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.
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.”
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.
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
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
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
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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.
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.
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.