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.

The Cities of Atlantis

Eight of Pentacles: a Noble of Leagh.

The rules section of Chariot is done, and is out with some of my friends for Alpha Playtest; the Beta Playtest will have a wider audience. Now, well. Now I am writing about the world. My son David, a pretty gifted cartographer, made me an amazing map, that I'm working with. Everything has a place. It is the fun part. So Here's the introduction to the section on Atlantis.

The Catastrophe List

Some time ago, It struck me that a game about the run up to a terrible world-breaking disaster needed some structured sense of urgency. So I came up with this.

Chariot Progress

I thought I'd offer an update on where Chariot is.

Fates #3 (The Iconic One)

VII. The Chariot

OK, this is the last of my Fates previews, and I sort of had no choice about which one to post. It's the Chariot. It's my card, the card of victory through struggle.

It's also the character type that owes the most to a fiction outside of esoteric literature and my own juvenilia, namely The Metabarons, Jodorowsky's saga about that family of ultimate warriors who could destroy galaxies in the blink of an eye but who absolutely couldn't get their relationships in order. Ironically, if the game's played as the rules direct, the Charioteer is the one who gets to see the least combat (because if you're the Charioteer, you don't get to play out fight scenes).

Fates #2

Second of three extracts. Note that in theosophical magic (and hance in the magic scheme of Chariot) physical bilocation is considered impossible.

Fates #1

More extracts. This time, the first of the Fates. A couple more later in the week.