I’m reviving my old series, Piles of Downloaded Files, in which I delve into the bottomless Unsorted folder of RPG-related PDFs. See the previous installments under this tag.
Micromaiden Spirit Grid by Evlyn Moreau
It is a
two-sided pamphlet dungeon, with Evlyn’s trademark art. One side has the map of
the dungeon, which is a complex semi-anthropomorphic computer circuit. Each
node gets a title and one or two keywords (for function/condition), e.g. Cyber
Maintenance Unit [In Use] [Possessed] or Sensation Module [Patched] [Cyber
Fauna].
It is evocative, but definitely a toolbox. I feel you need to get into a specific mindset to be able to fit all this together – but then it can provide a super interesting game world. I’d love it if someone made a computer game with the art from this pamphlet. A top-down dungeon crawler of some sorts.
Link: https://evlyn.itch.io/micromaiden-spirit-grid
Salo’s Glory by Glynn Owen Barrass
I used to subscribe
to the Stygian Fox Patreon. This was one of their monthly adventures, back in
2020. It’s a Call of Cthulhu 7e scenario… IN SPACE! A megacorp sends an exploratory
vessel outside the Solar System. The scenario goes for that sci-fi horror vibe
that you get in the Alien franchise, like in the comics. Hell, it has stats for
power loader exoskeletons! It also comes with quite good floorplans for the
space ships and shuttles – definitely a reusable resource for any sci-fi game.
The adventure
is written in the usual CoC style: lots of text, not skimming-friendly. But
overall, it feels like a solid offering for CoC/Mothership/Alien RPGs.
Bonus mystery entry!
“original-colony.pdf”
is a single-page file. It’s labeled “Original Drawing of the Ant Colony”. And
it has a side-view section map of an ant colony. Pretty good map, I gotta say!
Reverse image
search leads to a Something Awful topic I cannot access.
However,
next to this file in my folder, I have:
Percent in Lair: Ant, giant by Justine Rogers / Angrymog Games
Turns out,
the colony map was made for this project. This is a 10-page-long brainstorm on
Giant ant colonies in fantasy adventure games. It contains the aforementioned map.
Adventure hooks – why are we delving into an ant colony? And all kinds of Giant
ant variants. Weird ecosystems, fungi, psychic ants, gem-encrusted ants… This
is actually not bad!
Link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/150281/percent-in-lair-ant-giant
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