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M&M 3rd Edition – One Shot: Senior Citizen Super Heroes (Feat. Tracey)

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Who says that you have to be young to save the day?  A number of senior citizens take it upon themselves to save the world from a sinister plot, all while enjoying the benefits of their advanced experience.

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One Shots – Traveller: Twilight Sector – Along for the Ride

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Ethan, Nathan, Jeremy, Becca, and Chris were treated to a game run by the fine guys at Terra/Sol Games, Mike Cross and Chris Stevens.  Terra/Sol Games is, of course, the publishers of Twilight Sector, a setting for Mongoose Publishing’s Traveller.

“You are all employees of Currie Pharmaceuticals. A large multi steller nation drug company. You are members of a field trial team in some way, researchers, security, ship crew, management. You are meeting the Mistress of Orion, one of the city sized mega ships in the setting called Dreadnoughts so you can piggyback to your jump off location a system 8 parsecs distant called Absolute Zero. In Traveller terms this ship is huge, it is about 1.2 million dtons big. These ships can traveller further faster than smaller ships like the one assigned to your team the Hunter’s Princess.

“You are on your way to a planet called Edge which is a fringer backwater world with a population of only 82,000. There Currie does a lot of it’s field trials away from the prying eyes of competitors and regulators. When you get there you are to conduct the field trials for a new psionc drug currently simply labeled Psion – C.”

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One Shots – D&D Holiday Game 2011

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Utilizing OSRIC, Jeremy runs his semi-annual holiday-themed game for some of his regular players!

Happy Holidays everyone!

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One Shots – Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay – Some Rocks and Stuff Part 2

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Calavius jumps back into the fold, catching up on bickering with Master Calvin and his wife.  Finding themselves traveling through a Chaos Waste, things quickly get ugly.

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One Shots – Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Some Rocks and Stuff Part 1

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Ethan and Jeremy had the chance to sit in on an ongoing Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay campaign as guest stars.  This is part 1 of their adventure.

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One Shots – Savage Worlds: Take Me Away to the Rings of Saturn

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This is a pre-KantCon session of Nathan’s Savage Worlds game, Take Me Away to the Rings of Saturn.

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One Shots – D&D 4th Edition Dark Sun: It’s Always Sunny in Athas

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In this redux of a KantCon game session, Ethan, Nathan, and Jeremy and some others get the chance to finally play some Dark Sun!

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One-Shot: KantCon DH Imperium – Play Test

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This is the beta test for the DH Imperium run at KantCon.  This group is the Lawrence Crew.

Shenanigans ensue.

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One-Shot: KantCon – Help! Play Test

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This is the beta test for the event Help! at Kantcon.  The group used was the KC Crew.

Hilarity ensues.

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OSRIC

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Jeremy had the chance to sit down and run a brief game of OSRIC this last weekend …

About OSRIC

OSRIC, short for Old School Reference and Index Compilation, describes itself as “a compilation of rules for old school-style fantasy gaming…intended to reproduce underlying rules used in the late 1970s to early 1980s” . It is . . . → Read More: OSRIC

Mecha: Ronin Fusion Superblade

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Ethan, Erik, and Tracy managed to get together with Chris Perrin, writer of the Mecha RPG, and writer over at BlogWellDone.com, and had a chance to play through a little Mecha with him.

About Mecha

Metal and Flesh

In battlefields on Earth, in space, and on realms known only to imagination, brave men and . . . → Read More: Mecha: Ronin Fusion Superblade

One Shots D&D 4E – To Mend a Broken Heart

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Every one hundred years the leprechaun race gathers. They gather for one purpose and one purpose only. To GET IT ON!

That is right. Every one hundred years all of the leprechaun clans come together for an orgy of fun, a party of love. This gathering is called the Shaeleighshag and takes place at . . . → Read More: One Shots D&D 4E – To Mend a Broken Heart

One Shots Pathfinder – For Da Overlord (or Happy Birthday, Andre!)

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One Shots Savage Worlds – Bad Day on Planet A

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In Erik’s farewell game before he moves to Chicago, he decides to run a little Firefly-style action using Savage Worlds.

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One Shot Halloween Special: Private Monster Investigations, Inc. – Investigating the Normal and Usual

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Dawn of Worlds – Worldbuilding Finale

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The conclusion of our worldbuilding exercise we began in Episode 74, and then continued in Episode 75 and 76.

We use the cooperative worldbuilding system designed by ClanWebsite.org’s Dawn of Worlds, a free PDF that can be found here, and finish up the first era.

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All Flesh Must Be Eaten: The Labyrinth of Night

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The year is 2109. You’re a team of researchers on Mars for Project Star Hammer, a terraforming project of great magnitude, when a fierce dust storm blows your shuttle off course. Can you endure the partially terraformed planet? Will you survive the secrets uncovered in the sand? Find out in the Labyrinth of Night.

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One Shots Pathfinder – The Great Kobold Escape

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One Shots – Atomic Highway

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Atomic Highway, from Radioactive Ape Designs is a 2010 ENnie nominated game by Colin Chapman.  The game is published by Cubicle 7, and they were kind enough to send us a copy of the game.  Erik took it upon himself to learn the game, and run it for a select group of people.

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One Shots – Mutants & Masterminds Birthday Bash

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