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fear the swarth skip to navigation skip to main content skip to secondary content skip to footer fear the swarth home about portfolio introducing ahadi posted on april 4 2022 by basheer ghouse for the past two years and more rapidly over the past few months i ve been developing a tabletop game ahadi is a synthesis of my loves both in and outside of the trpg medium it draws from history wargaming nation gaming and political simulations to create a game about the tools of power in the same way that d d is about dungeon crawling or shadowrun is about extremely violent gig work and friends it is going to be great it takes a village economy chapter art for ahadi by joe strela joestreladraws on twitter read the rest of this entry 1 comment posted in tabletop games writing projects and tagged scifi bookmark the permalink systemic error posted on april 29 2020 by basheer ghouse i m a huge fan of dimension 20 a good friend pointed me at fantasy high and i ve been hooked since the cast is great brennan is one of the best actual play dms i ve seen and the production is gorgeous one of my long term goals is to run one fight in lancer with the production values of a single dimension 20 combat so i watched and greatly enjoyed tiny heist but its finale brought up an issue familiar to many in the ttrpg scenes namely during the climactic heist the fact that the game was dungeons and dragons was a detriment to the way the game was played the game would have played more cleanly were it in a system better suited to heists as shown by the car chase that follows which does play more cleanly the basic reason for this is that dungeons and dragons does not have a heist system and attempting to play out a heist using the existing mechanics kind of sucks this isn t new to anyone in ttrpg writing or design and is a common refrain in criticisms of dungeons and dragons and games like it however i feel like it s a lesson more commonly espoused through insults and at odd angles rather than explained in a straightforward manner something i hope to correct read the rest of this entry leave a comment posted in tabletop games bookmark the permalink infinity tournament system q1 2020 posted on march 5 2020 by basheer ghouse since 2020 rolled around i ve been to two infinity tournaments 8ball s release party which was in january in san rafael and toss a coin to your merc last month in santa cruz both tournaments were a blast and merc in specific was eventful enough that i wanted to write about it read the rest of this entry leave a comment posted in infinity let s play bookmark the permalink the truth of colonialism in d d posted on february 28 2020 by basheer ghouse there s a tiny controversy in d d land a pair of people wrote a pretty great west marches document with an excellent primer on colonialism and racism in dungeons and dragons which you can find here unfortunately someone else took umbrage at this primer and wrote an article trying to claim that the colonialism never existed you can find the reddit discussion on it here and the comments section has some solid posts about why the article is to put it kindly deeply unconvincing however while the article primarily serves to illustrate the biases of its writer there is still a valuable discussion to be had so let s have it d d is colonialist it has colonialist roots it has never outgrown that doesn t mean the end of your game or that everyone needs to boycott wotc i do d d freelancing i d be a bit of a hypocrite if that was my position what it means that you need to be aware of that and handle it in your game read the rest of this entry 4 comments posted in uncategorized bookmark the permalink rpgs and bad war posted on january 23 2020 by basheer ghouse in the late 15th and 16th centuries swiss mercenaries discovered something called bad war titanic pike blocks the premier military formation of the day would clash pikes locking together each attempting to force the other to route through elan and mass and sheer violence men would simply suffocate crushed against each other by the press of bodies each formation would turn into a screaming mass of blood and violence the result was brutal for all involved especially after one side routed and was so unpleasant even by the standards of late medieval warfare that observers termed it bad war bad war is more or less the standard approach of modern roleplaying games and it s making your combats worse read the rest of this entry leave a comment posted in tabletop games writing projects and tagged history roleplaying games bookmark the permalink the saga continues posted on december 29 2019 by basheer ghouse salaam so it s out been talking about it with friends and following the discourse on twitter and sufficient velocity since i saw it and have been thinking about it more or less non stop as well i knew i wanted to write something pretty much immediately even if i wasn t sure what exactly it was was kind of averse to doing so because of the entire horrible discourse issue but i ve been a fan of star wars since i was a kid and while recent events haven t marked the end of that they ve marked a definite metamorphosis i m twenty six not exactly old enough to have watched the originals in movies but my dad showed them to me and my brother when we were pretty young and they re old favorites i m pretty sure i caught all of the prequels in movies and have fond memories of playing rogue squadron on gamecube reading eu comics and books following the tartakovsky animated series in the leadup to episode 3 and more or less twenty years of accumulated fandom and while that doesn t make me different than most other western scifi nerds it s still enough that i don t think i can just turn up the chance to write this article so let s talk about the mandalorian read the rest of this entry leave a comment posted in review stuff i actually like and tagged islam scifi star wars television the mandalorian bookmark the permalink