Episode 349: Bad Odds in a Balloon
June 21st, 2019 | Robin
In the Gaming Hut Patreon backer Ethan Schoonover asks us to explain the bespoke game terms we use, from F20 to GMC. Mikko Airaksinen puts a chill in the History Hut with his request for the esoteric scoop behind the Swedish North Pole Expedition of 1897. Our epic spate of Ken and Robin Recycle Audio excerpts from Carcosa Con concludes with a look at Robin’s build-out of the Chambers mythos into The Yellow King Roleplaying Game. Finally backer Chris Kalley, seconded by Jay Tea, asks the Consulting Occultist to blow the lid off magical Buenos Aires. Want to pose a question to the show? Get your priority question asking access with your support for the KARTAS Patreon! Snag Ken and Robin merchandise at TeePublic.Over the Edge, the twisted game of counter-culture conspiracy, returns in a completely remagined edition by its original creator, Jonathan Tweet. Grab it wherever fine Atlas Games are sold, on June 1st.
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Thank you Jay Tea for your seconding 🙂
No problem. The second you proposed the question I realised that I’ve also wondered about that for ages but whenever I try and think of good questions my mind blanks !
I ran across that Swedish balloon expedition in Richard Holmes’s Falling Upwards — a very handy book for a GM contemplating any sort of 18th-19th century balloon adventuring. See also the Napoleonic propaganda disaster and the American Civil War intel ops, for examples.
By the way, hydrogen is an element.