Noctis Labyrinth

Devlog

• Weird Fantasy 4: the Weird
  December 18, 2023 by MRDR HOBO

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  #Dungeon Crawler, #Fantasy, #low-prep, #module, #OSR, #PbtA, #Sandbox, #weird

  I've droned on an on about the importance of the Weird in other articles, so maybe it's about time I sat down and wrote about it. We live in a paradoxical world where such an oxymoron as Traditional F... Continue reading

  
• Everything's Design 3: Powered by the Apocalypse
  December 16, 2022 by MRDR HOBO

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  #Dungeon Crawler, #Fantasy, #low-prep, #module, #OSR, #PbtA, #Sandbox, #weird, #worldbuilding

  I've been an Apocalypse World fan for a long time now. AW was formative for me as a designer, particularly in its transparency of design: Meguey and Vincent took such care in teaching the reader how t... Continue reading

  
• Weird Fantasy 3: Science-Fantasy & Gonzo play
  November 27, 2022 by MRDR HOBO

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  #Dungeon Crawler, #Fantasy, #low-prep, #module, #OSR, #PbtA, #Sandbox, #weird, #gonzo

  Noctis Labyrinth's Weird Fantasy is viewed through the lens of Science-Fantasy. After years of fantasy gaming, I had grown tired of traditional tolkienesque aesthetics, so a shift in genre was a welco... Continue reading

  
• Everything's Design 2: Underwritten
  September 17, 2022 by MRDR HOBO#Dungeon Crawler, #Fantasy, #low-prep, #module, #OSR, #PbtA, #Sandbox, #weird, #Art

  If I'm being a 100% honest, I genuinely believe the vast majority of TTRPGs are overwritten. Specially if we talk about traditional TTRPGs, and specially specially if we talk about TTRPG adventures. I... Continue reading

  
• Weird Fantasy 2: Implied setting
  August 14, 2022 by MRDR HOBO#Dungeon Crawler, #Fantasy, #OSR, #PbtA, #Sandbox, #weird, #worldbuilding

  On part 1 , I mentioned how "unexpected" is distinctly different from "mystery", and although both service the Weird, I think that mystery usually gets underrepresented in TTRPGs writing. The standard... Continue reading

  
• Everything's Design 1: Illustration
  August 02, 2022 by MRDR HOBO

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  #Dungeon Crawler, #Fantasy, #OSR, #PbtA, #Sandbox, #low-prep, #module, #weird, #Art

  Art in the TTRPG industry is oftentimes relegated merely to decoration, it's main purpose drawing attention to the text inside a book. It makes sense: just by the fact that we're approaching art in su... Continue reading

  
• Weird Fantasy 1 A Dialog with Anti-Canon
  July 23, 2022 by MRDR HOBO

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  #Dungeon Crawler, #Fantasy, #low-prep, #module, #OSR, #PbtA, #Sandbox, #weird

  Designing a Weird Fantasy game requires a special approach towards presentation. A TTRPG's text purpose is to explain the game. So how do you explain Weirdness? While developing Noctis Labyrinth, I fo... Continue reading