.

The Island of the Excellent: A Hexcrawl Zine

Last Orders! 16 Beers and Ciders for Fantasy RPGs.

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Cover art from the Forbidden Lands RPG by Free League. Credit: Free League.