The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

Time Without Tide Quickstart so far:

  • Modern-ish STAT+SKILL system! YES! Never too late, Chaosium! šŸ˜…šŸ‘
  • Art is really great and fun.
  • Setting is meh 🤷… not bad, just nothing that particularly excites me.
  • Overall looks like a Free League game. THIS IS A COMPLIMENT!
Cover to the Time Without Tide Quickstart booklet.

Okay I think the cover to “The King’s Daughters” (my Call of Cthulhu scenario set in New France) is almost finished. Ugggh, it’s such an uphill battle for me to paint anything.

A painting featuring 3 young women running in the woods, with some yellow-eyed monster/person going after them

“Time Without Tide” looks nice but it somehow doesn’t feel to me like a Chaosium game, and I think the reason isn’t the system, but the fact that Chaosium always made “literary games”: based on mythology and history, fantasy novels, horror stories, etc. TWT isn’t any of that?


As always, I draw a pencil sketch that I’m pretty happy with, then I start adding colour, and within a couple minutes the whole thing looks like shit and I hate it. Painting is sooo harrrrdd