Bored Ghost

“I have come here from my city, I have descended from my nome; I have built a house, set up (its) doors, I have dug a pool, planted sycamores. The king praised me, My father made a will for me. I was one worthy --- One beloved of his father, Praised by his mother, Whom all his brothers loved. I gave bread to the hungry, Clothing to the naked, I brought the boatless to land. O you who live upon earth, Who shall pass by this tomb Going north or going south, Who shall say: "a thousand loaves and beer jugs For the owner of this tomb," I shall watch over them in the necropolis.  I am an excellent equipped spirit (akh), A lector-priest who knows his speech. As for any man who enters this tomb unclean, I shall seize him by the neck like a bird, He will be judged for it by the great god! I was one who spoke fairly, who repeated what was liked, I never spoke evilly against any man to his superior, Never did I judge between two [contenders] In a manner which deprived a son of his father's legacy. Harkhuf”  ― Miriam Lic

Lieutenant Kawalsky: [Jackson sneezes hard] "Cold?" Dr. Daniel Jackson: "Allergies: always happens when I travel." -Stargate  A sealed inter-dimensional way-station has become nothing more than a tomb. To learn more about how The Skeletons is played check out our primer episode. The Tomb: A Winding affair beneath the surface of a vast desert. The only visible surface element is a massive black cube. In the heart of the tomb is a sphere of glossy black rock, hovering and rotating slightly in place. The Characters: Arrow-Shield (Ken Breese) - The warrior who still stands guard. Headless (Kelsey Dionne) - The religious leader of a cult forgotten. Tattered Cloak (John Holt) - An acolyte of the keepers of this place. Find Kelsey Dionne on her adventure website The Arcane Library and on Facebook. Find John on twitter @LordJoho Find Ken on twitter @Berlingsbeard Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we

“In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road A small band of children huddle in a graveyard on the outskirts of a city fallen to ruin. To learn more about how Children of the Fall is played check out our primer episode. The Tribe: •An Unnamed group of about 13 children, a medium sized tribe, with no clear leader. •Two months after the fall the tribe is holed up in a graveyard outside Indianapolis. •They have an abundance of shelter, building material and tool. There is a dearth of food. •In the short-term Tornado season is approaching, it is dangerous even with shelter, and with food in short supply they can't easily just hunker down. In the long-term the larger will supplied rural tribes, further out from the city could swoop in to do the tribe harm. •The gra

This is a brief overview that lays out the rules summary of Children of the Fall by Gareth Graham. Purchase a copy here. Recommended number of players: 3-5 players, Play time around 2-4 hours. To play you'll need: Rulebook Printouts from the Rulebook, Writing Utensils, Blank Paper, Tokens (2 per player). Children of the Fall is a GMless game that can be played in a single session or in multiple sessions, with each session playing out in a mission over 4 acts. The tone is a dark apocalypse where the survivors are all children, as the adults have turned into dangerous maniacs and those that age into adulthood will suffer the same fate. We recommend picking the PDF on Drive Thru RPG and or Physical copy from Frenzy Kitty Games. Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found distraction from your eternity in the void this week!  

“As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. Very odd, what happens in a world without children's voices.” ― Children of Men  A small band of children huddle in a graveyard on the outskirts of a city fallen to ruin. To learn more about how Children of the Fall is played check out our primer episode. The Tribe: •An Unnamed group of about 13 children, a medium sized tribe, with no clear leader. •Two months after the fall the tribe is holed up in a graveyard outside Indianapolis. •They have an abundance of shelter, building material and tool. There is a dearth of food. •In the short-term Tornado season is approaching, it is dangerous even with shelter, and with food in short supply they can't easily just hunker down. In the long-term the larger will supplied rural tribes, further out from the city could swoop in to do the tribe harm. •The graveyard sits to the east of the city, between the graveyard and the city is a major big-box store. To the immediate east of the graveyard is a river or canal.

