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Conspiracies Atop A Wandering God: David Johnson’s Gathox Vertical Slum (Pt 1)
I continue my interview series, talking with David Johnson about Gathox Vertical Slum, the newest announced project from the Hydra Cooperative. HK: Please introduce yourself and give us the elevator pitch for Gathox Vertical Slum. DJ: Howdy! I’m David Johnson…
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Strange Stars Setting Assumptions
There are a set of underlying premises to the Strange Stars setting which might affect the play of the game. My assumptions don’t have hold true in your version of Strange Stars, but it is probably helpful to consider how…
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The Future of the Past
In Strange Stars, I mentioned how I saw the stylings of this particular future as harkening back to the science fiction of previous decades. I imagine spaceships like in seventies films, seventies and eighties book covers and comics books, particularly…
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We’ve Got A System for That
Hi, I’m Robert Parker, co-founder of the Hydra Cooperative and editor of Slumbering Ursine Dunes and Fever-Dreaming Marlinko, here to talk about my contributions to Marlinko, specifically the carousing and hireling reputation subsystems. Let’s dive right into it. I’ve been…
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