the-last-tour

Short post this week – Orcacon was this weekend and consumed most of my available weekend braincells. I wrote up two more People cards and started working on something to generate playtest cards. (For the geeky: the cards live in Obsidian, using YAML frontmatter for metadata, and I can pump that into HTML templates and then convert the HTML to PDFs easily enough.) Whitney I’m Whitney, and they pay me to make them look good. They’re not bright enough to know that’s why they pay me, but it is. I don’t get high before I go on stage, I don’t sleep with underage fans, and I’m a good musician. And I am so tired of seeing no-talent idiots like Jay getting royalties for albums he barely plays on just because he went to school with the almighty Robin. I wonder what it would take for Jay to get fired? ...

Short week but I wanted to get started! Today I have the first draft of the relationship map I’m using to design my People cards, and the first three of those cards. We’ll start with the former. I took a pretty straightforward approach here: I made up 12 band members and associates and made sure they each had one clear point of relationship friction with another person. By keeping track on the map, I made sure there weren’t any tight closed loops. You don’t want to set something up where three people hate each other and none of them have any connections to anyone else in the band. I wound up with one grouping of four people who’re unconnected to the rest of the band anyhow. ...

So the other day I mouthed off on Bluesky about a game I’ve been wanting to write for a year or so: Oh crap. Well… let me be gentle with myself. 1 game I want to make in 2026: - Just A Rock and Roll Band (a rock band’s final tour, using @bullypulpithq.bsky.social’s Desperation engine) — Bryant Durrell (@innocence.com) 2025-12-24T03:29:54.077Z I played Jason Morningstar’s Desperation twice with friends the other year and loved it. I have a couple of ideas for hacks rattling around in my head; the less ambitious one is The Last Tour, which will capture a fading rock band making a comeback tour in Europe in the late 1970s. And failing, of course. Now I’ve gone and told the world in an attempt to pressure myself into getting it done. ...