On this episode of the Lair of Secrets podcast we look at using different media in your role-playing game sessions. This includes tools like thematic artwork, background music, in-game fiction, and even props. We also look at the new Sentinels of Earth-Prime digital card game by Handelebra (based on the print game by Greater than Games), venture into the library to check out Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan comic series, and offer our initial thoughts on the Cyberpunk RED role-playing game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK_1-BrpoFQ
The Arcade
Sentinels of Earth-Prime (iOS, Android, Steam)
By the developers of Sentinels of the Multiverse … but with the heroes of Green Ronin’s Freedom City!
Enemies like:
Omega, Hades, Meta-Mind (Grue Mothership), Argo: The Ultimate Android
Heroes like:
Bowman, Captain Thunder, Doctor Metropolis, Daedalus, Lady Liberty, Siren
Greater Than Games (original developers)
Handelabra (video game developers)
The Library
Transmetropolitan comic series
Darick Robertson and Warren Ellis
Libraries are awesome
The Game Room
Cyberpunk RED Initial Thoughts
It’s crunchy.
It’s deadly.
Range matters. (really).
Netrunning works. And it’s fun! (really).
Black Chrome on Roll20?
Black Chrome
Black Chrome+
Monster of the Week
Ken's lunchtime gaming group is gearing up for Monster of the Week.
A Powered By the Apocalypse game inspired by shows like Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Main Topic: Using different media in your game
Music
Playlists
Used for background music during game and also a way to get into the game during planning a session
Elemental Apocalypse - Spotify
Heavily inspired by Willow. Music to do heroic things to.
Cyberpunk RED - Spotify
There’s a lot of The Matrix and Edgerunners in here.
Soundboards
Used during the game to give a timely thrill to players and evoke the scene
Syrinscape
Discord’s new soundboard feature
Atmospheric
Movie and television soundtracks
Music that evokes a particular genre
Art
Cyberpunk RED
Arcologies
Battle maps for Cyberpunk Red
Elemental Apocalypse
Battlemaps for Elemental Apocalypse
Searching for Concept Art
Not super detailed, but leave a lot to the imagination
Google Image Search
Fiction
In game newspaper/newsletter
The Constant Sentinel (in-universe blog for Mutants & Masterminds)
Screamsheets
Screamsheet kit from R. Talsorian
Lair of Secrets' Screamsheet collection
Fantasy paper talking about news of the world
Your party’s exploits are also covered
Twisting stories you’ve read and heard into your own game plots
The World of Kong: A natural history of Skull Island
Props
Newspaper articles for Call of Cthulhu
Weathering your maps for handouts.
Cardboard kid puzzles
Spray paint so you’ve wiped out picture, then write the map on it, and break the puzzle appear to give them the pieces.
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A collection of elemental-themed illustrations from Ken's Elemental Apocalypse board on Pinterest.
