S1E14 Unmoored in Time, WandaVision, Forbidden Lands, Zinequest 3

WE COME FROM THE FUTURE … the future of the Lair of Secrets podcast, that is! David and Ken talk about their latest geeky undertakings, including a return to Atomic Robo, WandaVision, X of Swords, the Forbidden Lands RPG, and even more speculative fiction novels before turning to the main topic: Kickstarter’s Zinequest 3.

• Ken finally read Atomic Robo
  • See Episode 3 …. Which was like yesterday for you, and months ago for us. Great stuff.
  • Atomic Robo & the Fightin Scientists of Tesladyne
• Make Mine WandaVision
  • Ken and his kids love it. He may love it more as an X-Men (and thus, Scarlet Witch) fan.
• X of Swords
  • Ken finally read Marvel’s massive summer crossover, which harkens back to the Chris Claremont/Alan Davis era of Excalibur. Yeah, you heard that right, X-Nerds!
• Ken started The Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson. He should be done reading it sometime in 2022.
  • 1,232 pages (57 hours, 26 minutes in audiobook form)
• Space Sweepers – Korean film with an international cast.
• David’s Gaming
  • Army Corps of Engineers: Special Operations Group powered by FATE Condensed
    • Captured a Batsquatch in Washington State
    • When the fearsome batsquatch was finally subdued it was “high as a kite” and “curious about humans”
  • Started and ended a Star Wars d6 game
    • Not all games are for everyone
  • Ran a one-shot Spirit of the Century
  • ALMOST ran the Gamma World hex crawl again
  • Planning for either a D&D or Forbidden Lands game to replace the Star Wars game
    • I know very little about Forbidden Lands, but I have heard it is good, seems very hex-crawl-like
    • Why not a Burning Wheel game? I don’t think it’s right for this group.
• Books that David is reading
  • The Flowers of Vashnoi – Lois McMaster Bujold
  • The Invisible Library – Cogman Genevieve
• Zinequest 3
  • Official Kickstarter Page
  • Zinequest 2021 @ Bone Box Chant – A huge list of all of the active and upcoming zines being published as part of Zinequest 3.
  • Thru-Hiker: A Journaling Game of Long-Distance Hiking – Sounds like the perfect intersection of outdoor and gaming geekery. By Daniel Perez
  • Infinite March – A zine about working as agents to support (or tear down) the Temporal Empire and its eternal rule.
  • Planar Compass Issue 2 – Explore the Astral Sea with this Old School Essentials-compatible zine. Includes new monsters, a “living dungeon”, astral navigation rules, and (of course) pirates.
  • Creature Feature – a ZineQuest 3 monster TTRPG anthology. There’s not much up about this one, but it had me at “Creature Feature”.
  • Hope is Not a Plan – An solo, journaling-style RPG zine about “the existential dread of professional project management”. Given that a big chunk of Ken’s day job deals with project management, he can relate to the “dread” part.
  • The Vast in the Dark – A zine about “Exploring Ruins in an Infinite World”, It features “brutalist alien flavor”, no prep world generation, and optional horror rules.
  • The Island of the Excellent: A Hexcrawl Zine
  • Last Orders! 16 Beers and Ciders for Fantasy RPGs.
• Comments?
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  • Cover art from the Forbidden Lands RPG by Free League. Credit: Free League.