"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)  An abandoned factory turned Stasi prison is abandoned and ripe for development when the wall falls. What will be unearthed from beneath the layers of history? To learn more about how Lovecraftesque is played check out our primer episode. The Setup: •brooding & investigative horror •The former East/West divide in Berlin, Late 1980's/early 1990's •Main location: Abandoned Car Factory that later served as a Stasi secret prison, now empty •Additional Locations: a Beirhall on the Western side of Berlin, A rocky quay on the banks of the Rhine, A tiny Catholic church near the main location. •The Witness: Anna Schmidt - A developer, she scouts for real estate deals for a big french firm. She is here to check out the abandoned factory for possible purchase, demolition, and development. Anna is persistent and practical. She has f

“Auch wenn zwei Staaten in Deutschland existieren, sind sie doch füreinander nicht Ausland; ihre Beziehungen zueinander können nur von besonderer Art sein." ("Even though two states in Germany exist, they are not foreign countries to each other—their relations with each other can only be of a special kind.") First Inaugural Address as West German Chancellor, October 28, 1969” ― Willy Brandt An abandoned factory turned Stasi prison is abandoned and ripe for development when the wall falls. What will be unearthed from beneath the layers of history? To learn more about how Lovecraftesque is played check out our primer episode. The Setup: •brooding & investigative horror •The former East/West divide in Berlin, Late 1980's/early 1990's •Main location: Abandoned Car Factory that later served as a Stasi secret prison, now empty •Additional Locations: a Beirhall on the Western side of Berlin, A rocky quay on the banks of the Rhine, A tiny Catholic church near the main location. •The Witness: Anna Schmidt - A deve

This is a brief overview that lays out the rules summary of Lovecraftesque by Joshua Fox and Becky Annison. Purchase a copy here at Black Armada. Recommended number of players: 2-5 players, Play time around 2-4 hours. To play you'll need: Rulebook A Dozen Index Cards, Writing Utensils, The Special Cards Deck (Printable from the PDF or available for purchase from the publisher), Scrap Paper and some optional printed materials. Lovecraftesque is a GMless game where your will take turns playing the Witness and Narrator as you lay out the clues to a creeping horror. Eventually your witness will find themselves face-to-face(s) with the horror and this final confrontation will determine your protagonist's fate. We recommend picking the PDF and or Physical copy from the publisher. Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found distraction from your eternity in the void this week!

“Helena: Will they be happier when they can feel pain? Dr. Gall: On the contrary. But they will be technically more perfect.” ― Karel Čapek, R.U.R. The platform of a space elevator houses the electronic brains that control the drones on the planet below. They are tasked with cleaning up the Earth for the eventual return of the humans. To learn more about how Dialect is played check out our primer episode. The characters for this game: HLN 3618N2-4 "Helen" (Iris Explosion) - The very proper administrator. PCO-800 "Seev" (Patrick Cartelli) - The supply and aquisitions unit. Atmospheric Oversight 35,73.11.B "Atmos" (Kelsey Hercs) - The air cleaning unit with a strong sense of purpose. LSM-748 "Fleshwise" (Ken Breese) - Genetics and organics unit in charge of repopulating the fauna. B33DL3 (John Holt) - The excavation and reclamation of subsurface ecology. The Setup: Backdrop: The Earth has been left uninhabitable and the humans left, leaving a team of robots to rejuvenate the planet and await the return of the h

"Maria: HEAD and HANDS need a mediator. THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN HEAD AND HANDS MUST BE THE HEART! Worker #1: But where is our mediator, Maria - ? Maria: Wait for him! He will surely come! Worker #2: We will wait, Maria...! But not much longer - - !" - Metropolis (1927) The platform of a space elevator houses the electronic brains that control the drones on the planet below. They are tasked with cleaning up the Earth for the eventual return of the humans. To learn more about how Dialect is played check out our primer episode. The characters for this game: HLN 3618N2-4 "Helen" (Iris Explosion) - The very proper administrator. PCO-800 "Seev" (Patrick Cartelli) - The supply and aquisitions unit. Atmospheric Oversight 35,73.11.B "Atmos" (Kelsey Hercs) - The air cleaning unit with a strong sense of purpose. LSM-748 "Fleshwise" (Ken Breese) - Genetics and organics unit in charge of repopulating the fauna. B33DL3 (John Holt) - The excavation and reclamation of subsurface ecology. The Setup: Backdrop: The Earth has been

