The Forbidden Dice: In Space!

Ada Press Games

Even Dungeon Crawl Classics doesn’t use this one!

I’m writing D13 something for the excellently unhinged LUCKY FOR NONE: IN SPACE!. Yes, D13, a very, very, odd looking dice that doesn’t really roll in the way you might expect and has a really cursed vibe. You should use that link up there to go and back it on Kickstarter. You get an actual D13 when you back it.

LUCKY FOR NONE: IN SPACE! is the follow-up to the equally-as-unhinged-but-much-more-terrestrial LUCKY FOR NONE. For that one I created an antagonistic D13 table that you could roll on and, sometimes, get ‘goblins cubed’. These are comedy horror games that laser-focus on the thrilling joy of… making up absolute nonsense with your friends while rolling some dice about. Will you avert the horrors befalling your town/spaceship? (spoiler: probably not). Will you have a great time as the world ends? (yes!)

We are in space this time round, which means I have a few options for what I can write for the game. We can focus on Alien tropes (D13 things-that-might-burst-from-your-chest), Star Trek jokes (D13 things that the malfunctioning holodeck is trying to get you to do), and something about the other one with the laser swords (D13 body parts you sever from holding it the wrong way round). Or, I could follow my heart and write D13 heart-wrenching moments of loss in space a la Interstellar. That might be a tonal black hole though.

This project is created by my friend C M Lowry and his co-writer Dave Emmerson. They run an excellent publisher and webstore called Beyond Cataclysm. You can even buy my games there, and they helped publish what is technically the 3rd Edition of OTHERSHIP. It’s pretty sick.

BONUS: A Summary of Forbidden Things..
The forbidden dice: D13
The forbidden scale: 11mm
The forbidden fruit: Tomato

Back LUCKY FOR NONE: IN SPACE! here!


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