MORE GAMES, MORE IDEAS, MORE THINGS TO STEAL

There was a time when gaming magazines delivered a regular assortment of new rules, adventures, monsters, settings, arguments and peculiar ideas—some immediately useful, some gloriously strange, and most destined to be stolen by Games Masters and hammered into whatever shape their campaigns required.

All New Autopsy 002 continues that tradition.

This second issue collects polished and expanded material from the Postmortem Studios blogs, bringing together articles for several different games alongside broader discussions of gaming, fantasy and the ideas behind the hobby.

It is a proper mixed bag in the best possible sense: magic, monsters, adventures, character options, cyberpunk, urban fantasy, low fantasy, supernatural investigators and a spot of social commentary.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

SOCIAL NETWORKING IN GAMES

@ctiv8 examines social networking as part of play, providing ideas for bringing online connections, digital communities and their complications into your games.

BLADESOUL MAGIC

New Bladesoul Magic for Pathfinder and third-edition fantasy games, expanding the possibilities available to characters whose relationship with weapons goes beyond merely hitting people with them.

CANTRIP COMPREHENSIVE

Additional material for Wizkid, exploring the humble cantrip and demonstrating that even the smallest pieces of magic can become useful, flexible and unexpectedly troublesome in inventive hands.

GRIM’S TALES: LOW FANTASY

A look at low fantasy, where magic is rarer, danger is less obligingly balanced and heroes cannot depend upon a convenient resurrection service operating from the local temple.

BARNET FAIR

New material for Neverwhere, delving into another corner of the hidden, folkloric and thoroughly peculiar world beneath and beyond the ordinary city.

LOLIGOTHS

The Loligoths arrive for Bloodsucker, bringing their own distinctive combination of darkness, style and supernatural trouble.

WORMLINGS AND MORE

New creatures and material for Lamentations of the Flame Princess, including Wormlings and other things with which to infest dungeons, wildernesses and the nightmares of insufficiently cautious adventurers.

AN URBAN FAERIE ADVENTURE

A ready-to-use adventure for Urban Faerie, where modern life collides with folklore, magic and creatures that have had centuries to refine their talent for making nuisances of themselves.

MERITS AND FLAWS

New Merits and Flaws for ’45: Psychobilly Retropocalypse, giving characters further advantages, disadvantages and opportunities to become memorable for all the wrong reasons.

DEUS EX IN CYBERPUNK 2020

Ideas for bringing the conspiracies, augmentation, transhumanism and technological intrigue of Deus Ex into Cyberpunk 2020.

The future may be compromised, corporations may control everything and somebody has almost certainly hidden a vital security code in an unlocked office terminal.

RECLAIMING THE ORC

A consideration of the orc: what the creature has represented, what has been done with it and how it might be reclaimed, reinterpreted or put to better use in fantasy gaming.

AGENTS OF SWING

An ersatz Randall and Hopkirk for Agents of SWING, bringing ghostly investigation and supernatural espionage to the already improbable world of Britain’s most stylish secret agents.

THINKING GAMING

Broader thoughts on role-playing games, their design and the way we play them—because occasionally it is worth pausing between arguments about armour class and wondering what we are actually doing.

A GAMING MAGAZINE LIKE WE USED TO HAVE

All New Autopsy 002 is not devoted to a single system or setting. It is intended for curious players, Games Masters and designers who enjoy rummaging through a varied collection of material and emerging with pockets full of ideas.

Use an article exactly as presented. Adapt it to another game. Tear out a creature, rule or concept and graft it onto your current campaign. Read the broader pieces and disagree furiously with them.

That is what gaming magazines are for.

You can find All New Autopsy 002 and the rest of the Autopsy range here.

Cut open the hobby.

See what makes it twitch.