#dungeon23 — Public Fediverse posts

@cynical13
Running:
* #UVG, 74th almost-monthly session!
* Just finished a short #BreakRPG campaign
* Bunch of one-shots: #Cairn, #Swyvers, #YoonSuin, #MailOrderApocalypse…

Wish I was playing:
* Mythic Bastionland, enjoyed reading it, a nice twist on the #IntoTheOdd formula;
* My #dungeon23 (lol), sprawling under a parking;
* Non-horror space-op, I should give one of those #Cepheus variants a read, wouldn't mind some cyberpunk themes mixed in.

@cynical13
Running:
* #UVG, 74th almost-monthly session!
* Just finished a short #BreakRPG campaign
* Bunch of one-shots: #Cairn, #Swyvers, #YoonSuin, #MailOrderApocalypse…

Wish I was playing:
* Mythic Bastionland, enjoyed reading it, a nice twist on the #IntoTheOdd formula;
* My #dungeon23 (lol), sprawling under a parking;
* Non-horror space-op, I should give one of those #Cepheus variants a read, wouldn't mind some cyberpunk themes mixed in.

@cynical13
Running:
* #UVG, 74th almost-monthly session!
* Just finished a short #BreakRPG campaign
* Bunch of one-shots: #Cairn, #Swyvers, #YoonSuin, #MailOrderApocalypse…

Wish I was playing:
* Mythic Bastionland, enjoyed reading it, a nice twist on the #IntoTheOdd formula;
* My #dungeon23 (lol), sprawling under a parking;
* Non-horror space-op, I should give one of those #Cepheus variants a read, wouldn't mind some cyberpunk themes mixed in.

@cynical13
Running:
* #UVG, 74th almost-monthly session!
* Just finished a short #BreakRPG campaign
* Bunch of one-shots: #Cairn, #Swyvers, #YoonSuin, #MailOrderApocalypse…

Wish I was playing:
* Mythic Bastionland, enjoyed reading it, a nice twist on the #IntoTheOdd formula;
* My #dungeon23 (lol), sprawling under a parking;
* Non-horror space-op, I should give one of those #Cepheus variants a read, wouldn't mind some cyberpunk themes mixed in.

Howdy! Level 8 of my #Dungeon23 project for #FrontierScum is finally online! Please let me know, if you enjoyed the level :) More info: https://bohemiaspielkunst.itch.io/death-valley-1869/devlog/691285/level-8-is-online-meet-the-bandits

Am Sonntag, dem 10.03., biete ich dann zwei Runden #FrontierScum in meinem #Dungeon23 Setting, #DeathValley(18)69 an. Das ist der erste öffentliche Testlauf- und ich bin schon ein wenig aufgeregt… https://bohemiaspielkunst.itch.io/death-valley-1869

Hell yeah! 666 downloads of “Death Valley (18)69” my #dungeon23 project for #FrontierScum .

There is still some time to come till the war in #Europe goes full swing, so, while regularly donating to #UAF, I figured I can have just a little bit of fun this year. Not real fun though. More like workout for brain. So my yearly thing this year is highly competitive, as opposed to the previous year, which was highly creative.

Last year I was doing #dungeon23 to my best ability and made quite some cool content, but this year I want to apply deliberate practice to get actually good at #MagicTheGathering. It'll surely not be free, but I'll try to my best to match my MTG expenses with donations to #Ukraine.

I'll be posting about my progress.
#magic24

Just in case you are wondering… yes, I am still on it #dungeon23 #ttrpg #FrontierScum

#IcyNSR rules! More specialist skills, concluding the second set of moves.

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OO8IxJDdNFzsZmH_Hlbjo0MHsFQm2-Ve/view?usp=sharing

#dungeon23

Contemplating my next subject for my #KnightsOfTheDinnerTable column. Last few topics: #SoloRPG #SavageWorlds #JunkDrawer (random #RPG stuff found online) #CarWars #Blogs #Dungeon23 #CyberpunkRED

Thinking about going lists of random lists; I've got a bunch of those kinds of sites squirreled away.

Might also do another round of #Mothership because I'm working on a #OneShot for #MEPACON. I haven't written about that in a year or so, and the boxed set drops soon (fingers crossed)

#dungeon23 entry for #IcyNSR, inspired by "the Wyrm of Brandonsford" adventure.