This is a brief overview that lays out the rules summary of Dialect by Kathryn Hymes and Hakan Seyalioglu. Purchase a copy here at Thorny Games. Recommended number of players: 3-5 players, Play time around 2-4 hours. To play you'll need: Index Cards (20-30), Writing Utensils, The Language Deck (Printable from the PDF or available for purchase from the publisher), A Surface to play on. Dialect is a GMless game where your will play an isolated community. You will grow a language based on your commonalities and that language will shift and eventually die along with the collapse of your isolated group. We recommend picking the PDF and or Physical copy from the publisher. Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found distraction from your eternity in the void this week!

"If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it." - Sean Bean The goblins are tasked with an important job: get the demon baby ready for the unholy wedding. To learn more about how Goblin Quest is played check out our primer episode. The characters for this game: Shakespearean Sean Bean (John Holt) - The most dramatically minded of the Beans. Stark Sean Bean (Ken Breese) - The Stoic Bean. Shooter Sean Bean (D Gailey) - The Actions-Speak-Louder-Than-Words Bean. The Movie: "Shoot The Moon" A Sci-Fi action heist movie about agent Adam Furstman (as played by Sean Bean). He is looking for one last big score to set him up for life. The Tasks: ACT 1 Scout the Casino w/out being discovered in the crowd. Flee the Casino floor w/ the beautiful cat burglar Bianca Bellini Buy time for Bellini to hack the Elevator & get to the 152 floor ACT 2 Convince Bellini & her crew that they need you for the heist Get past the robot security on the secret stairs Unlock the vault door ACT 3 Get

"A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point." - Sean Bean The goblins are tasked with an important job: get the demon baby ready for the unholy wedding. To learn more about how Goblin Quest is played check out our primer episode. The characters for this game: Shakespearean Sean Bean (John Holt) - The most dramatically minded of the Beans. Stark Sean Bean (Ken Breese) - The Stoic Bean. Shooter Sean Bean (D Gailey) - The Actions-Speak-Louder-Than-Words Bean. The Movie: "Shoot The Moon" A Sci-Fi action heist movie about agent Adam Furstman (as played by Sean Bean). He is looking for one last big score to set him up for life. The Tasks: ACT 1 Scout the Casino w/out being discovered in the crowd. Flee the Casino floor w/ the beautiful cat burglar Bianca Bellini Buy time for

“Helena: Will they be happier when they can feel pain? Dr. Gall: On the contrary. But they will be technically more perfect.” ― Karel Čapek, R.U.R. In a world of global peace, that has forgotten the machines of war, the harmony is broken with the incursion of autonomous killing machines, vestiges of a lost age. To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode. The Characters: Sofia Morales (D Gailey) the tech obsessed Engineer. Professor Cyndy Diamont (John Holt) anthropological computer scientist. Brouge Craklin P.H.D.  (Ken Breese) military historian. The Mission: The Crises - A doomsday weapon from a bygone age has awakened in the frozen north. The Limit - Time has forgotten the weapons of the past but the historians and hobbyists remember. The Plan - Get to the "brain" and reprogram the mechs to blast themselves into the sun. The Assets: Employee Manual for Site X 3d Topographical heat map of the doomsday compound A six-shooter pistol borrowed from a museum Find D on twitt

Supplementary Our Last Best Hope This is a brief overview that lays out the basic of setting an a rules summary of Our Last Best Hope by designer by Mark Diaz Truman. Purchase a copy here at Magpie Games. Recommended number of players: 3-5 players, Play time 3-4 hours on average. Our Last Best Hope is a GMless game where your characters are on a mission to save the planet and/or humanity. There are additional missions and hacks available in supplementary books and downloads. We recommend picking the PDF and or Physical copy from publisher. Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!

