Electric Bastionland Art

Together we ll discuss the rules of electric bastionland and whether simpler always means better.

Electric bastionland art. And blades in the dark. It touches on everything i love about troika. Today i m joined by artist alec sorensen a familiar name to anybody that s been reading the book already. Today i m joined by john harper designer of blades in the dark lasers feelings and lady blackbird.

Together we ll discuss how he brought the world of bastionland to life with a distinct visual style and go into more detail on a few favourite pieces. Talk around into the odd and electric bastionland inevitable spins back towards classes every now and then. You do the math. Electric bastionland is a roleplaying game written by chris mcdowall author of the critically acclaimed into the odd.

This series is dubbed niche explorer and i ll be welcoming a new guest each week to dip into their particular niche of tabletop gaming. The second episode of the audio commentaries to accompany the electric bastionland tabletop rpg. For the first episode i was joined by joseph mccullough of frostgrave fame where we talked about miniature wargaming and its relationship with rpgs. One of the key ways i m presenting the setting in electric bastionland is through spark tables.

Find more of alec s art here. It uses and expands upon the systems developed in into the odd resulting in a rules set that s easy to run as a referee and even easier to play. The fourth episode of the audio commentaries to accompany the electric bastionland tabletop rpg. Electric bastionland has the same speed and simplicity but moves bastion into the electric age ramping up the flavour into a 300 page hardback.

Chris mcdowall s electric bastionland is a beautiful groovy game that spun out of into the odd the mechanics are dead simple and the setting is based in a sprawling electro fantasy city. The book is 300 pages long. The book gives detailed but simple instructions for creating districts and other zones to explore. Each background is a 2 page spread.

Electric bastionland has 100 backgrounds. Thanks goes to chris mcdowall for creating into the odd and electric bastionland david black for the black hack 2nd edition the bastionland discord for remarkable ideas and feedback the yawning sea of pulp fantasy and science fiction authors of the 19th and 20th centuries for their communal wellspring of weird tales and my young son who. I stand by the foreground growth philosophy of electric bastionland but sometimes it s still fun to have that traditional class based advancement.