👩🏼‍🚀DISTRESS SIGNAL: The Rest of the Station👩🏼‍🚀
Confusion, stress, cabin fever, weird cultish believes, drug addiction, unprofessional behavior and good old boredom comes together to create an absurdist tragedy.
More TTRPG modules should focus in saving people, solving problems, assist others, or basically NOT having a proper adversary other than entropy itself, and I think a space exploration game could put this out incredibly well (think of For All Mankind)
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #Moonwalker

👩🏼‍🚀 DISTRESS SIGNAL: Living Dome 👩🏼‍🚀
When in a movie someone points that something will be ok as long as something very specific happens you are a 100% sure that that very specific shit is gonna happen.
Sorry, I don't make the rules! Chekhov did!
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #Moonwalker

👩🏼‍🚀 DISTRESS SIGNAL: Science Lab 👩🏼‍🚀
A safe place* for a change! What are they doing here? Certainly not analyzing rock samples. What they found? It's related to this incident?

*as long as you don't mind the nuclear reactor next-door.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #Moonwalker

👩🏼‍🚀 DISTRESS SIGNAL: Command Module 👩🏼‍🚀
There are people convinced that giving a handgun to a group of people confined in a claustrophobic environment in a stressing job is a good idea. Probably the kind of people who solve all their problems with guns.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #Moonwalker

👩🏼‍🚀 DISTRESS SIGNAL: Landing Pad & Eva Module 👩🏼‍🚀
Distress signal from Base 78a.
Comms offline.
Visible habitat damage.
Search and rescue survivors.
Return window closes in T minus 135 minutes.
GOOD LUCK AND GODSPEED.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #Moonwalker

Just a reminder that I did an undersea setting for @evilhat's game Scum & Villainy for #Dungeon23 / #World23 for the first half of the year. It's still out there on Google Docs, and if any of y'all AP podcasters want to use it for an #ActualPlay #podcast, that would be really cool!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0PQbrp8Xrz38q8aj4stnmuChmkEMRe8yigHZrd6EFQ

@LeviKornelsen General worldbuilding, fantasy, scifi.
* I wrote my own Palladium heartbreaker
* I've written a few light, silly systems
* I used to run the Tell Me About Your Character podcast
* I started old school - #Toon, #AttackOfTheHumans, #GammaWorld, #ad&d, #TWERPS
* Lately, I play whatever my group wants to play - recent plays include #InTheLightOfAGhostStar, #316, #BladesInTheDark, #Anomaly
* Recently doing #Dungeon23 with an eye toward reviving my Palladium/Hyborea smashup setting

🧱 THE CONCRETE MAZE: Bridge of Id / Pyramid of Truth 🧱
The maze has been completed!
Does the maze have any meaning? Maybe. Does the maze have a reason to exist? Yes, being a maze.
Let your players make sense of it, don't explain too much. Think of Tsutomu Nihei's Blame. That should be enough.
(also, new phone with a better camera to document my creations :artaww:)
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #TheElectrumArchive

🧱 THE CONCRETE MAZE: The Concrete Tree 🧱
Have you read Hyperion? Cool novel, cool sci-fi, with some very cool worlbuilding. The author? Not cool. Not at all. Absolute asshole.
Anyway, The Shrike is a cool monster. Stealing it for better purposes is justice.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #TheElectrumArchive

🧱 THE CONCRETE MAZE: The Builder 🧱
Silently working, all day, all night, no resting, no other purpose.
Just leave it alone.
It will build a wonderful maze for you.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #TheElectrumArchive

🧱 THE CONCRETE MAZE: The Black Pool 🧱
The savanna, the maze, same but with shorter spotting distance.
I mean, it's more exciting turning a corner and finding a bloody lion, ain't it?
Oh, you are scared of lions? TOO LATE KID! 🦁
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #TheElectrumArchive

🧱 THE CONCRETE MAZE: The Ink Augur 🧱
I've always has been fascinated by Rome's Bocca della Verità, the idea of a big ass face with an ominous mouth you have to insert your hand has always been scary to me. The thrill of not knowing what will be inside that dark hole.
Anyway, Gygax did the worst "Bocca della Verità" version on the Tomb of Horrors module. Don't be like Gygax. Don't be an asshole.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #TheElectrumArchive

🧱 THE CONCRETE MAZE: The Wall Gap 🧱
A scholar wants to investigate a maze like structure in the Lone Towers region. Elder Era scripts hint at the purpose of this structure, but translators weren't sure if it was a warning, an invitation, a safe place or a trap.
"Well, I guess we are going to find out. No? Hehehe..."
Note: I messed the colors on the first location, following ones will be done only in black and white, Electrum Archive style.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #TheElectrumArchive

🚂 DETOUR: The Old Cemetery 🚂
Have you heard about the "dead man switch"? Well, it's more like a "undead man switch" on this case.
To go back to safe ground the train will have to cross an ambush, if the players were smart or foresighted they will be ready to counter it.
If not... Well... Fresh recruits for the No-Men battalion!
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #NeverGoingHome

