#failbetter games

[anomalouscorvid]

veils if it was a normal bat

[tessellated-sunl1ght]

An excellent representation of lacking a defined gender if I do say so myself

[bodhrancomedy]

I love Fallen London, but be warned it is a Gothic horror game - cannibalism is a possible plot point and there is a LOT of body horror of the Lovecraftian kind.

[esteemed-excellency]

[chiropteroneironaut]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “the fifth city” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw a talking tiger smoking a hookah

my buddy february, pacing: we have to kill the sun

[triskaideka-13]

Here comes a FREE 50-page custom scenario booklet for BRP / Cthulhu TTRPG based on the lore of #fallen london, a.k.a. your latest unofficial guide to the (be)Neath. A couple of things to keep in mind:

Just so you know, the scenario hasn't gone through the whole playtesting rigmarole yet.

English isn't my first language, so bear with me if you spot a few quirks here and there.

While I've had a blast with Sunless Sea and MoTR, I had to dive into Fallen London wikias to fill in the lore gaps.

The artwork belongs to @failbettergames, except for a handful of images conjured up by Midjourney AI: page 3 (every single one), pages 9-11 (all the portraits), pages 12-17 (yep, all of them), and page 18 (featuring Chelonites, Shroomers, Blemmigans), oh, and also page 35.

The map of London on pages 4-5 has been spiced up with extra spots that may come in handy during a game session!

Having said all that, I'm super open to any cool ideas you might have to make this even better.

You can give it a whirl online on the Homebrewery right now (works best with Chrome).

But if you prefer the Google Docs route, I've also got you covered!

Oh, and there's more! I've started cooking up a complete campaign "Keeper's Guide" to go hand in hand with this booklet. Winter will be the time when we kick off play-testing for that one. So, if you're game, it might be around a year before I can dish it out, along with any tweaks to the custom rules to keep things balanced. Yeah, I know, time flies when you're having fun, right? Cheers to the adventures ahead!

[johnybones56]

I love when Fallen London wants content to not spoil things but it was very clearly written when the concept of what's "late-game" or "a major spoiler" was very different.

It's always saying stuff like "He briefly mentions Parabola but before you can ask what that is he changes the subject" and it's like dude I have a studio apartment there, me and my friends all go birdwatching in Parabola on the weekends, you just need to know which birds are safe to look at.

[snippity]

join me in the april/furnace rarepair hole this tlu city release week

[straightboyfriend2]

The Fallen London/Sunless series would actually be the perfect place for like, anime cat girls to exist, because no one would care. They'd be as miserable and gritty like everyone else.

Like: "Me mate Kevin went to go ponder the Orb That Turns You Into Jellied Eels.... nya" but in the meanest Irish accent you've ever heard

[divineviper]

Sunless Skies is this delightful text adventure/roguelike that's as elegant as it is surprisingly unpretentious, like if you took Lovecraft and Burroughs and removed the collective ugly sticks from their rectums and replaced them with pretty prisms of the entire gender spectrum. It's a little eldritch but not in an edgelord sort of way, and it should really be called Space Choo-choo because that's what I tell everyone I'm playing

[failbettergames]

It was extremely surreal to visit the British Library this week and see Fallen London’s skyline in real life. 

If you want to see it and play the specially-commissioned game we made for the show, and also immerse yourself in more than a hundred exhibits including Neil Gaiman’s Coraline notebook, annotated Terry Pratchett Manuscripts and Gandalf’s Actual Staff from the Films, you should take yourself to see Fantasy: Realms of Imagination before February next year.

[anomalouscorvid]

the dragon of london, perhaps

[friendlyfirestarter]

If this isn't relatable, though

[the-masterless-press]

fleshed out the cats a lil more

[esteemed-excellency]

It's Never Sunny in London

[mashkara45]