The Arcane Alienist

After character generation and word-building, it's finally time for solo play with Black Sword Hack.

Meet Dolen, once a barbarian thrall, now an agent of a powerful merchant house, as he prepares to deal with a personal tragedy.

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Be sure to catch the latest episode of Cerebrevore, where Arlen and Karl join me to discuss Star Wars.

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In this episode, we compete our basic worldbuilding with cities, signs of the apocalypse, and a prompt to get the first adventure under way.

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In this episode we get one step closer to solo play with Black Sword Hack as I fill in the major factions of the campaign setting and put them on the map using the tools from the rulebook.

Meet my randomly generated Black Sword Hack character. He's not your average piece of Frazetta beefcake.

Check out an example of BSH solo play at the Kill Ten Rats RPG YouTube channel.

Here's a relatively quick overview of Black Sword Hack, the sword & sorcery game that ponders the question: "What is best in life?"

You can purchase the complete "Ultimate Chaos Edition" or get the free SRD for the game at The Merry Mushmen website.

As we close out the holiday searon and head to the New Year, I want to thank all my listeners. Now go watch our Mörk Borg Christmas Special actual play "Holiday Hellions" at the GMologist YouTube Channel.

I've got calls about Mörk Borg from Riley of Diagetic Advancement and from Karl and Amy of the GMologist Presents, and a recap of the latest D&D with Theater Kids in which we see why random rolls and referee rulings are the raddest route to robust roleplaying.

Also, be sure to check out this episode of Analytic Dice, where Kevin and Gabe discuss Black Sword Hack. It really stirred up some interest in that game for me.

The final installment of my Mörk Borg solo play using ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sölitary Defilement⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Eldar Rottentoe discovers the corruption that plagues the Rancid Maze of Chrud Nech. Will he survive?

Special music for this episode courtesy of romulosandri, from ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.pond5.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Happy Indigenous People's Month and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Not much content here, but this month I did appear on two other podcasts discussing Indigenous Americans in fiction and roleplaying games:

Nerd's RPG Variety Cast discussion of Steven Graham Jones novel The Only Good Indians

The GMologist Presents discussion of Indigenous people in roleplaying games

Another installment of my Mörk Borg solo play using ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sölitary Defilement⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Eldar Rottentoe must survive an encounter with the walking dead deep within the Rancid Maze of Chrud Nech.

Special music for this episode courtesy of romulosandri, from ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.pond5.com.⁠⁠⁠⁠