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Emotional support meatball https://www.instagram.com/p/CmqHD07N2wf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Ever just have one of those days?

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New project, can you help sharing it?

Hey folks it’s a big day today. After weeks of work the Wicked Wanderers Winter Bundle is live.

It kind of started a looong time ago. When I was a kid, I grew up in a super boring place, a small secluded village in a French island, and before discovering RPGs, the thing that gave me the most joy was a thing called Pochettes Suprises: Surprise Bags. Small paper bags containing a dozen random cheap plastic and cardboard toys: a plane, a soldier, a doll, a dino. They cost just a buck and we all loved them because they were modular: we could invent stories and games for weeks with just a single Pochette.

This sparked the idea behind this bundle I’m releasing today: bring together a pack of cool and beautiful zines and gaming accessories to make a cool grown up TTRPG enthusiast version of the Pochettes. The bundle has a strong vibe and a super modular structure, with 2 full zines, NPCs, adventure hooks, dice drop map, solo oracles and even a solo prisoncrawl game and more. It contains 15 items made by mostly emergent designers: I'm trying to support new voices with the store. You might know several of them: Philipp Teich, Foresight Studio, Christian Sorrell/Meatcastle, Philip Jensen, Nyhur, Alfred Valley. There are some super interesting and diverse takes on Mörk Borg, even a few mini adventures with a Mythos vibe.

Right now social media is in a bit of a turmoil, so if you feel like it could you help us give some visibility to it?

Here's a link, you'll find more info on the bundle here https://www.thelostbaystudio.com/products/wicked-wanderers-winter-bundle

BTW This a pochette surprise, the original childhood thing that sparked the idea for this bundle

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Did you know you can just register basically any domain?

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Bright Lights, Night City: Cyberpunk 2020 Sessions 1 & 2

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Station Identification

If anyone actually reads Nonplayable, it’s supposed to primarily be a blog reviewing the old, the strange, and the impenetrably clunky tabletop RPGs of the late 70s through mid 90s. Content has been light lately due to various outside factors. If you’re interested, a decent archive can be found over at http://nonplayable.blogspot.com. My game group and I are also participating in Extra Life this autumn, and anyone feeling generous can make a donation to the children’s hospital we play for at http://www.extra-life.org/team/dungeoneers

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New blog content is coming. The tentative schedule is to write up World Tree, a little known RPG out of the furry fandom, this June, while July will tackle the BattleTech roleplaying game and indie game Hellcats & Hockey Sticks. If anyone out there has any suggested games, please shoot me a message. The only ones off the table are THAC0, OGLd20, and FATAL - I have nothing new to say about them.

Thanks!

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A diy battle grid made from a thrift store frame, a tea stained posterboard, and a few bronze metallic Sharpie markers. Miniatures made with GIMP, Tokentool, various sprite sheets, foam board, and some zinc washers.

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Laserblast cosplay at a 1978 Los Angeles convention.

I almost fell out of my chair when I realized what this was.

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Aaron Stack Was Right

Stuart Immonen 2007: Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. #11 (Inks: Wade Von Grawbadger)

Nextwave got event fatigue before event fatigue was cool.

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Elric Cosplay from 1982.

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1978 Star Wars Group Cosplay at the University of Washington.

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1960s Fantastic Four papier-mache cosplay. I’ve been posting these for a while now, and I have to say, this one is my favorite of them all. 

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From the 1972 New York Comic Art Convention - Jack Kirby with a Mister Miracle cosplayer.

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A cosplayer dressed up as a bottle of Corflu at the 1968 Worldcon.

This one requires a little explanation. Corflu was one of fandom’s pre-internet memes. Originally mentioned in the most famous piece of fanfic in early days, “The Enchanted Duplicator” in 1954, Corflu was given to a young fan “by the Spirit of Fandom.” Read it here - how often do you get a chance to read 60+ year old fanfic?  Corflu was a magic object used to create the ultimate fanzine, and “a touch of this will instantly heal any wound made by a typo.“ Inside-baseball jokes about Corflu were numerous and insufferable. In fact, a convention was founded in 1984 called Corflu.

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Context is everything.

Luke/Leia Couples Cosplay from 1977.

I don’t think people would do this today.