Month: May 2020
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Quarantine Gaming: Terraforming Mars
As part of our quarantine coping, Joy and I are busting out two-player and solo board games to pass the time. We’re a bit late to the party on this one, but we recently picked up Terraforming Mars by Stronghold Games and tried it on for size. The setup for a two player game was…
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Diversity Consulting for Legion of Liberty
Because Legion of Liberty: Superheroes of 1776 was set in an alternate colonial America, a number of thorny issues were inevitably going to come up in the setting – slavery, treatment of indigenous peoples, and gender issues. As a middle-aged privileged white guy, I recognized a high probability of mis-steps in this arena. Fortunately, I…
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Happy MonsterCast Episode 25: A Beauty, a Beast, and a Baron
SET A1-2 runs into two refugees who ask for help in freeing a town from an oppressive baron. Featuring Frankie, Jung Soo, Brendan, Frank, and Bob of the Roll20 Gang. Thumbnail by Artemii Myasnikov
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Support Doctors Without Borders
Happy Monster Press is proud to be part of the DriveThruRPG charity bundle supporting Doctors without Borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our book, Legion of Liberty: Superheroes of 1776, along with over $600 worth of other RPG goodness, is included in the bundle.
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Relics and Rayguns Session 8: The Ringworld
The crew of the Blind Jump has arrived in the Tlaina system, the only known wormhole exit node in their mysterious list of coordinates. The Tlainax are an ancient spacefaring species; they are very unusual among sentients in that they are both aquatic and herbivorous. Two million years ago, they reprocessed the materials of their…