Ballad Hunters - Clyde's Waters

Please note: this recording had some Technical Difficulties. We did our best to edit around and through as much of them as we could. Our apologies.

Tristan Zimmerman returns to run us through his latest game, Ballad Hunters! Amateur folklorists are in the employ of the British crown in early 1800s. Folk ballads have magical power. Using what they know, the folklorists scour the countryside for new songs, either learning of their power, or seeking to prevent dangers or heartache that they foretell from happening.

In the far Northwest, near the Scottish Border, our folklorists use their "compasses" to seek the next ballad coming to life. In the thick autumnal fog, the come across someone waiting for another, and strangeness starts to present itself...

Ballad Hunters, published by Pelgrane Press, should be coming to Kickstarter the week of posting! If you like what you hear, please consider backing the game to help it come to life. If you want an early taste, you can try the early access edition, available on DriveThruRPG. Also available there is Shanty Hunters, available in print and PDF. Tristan was last heard here leading us through a game of Shanty Hunters. Tristan can be found at his blog, Molten Sulfur.

Tristan - GM

Ben - Tom Harris, Retired, Maimed Sailor

Ethan - Jean Ingram, Class Traitor

Sean - Frederick Hobbes, Haunted Veteran

Shanty Hunters

The game Shanty Hunters is currently on Kickstarter. Recently, the creator, Tristan Zimmerman, approached us and offered to run a one shot, which we were glad to have! In this late 1800s, people travel the seas searching for sea shanties. These people are obsessed with learning these songs, not just for their own desires, but to keep them alive as the art form is dying out. However, these songs are not merely art or oral history, but objects of power in the right voice...

Want to learn more? The game is presently on Kickstarter as of posting.

Tristan - GM

Ben - Jack Cobb, a... self-taught scholar and sailor

Dan - Alan Forsythe, an oceanographer

Ethan- Celeste Fare, a music theorist, working for a patron

Red Markets - 10K Lakes - Coyotes

Freelance takes a dangerous job from a man is ready to go to the Recession, at any price...

Chris H. - 0perator - She's TOTALLY not a Steward, guys.

Ian - Vapor - No sacrifice is too great for this taker to achieve their goals - but they don’t want to lose their soul.

Nick - Toss-Up - Canadian demolitions expert caught on the wrong side of the fence but the right side of the nukes.

Sean B. – Gurney – East Coast EMT caught on the wrong side of the Recession.