Today is September 13th! And that makes me a DAY LATE in posting this!
Here’s a fun play-through of NEGOCIOS INFERNALES (see below!) with some folks from Kaleidocast! It begins after our Pre-Game Trust and Affirmation exercises, after the Invocation (collaboratively telling the backstory of our game), after Character Creation (creating your wizards), and World-Building. We review the characters and the world, but in this playthrough, we jump right into Plot-Generation, Roleplay, and end with the infamous Alien Epilogue.
An especial thank you to the wonderful Rob Cameron, Mimi Mondal, and Liam Burke for permission to use this video!
Kaleidocast is the official podcast of the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers (BSFW), a “group dedicated to getting writers producing content with a professional polish for publication,” that offers “critique groups and workshops to members with regular guest lectures from those working in the industry today.”
For Kaleidocast’s annual fundraising effort, game designers Carlos Hernandez and C. S. E. Cooney offered to run their TTRPG “Negocios Infernales,” for the Kaleidocast backers, with the participation of some of the celebrated writers and gamers of BSFW.
ROB CAMERON: author of DAYDREAMER, his debut Middle Grade novel forthcoming from Labyrinth Road in 2024. Rob Cameron is a teacher, linguist, and writer. He has poetry, stories, and essays in Star*Line Poetry Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Foreign Policy Magazine, and Tor.com, among others. Rob is also lead organizer for the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers, a guest host and curator for the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series, and executive producer of Kaleidocast.nyc.
MIMI MONDAL: Mimi is a writer and editor of the fictitious. Her fiction has been nominated twice for the Nebula Award: in 2020 with her novelette His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light, and in 2022 for ancient-Bengal-inspired setting titled Shankhabhumi and the adventure “In the Mists of Manivarsha” in the Dungeons & Dragons anthology Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel. In 2018 she received nominations for the Hugo, British Fantasy and Ditmar Awards, and was awarded the Locus Award for Non-fiction for co-editing the anthology Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler with Alexandra Pierce.
LIAM BURKE: an independent author with a penchant for a variety of speculative fiction. His main passion is for juxtaposing biting humor along with the sharp teeth of horror, razor code of cyberpunk, and back alley deals of urban fantasy.
With a background in theatre and the arts, he has brought his flair for the dramatically macabre to various works including his Moments series of short horror compilations, an illustrated fairy tale for his son, his Cyberpunk flash fiction featured on multiple podcasts, and a novelette about urban wizards set in his favorite tabletop RPG.
C. S. E. COONEY (co-designer of NEGOCIOS INFERNALES) is a World Fantasy Award-winning author. Her books include The Twice-Drowned Saint, Saint Death’s Daughter (nominated for the World Fantasy Award, on Kirkus Review’s list of Year’s Science Fiction and Best Fantasy 2022), Dark Breakers (nominated for the World Fantasy Award, Locus Award finalist), Desdemona and the Deep (nominated for the World Fantasy Award), and Bone Swans: Stories.
As a voice actor, Cooney has narrated over 120 audiobooks, as well as short fiction for podcasts such as Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Podcastle.
CARLOS HERNANDEZ (co-designer of NEGOCIOS INFERNALES): New York Times best-selling author Carlos Hernandez wrote the critically acclaimed short story collection The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (Rosarium, 2016), the novel Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Disney Hyperion, 2019), which won the 2020 Pura Belpré Award, and its sequel, Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe. For Marvel Comics, he’s written stories about America Chavez, Spiderman, Spiderpunk, Miles Morales, and the Strange Academy. He’s also written dozens of short stories, poems, and works of drama, usually in the SFF mode.
He has served as lead writer and a game designer on the CRPG Meriwether, as a writer and designer for the installation art of Mary Miss, and as literary curator on the Apple Arcade game Dear Reader, among other video games. As a co-founder of the CUNY Games Network and of the Board Game Designers Group of New York, he’s contributed to the development of many board and card games, both educational and commercial.
The 7 Suits of Destino
🧜🏾♀️ Lágrimas: The Tears of Life
🐷 Carne: The Meat Of Life
❤️ Sangre: The Blood of Life
💀Hueso: The Bones of Life
🌬 Aire: The Breath of Life
⚡️Rayo: The Spark of Life
🛸 Espacio: The Spaces Between and Beyond
NEGOCIOS INFERNALES forthcoming from OUTLAND ENTERTAINMENT!
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