New Blood-gers: Cimorra

Already time for the first New Blood-ger on The Yaqqothl Grimoire! For today we have Logan at Die Wilde Welt Von Cimorra: if you're a fan of weird wild gonzery, you're fucking going to love this guy!

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1. Hi Buddy! Tell us about where you are from, how old you are, when you started gaming, your secret weapon to fight pimples and so on:

Hi! My name is Matthias and nickname is Logan. I'm comming from Germany and I'm 31 years old.
I think, I started gaming in the age of 12 with HeroQuest, which was the base for my very first RPG. Later I played the first editions of DSA (Das Schwarze Auge, engl. The Dark Eye), (A)D&D 1st & 2nd Edition and Call of Cthulhu. But mostly I played self-made RPGs, based on D&D or Call of Cthulhu rule sets.

your secret weapon to fight pimples
True fucking Metal!

Ehm...ok.
I like nearly every kind of the fantastic, especially Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Planet, Sci-Fi, Horror, Steampunk and so on.
I love fantastic movies (my fav is "Conan, the Barbarian"), fantastic books, especially from H.P.Lovecraft, R.E.Howard, C.A.Smith, C.T.Miéville, etc., metal, especially Bal-Sagoth, Dimmu Borgir, The Vision Bleak (Is from my hometown!), Behemoth, etc. and soundtracks from movies (Conan, V for Vendetta, The Ring,...) or games (Gears of War, God of War,...)

2. What's your blog focus?

My blog focus on my second RPG world: The Savage World of Cimorra, some other settings like my apokalyptic-fun-splatter Setting "Bloodgrind: New Angeles", my own WIP RPG rule set WARLOCK, some material for Dungeon Slayers, fantastic art, inspirational stuff and halfnaked girls...which are inspirational stuff. But the main focus is Cimorra, Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Planet, Weird Fiction, RPG philosophy and WARLOCK.
My first and still living RPG world Gaia is a little bit bigger than Cimorra, so she have her own homepage: www.gaia-rpg.de
The Savage World of Cimorra is like GAIA a melange of different genre-types like Sword & Sorcery, Sword & Planet, Weird Fiction, Post-Apocalypse and some more.
My main inspiration for the World are the works of Robert E. Howards "Conan", Lin Carters "Thongor", Edgar Rice Burroughs "John Carter of Mars", Michael Moorcooks "Micheal Kane", H.P.Lovecraft, C.A.Smith, C.T.Miéville, Flash Gordon, Star Trek, D&D, Logan's Run, Star Gate, Heavy Metal, different Sindbad- and Jules Verne-Movies, the pictures of Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Scott Herve Flament and many more.
It's an exotic, strange, wild and savage world. Young and ancient at the same time and ruled by dark magic, bizarre technology and gods from the darkest universe.

3. Are you a player or a DM?

I'm playing the DM. Mostly. 99%.

4. How did you come to join the OSR? And why? Did someone inspire you? Or you thought that if 'jamal can blog every fucking day about how to be even more Grognard than he actually is you could certainly do better?

The idea of Cimorra was in my head since some month before I found the PLANET ALGOL-Blog in the Web - and I was totally flashed! This blog and the setting was so cool and inspirational. Then I found more great blogs like the great Weirdlands of Xhuul, Ix, Metal Earth, Playing D&D with Pornstars and the great Yaqqothl Grimoire, so I said to me: Fuck! Now it's the right time for Cimorra!
Than I started the blog, because of two points:

1. I don't want to make another homepage again like Gaia. It has taken nearly a six month of web design, writing and so on. I want do use a faster technology and simpler technologie for Cimorra. And so I found the blogging for myself.
2. I need a vacation from Gaia. The World exists since nearly 12 years. So I need something different. Something new. Getting my head free from ideas which are not fitting with Gaia anymore. So cimorra is the Weird Mirror of Gaia: Everything which does not fit into Gaia comes to Cimorra.

5. Tell us about the very best stuff we are going to find on your blog and why it's so fucking cool:

Good question. Well...The blog, the world and the rules are still WIP, but I think, thats the fucking coolness of the blog. When something is still WIP, it grows, it lives. So I could say: Cimorra is a living RPG-World. And I really try to make my own stuff. Ok, some beast like Shoggoth, Nagas or something else are known, but I try to find my own weird way. So, on cimorra there are no fucking elves, goldaddicted dwarfs or more tolkienish standard-fantasy-stuff. And this is really fucking cool! *twothumbsup*

6. Are you involved in a campaign? Are you planning one? Are you one of those people who never game but speaks a lot about gaming because they like to do so?

At the moment my girlfriend and I playing a campaign on Cimorra, using the rules of Barbarians of Lemuria.
It's a classic "John Carter"-style campaign. Her heroine is a ex-special forces "G.I. Jane"-like soldiergirl, which flown by an areoplane thru a dimensional gate in the Bermuda Triangle and crashed on Cimorra. The campaign started like "Lost", but than came the difference with dinosaures, half-naked girls and warriors, demons, witches, cyborgs, mad masterbrains, blue giant and many more stuff.
It's a really bloody and epic campaign. At the moment she's hunting a diabolic archmage, who threaten her friends with terror, slavery and death. It's really great and it makes a lot of fun.

7. Now you have three sentences to say whatever you want:

Really? Whatever I want? Ok...

1. I hope everyone can read this, because my english is not very good.
2. Inspiration is everything, so open your mind, take everything you can get and make your one, great fucking world.
3. The best in life is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. And a some good dices and beer...
4. I really love the OSR-Blogs! They are so inspirating, so weird, so strange! So full of great ideas and passion. Thanks everyone!

Fuck! This were four sentences! Shut!

8. Now tell all the fucking old-gaming-guys out there why they should really be following your blog, or ask a friend to do so:

Ehm...Because Cimorra is a old-school, pulp world like in the good golden days of the fantastic. No elfcrap! Only badass barbarians, hot martian-style princesses and many more.
And you can play Cimorra with nearly every RPG-system in the world.
And...I have boobies every friday! :D

Greetings from Germany

Logan

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