Ravings of a Textual Deviant

Of all the gin joints…

For the third Wednesday Weird, we’ll tackle the ultimate gaming cliche: “So, you’re all at the bar….”

I’m pretty sure that since the earliest days of gaming, there have been shadowy men hanging out in bars looking to hire complete strangers for extremely important missions. Need a quick bit of action in your game? A bar fight is always a good pick-me-up.

So, we know the missions you pick up in a bar can get weird, but how can the scenario in the bar get weird?

Anything can happen at the Rusty Nail, an omniversal franchise that appears in nearly every game I’ve ever run (along with its cofranchise, the Cheap Hotel).

When you stop and think about it, the idea of an omniversal franchise is pretty weird in and of itself. Ultimately, who is getting the fees? In the world of the Lunar Ellipse, Nicky Finn (who has many analogues himself) is credited with inventing the idea of the franchise, but the idea had to come from somewhere.

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