{"id":303,"date":"2018-12-17T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2018-12-09T22:03:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T03:03:54","slug":"metatopia-2018-report-part-8-untitled-urban-fantasy-tarot-based-rpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/metatopia-2018-report-part-8-untitled-urban-fantasy-tarot-based-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Metatopia 2018 Report – Part 9: Descent Into Midnight"},"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 3, continued<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Descent Into Midnight<\/i>\u00a0<\/span>by Rich Howard, Richard Kreutz-Landry, and Taylor LaBresh<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Presented by Taylor LaBresh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Descent<\/a>
Around the table: Rob, Elizabeth, Amber, Taylor, Ron, Dave, Neal, and Josh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I've been hearing about\u00a0Descent Into Midnight<\/em>\u00a0for quite some time now, but this is the first chance I've had to play it, and honestly it feels like the game is pretty mature to me. This is a Powered by the Apocalypse game about undersea alien civilizations. There are no humans in this game, which I appreciate; it's a totally alien environment, and you can go\u00a0wild<\/em>\u00a0with the character creation. Owing to the PbtA nature of the system, the mechanics are heavily about narrative, so the...physics, let's say...of the individual characters aren't so much a big deal. You can really let your imagination roam when designing your character's species. One of our characters (mine) was basically a featureless sea slug, while another was pretty much a miles-long tentacle anchored in the space where the rest of us lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Taylor<\/a>
Taylor portraying a grumpy talking crab<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The game is highly focused on the emotional experiences of the characters and the community they are a part of. It promotes a lot of problem-solving and caring during play. The pregame includes collaborative worldbuilding (and mapbuilding!) which you know I enjoy. This particular playtest also featured an eye-popping seven players, which I think pushed the limits of things a little, but it was still a good time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor himself is an excellent guy, a tremendous GM, and also a vocal proponent of all things queer in tabletop. I encourage you to explore his many fine works over at Riverhouse Games<\/a>, including his excellent interview podcast\u00a0Game Closet<\/em>. Plus keep an eye out for his upcoming game\u00a0Thirteen Demon Princes<\/em>, to which I am also a proud contributor!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I'm looking forward to seeing Descent Into Midnight<\/em> get completed, of course, and have been for a while. You can find a bunch more information about the game (including free downloads of the playtest materials) at the Descent Into Midnight<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/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 3, continued Descent Into Midnight\u00a0by Rich Howard, Richard Kreutz-Landry, and Taylor LaBresh Presented by Taylor LaBresh I've been hearing about\u00a0Descent … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304,"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":[84,6,86,87,85],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-con-report","tag-descent-into-midnight","tag-metatopia-2","tag-rich-howard","tag-richard-kreutz-landry","tag-taylor-labresh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/descent-into-midnight-players.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92GDP-4T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dodecahedroid.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}