43 Luke Gearing

Weird Games and Weirder People

Luke Gearing is the renowned writer and game designer behind some of the best weird fantasy adventures made in the last years! He has been making TTRPG stuff for a long while and is tackling bigger and more challenging projects lately. His works include Fever Swamp, The Big Squirm, The Isle, many others, and now Sawyers, a urban fantasy heist game that promises a unique way to play!

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To be honest, I am a fanboy of Luke. His adventures have a very unique weirdness to it, a creativity that's hard to match, and a way to play that is just fun for both the Referee, who is has no idea what's is going to happen, and for the players, who have many options to follow, but always with a good guidance and motivations to play the adventure to its fullest. Wow!

In this chat we talked about the many years he has been working with TTRPG, honing his skill. We talked about how he has some issues with the "game designer" term and prefers to just be a "writer", how he is usually not that interested in new systems and mechanics. We talked about his many influences, both in terms of works that shaped the way he creates, and artists who shaped the way he approaches his process.

It's a great chat, we go deep, it gets personal, and it's wonderfully weird!

So listen up and get weird with us!

Check out Luke's links!

https://lukegearing.blot.im/

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Kosmosaurs just got released in print, and it is my new RPG inspired by Saturday morning cartoons about Space Dinosaur Rangers defending the galaxy from evildoers!

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Stuff mentioned in the Episode:

D&D B/X: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Basic_Set

Stars Without Numbers: https://sine-nomine-publishing.myshopify.com/collections/stars-without-number

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages: https://www.amazon.com.br/Golden-Rhinoceros-Histories-African-Middle/dp/0691217149

Warhammer 40K: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000

Airplane Mode: https://www.inc.com/jordan-harbinger/how-noah-kagan-uses-airplane-mode-to-be-productive-how-you-can-too.html

Spinal Catastrophism: https://www.amazon.com/Spinal-Catastrophism-Secret-History-Urbanomic-ebook/dp/B08BSZV4YF

Steve Albini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini

Jack Spice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Spicer

Cthulhu Dark: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/341997/Cthulhu-Dark

Call of Cthulhu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu_(role-playing_game)

Psycho Raiders: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/165748/psycho-raiders

Mindfulness: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/mindfulness

Zen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen

Salvia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_divinorum

The Art of not Being Governed: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Not-Being-Governed-Anarchist/dp/0300169175