Week in Review: April 18

Moldy Oldies

I started the week off with Sunday's MERP game. This session finished off my original, planned adventure. As the players seem to enjoy MERP, we will be continuing the game. This is not really a problem, since I designed the adventure to have a natural expansion path. They decided that they want to raid the vault again this week, so I spent some time pulling together some encounters to facilitate that. I also completed the planning stages for the follow on adventure, which I suspect will be overland travel. Fortunately, MERP has a pretty good baked-in system for this.

Because my MERP planning needs were light, I managed to get a significant amount of research done for my over-the-horizon Moldy Oldie, Harn. I selected a mod that I plan to use as the first adventure, and along with it the appropriate setting modules. I also lucked in to a good sized lot of Harn stuff on eBay for a reasonable price. Like, Tekumel, Harn has very dense lore (more dense in someways), but its organization means my approach is very different than my preparation for Tekumel. It is very top down. I am sure I will be discussing that in a future series of posts.

Tekumel

Monday's Tekumel game went well, it was one of the character jumping special sessions and it wrapped the first phase of the campaign. We were lucky to have, not just the core Monday group, but two members of the Space Ranger group as well. Hopefully, they will be joining us on a regular basis. I posted the first of the session recaps. I suspect it will take me a little while to catch up with play for this game. I also got the first in my series of I Tekumeled and You Can Too posted, this series will focus on how to start being a Tekumel GM.

Stars Without Number

The Thursday night game went well, the fourth member of our regular group was finally able to make it. They found some interesting historical artifacts that will be quite useful to the group if they can raise the money they need to fix them up. They also set out from the mine site to see if they can find work in some of the other settlements on Reynolds World. I managed to get the first of my session recaps up for this game.

Other Gaming

I started Final Fantasy VII Remake on Sunday afternoon and I have managed to play about eight hours this week. I am enjoying it so far. Most of what they added seems to be good. There are a few too many fetch quest additions though.

During a virtual happy hour, Joe expressed interest in trying out Mothership, so I have been prepping that today. Hopefully we can give that a try sometime in the next week or so.

I have also been working on my long term game prep for Harn. I selected an adventure that I want to kick things off with, On the Edge. I hope to have my thoughts up from my initial read through soon.

Comments

Traveller: Session 33

This session was run on June 15, 2023. 130-2108 They confronted Reverend Kavanaugh about the wrench and the explosive bolts and he changed his story again. He now claimed that, even in his revised story, he had still tried to protect Dieter and his memory. Dieter had not just surrendered to fate and drawn straws after his failed attempt to poison Kavanaugh at breakfast. As soon as it was clear that the paralytic was not working, he attempted to choke Kavanaugh. As the two wrestled, Kavanaugh grabbed a wrench from the toolbox, left in the common room during their repair efforts, and bashed Dieter over the head. He had then flushed Dieter’s body, along with the wrench, out of the airlock. He claimed not to have known about the explosive bolts and said that, because there were only two of them aboard, there were sixteen hours each day where only one of them was awake. Unable to determine if this latest story was true, they informed...

Wilderlands: Session 32

This session was run on February 13, 2023. Determined to find Uggmar, the party, now accompanied by Rasaz, headed back into the dungeon beneath the barrow mounds using the northeast entrance. They decided that they were unlikely to find him on the first level and, rather than risk getting swarmed by skeletons again,they headed directly down the stairs they found on their last expedition. After a hundred foot descent, they found themselves in a large cavern that contained what appeared to be an underground city. The architecture of the buildings they could see seemed to be from an earlier era, perhaps before man learned to work iron. As they began searching the streets, they noticed a woman standing very still in a doorway. They approched her to find that she seemed to be frozen in time, surrounded by a strange red glow. Nothing they did seemed to affect her. She could not be moved, nor could her clothes or body be disturbed. As they were examining the woman, Strange...

Traveller: Campaign Overview

This Traveller campaign is intended to be kind of a history of the Traveller universe (or at least my version of it). The framing device for the campaign is the start of The Rebellion in 1116 with the assassination of Emperor Strephon. The players took the roles of imperial archdukes that were present at the assassination and through them help define the fate of the Third Imperium. The archdukes will be the constant backbone of the campaign, providing context for everything else. We will return to them between arcs spent with other characters in which we explore different parts, and different eras, of the universe. I hope to visit many different times throughout the history of the Traveller universe and to tie events in those times to the fate of the empire in the future. This page will be useful for figuring out which arcs were covered in which sessions. I hope this will make it easier to keep all of the different characters straight and to re...

Circle of Dar Janix

Search This Blog