“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.” ― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society In a world of global peace, that has forgotten the machines of war, the harmony is broken with the incursion of autonomous killing machines, vestiges of a lost age. To learn more about how Our Last Best Hope is played check out our primer episode. The Characters: Sofia Morales (D Gailey) the tech obsessed Engineer. Professor Cyndy Diamont (John Holt) anthropological computer scientist. Brouge Craklin P.H.D.  (Ken Breese) military historian. The Mission: The Crises - A doomsday weapon from a bygone age has awakened in the frozen north. The Limit - Time has forgotten the weapons of the past but the historians and hobbyists remember. The Plan - Get to the "brain" and reprogram the mechs to blast themselves into the sun. The Assets: Employee Ma

“The yells and yammering, croaking, gibbering and jabbering, howls and growls and curses, shrieking and shrinking that followed were beyond description. Several hundred wildcats and wolves being roasted slowly alive together would not have compared with it.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit The goblins are tasked with an important job: get the demon baby ready for the unholy wedding. To learn more about how Goblin Quest is played check out our primer episode. The characters for this game: The Plugfingers (Ken Breese) - A clutch of three-eyed goblins wielding the plunging stick. The Squishy (John Holt) - A clutch of one-eyed goblins who wield the one glove to hold it all. The Butterboots (Tim Rodriguez) - A clutch of big-footed goblins wielding the darning needle of fashion. The Tasks: Find Baby Clothes Sneak into Human Town Find enough Baby Clothes Get out of Human Town Clothe the Baby Desecrate the Clothes Soothe the Baby Wardrobe, Hair, and Makeup Present the Baby Find and Get to the Wedding Rig the Bab

“Goblin tea resembles a nice cup of Earl Grey in much the same way that a catfish resembles the common tabby. They share a name, but one is a nice thing to curl up with on a rainy afternoon, and the other is found in the muck at the bottom of polluted rivers and has bits of debris sticking to it.” ― T. Kingfisher The goblins are tasked with an important job: get the demon baby ready for the unholy wedding. To learn more about how Goblin Quest is played check out our primer episode. The characters for this game: The Plugfingers (Ken Breese) - A clutch of three-eyed goblins wielding the plunging stick. The Squishy (John Holt) - A clutch of one-eyed goblins who wield the one glove to hold it all. The Butterboots (Tim Rodriguez) - A clutch of big-footed goblins wielding the darning needle of fashion. The Tasks: Find Baby Clothes Sneak into Human Town Find enough Baby Clothes Get out of Human Town Clothe the Baby Desecrate the Clothes Soothe the Baby Wardrobe, Hair, and Makeup Present the Baby Find and Get

Supplementary Goblin Quest This is a brief overview that lays out the basic of setting an a rules summary of  Goblin Quest by designer by Grant Howitt. Purchase a copy here. Recommended number of players: 2-6 players, Play time 2-4 hours on average. Goblin Quest is a GMless game where your characters will die in droves. There are GM variants and multiple Hacks available. We recommend picking the PDF and or Physical copy from publisher. The character & quest sheets can be printed and you only need a handful of 6-sided dice to play. Follow us on twitter @boredghostworld Our Bored Ghost theme song is by the amazing Pat Cupples, see his band website Hotels and Highways. Bored Ghosts we hope you found some distraction from your eternity in the void this week!

“He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.” ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash In the future a libertarian corporate tech city chews up the people as they scrabble to reach the top. To learn more about how Kingdom is played check out our primer episode. The characters for this game: Thrush Ballpeen (John Holt) - An enhanced prize fighter. Willow Floors (Ken Breese) - A magic wielding barista. Vice President (Tim Rodriguez) - A corporate player. The Kingdom for this game: New Auckland, a country sized city anchored in the Pacific. Threats: The Desalinization is killing the ocean. A sect of elemental magic eco-terrorists are active in the city. Peak tech-enhancements have created an uncertain definition of humanity. Locations: Port Incantation Ursa Major Coffee The Mine God's Ear The Atrium @ Atilla HAVA Find Tim on twitter @dicefoodlodging  and Tim's Mobile Fiasco App for iOS on