The Red Scare is in full effect. The words “atomic” and “bomb” are on everyone’s lips. This could be the 1950s we all know, except everything is cranked up: the paranoia, the pop culture, the fear of global destruction. Everyone is a little more protective over their homeland, fearful of the neighbors, and when word spreads of the Soviets consorting with aquatic monsters, it doesn’t take long for the rumors to gain traction.
They Came from Beneath the Sea! is a tabletop roleplaying game in which the players, as humans, live in a world under increasing attack. The attackers? Aliens from beneath the sea, obviously!
Adventures can range from the one-shot defense of small coastal town, to the lengthier liberation of a cruise ship invested with gill-kin, all the way to a campaign in which characters seize an alien submarine and ride it all the way down to the sea bed to take the fight to the invaders.
In this game, the protagonists are strong-jawed war veterans, cunning and resourceful explorers, utterly insane scientists, and blue-collar heroes, just looking to defend their patches of land. Each appears as in the B-movie classics of the era, providing a wealth of inspiration for the kinds of characters you’ll play in this game.
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We return for another media spotlight blog, with our focus once again returning to the wonderful, costumed, talented crew of Devil’s Luck Gaming! The Spotlight This week’s spotlight goes once again to the fine folks of Devil’s Luck Gaming, who are about to start a thrilling new actual play of both Adventure! and Assassins for … Read more
Welcome back to our media spotlight blog, with this week’s light shining on character creation videos and their uses! The Spotlight In our time producing videos and having other people kindly make videos for us, we’ve found an interesting trend: character creation videos are really popular! It turns out a lot of roleplayers find the … Read more
In which the trio watches and comments on Hercules and the Haunted World (1961) and Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966) to celebrate their 200th episode along with the They Came from the Double Feature Kickstarter! Hercules and the Haunted World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJocIkX2WEI Special Mission Lady Chaplin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghwnn0OG2as Links: They Came from the Double Feature Kickstarter!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/they-came-from-the-cyclopss-cave-and-classified … Read more
In which the trio reunites to chat about the two They Came From! games currently on Kickstarter: They Came from [CLASSIFIED]! and They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave! We’re back together! Children’s and corporation-based video games Lots of talk about older video games A segue! They Came from [CLASSIFIED]! Art of [CLASSIFIED]! A bit on … Read more
Live now on Kickstarter! The They Came From… tabletop roleplaying games take your favorite movies, television shows, and pop culture touchstones and turn them into action-packed and wise-cracking opportunities to tell your own versions of these cinematic stories. Previous releases have explored B-movie atomic horror from the 1950s (They Came from Beneath the Sea!) and twisted tales … Read more
Welcome back to our media spotlight blog, with this week’s light shining on all the fun we’ve had making trailers for the They Came From games! The Spotlight Maybe it’s a little self-indulgent to highlight out own content, but hell, in the run up to the They Came from [CLASSIFIED]! and They Came from the … Read more
Welcome back to our media spotlight blog, with this week’s light once again shining on the fine folks at Simulacra Studios! The Spotlight Yes, we’ve covered the work of Simulacra Studios before, but don’t let that stop you from checking them out for the first time. They’re arguably the best group of Aberrant actual players … Read more
Now available in print: The Rich Bastard’s Guide to Magick for Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition! Spend it while you’ve got it. This Mage 20th Anniversary Edition sourcebook expands on the mystique of the elite with an exploration of how the real movers and shakers operate when you throw magick into their world as … Read more
We return for another media blog, with the focus this week being on the fine crew over at Dork Tales! The Spotlight To coincide with the successful M20: Lore of the Traditions Kickstarter we currently have running, Dork Tales have only just begun a fantastic Mage: The Ascension actual play over on their Twitch channel! … Read more
As threatened seen on a recent Onyx Pathcast! Now available in PDF: Storypath Tasty Bit: They Came from the Snake-Filled Submarine! for They Came from Beneath the Sea! Snakes are bad news at the best of times, but nobody wants snakes in their submarine. Nobody but a Director of They Came From Beneath the Sea!, that … Read more