{"id":296,"date":"2018-12-15T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2018-12-09T17:44:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T22:44:01","slug":"metatopia-2018-report-part-7-soldiers-serpents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/15\/metatopia-2018-report-part-7-soldiers-serpents\/","title":{"rendered":"Metatopia 2018 Report – Part 7: Soldiers & Serpents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Per usual with all Metatopia recaps, everything presented here is based on playtest material and not final published versions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day 2, continued<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Soldiers & Serpents<\/em>\u00a0by Eric Simon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Eric Simon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Soldiers<\/a>
Around the table, slightly blurry: Phil, Eric, and Rob<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This was an unusual playtest in many ways, but the big one was that the presenter didn't run the game! This session was meant to test some GM-facing materials, so one of the attendees (Phil) was asked to try running the pre-written scenario cold for Eric and I as players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another unusual thing was the sheer gonzo of the setting. In talking with Eric later, I was apparently rare in enjoying it! It's sort of a war-in-Heaven situation, except Heaven was designed by the psychedelic 70s aesthetic and, I don't know, Flash Gordon. I was into it. I didn't know it at the time, but I was later to learn that this game is an RPG adaptation of the setting in the\u00a0Lucifer: Soldiers, Serpents, and Sin<\/a><\/em> series of books by David Taylor II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system was card-based. There was a persistent set of cards that made up the \"character sheet,\" and then there was a shuffle-and-draw deck of cards particular to each character that affected task resolution. Also there were d4s, though modified to come out with 0-3 results instead of 1-4. Plus other dice, a couple gameplay currencies...there was a lot going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This game is also slated for Kickstarter in 2019, and the public beta is currently available<\/a> (for free!). Eric does a lot of cool work, and you can check out more of it at Four-in-Hand Games<\/a>. (I'm personally a big fan of\u00a0Rockalypse<\/em>.) And just since he was the only other attendee at this session, I'll also throw in a plug for my friend Phil Vecchione, whose work you can check out quite a bit of at Misdirected Mark<\/a> (as podcast host) and Encoded Designs<\/a> (as game developer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Per usual with all Metatopia recaps, everything presented here is based on playtest material and not final published versions. Day 2, continued Soldiers & Serpents\u00a0by Eric Simon Presented by Eric Simon This was an unusual playtest in many ways, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[81,6,82,80],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-con-report","tag-eric-simon","tag-metatopia-2","tag-phil-vecchione","tag-soldiers-serpents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/soldiers-serpents-players.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92GDP-4M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}