Worldbuildify! Glitch
Welcome back to Worldbuildify!, the series where we examine a non-interactive property, like a book, a tv series, or even something more abstract like a concept album or a painting and discuss how we’d turn it into a ttrpg. Why? Because sometimes it’s fun to play in a world we’ve become immersed in, and sometimes the process of trying to adapt something gives us ideas for other projects. Such is the case here. Today, we’re turning our gaze to the ABC TV series Glitch (2019) by Louise Fox and Tony Ayre. It follows six individuals who have been brought back from the dead (the Risen) through some sort of occult science, the human connections they left behind and are trying to reconnect with, and the implacable undead hunters that reality sends to put them back in the grave. Review It’s a great show (for the first two seasons). It’s picked interesting characters, each defined by different periods in Australian history; you have “John Doe”, a British criminal and local highwayman*, Pa...