Hello! This post is to introduce myself and the game.

I’m not a particularly experienced GM, but I’ve done a few campaigns face to face and on Roll20. This is my first game on this website. I’m someone who has a big collection of books, but rarely gets to play. You can call me by some variation of my username, or GM or whatever else. If you want to use a name, I go by Lily. I generally have time to post a few times a day, often late at night.

Electric Bastionland is a game I backed on Kickstarter and have been looking forward to since it was announced. I have linked a free version of the book, which contains all the rules. You are under no obligation to read them, I’m happy to explain the rules we need when we get to them.

I do however highly recommend reading the 10 Failed Careers included in that book, and the setting material. Appreciation for the setting is the biggest factor in whether you will enjoy the game, and I see the setting as something we collaborate on, not something I solely take authorship over. The book gives some evocative ideas, but not a lot of concrete stuff. The specifics are for us to work out. For instance, you might be an Alien. If you are, you have a great deal of authorship where it concerns the biology and culture of your people, and where they come from.

There are 100 Failed Careers in total. I have access to those in my full version of the book. I’ll give you what you need when the time comes. You are free to determine your failed career via ability score matrix, or a d100 roll. The former slightly weighs things in favor of characters with weaker scores, giving them some better starting equipment. The latter gives you a Career at random, including several that aren’t available on the matrix.

That’s all for now. Let me know if you have any questions, and feel free to introduce yourself as well.

Hello! Thanks for having me! Excited to play. May I please roll on the 1d100?

03:13, Today: Conductor, on behalf of Loomis, rolled 12,12,8,1,3,17 using 3d6,3d6,3d6,1d6,1d6,1d100, unique dice with rolls of 2,6,4,4,2,6,2,5,1,1, 3,17. In Order: Str, Dex, Cha, HP, Starting Pounds, Career.

With these rolls we have:

HP: 1
£3.00
Str: 12
Dex: 12
Cha: 8

Career 17:  Gang Enforcer

You get: A Busted Face

Who were your gang, before you abandoned them?
You roll 3 for Starting Pounds, so your gang were the Gladiators of Toil.
You get a Trident (d6) and a Ridiculous Headdress.

What helped you inspire fear in your victims?
You rolled 1 for HP, so you get a Mind Probe.
(Target must pass a CHA save or you learn one of their innermost secrets.)

Sounds great! Thank you so much! I envision a real glass cannon. The headdress will be the device! Does this game give anyone else Gamma World vibes?

I’ll have a portrait and description today!

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There we go.

Excellent! I'm hoping to find four players at least. But if we don't get them relatively soon, we can start playing with any number.

Maybe the players wanted ad could be bumped. :)

'Cuz, you know, we'll get no more players if the ad is buried like it is. :)

Bumped it!

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Hi, guys. I'm looking forward to trying out this game with y'all--it seems wild!

I think I'd like to take my chance with a d:100, if I may?

Certainly, go ahead and roll those dice. Might as well include all your other character rolls together.

Welcome!

Hi everyone. I'm definitely intrigued to see how this game plays out.

I'll be playing Aster, a soldier who was conscripted into The War only to return home and find the real fight was waiting for her there.

Hello!  I can't wait to start playing, this looks like a super intriguing setting and I'm looking forward to trying it out!

Since i don't have the full book (just the free version) I'm gonna need some to roll my failed career. Perhaps my other stuff if your so inclined but I'm fine rolling for the rest. Also i can't find the ability matrix.

Welcome! Unless I'm mistaken, the ability matrix is just the table on page 7 of the free pdf, which you can use instead of randomly rolling for your career.

I'd still like to randomly roll for it.

Give it a shot!

In reply to Conductor (msg # 20):

I rolled 53 for career what do i get? I'll put the rest of my stats in the character details. Here's my stats so you know.

9 str
9 dex
6 cha
4 hp
1 coin

53. PRACTISING CHEMIST

A truly modern profession, And you’re almost qualified to do it!

