#Adventures in Science Fantasy

[chernobog13]

Mark Schultz’s pencils and final cover depicting a scene from Robert E. Howard’s Almuric.

A planetary romance like ERB’s Baroom or Venus series, Almuric is worth your time tracking down and reading.  It’s a shame Howard never wrote adventures on that fantastical world.

[horrororman]

💀☠️🎂 A Happy #horror Birthday to Monique Gabrielle 🎂☠️💀

#MoniqueGabrielle

[gebo4482]

Black Myth: Wukong

Launch Trailer

Website

[texasthrillbilly]

Master manipulator.

[monstrousproductions]

An unsociable species and their travelling habits; and the crew hear Scarry's story...

Subscribe now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice 🚀✨ Full transcript available here.

This week’s entry was based on a submission from Lionessfeather, and illustrated as always by co-creator Matt McDyre.

We're drawing close to the end of the season, but don't worry - our inbox is staying open in the between-season break! Send in your own archive entries on social media, by email, or through monstrousproductions.org.

Speaking of the season's end, we're also now accepting questions for our upcoming Q&A! Whatever you want to ask me (Hero) or co-creator and artist Matt, send it our way 😍

This episode includes an audience decision. Should the Traveller get up early, or have a lie-in? Vote now on Ko-Fi! Voting closes at 1.30PM UK time on Tuesday 5th. The result will be revealed in Episode 40 - the season finale! 🤯🤩

Voting is open to everyone who supports us on Ko-Fi. As well as making decisions about the show, you can also get all sorts of rewards including an invitation to our Discord server, additional art, annotated scripts and weekly blogs!

Finally, if you're enjoying the show remember to show your love and help us get more listeners! Rate, review and recommend wherever you can - every little helps 💖

🚀✨ See you next week! ✨🚀

[christiansorrell]

Play-By-Blog #0: Cloud Empress

My first Play-By-Blog (of Luke Gearing's The Isle) just recently wrapped up, and now, we are getting the next one going with Cloud Empress: Land of Cicadas! If you missed our run through The Isle, you can find all of the entries here.

Recently, I ran a poll to see what folks were interested in for this second Play-By-Blog and the voting was an exact tie between Cloud Empress and Mausritter, but since I'm the one doing all the writing, I was the tiebreaker and chose Cloud Empress and its hexcrawl, Land of Cicadas, as a new twist on the Play-By-Blog format and because the game has a set of solo rules in which you create and play as an entire party, not just a single character.

If you aren't familiar with Cloud Empress, here's a quick description straight from the game's product page:

Cloud Empress is an expansive, Nausicaa-inspired fantasy campaign setting for the Mothership Sci-Fi Horror RPG. Cloud Empress places you in a world ruled by the patterns of giant magical cicadas. Cloud Empress creates a new Earth, thousands of years in the future inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and Hiromu Arakawa’s Full Metal Alchemist.

The full rulebook for the game is FREE over at DriveThruRPG.

Land of the Cicadas takes this world and opens it up across a large hexmap, allowing us to explore the Lowland Wastes (Cloud Empress's take on a farflung future American Midwest) during the summer of the Century Brood and 29th Expedition (an ongoing military incursion from the Cloudling cities).

If you missed the last Play-By-Blog, here's an idea of how it works:

I write up the situation, NPCs, and more, just like a DM/GM.

You vote in the poll to help decide the party's next course of action.

I roll the dice, resolve actions, and write them up in the next entry.

So on and so forth for the rest of the adventure!

With all that said, let's get into Party Creation, vote on our first decisions, and get this whole thing started! Thanks for coming along for the ride.

We'll be generating 3 characters for our starting party. For the sake of our first poll and the number of base Jobs available in Cloud Empress, I'll take the top 3 most popular results and roll up a character for each (unless the All Random option wins the entire poll, in which case all characters will then be randomly rolled). So if Sellsword gets 8 votes, Lordling gets 4, Magician gets 3, and Courier gets 2, I'll roll up a Sellsword, a Lordling, and a Magician.

For variety's sake, we won't double up on Jobs (unless All Random is chosen, in which case it would be possible to get doubles of a Job within the party).

In Cloud Empress, there are 4 different Jobs available to characters:

Sellswords can handle themselves in a fight, but long to find a home. The long lost fighters and gritty mercs of the Wastes.

Lordlings are groomed to lead and strike fear into those around them. Strange and privileged, they stand out among the Wastes.

Magicians sacrifice their bodies to cast dangerous spells. Esoteric but powerful. There are no old Magicians.

Couriers are scrappy travelers who’ve witnessed the best and worst of the world. The salt of the chalk-covered Earth.

After we have our characters, we'll get our starting location and our initial job - the focus of our travels across the Land of Cicadas - from the Solo Procedure tables. Then, we'll be off!

[satur9-if]

What is Saturnine?

Saturnine is an English word that describes a gloomy, bitter, dull, moody and melanchonic person or setting. More archaically, it can be used to describe something related to Saturn, the sixth planet of the Solar System, most known for its picturesque rings and a record number of moons.

It's also an Interactive Fiction project about androids.

In Saturnine, a text-based game written in ChoiceScript, you take the role of a rogue android traversing the moons of Saturn in a bizarre world 1207 years into our future. Survival is difficult, with only a handful of allies to help you withstand the wrath of humanity, but perhaps there is hope for a better future. Perhaps some of your enemies can be made into allies, if not something more, and perhaps the Kronian Federation will grant clemency to your group of outcasts if you only do them one little favor...

The project is currently in its WIP stage, with thirteen complete chapters (537K words total) available to the player, with multiple routes and romance options included. Though the story is close to completion, all feedback is welcome and may result in changes yet.

Public Demo

CoG Forum Thread

[driveintheaterofthemind]

5 Random Pulps

[browsethestacks]

Vintage Comic - Strange Adventures #130

Pencils: Sid Greene

Inks: Sid Greene

Colors: ?

Letters: Ira Schnapp

DC (July1961)

[nickthealien]

Embodiments of Salvation (left) and Justice (right). Important characters for Andrionide lore!! (Spore-originating race)

[texasthrillbilly]

Just a typical day on the Jupiter 2.

[monstrousproductions]

"Sex is sex, and love is love, and I can have a perfectly good time with one while frankly finding the other about as appealing as drinking borag slime."

One of Travelling Light's recurring characters reflects on her relationship with romance in Episode 33. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! Art by @diabeticspoon92

[spacetimesally]

Rise and shine, Space Cadets, it's Saturday morning once again and once again it's time for the 'toons! There's dinos, and moon colonies, and stranded spacemen, and biodomes galore, so get your blaster set to moidah for these Spacetime Sally Animated Adventures!!!