Recently, I replayed Pokémon Red Version and when down a bit of a mental rabbit hole thinking about how I’d recreate it in TTRPG form. Well, I never got entirely out of that rabbit hole - therefore I present you know with my playtest rules for the game.
Read MoreWelcome to the first State of the Meat write-up, in which I organize my own thoughts on where my creative time is going to be focused over the next year or so. I’ll go over MCGW projects and freelance projects (as much as I am able), plus blogging/critique/other words and video things since it all pulls from the same bucket of creative free time available to me.
Read MoreI recently replayed Pokemon Red for the first time in decades. Folks are talking about Pokemon whether it be in new video games, the cards, or even bringing them to the tabletop in new ways. It’s all got me thinking how I’d do Pokemon at my table. Here are some of rough ideas I cooked up while I was taking a shower.
Read MoreThorn looks at the slowly rippling flesh before him, knowing enough now to not touch its foul slime. He looks back to the others and their meager weapons. He raises his javelin in his right hand and holds his battle-axe in his left, yelling out in a rage as he beckons the group to do their worst to the creature - hack a path through before whatever wrecked head and claws it may have finds its way to them.
He throws his javelin, hoping to - if nothing else - give himself a means of climbing over the monster without touching it. The 6 remaining rowers at his back follow, screaming out in honour of their downed and dying allies in the next room. The party hacks away at the creature, doing their best to keep their distance.
Read MoreRecently, I played through Pokemon: Red Version for the first time since I was a child. Most of the key details I remembered, but one recurring element I did not - that has been all but sanded off of the franchise entirely at this point - was the inclusion of several real-world references throughout the game’s setting, the Kanto region.
Early on, you visit a science museum. Here, a nice man tells you about “the moon landing,” even giving you the date is happened: July 20, 1969! A model space shuttle in one corner of the museum’s ongoing space exhibit is labeled: “Space Shuttle Columbia.” Oh wow, so I must just be in the Pokemon-laden part of the real world? Like there’s a United States and Russia out there! Maybe the S. S. Anne sails to California!
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