Saturday, March 16, 2019

1d6 Crapsack Setting Ideas Based on Kids' Shows

The below was posted on G+, a summary of a Cracked article that took dark and dystopian interpretations of kid's shows.

1. Economic slump where educated criminals run outlandish schemes in the face of a failed meritocratic system of skill-> employment transitions. (Scooby Doo)
2. Crapsaccharine dystopia in the skies, unseen nightmarish landscapes below (the Jetsons)
3. A twin universe whose karmic pairing seems to eliminate free will (Darkwing Duck)
4.. A world where nobody decides when to have children, and where children grow up in isolation from peers (The Smurfs)
5. Eternal war brought on by the ability for anyone to gain temporary superpowers (Popeye)
6. You die and come back to haunt your old house, get bagged by for-profit spectral exterminators, and get condemned to eternal hell with the ghosts of murderers, gangsters, pirates, demons, elder things, and worse (The Real Ghostbusters)

Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Collected Gamable Links

Below are links filled with gameable ideas and tools collected throughout the years of Google Plus, now stored here for posterity.

Gaming sites and links
Castlevania board game (fanmade) 
Creatures of Poppy Road
Giants vs. dragons vs. worm (a cosmology)
Monster Pamphlets
Neural network designed spell names
Power Ranger Fighter
Resurrection effects
RPG Tinker- D&D 5e NPC Generator
Silly campaigns: high school tankery
Why would the BBEG want a baby?

History and Mythology
Archaeologists go hightech to solve 2,500 cold case 
Belphegor 
Benjamin Lay, abolitionist and forgotten prophet 
Bohemian earspoon 
Boudica the warrior queen 
DNA analysis of ancient excrement reveals the diets of ages past 
Dodecahedrons baffle archaeologists 
Fabled "gate to Hell" really did kill people-and now we know why 
Goat helps prove magic is fake 
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Russian scientist who tried to inseminate chimps with human semen 
King Tut's space metal dagger
Magic potato collection at English museum 
Mausoleum of Victorian Egyptologist believed to be a time machine 
Medieval Death Bot 
Medieval knights fight giant snails and nobody knows why
Mississippi River map, 1864 
Naomi Uemura, extraordinary Japanese adventurer and explorer 
Nightmarish things people used to do for fun before electricity 
Prehistoric cave contains 6,000 year old cave  
Prohibition and Voyageurs National Park 
Seven hundred year old tunnel used by Knights Templar found beneath rabbit hole 
Tristan da Cunha (remote island) 
Uninhabited and mysterious islands with bizarre pasts 
Vampire pumpkins and watermelons 
Victorian slang terms we should definitely bring back 
World's last feudal lord outsmarted the nazis to protect her people 

Media and Popular Culture
Bogleech.com 
Crazy Monster Designs (nightmarish sentai monster costume designs) 
Creative Uncut- video game art and pictures 
Custom mapmaker 
Five most mysterious video games 
Flame Warriors Guide 
Goast (Ghostbusters fan wiki) 
Goliath serum (Venture Bros. fan wiki) 
Hungarian posters for popular movies 
Mashup jigsaw puzzle art 
Nightmarish animal photoshop mashups 
Scariest urban legends from every state
Six Classic Kids Shows Secretly Set in Nightmarish Universes 
Terrible maps 
Twisted princesses 
Yellow Site (Hastur Mythos Wiki)  

Nature and Science

Australian birds have weaponized fire
Cloud seeding
Cotard delusion 
Cyborg cockroaches may be future emergency responders
Fire ants self organize to build towers to reach safety
Golden chamber holds water so pure it can dissolve metal, helps scientists find dying stars
Hindsight bias
Hypatia stone contains compounds not found in this solar system
Inside the lab where spiders put on face paint and fake eyelashes
Mars liquid water lake revealed
Mountain goats on your trail? They like you, and your urine
Mutated gene associated with colon cancer discovered in 1700s Hungarian mummy
Mysterious sound comes from depths of Antarctic ice shelf
Shrew vs. snake: animals attack
Small asteroid discovered orbiting around earth
What moves gravel sized gypsum across the desert?

News Stories
Bug spray kills spider, spawns nightmare
Bones, caskets unearthed by Sandy
Chatbots develop own language, Facebook disables AI system
Eyeworm found in woman's eye previously only found in cattle
Girl suffers seizures after brain becomes infected with tapeworms
Knife angel built over two years using 10,000 weapons 
Manson's blood relatives seek legal custody of his body to lay him to rest
Montclair Mansion sells for $10, but buyer must move it
Pable Escobar's hippos now wander Columbian wilderness
Salvador Dali's body exhumed because tarot card reader claims Dali is her father
Tapeworm five footer slithers out of man who ate raw fish almost every day 
Treasure hunters seek eccentric's hidden two million $ bounty
"Zombie raccoons" spotted in Northeast Ohio