Zine Zone: Swineheart Motel
This December, I am participating in the Covert Critic blogging extravaganza, as celebrated by the bloggers nesting in the Prismatic Wasteland Discord server, inspired by Clayton Notestine's 2024 Gifts for RPG Designers . This is a very fun exercise, and has me reading things I otherwise might not have picked up. Today: Swineheart Motel by Ty Pitre, AKA Mindstorm Press . Swineheart Motel is a system-neutral horror adventure for modern settings, set in and around a roadside motel deep in the forests of northern America. A podcaster has gone missing (the horror!) and the players are tasked with finding him. This is all contained in a 40 page zine, to the best of my knowledge only available digitally. Art is sparse, but what's there is bespoke and good. Instead of more spot art, many pages have little hand-written quotes, possibly attributed to the missing podcaster, though this is unclear. What is beyond doubt, however, is that they work well for setting the scene with their ...