http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/01/14/lin-i-chen/]This weekend's "fine art" gallery at Sankaku Complex (warning: it's at Sankaku Complex) actually is fine art - it's a collection of pieces by a Taiwanese artist named Lin I-Chen (who also goes by the name "Eat" for some reason). Many of them bring various game scenarios to mind... or, at least, they do for me. But I don't have time to write up 42 different plot or character seeds, and I don't game in some of the genres shown.
So I thought I'd open this up to everyone to take part. Pick an image and tell us how it can be used in a game.
The files are named in the format "lin-i-chen-eat-###.jpg", with ### replaced by a number from 001 to 042. Let's refer to them as "Image ###" with ### replaced by the appropriate number. For example:
Any more? (I expect to see either Shadowrun or Technomancer referenced for Image 21, and Image 36 is "obviously" a D&D ranger of some sort... but I could be wrong on both counts.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
So I thought I'd open this up to everyone to take part. Pick an image and tell us how it can be used in a game.
The files are named in the format "lin-i-chen-eat-###.jpg", with ### replaced by a number from 001 to 042. Let's refer to them as "Image ###" with ### replaced by the appropriate number. For example:
- Image 13 is obviously set in a supernatural wuxia setting. The young lady is the sister of a swordsman who you defeated last game session; in her grief and anger, she has made a pact with the undead in order to take revenge upon her brother's killers. Can you defeat her and her spectral minions? A heel-face turn on her part isn't possible, because of her pact - you'll have to defeat her in combat... or some other way.
- Image 13 (again) is obviously set in a fantasy setting. The young lady is a summoner/fighter, using her skills to defend her homeland against an even worse threat. But there's a battle coming that she knows she isn't powerful enough to win on her own, so this mysterious stranger has come to a tavern...
- Image 13 (yet again) is obviously set in a fantasy setting (again). This swordswoman has been cursed; can you help her retrieve the rare item needed to break the curse? Time for an old-fashioned dungeon delve!
- Image 37 is a picture of your Illuminati University character's NPC love-interest. What is that... whatever-that-is under her arm, that she's brought to Esoteric Engineering class today?
Any more? (I expect to see either Shadowrun or Technomancer referenced for Image 21, and Image 36 is "obviously" a D&D ranger of some sort... but I could be wrong on both counts.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
