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Lasers & Feelings

A collection of 13 issues

One Steppe Beyond!

A road rally game of junky vehicles and janky friendships Play Time: 1–2 hours | Players: 3–5 (+ optional Road Marshal) | Tone: Comedy → Contemplation | Note: This game deals with exhaustion and frustration; use safety tools and check in after heavy scenes. YOU ARE A CREW DRIVING JUNKSTERS ACROSS TRANSISTORSTAN Your

Rhythm & Blues: A Blues Brothers RPG

We're on a mission from God. Based on Lasers & Feelings by John Harper THE HACK: RHYTHM ↔ BLUES You are trickster saints on a divine mission. Your tools are music, chaos, and unshakeable faith. Your enemies are authority, racists, and anyone who'd silence the song. Your

From Dismayland to the Cable Factory

Rolling Natural 20s Through Comics Culture (A Helsinki Dérive, Part Four) I’ve been a comic book dilettante, not because of any snobbish attitudes towards the medium and its community, but due to other “more pressing” priorities in the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Adult "Needs": music, games, computers,

Electric Eden: The House of Canon

A multi-wing dungeon module for Electric Eden Premise Cecil Sharp House has become a living dungeon, an institutional labyrinth where Folknet's power is strongest. Its halls are lined with display cases, curated exhibits, and polished versions of unruly traditions. Within each wing, an overlooked collector is imprisoned, their

The Bacon Strip Principle of Science Fiction

A Field Guide to Sci-Fi's Blind Spots How a piece of bacon, three play examples, and seven systematic erasures reveal what science fiction doesn't see—and why those absences shape the futures we imagine Introduction: The Interpretive Key A two-inch strip of bacon fell out of

Electric Eden Meets The Lost Folk

Well, what have we here? We made a joke, of course. That's what Electric Eden was — and still is — a sharpened stick whittled into a kind of prank, poking at the ambered reliquary of British folk tradition. We wrote a rules-light machine for breaking songs because we wanted

Designer's Notes: Electric Eden

Or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Loop the Ballad What This Is, and Isn't This game emerged from a conversation between two people who could probably tell you which version of "Matty Groves" Sandy Denny was referencing in verse three of the Fairport Convention

Faith & Circuitry: An RPG About Signal and Noise

The magnificent beauty of John Harper's Lasers & Feelings is how adaptable (or as the "scene" likes to say, hackable) it is over almost any storytelling premise. We created a YACR (Yet Another Cyberpunk RPG) structured like a Docker container image (yes, we're nerds)

From Cyberdecks to Stagecoaches

Widescreen Dramas of Morality and Compromise, Set Two Centuries Apart An essay on the unexpected kinship between cyberpunk futures and post-Civil War Westerns At first glance, the neon-soaked streets of 2080 and the dust-choked trails of 1880 seem to share nothing but their aesthetic of decay. One crawls with chrome-limbed

Sense & Wonder: Against the Cozy Industrial Complex

The Problem with "Cozy" Modern "cozy" media has been colonized by productivity culture. What began as genuine comfort has become optimization disguised as rest. Animal Crossing gives you debt cycles with cute animals. Stardew Valley offers profit maximization with pastoral aesthetics. Self-care apps gamify mindfulness with