🚂 DETOUR: Signal Box 🚂
I love the whole railroads infrastructure, the whole concept and execution.
Trains go tchoo tchoo and I go happy.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #NeverGoingHome

🚂 DETOUR: Engineers' House & Train Depot/Workshop 🚂
It seems the priest had some help breaking out... Traitors!
There is still some decent people alive in these installations, better do something before it's too late!
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #NeverGoingHome

🚂 DETOUR: The Wreck 🚂
The plot thickens and the big baddie is revealed! Where are the corpses of the soldiers killed there? And the priest? Where are the No-Men coming from? Are there more No-Men out there?
Spoilers: Yes, of course there are more! 💀
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #NeverGoingHome

🚂 DETOUR: The Forest 🚂
Sometimes the trees don't let you see the forest.
Sometimes the trees eat you before entering the forest.
Danm trees!!!
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #NeverGoingHome

🚂 DETOUR: Trail Derailment 🚂
These wounded soldiers won't make the night here in this frozen forest! Go check the alternative route while the engineers repair the track switch.
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN.
We don't know yet why the previous train derailed.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #NeverGoingHome

#Dungeon23 (#World23 #Sector23) final meta post

Well folks, I'm done. Tried to make it to June 30 but this head cold done me in.

I want to thank those who encouraged me. I would have given up long ago if not for you.

This project was a love letter to The Adventure Zone Ethersea and @evilhat's Scum & Villainy, and I hope one day they get to see it.

And maybe some day I can polish what I have into a full playable setting, with stats and all. Who knows?

Full project at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0PQbrp8Xrz38q8aj4stnmuChmkEMRe8yigHZrd6EFQ

#Dungeon23 Day 133 entry. Hub has a remarkable Treehouse Inn built into a giant Oak run by a halfling named Pertha. Sadly, one of his barmen has been claimed by evil forces. An encounter with an arsonist in a #multilevel #treehouse #vtt #battlemap. Link: http://themedianinja.com/dungeon23/view.html?entry=133

🌄 THE SINGING SUN CAVES: The Memory Gem 🌄
Connection with the world and the others thru the memories of the land.
What if you could see the past? Just random everyday occurrences, slices of lives. To peek at the people who inhabited or traveled the place you are now. To connect with those no longer here.
I think it would be beautiful. Eye opening. Healing to our hearts.
We are part of a story. A big, incredible story. And I feel glad to be able to experience it.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #Ryuutama

🌄 THE SINGING SUN CAVES: Garden of the Bloody Rose 🌄
Two lethal enemies fighting each other! Both pretty dangerous! What will the travelers do?
🦟vs🌹
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #Ryuutama

🌄 THE SINGING SUN CAVES: Gardening Problems 🌄
A gobroach has been possessed by a parasitic eggplant! Their fellow gobroaches have tried to block the passage to this cave with a boulder fearing being infected by an horrible, colorful, plant.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #Ryuutama

🌄 THE SINGING SUN CAVES: Musical Falls 🌄
A natural place to heal and rest, but the travelers will have to do some "community work" to get it to it's prime state.
The spirit of a fluffy koala blessed this place. 🐨
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #Ryuutama

🌄 THE SINGING SUN CAVES: Loud Gobroaches! 🌄
Look, I grew in the late 80's/early 90's watching Captain Planet, Care Bears, and Mofli el Último Koala*.
One thing I've learned since then is that no matter how cartoonish your villains are, real world people can do worst, hence these dastardly humanoid roachs who hate natural beauty.
*A Spanish cartoon only dustributed in Hungary, Portugal, Turkey & Chile. SPOILERS: The titular koala commits suicide at the series's end.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #Ryuutama

🌄 THE SINGING SUN CAVES: The Scary Grotto on the Praire + The Vociferous Stone 🌄
Locals talk about a mysterious luminous cave were singing can be heard, but now the cave has turned scary. It's no longer singing, but screaming and grunting menacingly! Could you travelers please take a look? My flock of sheep can't sleep like that! Look at them dropping KO!
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #Ryuutama

#Dungeon23 Day 132 entry. The slums of Hub can be dangerous places, especially if you're involving yourself in the cursed business of the local red-haired vigilante. An encounter with a gang in a 22x30 #multilevel #battlemap and 6 #vtt #tokens. Link: http://themedianinja.com/dungeon23/view.html?entry=132 1/2

#Dungeon23 (#World23 #Sector23) entry 6/11

Anchar Leudz’s Traveling Goods (location - The Vast)

From time to time, any mariner crew might find itself, despite the best preparations, without one or the other of several essential goods to any ocean voyage: rations, spare ship parts, fuel, or small bits of entertainment to make long journeys bearable. With luck, these wayward mariners will encounter a tiny, round submersible operated by a...

