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Players Capt. Minnow Blux (Oldhawkeyes) Castrucci Frankfurters (Jay_zer0) Dr. Aarav Papadopoulos (Epistellar) Laszlo "Lazer" Llewellyn (Mistuh) SummaryIn the aftermath of the...
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Imperial Messenger: Escape from The City Absolute2027, WuYa Software An adaptation of the Kafka parable A Message from The Emperor. After a brief cutscene in which the...
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Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Swashbuckler (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh), Xaldun of Portage Town, Swordsman...
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Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Swashbuckler (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh) SummaryAfter raiding the Xanthic...
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Players Tulip Driblette, sponsored by Krongu Inc (EvilTables) Dana Zargle, sponsored by Coca-cola (Epistellar) Amelia Birkenstock, sponsored by Myishi Corp (Oldhawkeyes)...Linked by the ring
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As I solidify the formatting of the Antarctic Adventure Anthology and work on editing submissions, I've been developing a style guide. In the interest of clarity and...
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Problem Statement: Classic Traveller players are always breaking the goddamn law. '77 Traveller is pretty vague about how to handle planetary justice systems.1 I know that...
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Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Hero (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh); Xaldun of Portage Town, Swordsman...
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Players Capt. Minnow Blux (Oldhawkeyes) Castrucci Frankfurters (Jay_zer0) Dr. Aarav Papadopoulos (Epistellar) Laszlo "Lazer" Llewellyn (Mistuh) Lt. Hiroto Nakamura (Kwall)...
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Players Pliny Tannhauser, ex-Merchant (Croaker) Evie Moth, ex-Navy (Shy Owl) Dr. Aarav Papadopoulos (Epistellar) Capt. Minnow Blux, ex-Army (Oldhawkeyes) SummaryAfter the...
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The spaceport bar on the industrial world of El Zocalo adjoins a zero-gravity arena that hosts regular fights. The players in my Odradek's Drift Traveller game have decided to...Linked by the ring
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Below are a few additional experiments using my Classic Traveller character generation script. More Optimized Service SelectionIn the discussion following the previous post, it...Linked by the ring
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Players Capt. Minnow Blux (Oldhawkeyes) Castrucci Frankfurters (Jay_zer0) Dr. Aarav Papadopoulos (Epistellar) Summary(Thank you to Epistellar for keeping session notes.) It has...
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A follow-up to One Million Worlds. One million characters took too long to generate so I went down an order of magnitude. The median planet population has 100,000 people, after...Linked by the ring
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During some downtime at work I wrote up a little R script to generate Classic Traveller1 planet UPPs and then made a dataset with one million worlds.2 The StatsIn this set of 1...Linked by the ring
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Players Laszlo "Lazer" Llewelyn (Mistuh) Grosan Larsen (Chaoclypse) Captain Gabe Katz (Space Crimes) Metropolitan Hlawulani Mbhiza (MTB) SummaryA few more Krongu corporation...
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This past weekend I got to run Tom Mecredy's He Ain't Gonna Jump No More for a group of friends. HAGJNM is "tournament module" (or "capsule game") in which players control...Linked by the ring
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Nōmfolk in Zurth have been known, on occasion, to play a game commonly referred to as "Nōm Poker". The game is popular among humans as well, and many a bout can be witnessed in...
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Players: Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0), Osric II of Shophalbelath, Hero (EvilTables), Buster Diamantis, Blue Conjurer (Mistuh) SummarySince their last very...
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Players Lt. Gunt Zama, ex-Navy (Gourd Dwarf) Maj. Rosalie Klein, ex-Army (msquixotic) Laszlo "Lazer" Llewelyn (Mistuh) Evie Moth, ex-Navy (Scribble M. Horror) Cpt. Minnow Blux,...
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As I tinker with Classic Traveller, I think that later versions lose something by re-framing the "Prior Service" tables as a universal background system. It's interesting and...
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This post on reddit asks how to rule a forest fire started by player characters. My day job involves running forest growth and wildfire simulations. I got into it via GIS & R...Linked by the ring
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Today's interview is with xtinak, (who also uses the handle msquixotic). She blogs at Ms. Quixotic Talks About Games and has an itch page at xtinak.itch.io/ Her WIP region, the...Linked by the ring
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Spaceports always have bars where you can blow off steam after a passage and meet potential patrons. They usually suck. In cases where it's helpful to flesh out a spaceport bar...
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The third installment in the AAJ interview series is with Forlorn Skulk, who blogs at forlornskulk.blogspot.com/ and has an itch store at forlornskulk.itch.io. Skulk joined the...
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Ever since playing Chants of Sennaar I've thought it would be cool to write logograms for dungeon languages that players could use for clues and to communicate with otherwise...Linked by the ring
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The second interview in the series is with Hags, who blogs at hags.bearblog.dev and has a substantial catalog on itch. She contributed The Nine Valley Kingdoms to Antarctica, a...
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For the last couple months, I've been gradually working on editing and formatting entries submitted to the Antarctic Adventure Jam into a monstrous Antarctic Adventure...
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I will be co-running Marathon Nomic, a 24-hour game of Nomic with Scribble M. Horror on the Gay Beholder OSR Discord server this weekend (the weekend of June 13-14). It is...
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With only one last key for which to locate a lock, a cadre of daring delvers deigned to descend the depths of Murdicog's Manse once again.