#doomtown

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Doomtown: Reloaded - Louis Pasteur by Larry Wilson

[da-ill-spot]

October 6-8 | DOOMTOWN LV

Downtown Las Vegas, NV | Tix

[thegaminggang]

[linksvorne]

46. KORIDOR. 2024-05-15 @ Einbaumöbel (w/ Rolltreppe & Sukob)

[matgb]

34? That means he was ten when I first encountered him:

Weirdly turns out he was in the penultimate expansion for the game, memory tricks you, was convinced he was there a lot earlier

He got exorcised in the reboot :-(

Happy Birthday Clovis!

Happy 34th birthday to Clovis Devilbunny! The Madwoman in the Attic made him a chocolate tart in celebration.

[dustedandsocial]

Koridor - Kenotaf

[markrosewater]

When you say that you're focusing in recent years on "writ[ing] the words we want in rules-text", and making the rules-text itself more-resonant... How much are you thinking about games like Netrunner and Doomtown, that are drenched in flavorful terminology? Which yes, some people do find a barrier... But it also captivates many potential players. For my current game-project, I'm going even further than those games, just leaning into the madness of theming all the verbs, the zone-names...

There is a threshold where the vocabulary strain becomes too much, but games can find a happy space where it's enough to add flavor, but not too much that players shut down.

[brazenautomaton]

Wait, you didn't actually work on Doomtown Reloaded, did you?

yeah I did

[peteramthor]

One of my favorite settings with one of my least favorite game systems. Something about the mechanics just didn't click for me at all just as Savage Worlds didn't click for me either. Not sure what it is but everybody has different tastes.

Now the setting is absolutely great. Influenced any wild west type game I've ever ran since. A brilliant mash up with western tropes, steampunk, horror and even some wuxia stuff mixed in. I was later a big fan of the Doomtown card game. Once I even ran the setting using the system from the CCG with a little beef added. Which made the action fast, the rules light and only needed a deck of cards.

Is Deadlands (1996) a horror game? I dunno, but it certainly uses enough orange in its trade dress to get a Halloween season post.

It uses the template set out by Shadowrun and dominant for many RPGs in the ‘90s — a single core book with a bunch of interesting classes, each governed by their own unique mechanics, let loose in an unusual world, in this case an alternate version of the mid-1800s. The core mechanics make use of dice, of course (which can explode), but the game also incorporates playing cards, poker chips and a good deal of card-playing nomenclature. Hucksters, my favorite class, use the arcane secrets of Hoyle’s Book of Games to cast spells, which is accomplished at the table by putting together a good poker hand. There are undead and demons trying to drown the world in fear and the Civil War is dragging on and California fell into the sea. There weren’t a ton of Weird West games in 1996, or maybe even any, so Deadlands cornered the market for a good long while (though in typical ‘90s fashion, its handling of both Native American affairs and the Civil War could be better). It’s also one of the first RPGs, along with Castle Falkenstein, that can easily be classified as Steampunk.

It remained pretty popular until publisher Pinnacle accidentally killed it (and itself) by making a D20 version of the game. That’s OK though; that surprising turn of events led to the development of Savage Worlds and, arguably, a superior version of Deadlands using that system, Deadlands: Reloaded.

For more on Deadlands, you can read the chapter dedicated to it in my book, out yesterday! That feels so weird to say!

[thelittlestspider]

had a funny idea for towns around red dog and hell's gate

darkburg

fightburg

hellburg

wasteburg

blightburg

wrathburg

ash gate or ashdale

doomtown or doomsville

murkville

burnington

then around necropolis

bloodrot

bleakmoor

necridge

graveburn

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Doomtown: Reloaded - Lane Healey by Larry Wilson

[victusinveritas]

April 8, 1953: a Sands Hotel dancer named Sally McCloskey climbed to the top of Mount Charleston in Nevada and performed an interpretive dance while an atomic bomb exploded behind her, just 40 miles away.

Art from the graphic novel Doomtowns by Andy Kirk and Kristian Purcell.

[lavinia-love-official]

I haven’t spoken too much about another work I have called Tales Most Macabre which involves a collection of unrelated short horror stories. Also includes just psychological thrillers as well. Stories include:

Mom, Mister and Me: A 12 yr old girl lives in a house with never going outside due to the controlling Mister who her mother seems to fear

Boxes Best Left Unopened: A nursing student retells her experience in the cadaver lab

The Devil Dances in Dust: Paul tries to bring justice to his fathers murderer in 1930s Texas

Little Desert Town: A 1950s Doomtown as told by Mannequins

And there are a few others

[nightmareflashphoto]

#doomtown

[crosshatchcomic]

Crosshatch goes to Vegas (one wild weekend at Doomtown LV in Fremont Street)

[fathelpdesktech]

Not an RPG, but probably my favorite LCG/card game of all time resolves combats like this, Doomtown Reloaded.

instead of dice rolls, use poker hands/some form of card game

there are definitely games that do this