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In this edition of the Secret Knots newsletter, we share a new comic, and some adventures in ttrpg gaming.
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How to step out of the picture
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Running games, IRL
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(This has been posted previously on Tumblr)
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I was invited to run a couple of tabletop roleplaying games at a board games event, here in Santiago. One of the two was a Call of Cthulhu adventure I made up, called “The Complex”. The pitch for that was The characters are competitors in an extreme survival reality show. They've overcome difficult physical trials, and managed to remain the favorites amidst alliances and betrayals. But things are about to get a lot stranger, in the closed environment of the Complex. And I made this promo art, for the social media of the event:
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Most of my rpg gaming these days happens online via Discord, so I try to make the best of the chance to play in person. Prior to the game, I spend some time making figures and maps. First, I drew a bunch of little faces for them to choose their character token:
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The reality show in the adventure turns into a deadly game a few minutes into the session. The characters find out they are locked in with a flying, half immaterial monster, (a flying polyp, for those out there familiar with the book) while, also, the rival team celebrities have been infected by alien spores. It’s set in a sort of enclosed complex with two camps, and a house where the TV producers (the final evil to defeat) are. Here’s the map I made.
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Once in the event, the game ran fast and frantic. We played it in a little less than two hours, real quick for a TTRPG! It was in the context of a board games event, a rather family oriented thing, so games were supposed to be kept brief (for ttrpg standards), in order to make them friendly to new players.
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Here’s me with my players, after they successfully escaped the complex, locked the director of the show with the creature he invoked, and ultimately ran away back to the city, where they find out the outer world was collapsing under an alien invasion. Fun times!
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This is all for this edition of the newsletter. I hope you have a lovely day, and I’ll see you soon with more stories and art.
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