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Star Wars: End of Empire: Ord Mantell.
(Starwars: Battlefront: Renegade Squadron.)Ord Mantell: A junkyard planet dotted with rusted mining colonies & mothballed or abandoned war factories, orbited by malfunctioning shipyards. Ord...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Dramatis Personae.
There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny!Character creation for End of Empire the other night. Our heroes are:Jax Cadderly (Rajan)Human Smuggler (Scoundrel)Jax is the group's lynchpin...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: The Heist
Opening visual: swirls of iridescent nebula, blotted out by a familiar triangular silhouette...quickly dwarfed by the massive eclipse of a double-wide Praetorian-class Super Star Destroyer. Out of that...
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Out of the Abyss: Derendils & Dragons.
Player Characters are truly rara avis. I thought I was still in the part of my Out of the Abyss story arc where I was leaving breadcrumbs, dangling hooks & putting Chekhov's guns up everywhere for...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Eris & the Holograms.
After the theft of a starship last session we come back from the wipe to the classic Star Wars cutaway of howling engines shot from behind as the False Profit punches it out of the bore-hole of the...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Mutiny on the ISD Rubicon.
(The ISD Rubicon, ship by Ansel Hsiao.)The human replica droid Jolit is standing in front of a seething, writhing mass of darkness. The end of the world given tangible form as seen through an...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: The Red Sun Rises.
(Frankensith, concept art by Joey Ammons.)The White Zone, Imperial district of Worlport. A scarlet Praetorian Star Destroyer hangs turgid over the city. Far below it, the Imperator stands at a podium...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Farewell to Ord Mantell.
Raj couldn't make it to gamenight, but since last session focused on Jax Cadderly, his gunslinging gambler, we decided to press on without him. Things actually worked out quite alright with that,...
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Out of the Abyss: Droki & Diirinka.
When it comes to GNS theory, I've always found "Game versus Story" to be the central tension. I mean tension in a neutral-to-positive way: creating twists in the narrative by means of lucky or unlucky...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Beyond the Blue Veil & the Old Daughter.
This write-up of my Star Wars: End of Empire campaign combines two sessions into one summary, let me mention right off the bat in the interest of good record keeping. Raj missed the preceding session,...
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The Curse of Whisperwall Manor.
I finally got a chance to try out the Pathfinder character that Ruthanna Emrys' subversive Lovecraftian paradigm put in my head: Hogarth Orne Who Will Be Called LEVIATHAN, a elderly Deep One Hybrid, an...
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Out of the Abyss: Slouching Toward Sloobludop
I'm not going to drag my heels on this Out of the Abyss recap like I did last one...after all, these can be written up pretty pithily. I've been using Paizo's flipmats for my maps instead of the usual...
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Out of the Abyss: Stranger Tides
Behold! The Demogorgon, Prince of Demons! Demogorgon, the Sibilant Beast, Lord of All That Swims in Darkness! My recent #humblebrag has been about being pals with the Stranger Things creators, but I...
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Fallout or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Vault.
Not a lot of replay value to Fallout IV, but I liked it. Most notably, the "morality" of the game is based on who you hang out with. Not in a banal "the good guy is a drip" way, either-- my favorite...
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At the Research Station of Madness.
Carl ran a Dread game set in Antarctica for me, Bella, Seth & Alyssa. I sadly had to run out before the end, but after I took the Lead Scientist's LSD in order to talk to the extremeophile...
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Out of the Abyss: Rats on the Ship, Squids in the Sky.
"Can't go wrong with an absurdly avuncular mindflayer," is going on my list of Dungeon Master axioms. It's right there in Out of the Abyss, & that's the sort of thing that made me like the campaign...
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Oubliette Session Twenty-Nine: Bug City!
Not that much to really say in recap of the last Oubliette session; in defiance of most of our game meet-ups, this was pretty much all in-initiative! Not combat, but stealth. Frankly, that's even...
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Deadlands: Uradel von Batory.
I get to be a player in a Deadlands game! I haven't played in the setting since college, when I played a Pinkerton "Mulder" whose Scully had died, in a bowler hat. This time, well, I wasn't quite sure...
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Crazy Eyes!
Sunday we did an Escape the Room for Nicole's birthday; Inquisition themed! Apparently these folks are franchised from Russia, & they were talking about some of the games that they can't run in...
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The Big Fizz.
I dreamt too big with my Dread game. Honestly it was sort of on purpose: I thought having multiple weird hooks would mean more entry points to the story, but it just made things convoluted with red...
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