SAMPLE NAMES: ZASTRA, KRABER, SMIX, SUNGEON

IF YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST PLAYER THE WHOLE GROUP IS £10K IN DEBT TO...
Sweep’s Union: You are strictly forbidden from going onto a rooftop until the debt is paid.They have eyes everywhere.

YOU GET
Long knife (d6), big flask, test tube.

WHAT’S IN THE BIG FLASK?
1 Pound --> Metal-Eating-Acid - Has no effect on any other material

WHAT’S IN THE TEST TUBE?
4HP --> Absolute Adhesive - Permanently bonds any two surfaces together

In reply to Conductor (msg # 22):

I'm 19 years old so I'm guessing I'm the youngest player.

Ok i edited it in so i thin we are all ready.

Welcome all!

Ooh, actually, I had time to do the rolls yesterday but no time to try and look up what they meant. I also only have the free book, so Conductor, might'cha tell me what Failed Career 59 lets me in for? :)

Here're the stats:

59 using 1d100.
6 using 1d6.  pounds.
3 using 1d6.  hp.
11 using 3d6.  char.
10 using 3d6.  dex.
13 using 3d6.  str.

YES YES YES! This one is one of the weird ones.



59. COUNTERFEIT TAXIDERMIST
Fantastic specimens bought you a small amount of money. Now that’s gone, and your name is ruined.
SAMPLE NAMES: LYNDEER, CLANCY, ONGEL, ESQUID.

IF YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST PLAYER THE WHOLE GROUP IS £10K IN DEBT TO...
Council forTarts and Flans: You are blacklisted from all non-bakery food establishments in Bastion until the debt is cleared.

YOU GET
Scissors, bag of stuffing, book of made-up beasts.

WHAT TYPE OF ANIMAL DO YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT?
£6 --> Primates:Take a stuffed frog-monkey.

HOW DID YOU GET FOUND OUT AS A FRAUD?
3HP --> Debunked by a Deceased Rival:Take a pouch of poison dust.

14:04, Today: David rolled 18,12,12,5,6,84 using 3d6,3d6,3d6,1d6,1d6,1d100 ((6,6,6,3,5,4,3,5,4,5, 6,84)).

And it gets even better.


84. GOOD DOG
Smarter than many people, still a dog.
SAMPLE NAMES: URMSTON, BERNARD, HEBDON,ARNIE

IF YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST PLAYER THE WHOLE GROUP IS £10K IN DEBT TO...
Maximo Frost: Share ownership of a full set of gramophone recordings by this unpopular musical poet.

YOU GET
Collar, teeth (d6).

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR MASTER?
£5 --> Died of Old Age:You are DEPRIVED while in a hospital or nursing home.

WHAT’S YOUR BEST TRICK?
6HP --> Extremely Loud Bark:Can be heard across the whole Borough.

I'm....A DOG?!?!?

In reply to David (msg # 30):

Well, I'm 49 so I'm not the youngest player (in human years).

I'm going to assume my 5 pounds is hidden in a compartment in my collar.

If I remember from Into the Odd, animals in Bastion can talk, correct?
This message was last edited by the player at 18:59, Mon 20 Apr 2020.

There are Mockeries, which are sort of like Muppets. I don't think talking animals is an explicit part of the setting though.

My character has a talking mole as a companion, so certainly some animals can talk.

True! You could always have some kind of magic collar or advanced tech translator!

Judging from the regular Into the Odd content they produced, there was definitely something metaphysical going on. Animals talk. Goats headbutt and chastise people. Snakes seduce and bite people in the park. Hell, even PUPPETS are alive. My theory is Bastion's where all the souls on the planet reincarnate instead of going to another plane. If there's not a human birth available, you come back as a dog or something worse.

Oh my gosh, so VERY weird!! I love it.

Uh, and I'll try to get an IC post out later tonight, friends! Might not be until tomorrow morning, though.

Somebody wake the Conductor please?

In reply to David (msg # 37):

Yeah I'm waiting as well.

I've moved on. Will probably have to have an admin delete this game from my list.