What’s the best way to forget there’s that project you were supposed to be working on?

Start another one, duh.

My New Bucket

As you can tell from the picture, I bought myself some new dice.

Fluffy Bunny PL

I translated Fluffy Bunny, a cute, cuddly and highly amusing bunny game by Emily Care Boss and Ben Lehman, into Polish.

You can download the document here.

Enjoy!

The UnSpeakable Hacking Fever

Through the past few weeks a wave of unspeakable creative madness swept over Indie Explosion! forum. Everybody, simply everybody, is hacking InSpectres and UnSpeakable these days. Nearly twenty hacks were already discussed, and some of them got actually fleshed out and playtested. So far, so good, but this freight train doesn’t seem to stop.

I think bunnies must have caused it with their minds.

So far, only my Gurren Lagann hack is available in English, though I might translate more of them eventually. Either way, here’s the current list of our hacks:

• BloodSpectres, a vampire hunters hack by Jacek Golebiowski.
• Bomb New York, a terrorist hack by Kamil Wegrzynowicz.
• InDiana Jones, a pulp adventure hack by Kutak.
• InDungeons, my old school dungeon crawl hack.
• InHeroes, a superhero hack by WitchDoctor.
• InVestigators, a detective story hack by Szabel.
• IronSpectres by vh, based on the cult movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
• MageSpectres, a discussion on converting Mage: the Ascension, including one complete hack proposed by vh.
• Mission Rush! by Jacek Golebiowski, a mercenaries hack posted some months ago.
• Pirates! by Szabel, a pirate hack, harr!
• PostApocalypse a post-apocalyptic survival hack by Magdalena Wilamowska.
• The UnSpeakable Berserk, my attempt at emulating grim dark fantasy in the vein of Berserk.
• The UnSpeakable Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, my over-the-top heaven-drilling mecha drama based on Gurren Lagann anime. This hack is also available in English here.
• UnConquered, my conversion of Exalted. It’s over nine thousand!!!
• UnHollow, a shinigami hack by Jacek Golebiowski, based on Bleach.
• Samurai 7 by Jacek Golebiowski, based on the awesome anime series of the same title.
• WarSpectres FRP, my unspeakable conversion of Warhammer FRP.

Down The Rabbit Hole

I’ve just finished a major cleanup.

First of all, the name of the blog changes to Awesome Bunny Games.

I finally got weary of Absolute Reality Creations and wanted a more cute and, uh, energizing appearance for my home site. It goes well with the recent bunny mania on Indie Explosion! forum, too. The bunny meme is slowly becoming symbolic for the Polish indie scene, and so the new name feels quite fitting to me.

A change of the header image follows. Enough of the eclipse, time for an ass-kicking gun bunny, hopping to new levels of awesome! Let’s just hope he’ll take my projects along. Needless to say, I’m pretty fond of the new header.

My initial plan was to use a fluffy picture of some cute little bunny, but dissatisfied with most of the freely available images I started looking for something more, hmm, awesome. Imagine my surprise when just after concluding there was no way to find a nice Public Domain gun bunny picture, I was suddenly granted this awesome clip art by fickle Google gods. Just too cool!

The blog certainly required a serious cleanup. I improved the general presentation a bit, updated links, reorganized the categories, removed some redundant posts (mainly less interesting APs, posted in different places anyway) and tagged the rest. Now, it’s shiny like new.

^_^

UnSpeakable PL

Polish edition of Jared A. Sorensen’s and Zak Arnston’s UnSpeakable, the only Lovecraftian game you’ll ever need, is now available for download here at DDR site. This short supplement was translated by me and edited, laid out and electronically published by Jacek Golebiowski. It’s a perfect complement to InSpectres PL and makes for a nice addition to the growing pool of indie games available in Polish.

The UnSpeakable Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Believe in yourself. Not you, who believes in me. Not me, who believes in you. Believe in you, who believes in yourself!

Kamina

The UnSpeakable Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is a short set of rules intended to emulate the over-the-top heaven-drilling mecha drama of the acclaimed anime series titled, duh, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Or, in other words, it can be used to play something kind of like that.

 

 

[DitV] Ninja Princess Usagi-chan Episode 3: Gozaru! You Can’t Stop Bamboo From Growing

We played the third town of our Ninja Princess Usagi-chan game just before Christmas. The players were Kamil and Magda this time. It took us two short sessions over the weekend, about six hours in total. This includes an hour or so Kamil needed to create and initiate his new bunny ninja princess.

A pretty fun town.

I’ve been looking for signs of burning out, as that’s already eight sessions with the bunnies, including character creation and initiation meetings. Normally I’m starting to get weary of a game after five sessions or so. In this case, no signs of it yet. The longish break for PTA we took in between might have had something to do with it, however.

A Game of Ontological Romance

I recently made a mock-up cover for Illumination. Hey, after a year of work I deserve at least this, don’t I?

At this point, I still want to play it once or twice more to eliminate possible major game-breaking bugs before I go public with the rules. However, I think the current version is generally playable and hope to have an early playtest document written in English soon. Anyway, until I move to a proper ashcan stage, which I don’t expect to happen in less than six months, the cover below should be fine.

(Click for a big version.)

As you can see, I’m adding an exclamation mark to the title, to convey a more energetic and enthusiastic vibe.

A Handbook Fetish?

I had a dream. A beautiful dream it was.

What I dreamed of was a psionic bunny princess handbook. Something kind of like, you know, The Complete Psionics Handbook. Only, this one was of a distinctive bunny princess flavor. It might have been a standalone product, but I have a vague feeling that it was rather a d20 supplement.

It was in manga format. It had glossy pages. Also, it was full color and illustrated lavishly.

The handbook featured entirely random psionic bunny princess creation rules. I think the first chapter presented personality archetypes. Later, there was a long list of psionic powers grouped into elements. Why the psionic powers had to be grouped into elements, I know not, but it was in many ways cool.

So, I wake up and think that I’d buy it, if only for the sake of having it. Then, I tell the dream to a friend and guess what? He’d buy it, too.

Somebody, write and publish it, please. ASAP. Anybody. I want to hold it in my hands, and turn the glossy pages with glee as I browse the endless lists of elemental psionic powers.

Gee, I wonder what good old Dr. Freud would have to say about that.

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