Mechanicum Praepartum – an antagonist for Dark Heresy

Logo RSP Karneval 250px“It is birth that makes man’s flesh weak.”
-Galvina Nullip

For the secretive magos of the Adeptus Mechanicus the very name Galvina Nullip is an irritant fit to provoke all too human feeling of fear and rage. After all, they are used to deal with this kind of heresy amongst their own swiftly, decisively – and most importantly – without outsiders noticing. Continue reading

The Shanghai Seven: Red Fury – a pulp villain for Unknown Armies

Who are the Shanghai Seven? What do they want? What do they represent on a cosmological scale? Are they as powerful as is rumoured? Do they work for the New Inquisition or any other major player?
Over the next weeks we shall meet the Shanghai Seven one by one. We might not learn immediately, how everything … Continue reading

Three against the Shanghai Seven – a pulp cabal for Unknown Armies

unknown armies_4It has been said many times how Unknown Armies is an American game at heart. An important part of American pop culture are the pulp magazines of the 30ies, 40ies and 50ies. These were what created the image of the beautiful lady thief, the hardboiled detective hiding an ultimately soft heart, or the weird scientist, who applies himself to the advancement of mankind. Continue reading

Saint Odile

Saint Odile For a long time I had the idea to put a sister on a horse. But I was unsure which horse I should use until I talked with blut_und_glas about the project.

At first I thought it would be cool to build another Saint for the Sisters. But during the creation of the article I became uncertain about this issue. The problem was that it would be just another Saint. Continue reading

What is … a Cerulean Cossack?

Wordle Cerulean Cossack… suddenly obsessing about colours (wait and see!), yennico was the one to ask „What is … a Cerulean Cossack?“. blut_und_glas threw his lot in with him, and together they brainstormed about a dozen options, ranging from the generic to the system-specific and covering pretty much everything from high fantasy to historical gaming and from rules to background to adventure hooks and back again. Continue reading

Miranbrück Part 4

stadtkarte-emptyWelcome to what is probably the penultimate installment of my series on Miranbrück, presenting a German setting for Changeling the Lost. If you are new to the series, the previous articles are worth a look. Part one, two and three.

Last time, we took a look at the leadership of the Miranbrück Freehold. Now, each of the courts gets another representative. Continue reading