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Out of the Abyss: The Bizarre Bazaar!
Monday is an odd night for a game, but why stick to a Thursday schedule if it means you have to keep rescheduling? No thanks, Sam-I-Am! Last session saw our Underdark exiles dock at the grey dwarf city...
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Deadlands: Coffin Rock.
Insert Ennio Morricone & theremins here: it's Deadlands time again! After last session, we'd our characters built & started off as newcomers to the nearly abandoned town of Coffin Rock, a pun...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Opening Crawl.
It is a time of chaos. The fledgling NEW REPUBLIC struggles to bring peace to the galaxy following the Battle of Endor, with the brutal order of the Empire shattered in the aftermath of the Emperor's...
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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: Alas, Poor Norin.
IN THIS EPISODE OF OUT OF THE ABYSS: THE DEATH OF NORIN!The last session concluded with our protagonists, still trapped deep in the Underdark, entering the Whorlstone Tunnels within the demented derro...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Witch-Queen of the Empire.
Recapping Last SessionI've been keeping fairly detailed summaries of my Star Wars: End of Empire RPG sessions, & we're all fresh off the high of arguing about a new movie, so it wasn't difficult to...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: Eclipse Day!
PreparationsA lavish party scene is a classic load-bearing trope in my campaigns. Masquerade balls, royal weddings, holiday rituals: I think a big fĂȘte is a great set piece. I was telling Terra that I...
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Star Wars: End of Empire: The Solar Labyrinth!
Eclipse DayIt has been a while, but the last episode of my Star Wars campaign left off on an easy note to pick up on. The chase begins! Baron Monstro has press-ganged them into his "Eclipse Day"...
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Dread: Outpost 37
We skipped Tom's usual Halloween game of Dread last year, which are the contemporary incarnation of his old Dead World one-shots, so it was a treat to crash one in to a weekend afternoon! Nicole (The...
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