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After Hours: Aesthetic Games
🕑 Added 2022-08-09 20:13:42 +0000 UTCThe Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute (CARI) is an amazing website that categorizes popular aesthetic trends from the last 70 years in pop culture. Baz, Thad, and I browsed through the categories and used them to come up with ideas for new RPGs, campaigns for existing RPGs, D&D source books, and board games.
If you're interested in learning more about aesthetics and vaporwave, check out Night Clerk Radio
Aesthetics mentioned in the episode:
Ross
- A new RPG - UrBling - https://cari.institute/aesthetics/urbling - Speed lines - race cars fueled by magic ley lines - use them for fast and furious heists or fighting the man. Control a ley line nexus for control of a neighborhood or even an entire city.
- A campaign for an existing RPG - Disco Deco https://cari.institute/aesthetics/disco-deco - alternate campaign model for Blades in the Dark - PCs are secret worships of a festival god and want to enact a year long rite to bring joy and
- A D&D source book - any type - https://cari.institute/aesthetics/utopian-scholastic - The Museum of Eternity - a family friendly edutainment mega dungeon campaign - PCs are a tourist group - character class by archetype (fighter/tank is the dad, cleric is the mom, DPS is the bratty sibling, crowd control is the βmatureβ kid etc. Dungeon levels are by exhibit type. Example: Whatzupwitu - Eddie Murphy ft. Michael Jackson (1993)
- A board or card game vaporwave https://cari.institute/aesthetics/vaporwave - bag building game - itβs about pulling out tokens in a certain ratio - the idea is to be balanced between anxiety and comfort - each token gives an anxiety or comfort point and players get a point for each matched pair. Each player has 4 slots and if one column fills up, their turn is over. Tokens have different powers once drawn - look at the next token and you may return if you want before placing it, return the last anxiety or comfort token, look inside bag, and force opponent to return a matched pair.
Baz
- https://cari.institute/aesthetics/pulp-fantasy
- https://cari.institute/aesthetics/corporate-grunge-grunge
- https://cari.institute/aesthetics/industrial-gothic
Thad
- https://cari.institute/aesthetics/blob-world
- https://cari.institute/aesthetics/corporate-grunge-grunge
- https://cari.institute/aesthetics/polychrome
- https://cari.institute/aesthetics/airbrush-surrealism
Music: A Secret Meeting/Edrics Precience by L A N D S R A A D
Comments
Ross Payton
thanks for the catch! I've corrected the link.
Eli S
The last hyperlink (airbrush surrealism) points at Blob World. Just an FYI.
Fluxington
This is a brilliant idea
