Tuesday 12 December 2017

Audience Participation: A Table Without a Title

I often send little notes to myself by text message as a kind of aide memoire, which would work a treat if I ever actually looked at them, but I always forget.

I was looking over the big list of text messages in this dialogue earlier on today. A lot of them are notes on reading which are now altogether mysterious to me ("p. 36 - 'To bring to light the conditions that had to be met for it to be possible to hold a discourse...that can be true or false according to the rules of law'"; "Chapter 6 - Curate's egg"); some of them are presumably things I saw in a bookshop and noted down to investigate later ("You are not a gadget - Lanier. The internet is not the answer - Keen."); some are more obvious ("Nappy wipes, milk, strawberries, orange juice, dinner"); some of them are notes lost in time and untethered to context ("Also Hayek and the common law"). One is I think the beginning of a novel idea: "The main character awakes from a dream and wonders whether it was a dream or a memory".

But plenty of them are for gaming. Here's one: "1 Lizard man, 2 Parrot man, 3 Human hunter, 4 Naked ape, 5 Marine iguana man, 6 Penguin thing".

Nothing else. No other related messages I can find. No associated memory.

So have at it. Do your worst. What it this a table of random results for?

12 comments:

  1. Reincarnation by a particularly off-beat druid. Now you got me thinking about adding to it.
    7. Rakasta (cat-like humanoid from Isle of Dread)
    8. Eblis (evil stork humanoid from MMII)
    9. Grippli (frog humanoid from MMII)
    10.Thanoi (Walrus man from Dragonlance)

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  2. Starting characters for a Tekumel-lite fantasy version of the Galapagos Archipelago: "Upon a Gleaming Ebon Carapace". Also, you missed Tortles and Snappers from Mystara.

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    1. Somebody needs to come up with an OSR Galapagos setting.

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  3. "Things you wake up in bed with after carousing in fantasy pseudo-New Zealand" (this would be a sub-table).

    "what is hunting you, dogging your footsteps, but always just out of sight"

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    1. Love the second of those. For when you've been cursed/had a bad trip/summoned a demon accidentally.

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  4. Random main course at the Burning Coast orcs' Feast of the Wretched Crone (an annual holiday celebrated by the tribe to usher in hurricane season).

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  5. This savage jungle dweller is wearing the skin of ...

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