General Update (Icon0clasm and more!)
Back from wherever I was! First, I’d like to call attention and give thanks to those of you who have submitted projects to the Icon0clasm Ball (extended to end of the year for my sake!): Songs for Polymede ( Oleander Garden ): I was fully gagged when I saw this project submitted. It’s freak shit in the most delightful way: a module whose setting is encoded through fictional myths in poetry and prose, combined with new rules for manufacture and trade, and a possible elaboration of 0E ’s combat rules. Transsexual body politics meets Capital-as-God meets neko goblins. This is a really fascinating setting which I’d love to explore someday, and the way in which it transforms (or, as Oleander puts it, tortures) OD&D reflects the material culture of the original work, being in line with the form factor of the 1975 supplements. The Hidden Chains of Command ( Anteater ): This is a really fascinating critique of FMC as a facsimile of Chainmail and OD&D . Specifically, t...