Silver Arm Games?

Interesting looking stuff.

Anyone play them?

Link is here.

NUNA Name Change

When I submitted Nuna to the BRP contest back in 2024, it had the subtitle The game of Inuit & Iceships. This was an obvious echoing of D&D's bipartite structure to appeal to the judges.

And it worked!

That said, my focus has shifted away from an arctic retroclone to a game with its own personality. Henceforth NUNA shall be The game of arctic community & culture.

Why Do A Stormbringer Retrospective?

 

NUNA Devblog - Community & Status (and Monsters Oh My!)

OK, so the residency has allowed me to make HUGE progress on NUNA's 'domain game.'

A domain game, for those that don't know, is how the player characters can interact with NPCs and change the gameworld. Old D&D had a way to become a Named character, get followers, and build your own kingdom. The NUNA Quickstart had the barebones needed for adventuring as a one-shot, but the domain game was far too big to fit in it.

Domain game mechanics have largely gone the way of the dodo since RPGs have become more or less a one-shot, 4 hour gamestore phenomena with longterm campaigns turning into a rarity.

For NUNA, I want to bring back a new style of domain game, where the actions of the player characters build their Community, making it stronger and more resilient. In return, PCs gain Status which allows them to access more of the Community's resources and support.

I agonized about the mechanics to do this for way too long, but hit upon the idea of adapting Stormbringer's Elan system. It is a simple, elegant way to gain Status with a Community, and access greater resources and support to accomplish their missions, just as Champions in Stormbringer can call on the gods they serve.

It is a virtuous circle of characters working for communities, and should make the players more engaged with the communities and NPCs they interact with.

Even though I am replacing D&D's colonial missions with adventures to fill community needs,  player characters will still need antagonists to fight. I have narrowed NUNA baddies down to 5 types:

Monsters from Inuit mythology

Monsters from Viking sagas (Vikings in NUNA are the descendants of Scandinavians who fled Europe)

Weird science monsters in keeping with the inclusion of New Scientist PCs

Oceanic horrors & leviathans that are the bane of Riggers

Canadian resource extraction robots that roam the land since The Fall (thanks for the inspiration Mark Carney!)

Canadian resource fire sale is ON!!

The fun has just begun! BIG playtest event at my university in February, cannot wait but have to be ready.

Stormbringer Retrospective Adventure - The Tower of The Others

Want To Play Stormbringer? Come join the Retrospective.

 I made a thing.

This could be YOU!

Specifically, a Facebook page called the Stormbringer Retrospective where you can sign up to find people around the world who want to run or play the old Chaosium Eternal Champion games.

Here is the blurb I posted on the Stormbringer / Elric FB page:

"Greetings!

Here is the pitch.

Anyone wishing to GM chooses an adventure they've always wanted to run and announces it here. GM's choice of ruleset and timezone.

(Note I wrote Stormbringer Redux, a massive exploration of the 1E old rules with lots of clarifications & houserules on my blog Tomb of Tedankhamen . Feel free to steal from it. The only suggestion I'd make for all games is Hit Points could be CON + SIZ to increase hero survivability and my shield expansion, but as I said, it is all GM choice)

People interested in playing contact the GM. I imagine most games will be online, but we might have a miracle face to face game. DO NOT PLAY AN ADVENTURE YOU KNOW WELL. Try to come to the game with fresh eyes and not spoil the surprises for others.

As for the adventures, GMs are expected to Moorcock up their stories, adding weird or wistful touches, connecting to the Elric stories, etc. See my post A Moorcockean Bestiary on my blog for ideas. No D&D games in Moorcock's worlds. Also, groups should try to use ALL the mechanics - the Elan system, demons & virtues, etc - just squeeze as much juice as you can out of it.

I would like to run the original Stormbringer 1E sample adventure, the terrible Tower of Ykrath Florn. I have warped it out of all recognition with my crazy ideas and Moorcockean touches, so anyone is welcome to join. I am on Vancouver time, and when I get 4+ players I'll post details.

If this project interests you, please get a game together and let's get the dice rolling!

Play reports and videos very welcome!
Blood & souls for Mr Moorcock!"

The link to join is HERE.

Guest Lecture at University

Tomorrow (Thursday November 5th) I will be giving a guest lecture on indigenous representation in Canadian media and my RPG, NUNA.

Should be fun. I was a media studies instructor for 5 years in Japan, funnest job I ever had.