An Uprising in Tunnels & Trolls

So like while I have been futzing around someone else has been busy

So this is where I have been living

 

For all of my discontent, it is actually a good thing.Thessaly Chance-Tracy, Thess (pronounced "Tess" because we're krauty), is the Tesla of T&T while I am the Lee Iacocca of indy game publishing. By "Tesla" I mean the inventor while the publication might as well be the high-end car for rich people to feel good about their contribution towards saving the planet. Meanwhile, I have an idea of what works.

Uprising At Buzzard Gulch


 
Thess's Uprising at Buzzards Gulch has been coming for a while. She has been teasing me with this work for years, eight I think. This year was the year. Not to repeat myself, but the woman keeps adding on more stuff even after I've divided it in multiple parts.

I'd describe it as the spaghetti western take on Ken St Andre's Monsters! Monsters! . There is definitely some parallels between the monsters, or "illkin" as Thess calls them, and America's ethnic minorities (like Chinese, Native Americans, socialists, and cat people to name a few). Basing the heart of the things in a reservation, as in the totally racist construct by the movers and shakers of the 19th Century not calling ahead for a good table, definitely makes the point. While reading it, I felt like I was watching scenes from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly complete with the Ennio Morricone soundtrack. 

Meanwhile, as a GM I couldn't help but be seduced into incorporating elements of the author's setting into my own Red Bat take on M!M!, which has been coming out as Gonzop sessions. The Two-Dragon Queen of Sprigda now has to deal with the Army of Salvation contingent of her human-heavy realms.

I suppose not only am I publisher of this work, I am a member of its fan club.