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Grim

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A few people said I should give this forum a go, and then I felt my ears burning so thought I'd say hello.

I've been working professionally in the industry for around 20 years and have been a hobbyist for about another 10 years on top of that. I've worked for Wizards, Mongoose, Cubicle 7 and many others big and small.

I have my own company, Postmortem Studios, with a (somewhat, but not entirely) undeserved reputation for controversy and being 'edgy'. In reality, all I do is pursue things that interest me, and that's often the bizarre attitudes and hang-ups people have. Good stories and games come from conflict and thinking about things deeply, which arguments and disagreements cause.

I'm happy to answer any questions on my career or games.

Games you may have heard of: Machinations of the Space Princess, Blood!, Tales of Gor, Invaderz.
Currently Working on: Actual Fucking Monsters, adventures for Tales of Gor.
 
While you're obviously known for your more controversial games, I have to say my favourite Grim period was your more whimsical stuff (Bloodsucker, Invaderz, Urban Faerie). Neverwhere was great as well. Are you likely to be returning to that kind of game in the future or does it feel like something you're no longer interested in?

Any idea what Ian Warner is doing now? I liked the sound of that cop rpg he was working on but radio silence. Any idea what's going on there? (I apologise for asking you about someone else's work but obviously you have published his stuff before now!)
 
Hello Grim!

Where do I get some game-useable Gor maps, in case I ever want to actually play that neat Gorean RPG I have printed out in a ring binder (for the articles, naturally...)? >:smile:
 
While you're obviously known for your more controversial games, I have to say my favourite Grim period was your more whimsical stuff (Bloodsucker, Invaderz, Urban Faerie). Neverwhere was great as well. Are you likely to be returning to that kind of game in the future or does it feel like something you're no longer interested in?

Any idea what Ian Warner is doing now? I liked the sound of that cop rpg he was working on but radio silence. Any idea what's going on there? (I apologise for asking you about someone else's work but obviously you have published his stuff before now!)

I love Ian to death, but his autism made working with him difficult and his work wasn't well received outside of his historical stuff. I mentored him into starting his own career, but he only ever really shows up on my Facebook to commiserate about the Department for Work and Pensions.

I enjoyed writing all of those, but Neverwhere is kind of 'done' until I read Gaiman's sort-of-sequel. Invaderz and Urban Faerie filled the purpose I created them for and it feels like I'd be re-treading old ground to go back to them (other than the revised editions I did do). I'd love to go back and mock White Wolf and goth subculture some more, but the games never had legs and it felt like nobody was playing them.

My new game 'Actual Fucking Monsters' is kind of somewhere between the whimsical side, an experimental mechanical side and 'edge'. It's my reaction to the wussification of monsters in fiction and games. If you like whimsical you might like IRREPRESSIBLE! which is a more fun Monkey RPG ;)
 
Hello Grim!

Where do I get some game-useable Gor maps, in case I ever want to actually play that neat Gorean RPG I have printed out in a ring binder (for the articles, naturally...)? >:smile:

Do you mean, like, play-aid maps for minis, or maps of the world/cities etc?
 
Glad to have you aboard, Grim Grim

Fun fact, I was one of the ones who recommended Grim come over here.

I'm on his Discord under the username Big Fat Paulie and I am subscribed to his YouTube channel.
 
Welcome to The Pub Grim!

Here's an off-the-wall question; IIRC you did the Neverwhere RPG. I have a rather nice pdf copy of that, but before that existed a more bare-bones version used to exist on an earlier website that also hosted a steampunk RPG. I can't recall the name ("Iron-something" maybe), but at the time I was rather enamoured of it, and I've occasionally thought on it in the years since. I wonder if that game is still available somewhere or is it a system you've thought about expanding or fleshing out in some form?
 
I know, I'm just as surprised as you are! It's sort of an Odd Couple deal.

I would so watch that if it was done as a 70s british sitcom.

"Grim has painted the walls black when Sammy was out and now the vicar is coming round for tea in half an hour!"
 
Welcome to RPGPub Grim Grim ! You're right on time, too - I was planning to start a thread on Tales of Gor, and might get to it as soon as next week :devil: !
 
I would so watch that if it was done as a 70s british sitcom.

"Grim has painted the walls black when Sammy was out and now the vicar is coming round for tea in half an hour!"

Why would a Roman Polytheist be having tea with an Anglican vicar? Especially the warm crap that the Brits call tea.

Now if it's ice-cold Southern sweet tea, well that's a different matter altogether....I'd invite over Justin Achilli himself if it meant I could have a tall glass of Southern sweet tea.
 
