Unreal Worlds: Drugs and Death on the Rio Grande
Oct 12
So I was going to write a little bit more this week about the weird history of American espionage in the 19th century, but then I got sidetracked by a Mexican death cult. Let me explain. Earlier this week, a Mexican naval special forces unit killed the leader of the Zetas drug gang — Heriberto Lazcano, a.k.a. “el Lazca,” “Zeta 3,” and “the...
Unreal Worlds – A Lost City of Serpent Men
Aug 24If you thought we’d run out of strange myths surrounding the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza last week, you were wrong. Very wrong. There’s certainly something elegantly simple about focusing a game about Chichen Itza (or an entirely fictional homage) around the apparently blood-thirsty Mayan rain-god Chac, who supposedly inhabited the deep, sacrificial wells the city’s...
Unreal Worlds – More Mayan Madness
Aug 17Still hungry for information on lost cities in North America? Good. Because I wrote some more (with a lot of assistance from our own Lucky Duke) about it this week. I have previously suggested that abandoned city-scapes can be great gateways to high weirdness. That makes the city now called Chichen Itza even more interesting, because it’s been abandoned more than once. You’d think...
Unreal Worlds – Mystery in Mexico
Aug 10Although we here at the Illuminerdy think Internet conspiracy theories are great places to go for inspiration for your games, there’s no reason not to reach back into the depths of history for some deeper mysteries. Old things are creepy things, and creepy things make good game hooks. For a real trifecta, look for old, abandoned things that once housed an advanced civilization —...
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