On this episode of the Lair of Secrets podcast we look at using different media in your role-playing game sessions. This includes tools like thematic artwork, background music, in-game fiction, and even props. We also look at the new Sentinels of Earth-Prime digital card game by Handelebra (based on the print game by Greater than Games), venture into the library to check out Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan comic series, and offer our initial thoughts on the Cyberpunk RED role-playing game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK_1-BrpoFQ

The Arcade

Sentinels of Earth-Prime (iOS, Android, Steam)

By the developers of Sentinels of the Multiverse … but with the heroes of Green Ronin’s Freedom City!

Enemies like:

Omega, Hades, Meta-Mind (Grue Mothership), Argo: The Ultimate Android

Heroes like:

Bowman, Captain Thunder, Doctor Metropolis, Daedalus, Lady Liberty, Siren

Greater Than Games (original developers)

Handelabra (video game developers)

The Library

Transmetropolitan comic series

Darick Robertson and Warren Ellis

Libraries are awesome

The Game Room

Cyberpunk RED Initial Thoughts

It’s crunchy.

It’s deadly.

Range matters. (really).

Netrunning works. And it’s fun! (really).

Black Chrome on Roll20?

Black Chrome

Black Chrome+

Monster of the Week

Ken's lunchtime gaming group is gearing up for Monster of the Week.

A Powered By the Apocalypse game inspired by shows like Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Main Topic: Using different media in your game

Music

Playlists

Used for background music during game and also a way to get into the game during planning a session

Elemental Apocalypse - Spotify

Heavily inspired by Willow. Music to do heroic things to.

Cyberpunk RED - Spotify

There’s a lot of The Matrix and Edgerunners in here.

Soundboards

Used during the game to give a timely thrill to players and evoke the scene

Syrinscape

Discord’s new soundboard feature

Atmospheric 

Movie and television soundtracks

Music that evokes a particular genre

Art

Pinterest

Cyberpunk RED

Arcologies

Battle maps for Cyberpunk Red

Elemental Apocalypse

Battlemaps for Elemental Apocalypse

Searching for Concept Art

Not super detailed, but leave a lot to the imagination

Google Image Search

Fiction

In game newspaper/newsletter

The Constant Sentinel (in-universe blog for Mutants & Masterminds)

Screamsheets

Screamsheet kit from R. Talsorian

Lair of Secrets' Screamsheet collection

Fantasy paper talking about news of the world

Your party’s exploits are also covered

Twisting stories you’ve read and heard into your own game plots

The World of Kong: A natural history of Skull Island

Props

Newspaper articles for Call of Cthulhu

Weathering your maps for handouts.

Cardboard kid puzzles

Spray paint so you’ve wiped out picture, then write the map on it, and break the puzzle appear to give them the pieces.

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A collection of elemental-themed illustrations from Ken's Elemental Apocalypse board on Pinterest.