The Hat Club Playtest, Part One

Edit: The names have now been changed to protect... something.

Every week, more or less, since 2003, I've met with a small group of friends to play games. When I was writing regularly for White Wolf, they got to playtest with me, too. For Reasons Lost in the Antediluvian Aeons, we call our group Hat Club.

(Note: these reasons predate the filming of Chuck Palahniuk's most famous novel, so we don't have any actual rules, comedy or otherwise.)

So, of course they were going to do Chariot. No choice, see. For reasons tied to family and jobs and stuff these games aren't very long. A couple of hours. Therefore, it's become tradition for the person running the game to generate all the characters and hand them out in advance.

We can't generally be having with wasting a whole session on character generation, see.

Except, Chariot being a) what it is and b) something I wrote, I sort of felt that for the first time in well over a decade it was time to break tradition and do a Character Generation session.

Funded!

The Chariot crowdfunder reached its funding goal in 72 hours, and now we're aiming to get to the first stretch goal, more material for the game as written by the estimable Malcolm Sheppard.

THANK YOU for your support. Please let people know about the game, if you like it. The more people join in, the more material there will be.

But Chariot is happening, because of you. That's all.

Menocea, City of the Mirrored Spires

Trump X. The Wheel.

Chariot's crowdfunder at the end of its third day stands at 96% of its admittedly modest goal. Let's see if we can fund today.

In the meantime, another creation of my boyhood imagination that I inserted into Atlantis because, well, I don't know. I just did.

The City of the Blue Women

With the Chariot crowdfunding campaign closing in on its target in its third day, it's time to share some more excerpts. Here's Mentis, City of the Blue Women.

I created the Blue Women as part of my Atlantis when I was maybe twelve or thirteen, because when you are that age amphibious blue punk rock cyborg amazons who ride robo-sea dinosaurs sounds like a good idea. I still think it's a pretty good idea.

I wish I still had what I had written about them. I made them anew from memory for Chariot. 

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Support CHARIOT

The Chariot Crowdfunder is now live. The more people who support it, the more material there will be. That's all.

CHARIOT Indiegogo Launches Monday

It has been the best part of a year but the CHARIOT crowdfunding campaign finally launches this coming Monday. The game's written, so basically this is a means of both getting people to preorder and also to see if there is enough demand out there to have more material written - the more people who contribute, the more supplemental material that everyone who buys the game will receive.

In the meantime, I thought I'd tease... the character sheet.  Because you have to have a character sheet.

In Search of the Miraculous #10: Neutrino Man

This is my favourite picture of Dad, the one on the right.

In the course of my research into the emotional archaeology that is the foundation of Chariot, I've been steadily uncovering a whole lot of my Dad's stuff. He will have been gone fifteen years in February. Much as I do, Dad had aspirations toward being a writer.