[full post & archives at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0PQbrp8Xrz38q8aj4stnmuChmkEMRe8yigHZrd6EFQ]

🌇 IN THE RED: Cancertown 🌇
Hazardous chemical pools, burnt earth, toxic foam, smoke that burns your lungs. Factories before humans. Production before health. Death before life.
Desperate inhabitants ready to make it all end even if it cost them their lives.
Finished the red sectors! Placed the wall surrounding it and the lifts to the higher sectors, and added the water routed between cards.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #NETWORK23 #Sprawlscape

🌇 IN THE RED: Garden of Delights 🌇
Just like the famous painting, a nice place, people minding their own business, doing weird shit naked. There is something in the air... A mix of the contaminated lakes fumes and the giant fungus spores.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #Network23 #Sprawlscape

🌇 IN THE RED: Sunset Dunes 🌇
There is a special kind of people; those who end living an the beach, contemplating sunset, the tides, the everchanging sands, and the infinite horizon. People contemplating eternity. The flow time. Their place in the universe.
Once you have acepted your fleeting existence no corp, no gob, nor any asshole can dominate you. You are free.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #Network23 #Sprawlscape

🌇 IN THE RED: The Space Loop 🌇
A kosmodrome now irrelevant, the corps just stopped paying their employees after decades of preposterous profits, workers have organized and are ready to riot; they have the knowledge, the motivation, and highly explosive rockets. Someone on the Blues are going to regret abandoning them to their luck.
(Also, I've realized I've been rolling the Riot/Control clocks wrong all the time 🤦‍♂️)
#ttrpg #Dungeon23 #OSR #NSR #Sprawlscape #Network23

🌇 IN THE RED: Disco Wharf 🌇
Materially destitute or medically destitute, this is the place to dance until you forget how fucked up can life be.
Dance the fear away, for the police or the reaper, will eventually come and stop the fun.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #NETWORK23 #SPRAWLSCAPE

🌇 IN THE RED: Hospital City 🌇
This sector contained several healthcare companies, but at some point in the past they all merged into a single faceless, burocracy ridden, company too big to really care for their customers nor their workers. Rogue doctors and nurses urban exploring abandoned labs and facilities for solutions an ossified system cannot deliver.
Think Brazil, but with healthcare.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #NETWORK23 #Sprawlscape

🌇 IN THE RED: The Procession of Dolls 🌇
Even the most impoverished need art in their lives. Soul is something you can't buy, but surely authorities can look for a way to monetize it.
I'm still guessing how to approach drawing this "dungeon". I will probably come with something tomorrow.
Today, a glimpse to one of the Mega Deck cards. Chock full of random inspiration and oracular tools.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #Network23 #Sprawlscape

Time for a re #introduction.

I'm AJ Fidalgo, also known as Mr. F. He/him.

I'm a middle-aged professional, husband, and (newish) father living in the Philadelphia area. (I don't talk about my private life here though, so... 😝)

I'm an #AudioDrama and #ActualPlay #podcast fan leader. Aside from moderating this #mastodon instance and helping the community in other small ways, I co-founded the RQ PLEBS Discord server in September 2021, which is a great place if you're a fan of #RustyQuill, of #podcasting in general, or just like #inclusive happy spaces to hang out.

I do a bit of podcast #VoiceActing. You can hear me in one-off episodes of @storagepapers, @spicynigel's Among the Stacks, and more coming soon!

I also dabble in #TTRPG writing. In 2023, I've been building an alternative setting for @evilhatofficial's Scum & Villainy, one little chunk at a time, for the #Dungeon23 / #World23 challenge.

If any of that sounds cool, check out the links in my profile and don't forget to follow.

#Dungeon23 (#World23 #Sector23) entry 5/7

full text available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0PQbrp8Xrz38q8aj4stnmuChmkEMRe8yigHZrd6EFQ

Tech and Magic in the Alhezar (background)

The people of the Alhezar enjoy the benefit of wondrous technology and uncommon magic, often outside the ken of the average citizen. Mariners travel in propeller-powered submarines but live in arcane bubble domes. Transoceanic communication is fast, but not instantaneous… yet. True robotics and artificial people are rare, but not unheard of. Individuals with years of training and magical talent can perform impossible feats, but charlatans abound. Near-modern science and fast food chains coexist with medieval cathedrals, explorer societies, and tomb raiders. The feel of the setting varies between pre- and post-industrial by location, with hints of the magic punk genre thrown in.