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This session the players explored the rest of the Space Alien outpost. When the returned I had re-stocked the space differently, because it had been captured. The rooms that...
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My Carcosa-style recap of this session was as follows: The Bone Man sorcerer, The Dominant Reflection (AC 16, MV 90’, HD 4, Chaotic) has taken over the abandoned Space Alien...
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This is the first session Chris P joined the fight. There were two Chris’s on G+ that were consummate players. Like Eric, they were almost always down to play whenever you...
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I remember this session really well, because it was another weird one. Only Dion and Willie could make it, and they didn’t want to do anything risky. The players travelled with...
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The players had found a Space Alien compass in an earlier session and decided to see where it would lead them. I had decided it would lead them towards the tomb of a dead Space...
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Sam Pearson is the person behind two of Games Workshop’s greatest games: Warcry & Spearhead. He has recently started a YouTube channel after ending his time at the company as...
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… the leader of Invak would pay for the heads of Jale Slavers, and so the game because all about hunting the slavers and chopping of their heads. Blood Meridian, but in...
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I came close to going the whole year without playing a single game of Mordheim, but a visiting gamer from Vancouver put the call out to see if anyone in our Mordheim league was...
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The caverns the party explore this session were another way I had imagined to get the party out of the region they were in. The Protector of Truths was leading a group of...
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The party finally visits the merchant town to the South, Brown Man village of Jahar. These merchants were the ones who escorted the players up to Invak in the first session,...
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The session began with exploration and learning more about the world. This was the first time the party got lost in the wilderness, an important part of the game. My travel...
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Almost a full month since our last game! The fastest way to kill a campaign is to miss games, and playing every week meant that a missed game had an oversized impact. I’m...
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The party had been told rumours that there were healers to the south that could heal Gus’s character of his terrible mutations. (You may recall that was his first character’s...
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My first session of Masters of Carcosa only included 2 players, Gus and Eric. I was a little worried the game wouldn’t catch on, but the next session included 6 people! This...
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When I was running my Carcosa campaign, I would post session recaps on my blog in the form of hex descriptions written as if they came straight from the book. Each session had...
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I am usually in and out of London to see my brother. In past years I’ve returned to Toronto disappointed to learn if I had planned my trip a little bit better I would have been...
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Space Gits an odd duck of a game by the man himself Mike Hutchinson. Mike asks the question, “can you model a game around drunk-ass orks being drunk asses?” I would have to say...
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I mail a lot of books to my brother in the UK. There were a few books waiting for me when I arrived in London this morning. One of those books was Chris McDowall’s latest...
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Elmcat has shared the map of the OSR blogosphere he has been working on for the last few weeks. This project is incredible. He looked at all the links into and out of blogs to...
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While we are on the topic of Chris, I really enjoyed his recent career retrospective. I shared it on BlueSky, but need to get better at just posting stuff here.1 It’s easy to...
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When I first started this blog I had a periodic series of posts where I would highlight blogs I thought were cool. At some point I likely switched to just linking to cool blogs...
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Zedeck Siew has finished his RPG about the background characters you find in the world of Warhammer 40,000. Your characters live in servitude to five Space Marines aboard the...Linked by the ring
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Friend of the #TorontOSR, Jonathan Benn, writes about his approach to creating dungeons. It’s been interesting to see Jon get more and more interested in the OSR and old-school...
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I finally took my posse of Heretic Legion models and played a game of Trench Crusade with Raff at the Sword and Board. Trench Crusade was created by Mike Franchina, the main...
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I participated—and I use that term most loosely—in Sam’s epic online play-by-post “war-game” Over/Under is officially over. I look forward to all the dissertations about the...
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It’s been a while since I’ve updated my Random Character Generator. I had promised my friend Nick I’d make him something that spits out the random grimoires from Errant, and...
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My friends were over to kitbash minis and play Warcry to celebrate our friend Richard’s birthday. There was a small posse of us, so Richard came up with a simple and ingenious...
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For Mothership Month—a crowdfunding campaign extravaganza—Sean decided to spend some of his marketing budget funding a crazy giant digital LARP. Sam Sorensen is running...
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I really enjoyed this sort of meta-review from Paul, The New Novely. Paul writes very deep meaningful reviews of the games he plays. We also have very different interests or...Linked by the ring
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A recent episode of Between Two Cairns opened with a discussion on what to do when a reaction role doesn’t jive with the idea you have in your head for the situation. Yochai’s...Linked by the ring