#dead beats

5:45 PM EST February 4, 2025:

Dead Beats - "She Don't Love Me" From the Compilation album   Teenage Shutdown Vol. 2: You Treated Me Bad (October 6, 1998)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

From the semi-notorious series of compilations chronicling 60's garage.

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Dead Beats is a Horror Brawling RPG wherein you are loser in the late 90s. You are a Dead Beat that has a connection to the realms of Heaven and Hell, but that strong connection also means your mundane life sucks. Your character literally starts the game with stuff like crappy living conditions and a mostly empty refrigerator.

The meat and potatoes of the game is combat, and god is it fun. Drawing cards to get extra actions, and gambling on dodging attacks is very enjoyable for both players and the GM.

Each player has a poker deck that they draw cards from. Their character abilities can allow them to redraw cards, mark cards to know what's coming up, or even add/remove cards from their deck. However, it is rare for you to be able to shuffle, and you will inevitably hit the low cards. It really hits on the idea that your life sucks and luck is temporary.

It's a little awkward for first-time players, but I've only seen people reslly need one game to understand how to kick some serious ass in subsequent ones.

This evening I ran a christmas-themed game where an angel was running experiments on christmas eve shoppers. Hence, the need for violence. (They subdued the children rather than hospitalising them, but the mall santa did not get so lucky.)

8:54 AM EST December 1, 2024:

Dead Beats - "She Don't Love Me" From the Compilation album   Teenage Shutdown Vol. 2: You Treated Me Bad (October 6, 1998)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

From the semi-notorious series of compilations chronicling 60's garage.

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9:31 AM EDT October 27, 2024:

Dead Beats - "She Don't Love Me" From the Compilation album   Teenage Shutdown Vol. 2: You Treated Me Bad (October 6, 1998)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

From the semi-notorious series of compilations chronicling 60's garage.

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To all the mfs out there with dead beat parents...

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