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Do you believe that secret forces control the world around us? That there are vast, possibly biological conspiracies which have shaped life as we know it and even now drive us to serve their occult desires?

YOU ARE RIGHT.

This research scientist is studying how a fungus turns ants into mind-controlled zombies which are compelled to climb the nearest plant, bite into it with their mandibles, and hold still until the fungus has completely devoured their soft tissues and erupts from the dead ant’s head in ghastly, curving horns. Evidence of this has been found in fossils tens of millions of years old and it’s still happening today all over the planet.

(“But that could never happen to humans!” you bleat pathetically, to which I suggest you read up on Toxoplasma Gondii.)

WHAT CAN WE DO IN THE FACE OF THIS VAST AND SHADOWY MENACE

Help science! She is raising funds Kickstarter-style on a science-crowdfunding website called Microryza. In the past I’ve donated to Microryza projects to excavate a triceratops and study a disease that is killing bats. I think this project is the most fascinating yet: she is going to determine which genes in the fungus are active during the mind-control portion of the infestation. Once we know that, I expect Delta Green will fund a retrovirus that will rewrite the genetic code of the fungus and save us all from certain doom.

FOR NOW

Please give a few bucks to her project. It’s real science and it’s really fascinating. And please share her project with your friends in the hopes we can stave off the darkness a little while longer.

How does a parasite create zombie-like behavior?

How does a parasite create zombie-like behavior?

If you thought my game Puppetland: A Storytelling Game With Strings was interesting, I hope you might have a few bucks for this Kickstarter to save the marionette work of a lifetime in Chicago.

Kickstarter isn’t just about getting; sometimes it’s about giving, too.

It’s the future of tabletop gaming. I’ve played it. If you haven’t yet, you probably will.

Are you a miniatures gamer? My friends at Harebrained Schemes, makers of the recent Shadowrun Returns videogame, are running a Kickstarter for their innovative new tabletop miniatures game Golem Arcana.

This game uses a combination of gorgeous miniatures, a high-tech digital pen, and a tablet or PC. The silicon handles all the rules so you’re not mired in rulebooks.

It’s a very cool project and the miniatures are incredible. The creator is Jordan Weisman, creator of BattleTech, Shadowrun, HeroClix, and many more great games.

I played this at the Penny Arcade Expo in August. It’s pretty brilliant. The Kickstarter ends in just a few days so get in while you can.

Got five bucks? The latest issue of my magazine The Unspeakable Oath is available now as a PDF.

Editor and Re-Animator Shane Ivey has assembled another great issue but the centerpiece is absolutely “Cold Dead Hand,” a fifty-page Delta Green adventure by my dear friend Adam Scott Glancy.

It’s a brilliant scenario set during the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. The investigators are Soviet special forces sent to a remote arctic nuclear missile base where things are . . . amiss. Scott has really worked his magic with this adventure and your gaming group will love this experience.

Five bucks! TUO23! Check it out!

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The Unspeakable Oath 23 – The Unspeakable Oath 23 is here! This latest issue of our magazine of Cthulhu Mythos roleplaying features a mammoth mode

As the clock ticked down on the Unknown Armies ebook bundle we decided to blow up the universe and reconstitute it exactly as it was before except with one key difference: we extended the deadline on the bundle!

http://bundleofholding.com/

Well over a thousand people have bought our game in the last few days, which is thrilling.

I’d like to share what may be the most influential six minutes of my entire creative life, a scene that electrified me in the movie theater as a kid and that did so much to inform my writing style and creative work.

Ladies and gentlemen, it was Jonathan Pryce and Jason Robards, in the library, with mortality.

We’ve started our final day of the Unknown Armies ebook bundle and it’s been a phenomenal success. We’ve raised $1,500 for two great charities — Reading is Fundamental and a homeless shelter that Greg Stolze volunteers at — and gotten a lot of people to check out Unknown Armies.

To bring this home we’ve added another book to the base bundle. For five bucks you now get the UA rulebook, the One Shots scenario anthology, *and* Greg Stolze’s awesome UA novel, Godwalker.

Of course, if you pay more than the average pay-what-you-want price you’ll also get four more UA books. Currently that will cost you about fourteen bucks, which is an awesome deal for $87 worth of transcendental horror-action.

Bundle of Holding: Unknown Armies

Adventurer! The fellowship of The Invisible Clergy brings you the Unknown Armies Bundle. Unknown Armies is the acclaimed Atlas Games tabletop RPG of postmodern occult intrigue, transcendental horror, and furious action. In Unknown Armies, players become movers and shakers in the Occult Underground, …

And speaking of Unknown Armies . . . before it was an RPG, it was a comic book called The New Inquisition. I’ve dug into my archives and produced a sixty-page PDF that tells the tale, including never-before-seen character sketches and finished comic-book pages drawn by the brilliant Brian Snoddy. It’s a free special feature for Unknown Armies fans and you can download it now from Atlas Games.

Atlas Games: The New Inquisition Comic Book

Before there was Unknown Armies, there was an idea for a comic book called The New Inquisition that never came to be.

Our pay-what-you-want Unknown Armies ebook bundle just got better.

For the base price of five bucks you get the complete UA rulebook plus One Shots, our starter collection of ready-to-run one-off scenarios with pre-made characters. One Shots includes Greg Stolze’s legendary Jailbreak which has become a convention classic.

If you pay more than the current average purchase, you get UA and One Shots plus the sourcebooks Break Today and Statosphere, the scenario anthology Weep, and the epic campaign To Go.

It’s a great deal that just got better. I hope you take a look.

Bundle of Holding: Unknown Armies

Adventurer! The fellowship of The Invisible Clergy brings you the Unknown Armies Bundle. Unknown Armies is the acclaimed Atlas Games tabletop RPG of postmodern occult intrigue, transcendental horror, and furious action. In Unknown Armies, players become movers and shakers in the Occult Underground, …

Did you always mean to check out Unknown Armies, the tabletop RPG of weird mystical action by myself and Greg Stolze?

Or do you love UA but would love to get genuine PDFs of the books?

Then check out the new Unknown Armies Bundle of Holding where you can get a whole raft of UA ebooks at a pay-what-you-want price!

This is a seriously great bargain on a game that the community at RPG.net has voted as one of the top ten RPGs of all time. I’m very proud of the work everyone did on this line and the community is still going strong ten years later.

This deal only lasts a few days so please check it out!

Bundle of Holding: Unknown Armies

Adventurer! The fellowship of The Invisible Clergy brings you the Unknown Armies Bundle. Unknown Armies is the acclaimed Atlas Games tabletop RPG of postmodern occult intrigue, transcendental horror, and furious action. In Unknown Armies, players become movers and shakers in the Occult Underground, …