Ultraviolet Grasslands & the Black City - Session One

 

Here's your chance to catch up before the next session of Ultraviolet Grasslands & the Black City on Sunday April 25th, 2021 with video and podcasts of Session One.

The Heroes made it to the Porcelain Citadel, took a side gig, found a rusted iron ring, avoided a swarm of Vampiric Humming Spiders, crept through a field of Bloodflowers and explored an ancient ruin...

You can find recorded replays over at the Antagonist Relations Youtube channel...

Edited podcasts versions will also start appearing in the Antagonist Relations Podcast Feed...

And of course, you can watch the next session live on Twitch.tv/AntagonistRelations the Fourth Sunday of every month from 3pm-7pm Central. 

Ultraviolet Grasslands & the Black City - Session Zero

 

I ran Session Zero for the streaming Ultraviolet Grasslands & the Black City campaign that I'm streaming on Twitch.tv/AntagonistRelations on Sunday 2/28 and got it edited to share...

You can find recorded replays over at the new Antagonist Relations Youtube channel...

Edited podcasts versions will also start appearing in the Antagonist Relations Podcast Feed...

And of course, you can watch upcoming sessions live on Twitch.tv/AntagonistRelations the Fourth Sunday of every month from 3pm-7pm Central. 

Streaming UVG - 4th Sunday of each Month

Starting tomorrow, 2/28/2021, I'll be streaming a campaign of the Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City on Twitch on the Fourth Sunday of each month, from 3pm-7pm CT. Full list of dates and times on the Calendar of Events. 

...Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City is a tabletop role-playing game, half setting, half adventure, and half epic trip; inspired by psychedelic heavy metal, the Dying Earth genre, and classic Oregon Trail games. It leads a group of ‘heroes’ into the depths of a vast and mythic steppe filled with the detritus of time and space and fuzzy riffs.

This is an experiment for me, I've done some streaming for Extra Life and ones for the Known World United Twitch channel, but this will be the first ongoing stream I run. I am hoping it will not only be fun to run and play, but also to watch.

I hope to edit slightly and publish them as podcasts or maybe even youtube videos, but that will require a little time and effort so I don't want to commit to a release date until I know what I can deliver. 

As I've been prepping the game, I've made a 3 mix for the UVG Radio to provide more musical inspiration for the campaign.

#	Artist	Track
1	Thou	Black Sabbath
2	Emma Ruth Rundle	Marked For Death
3	Frayle	Ring of Fire
4	Cara Neir	Four Seasons in a Day
5	Jeremiah Sand	Golden Fervor
6	Here Lies Man	I Wander
7	Emmanuelle Parrenin / Detlef Weinrich	Zombie’s Passport
8	Adzes	A Forest
9	ISOTROPÍA	Feast in Time of Plague
10	Senyawa	Istana
11	Terry Gross	Worm Gear
12	Seven that Spells	Terminus Est
13	Enslaved	Immigrant Song

UVG Radio Volume 2

 

A second mix of tunes selected as inspiration for my newly started Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City games.

I'll be streaming a campaign of the Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City on Twitch on the Fourth Sunday of each month, starting 2/28, from 3pm-7pm CT. Full list of dates and times on the Calendar of Events. 

#	Artist	Track
1	The Comet Is Coming	Because The End Is Really The Beginning
2	The Young Gods	Gasoline Man (Megadrive Mix)
3	hackedepicciotto	Third From the Sun
4	Earth	Rooks Across the Gate
5	Ganser	Bags For Life
6	The Legendary Pink Dots	The Brightest Star
7	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Polygondwanaland
8	Undersmile	Spore
9	Current 93	Inerrant Infallible (Black Ships at Nineveh and Edom)
10	Militia Vox	SYRENNE
11	Bong-Ra	Amun [Hidden Chambers]
12	Free Nelson MandoomJazz	Black Sabbath
13	Circle	Terminal

So Many Games... So Little Time (to blog)...

 

Some games I hope to run during 2021...

I keep meaning to update here more... I had a week off earlier in January but spent a lot of it away from my home office taking a much needed break from sitting at a desk staring at computer screens for 8-12 hours a day. (Though I did devour the excellent Raised By Wolves while laying on a couch staring at a TV screen...)

More than needing a break, though, I'm realizing that most of my RPG energy these days is spent on actually running games, something that I did a metric-fuck-ton of during 2020. With alternating 5th Edition D&D games running Saturday Afternoons, games most Thursday evenings, every other Wednesday, a couple of stints running games every other Sunday morning and at least one one-shot game each month plus the one to two games I play in... well, I average two to three games per week most weeks...

While the downside of all this gaming is less blogging, the upside was running a lot of games, including a bunch of games I hadn't run before. Here is a quick break down...

• Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition

• I'd run CoC back in high school, so that would have been back in the 5th edition was still relatively new.. Ending up running several one shots and a short campaign and definitely think it works best in the one shot format. Highlight was running The Lightless Beacon, a free one shot scenario which is where I'd recommend starting if you're interested in running (also conveniently free on Roll20).

• The Quiet Year

• Ran (or facilitated rather, as its GM-less) this post-apocalyptic map game using Roll20 and would definitely give it another whirl. It is on my list of backup games for when my groups are down a few players.

• The Sprawl

• Finally ran a one-shot of the Sprawl, the Powered by the Apocalypse Cyberpunk Game and was pleasantly surprised at how well it worked, even in a one-shot. Many PbtA games really take more than one session to get cooking, but ran a one-shot using the Downtown Dataheist quickstart mission and had a blast.

• tremulus

• also ran the Cthulhu mythos themed PbtA game, tremulus, using the Ebon Eaves scenario and it was fine? Would try it again, but really, what I'm jonesin' to run is the frozen wasteland playset.

• Fiasco!

• Had played the original version, but the revised version that swaps in cards in place of dice was a marked improvement and quite enjoyed running through the Suburbia scenario and looking forward to being able to game in person again to take advantage of having the big boxed set and all the expansion packs.

• The Forest Hymn and Picnic

• I've now run the Last Winter Holiday quick-start adventure included in A Cursory Guidebook To The Forest Hymn & Picnic twice now and each time was a lot of fun, so I cannot wait until the full game is done and I can run a party through a campaign of the Forest Hymn and Picnic...

• Alien the Roleplaying Game

• This was the big one that I went into 2020 determined to run after getting it late in 2019... and run it I did... I ran six separate one shots of Alien, plus the Destroyer of World module as a three session mini-campaign. The system is pretty elegant and cinematic and I fully intend do a fuller review sometime soon.