Ol' Gadda's Y2K-ish City Game (An update)

 

livin in the city - youtube

Howdy, Farmhands. 

    It's been a While, and I don't really have any excuse for that. No wait, yes I do- I got distracted. Did you know it's surprisingly easy to mod your 3ds? I didn't, but wow am I glad I did. Not only that, but Sonic Unleashed has a PC Port? Cancel all my plans! I have to mod Sonic's model into Spider-man and replace the BGM with the Pizza Time Music. Did you say I can play the Werehog levels as Donkey Kong? Next you'll say Chip can be swapped out for Hatsune Miku!

Finally, the game is Playable

    But neither of these excuses are proper apologies for silence on my end. I could very well have simply live-blogged my experiences with both of these and considered those Content. The truth is that an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and opening up blogger and getting back into the swing of writing just felt insurmountable a task and something I could always do "Later." Surely this time, procrastinating will have a positive impact on my creative work!

Wait hang on what's that over there oh SHIT

    The large bulk of my creative energy has ACTUALLY been going into a new campaign! In-person, this time, with 4 players, two of whom I haven't run anything for before! And unlike my usual, online table of nerds who I've run multiple systems for over the years, these four didn't have any of the previous experience with my bullshit that usually acts as the foundation for expectations going into a new game I run. This meant I needed to not only prep a physical GM binder with the resources needed for a physical table, something I've always wanted to do but never invested the time in, I also needed materials that would adequately introduce them to my home setting and system of choice. It's a Cairn hack, by the way. If you've read almost any post by me, this shouldn't be a surprise.

    This, then, is a bit of a follow-up to Another Post I Made, specifically my Pirate Game Rules that I shoved out onto the internet in the event someone else decides to scour the blogosphere for breadcrumbs and my meager efforts are useful in at least pointing them in the right direction. This is an updated version of that, written for 4 people who have no background in what nonsense I'm going to drag them on. You, dear reader, probably won't find anything unique and novel here, but this is my blog and if I want to document my life as it progresses until it doesn't, then that's what I'll do lmao. I'll make a third post showing off the work done on that GM binder in the nearish future. And I'll finish my 20 drafts and start posting them regularly again. And I'll load the dishwasher. Probably.

Until Next Time,

    Farmer Gadda

A Radical Stash of 1d20 Mondo Cool Items for OSR - Party like it's 199X

You will never be Him. - Reddit

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Lava Sea Shoreline - A Vanilla Biome for the Nether Hexcrawl

 

Lets go to the beach, beach
(via Minecraft fandom wiki)

Howdy, Farmhands!

    Boy, it's been a while. I originally posted my procedure and proof of concept post in August of 2024, fully intent on that being My Thing for a good while. Other than finally finishing the data entry (but not the artwork, oops) for the Nether Fish Mod adaptation to go with it, I haven't publicly shared any further development. I am here to tell you that I haven't -exactly- been doing nothing.

    What I realized almost immediately, was that I couldn't piecemeal a full project together without the earliest posts looking like nonsense until I finished the other posts to link to. Further down this post, you'll see entries for Nether Bastion and Lava Java adventure sites... but I haven't written those yet. And before I can write those, I should have an idea of what stats the Piglins use and what loot I'm going to adapt. But my focus ought to be on the biomes themselves, which means I need to list out the resources available in them and... You see where I'm going with this. The scope keeps creeping, and if I'm going to follow through on my self-assigned goal of writing 52 blogposts in 2025, preferably spaced out to be weekly, I can't spend all my time writing posts that won't be DONE until they are wetly plopped onto the kitchen table as one cohesive Thing. So here's what I'm going to do.

    In hindsight, this post will seem rather silly, but if you're reading this within a couple weeks of posting, you're going to see a number of entries highlighted in this Red Color. This means that there -will- be a link there. Eventually. Instead of waiting for that fated day when this fan project is "done", I'm just going to start throwing them out whenever I reach the end of one, and hope that enough of it is gameable to not be a waste of your time.

    I need to stop doing stuff like this to myself.

    Until next time,

        Farmer Gadda

Twist Table - FARMER THEMED!

 

corn.
- by Okh7art via Pixabay

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 Howdy, Farmhands!

    Tik-tok is dead, and I do not mourn it's passing. The shambling corpse that's come back online since is naught but a new limb of fascism as it spreads and strangles all in it's path. I wouldn't trust it with a houseplant. However, that isn't to say I still don't regret what it brought me, specifically, many funny edited moments of Actual Play Twitch Streams I'd never watch otherwise. My personal favorite would be Legends of Avantris, which makes use of it's streaming medium fairly well by incorporating Bit Donations as a trigger for a table of HILARIOUS scenarios and prompts for the players at the table to then seamlessly incorporate into the adventure at hand.

    It's mostly an excuse to make clippable moments for the Tiktok/Youtube Shorts crowd and I can't say it's not an effective marketing tool.

    Below are d100 prompts for hilariously FARM themed shenanigans, be they sudden foodstuffs, weapons, or NPCs to drop into your playspace. Tell your players not to think about it too hard.

    Until Next Time,

        Farmer Gadda

The SANIC Hack: Part 7 - Auras and Aura Shards

 

I learned TODAY that the Japanese releases call these "Barriers"
which is a much better descriptor than "Shields" but what ya gonna do?
- Sonic Adventure 2: Battle (GCN, 2001)

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Howdy, Farmhands!

    It's been a long damn time since I posted anything with this title. While April through May 2024 was a very productive period of time for me, for the Sanic Hack specifically, my energy for it quickly waned as the scope crept bigger and bigger. It's a mish-mash of ideas for mechanics that fit, in theory, with the vague concept of an adventure game I've kept in my head. The unfortunate reality is, time needs to be spent actually trying to make it all work together at an actual table, which is mostly where I've been.

    I once, briefly, shared a Play Report for a session of an even earlier draft of what is currently The Sanic Hack, known then as "Daring & Dreaming." The hiatus for that table ended last May (conveniently after I posted the last major Sanic Hack blog), and my game design attentions shifted towards problem solving for a specific group of 2 to 3 individuals. How did my plans survive the field of battle? Well... 

    Without giving a full play report of  9 months worth of games, though those may still be coming, a number of assumptions I had about the game I was writing were tested and found wanting. Some subsystems worked fine! Others were fiddled with on the fly. The tl;dr of the whole thing is NO, Sanic Hack isn't going away, but YES, I've had a shift in focus and intent with the project. The Weapons Post in particular is going to be gutted. Ce la vie.

    Anyway, here's some temporary Shield type things to prevent specific kinds of damage.

Until Next Time,

    Farmer Gadda