RPG Brainstorming: Nu Sinistra

Working on fresh Humanspace Empires RPG stuff in-between a few other projects led us to another old post from the Netherwerks blog that didn't make the transition cleanly. Speculating about the space opera pre-history of Prof. M. A. R. Barker's brainchild Tekumel is all well and good (and quite a lot of fun!)...but what happens if...when...the Lords of Humanspace begin to reconnect with those 770 or so worlds that got 'lost'?

Now that could form the basis of a really intense Space Opera/Sword & Planet mash-up RPG that we'd really like to see...

Reconciliation and Apocalypse during the End of All Known History as powerful interstellar forces reconnect, reconnoiter and forcibly recover hundreds of lost worlds severed from the main universe during a cosmic disaster that plunged them all into their own pocket domains for millennia.  Not all those worlds that have been lost want to be rediscovered or recovered.  One in particular is fighting back and they have gods on their side...

(...With 700+ possible worlds to go muck around with, you don't even have to screw-up Tekumel. Neat.)

Bujilli Continues...

We've just posted the 27th episode of Bujilli today. Every Thursday brings a new episode of Bujilli, hand-crafted from your comments and feedback. Thanks to all of you have been playing along, both those who comment and those are following Bujilli's continuing adventures. Especially now that he's enrolling in the Academy at Wermspittle...

Ahem

Here are some links for those who'd like to know a little bit more about Bujilli:

About Bujilli
Who is Bujilli?
Bujilli's Character Sheet
(currently we're using Labyrinth Lord, but Pathfinder, DCC RPG & other systems are being considered...)
How to Play

Feel free to drop in over at the Hereticwerks blog and check up on Bujilli (or any of our other projects). We consult all the comments on the previous episode before beginning a new one, giving readers a full week to consider the options, discuss matters a bit, and help us decide what happens next. As always, You Decide what happens next.

Five Hundred New Fairytales from Germany

The amazing collection of 500 fairytales gathered by folklorist and historian Franz Xaver von Schönwerth has been locked away in an archive in Regensburg, Germany for over 150 years. Jacob Grimm referred to von  Schönwerth as the only person in the world who could possibly replace him or his brother. Now that's high praise. You can read more about this incredible treasure-trove of obscure, once-lost fairytales at The Guardian. They also have a sample fairytale from the collection available for their readers: The Turnip Princess. Good stuff.