I was looking at the Postmortem store last night. I like Space Princess and was thinking I should take a look at Blood, if only because I like the old horror/shooter videogame of the same name.
 
Welcome!

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Heh, I think Nobby was making a joke about the bedroom roleplaying Goreans get up to.
I couldn't possibly comment - but I certainly wouldn't recommend that you google 'Gorean role playing' on a work computer.
It is a roleplaying forum, right?
Depends on what you mean by role playing . . .

[Freeze frame and record scratch sounds]

Wait - You wrote a Gor role playing game without noticing this double entendre? Are you sure you're English?
 
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Heh, I think Nobby was making a joke about the bedroom roleplaying Goreans get up to.

Well, I don't judge people, nor care what they're up to in bed, and expect the same courtesy:smile:.
For that matter, I don't care how much live-acting their roleplaying involve, nor what exactly happens during it. I might or might not want to adapt some practices, but the same goes for basically all the roleplaying practices:wink:.

And yes, I know what comes up when you google this. Are we seriously going to play prudes here:shade:?
 
For that matter, I don't care how much live-acting their roleplaying involve, nor what exactly happens during it. I might or might not want to adapt some practices, but the same goes for basically all the roleplaying practices
BDSM roleplaying just seems to involve taking on a role and playing it out as you wish, i.e. a pile of storygame garbage, there's even sex moves! :clown:
 
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BDSM roleplaying just seems to involve taking on a role and playing it out as you wish, i.e. a pile of storygame garbage, there's even sex moves! :clown:
Cue OSR thread and/or discussions of creative uses for a D20 . . .
Could be worse. Could be a 10' pole and 50' of rope.
 
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Hm. Gorean role playing. Are you sure you're on the right forum?

That other kind of Gorean roleplaying seems like way too much effort to me... and to most other guys too; from what I recall over 80% of the Gorean lifestyle community is female.

Although having a slave girl to wash the dishes in my sink & hoover the flat does have its attractions, all that care/feeding/grooming/training would be utterly exhausting in short order.
 
That other kind of Gorean roleplaying seems like way too much effort to me... and to most other guys too; from what I recall over 80% of the Gorean lifestyle community is female.

Although having a slave girl to wash the dishes in my sink & hoover the flat does have its attractions, all that care/feeding/grooming/training would be utterly exhausting in short order.

This guy gets it.

I can't really comment on the Gor novels, but that whole Gorean lifestyle subculture just freaks me out and not in a good way, and I'm that dude who enjoys hentai and yaoi unironically. :hehe:

I mean, building a whole kink lifestyle around a series of erotic sci-fi adventure novels seems a little too extreme...

But then again, I'm a wholesome good ol' boy who only enjoys wholesome vanilla activities such as holding hands, kissing on the cheek, and Waifuism/2D Love.

So take my words with a grain of salt.

God made Adam and Eve, not Eve and her insectoid alien slave master! :hehe:
 
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But then again, I'm a wholesome good ol' boy who only enjoys wholesome vanilla activities such as holding hands, kissing on the cheek
Actually most kink couples are like that too. Nobody really has the energy to to do 24/7 365 days a year. The links in the search results aren't necessarily indicative of reality.
. . . and Waifuism/2D Love.
Well, maybe not that. Filthy pervy sicko!
God made Adam and Eve, not Eve and her insectoid alien slave master! :hehe:
I dunno, plenty of precedent for that in Hollywood. Captain Kirk and Arwen were both known for a spot of inter-species hanky-panky. Alien 4 managed to depict incest and bestiality in the same scene - with the same two participants.
 
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Actually most kink couples are like that too. Nobody really has the energy to to do 24/7 365 days a year.

Well, maybe not that. Filthy pervy sicko!

I dunno, plenty of precedent for that in Hollywood. Captain Kirk and Arwen were both known for a spot of inter-species hanky-panky. Alien 4 managed to depict incest and bestiality in the same scene - with the same two participants.

I know, I was just joking and generally being a smart-ass with that post.
 
I know, I was just joking and generally being a smart-ass with that post.
I know. So was I. Actually, my wife got one of those long pregnancy support pillows and I used to wind her up by calling it the Waifu.
 
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So, after I take care of some major purchases I need to make at the beginning of March, I will use my next paycheck after that one to buy Tales of Gor RPG, even though I don't care too much for the Gor books themselves.

Why? Aside from supporting Grim Grim I also want to get the game so I can play my greatest character concept yet...

Al Gore of Gor! Emperor of the Moon and Creator of the Internet, Who Slew The Mighty ManBearPig and rode the Space Worm!
 
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