ALLSWELL, USA: 50231, Townsfolk Geeks and Nerds (plus a plethora of paracosms!)

[Rigel]

Let's get meta!!

 

"Now where were we...let's see. Last session you had crashed Miss Minver's jalopy in the cemetery in your attempt to stop the cult. The Professor's apotropaic rituals and Xiufang's first-aid skills kept you alive while Sirhan's Vickers gun and Lady Rutherford's etheric disruptor devastated the cultists--but not before the high priest's chanting reached a crescendo! An awful rift forms in the fabric of reality, swirling with colors beyond human description--and from it, with a horrible squelching sound and a smell like an electrical fire in an aquarium, a forest of loathsome ichor-slicked tendrils protrude, flailing hungrily towards you! Roll for Sanity!"

 

 

50231 is brilliant, containing three flavors of tabletop geek. These are wonderful sculpts, from the dice bag on the trim GM to the soda in the large gamer's meaty hand to the young lady's minifig case. I feel like I know these people already.

 

 

More pics: 
 

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A furnished basement, much like many others. Shelves of books and trinkets on the wall, a table with a map and several figurines atop it. BUT! this basement is about to become an escape to other, weirder, more adventurous realities!

You know the Nerd from 50091 will be here, maybe the Chick too. Not-Velma most definitely would roll some polyhedral dice.

 

 

When the gang's all present, we can begin!

 

Perhaps on an alternate week, another game:

"The scent of mildew and rock dust is heavy in the air, and the sound of dripping water echoes from somewhere nearby. You would guess Saraneth's sorcerous witch-light, glinting off crystals the size of tree trunks, is the first illumination these caverns have seen since they were formed in the primeval chaos. --Liliander, your elven senses pick up faint movement from beyond this cluster of stalactites--a dark-dwarf ambuscade! Between Red Serris's sword and Ulma's bombs, this shouldn't be much trouble. ...But wait! Vistaril, as the reverberations of your thunderwave subside, they are answered by another...deeper...rumble--coming from below! Everyone make a Dexterity save!"

 

 

Click for more forays into other genres!
 

Spoiler

"Ever since the Decryption Riots of 2035 and the Oligarch Partition that followed, the neon-lit, smog-choked streets of New Cleveland have been a hardscrabble warren of criminality. Maybe you know a guy who knows a guy who's legit, but mostly it's forged licenses and hacked ration cards all the way down. The fat cats in the chrome spires towering above the smog or zooming past your narrow alleys in their sealed black hover-limos live hedonistic lives of ease, willfully ignorant of your wretched struggle. Until tonight. Tonight you are meeting someone, someone with problems money can't legally solve, someone with lots and lots and LOTS of money to pay you to solve things YOUR way. Stealthily. Sneakily. And most of all, deniably."

 

 

"With a shock, a flock of bats whirls up from the necropolis, squeaking in a pitch you can feel rather than hear. Ungainly footfalls crunch and lurch through the brambles. Watchman Holly, your lantern's dim light can pick out details of the approaching shapes--slavering jaws agape under a blank, rubbery absence where a face should be. Welp, good news and bad news, gang. The good news is you've found the ghoul coven and figured out what's been taking the townsfolk. The bad news...oof. Where to start. Brother Hammond, how much holy water did you say you had?"

 

"The ruins of a long-vanished civilization dot the landscape of this rocky moon. Overhead, far bigger than seems possible, its swollen gas-giant primary looms vertiginously as the sister moon drifts above the horizon. Azdala, growing up as you did beneath the opaque Venerian atmosphere, the whole concept of 'sky' is upsetting, let alone planets traveling through it. Deedee, Xelgar, it's no problem for you. Tully and Docbot, roll me a Notice check--Tully, you get advantage due to that enormous eyeball. --You see an object approaching from the distance. The bluish light of this system's sun glints off it as it hovers closer. Static crackles in your earpieces--the thing is hailing you!"

 

"Okay. so you rolled up a sharp-shooting tracker, a cactus-dryad shaman, a good-time Sal turned sawbones, a clockwork automaton gunslinger, and a Holy Joe. No varmints, bandits, or lagartoes? That makes things easier. All right. Welcome, pardners, to the town of Desolation. Arizona territories. The year is 1873, and it's been a dry summer so far."

 

Let's take a bow, nerd to fellow nerd. 

[Dr Boom]

My friend you have outdone yourself. I think that is one of my favourite things I have seen on the forums. I feel frighteningly close to the guy with the ponytail, OSL Mountain Dew bottle and ampersand t-shirt.

[Glitterwolf]

I can only say one thing...

 

 

[Metalchaos]

I love it, the montage idea is brilliant. The free hand on the blonde lady's sweater is very well done too.

[Grand Slam]

You've captured the unearthly glow of citrus soda perfectly!

 

I agree that the pink sweater and D&D logo shirt came out beautifully. Great-looking bunch, here...and an awesome way to display them.

[Thoramel]

Absolutely awesome! I love this.

[Chaoswolf]

THis is really cool!

[Rigel]

Thanks, everybody!

On 6/3/2022 at 8:18 AM, Metalchaos said:

I love it, the montage idea is brilliant. The free hand on the blonde lady's sweater is very well done too.

Hooray! I was happy with the picture-in-word-bubble technique once I got it to work. I must use Word for more artwork than I do actual writing.

Glad you all like the argyle sweater-vest! I should do more of those, perhaps. 

On 6/3/2022 at 8:36 AM, Grand Slam said:

You've captured the unearthly glow of citrus soda perfectly!

I agree that the pink sweater and D&D logo shirt came out beautifully. Great-looking bunch, here...and an awesome way to display them.

Thank you! I knew as soon as I saw the mini that the bottle was going to glow like a radioactive lime. It's not how the Dew actually do, but it feels true. 
 

On 6/3/2022 at 5:21 AM, Dr Boom said:

My friend you have outdone yourself. I think that is one of my favourite things I have seen on the forums. I feel frighteningly close to the guy with the ponytail, OSL Mountain Dew bottle and ampersand t-shirt.

Thank you very much; that is high praise indeed! Wish I had that shirt, to be honest. Any resemblance is purely coincidental, but that guy IS coincidentally very close to a few fellows I know, too. I love his expression.

 

Glad you enjoy!

[Iridil]

So super cool! Such imagnination and the ability/follow through to execute.... now I want to make one! Inspiring

[Rigel]

On 6/6/2022 at 4:48 PM, Iridil said:

So super cool! Such imagination and the ability/follow through to execute.... now I want to make one! Inspiring

Thank you and please do; I'd love to see your versions! I made a number of stock RPG genres but neglected Gritty Urban Horror, Steampunk, Grimdark Future, Sword and Sorcery, Paranoid Backstabbing Dystopia, Sword and Soul, Weird Teen Romance, and Stone Age settings.