it was never yours posted on october 22 2019 by basheer ghouse sorry for the lack of updates last month i d signed up to run a game i ve designed at big bad con and as a result had to put my nose to the grindstone to get it done and playable in time for the con fortunately i ve basically finished and a playtest version of the game is up on drivethrurpg and itch io with that in mind i encourage you to check it out and read on read the rest of this entry leave a comment posted in tabletop games writing projects bookmark the permalink battle by the beach posted on october 12 2019 by basheer ghouse last month i attended the battle by the beach a two day infinity tournament at mythic games in santa cruz it was my first season 11 tournament and a hell of a way to kick off the season i had a blast and because i had a blast i thought it best to share the results with all of you read the rest of this entry leave a comment posted in infinity tabletop games bookmark the permalink a better haqq posted on august 29 2019 by basheer ghouse the science fiction and fantasy genres treat muslims extremely poorly when we show up we re terrorists or racist stereotypes decadent harems brutal terrorists backwards weirdos and worse orcs are thinly disguised as us to represent how the author is scared of brown people aliens are associated with us to represent how the author doesn t think we re human and always always terrorism and religious extremism are at the fore and put entirely at the feet of religion politics economics culture and other factors that define the muslim world are ignored i haven t even started on the news as a result the sff genres often don t function for muslim audiences stories that are meant to be about escape about visions of the future about warnings and social commentary all too often end up being banal reinforcements of everyday bigotry we face on a regular basis for the most part infinity manages to avoid that haqqislam is one of the better representations of an islamic faction in science fiction by a non muslim writing team it clearly tries it presents a muslim society that is genuinely pretty great without being perfect it provides a variety of muslim characters with their own stuff going on and has a bunch of extant conflicts to work with it iterates to deal with problematic content in a way that indicates that the writing team cares about getting this right but there are significant issues you can see some of them here where a cursory glance at haqq lore by muslims results in people immediately pointing out problems while the faction as a whole is significantly better than those snippets the mistakes it makes are important to a muslim audience the nature of those issues trends less clearly problematic than those of many of infinity s competitors you don t have cthulhutech s overt bigotry nor shadowrun s decision to mark all of africa under the control of cannibal ghouls instead you have elements that are clearly issues for muslims and those knowledgeable about the history of those elements outside of infinity but seem like non issues to non muslims who haven t studied the middle east or orientalism read the rest of this entry 6 comments posted in political bullshit stuff i actually like tabletop games bookmark the permalink a self actualized killbot posted on july 30 2019 by basheer ghouse i could have become a mass murderer after i hacked my governor module but then i realized i could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites it had been well over 35 000 hours or so since then with still not much murdering but probably i don t know a little under 35 000 hours of movies serials books plays and music consumed as a heartless killing machine i was a terrible failure the robot wants to be a real human is a well worn story archetype one i m sympathetic too but one that s been played out and dissected well past the point of exhaustion it s been around since at the latest pinocchio and has been examined and re examined since as such when i started on the murderbot diaries by martha wells and more or less until i was halfway through exit strategy i d kind of just assumed that this was what it was doing it was an unfair assumption and one that i feel dumb about in retrospect and one that was unfair to the series because the murderbot diaries isn t quite a pinnochio story it doesn t ask can a robot be human but instead what does it mean for a robot to be a self actualized robot and that is ripe fodder for exploration the murderbot diaries follow murderbot a security android that overrode the code binding it to its human masters and that primarily wants to watch pirated media and not come to the attention of its corporate overlords things go wrong there s adventure gunplay and excessive amounts of corporate malfeasance and pretty swiftly murderbot is rogue the plotting s clever the writing s solid and it s big on themes of corporate malfeasance and injustice but none of that s really what i want to focus on in this article so instead i shall ask you to take me at my word murderbot is good it s emotional it s fun and it has a lot to say about an interesting future one where humanity has made enormous strides socially and technologically yet is still embroiled by the same petty monstrosity and perverse incentives we ve had since the invention of currency the books are short but well paced and while the perspective can be weird and dry murderbot is a treat to follow and a surprisingly endearing main character if you want a yes no on reading it and don t want spoilers i encourage you to pick up the novellas and finish them before reading on read the rest of this entry leave a comment posted in books review stuff i actually like uncategorized bookmark the permalink older posts search for recent posts introducing ahadi systemic error infinity tournament system q1 2020 the truth of colonialism in d d rpgs and bad war recent comments leuca on the truth of 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