Written by robothermit

A Long Overdue Update

Hello Everyone, it has been quite some time since my last post. Looking back it appears that the last time I posted on this blog was over a year ago when I posted My article on a mini Star Wars campaign. While I didn’t write about it I did manage to run a variety of games as part of my “Exploration of Games” initiative. Which is still ongoing to some extent, although all my current games are a little longer form than most games of this project.

My intention for this article is to review a little of what I’ve done over the last year and explain what my plans are for this site for the near future.

Fantasy Flight Star Wars

This campaign was relatively short lived, the best I can determine from looking over my notes is that we played two or three sessions. At about that time a couple of my players were getting tired of playing online games, which led me to cutting this game short and moving on to other online games with the remaining players.

In the few sessions that we played the party learned that this star system was run by a gangster named Burge Kontrall who controlled the people of the region through his two lieutenants: Glink, a pirate captain, and Barhol O’Mew, a slick businessman/politician. I know that the party fought pirates on an asteroid base, but honestly don’t know how they ended up there at this point. (Let this be a lesson to take better notes).

Further Explorations of Games

At this point I started running two weekly games for different groups. An in-person game for some local friends who had gotten tired of playing digitally and an online game for some friends and relatives who are not local. My first in-person game of this series was a home-brewed mega dungeon campaign in Pathfinder 2e. This was a good excuse to build some interesting terrain and utilize some classic monsters that I have not had a chance to use thus far. I based the starting situation for the game on the video game Legend of Grimrock, and had my players create a group of prisoners who had been sentenced to wonder the labyrinthine tunnels of the silver mountain, so named for a strange silver tower that rises above its twin peaks and which the surrounding nations know little about. We played a couple of sessions of this campaign before restarting it when more players were able to join. We played though about eight sessions before switching into our current game.

I have also been running online games as part of my exploration of games. These online games have generally been shorter, but more consistent. We have played:

  • Blades in the Dark: in which the group created a crew of Shadows working out of an old abandoned lighthouse in the Docks district praying upon the canal filled streets of Silkshore. The party managed to start a rivalry with the city’s firemen, the Brigade, as well as steel some magically active antiquities from a ship on its way to port.
  • Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (Deadlands): In which the party was on the hunt for an old prospector friend of theirs’ who had gone missing while searching for ghost rock in the mountains around a small, out of the way, mining town. They eventually found what remained of their friend after a run-in with a mad scientist, her steam powered spider, and her attempt to use ancient ruins to power some form of reanimation contraption.
  • Pathfinder 2e : A brief game in game in the Deadshot Lands region of Golarion’s continent of Arcadia almost entirely based on a timeline note in Paizo’s Guns and Gears sourcebook. The party worked for a private detective and were tasked with protecting a local rancher and his niece at a party for the a current mayoral candidate. The party was attacked by bandits, who it turns out, were working with a giant necromancer who had stolen all the corpses and gravestones in the city, but were actually being doped into providing raw materials for a necromantic ritual.

Farther Still into the Future

Come full circle as I’m now running another Fantasy Flight Star Wars Game.  This time as the members of a small fighter squadron on the run from the recently formed Empire. So far we have played two sessions, and currently the plan is only to play about once a month. One of the plans for this blog going forward is to provide session recaps for the benefits of my players, so I’ll give a full review of the first two sessions in a separate article.

I am also continuing to run online games with our current game being a play through of the Starfinder Adventure Path Fly Free or Die, in which the party plays a crew of space truckers who just want to get by, but are hounded by a series of bad jobs that end up with them stealing a starship and nearly getting killed by the space mafia. Now they have to try to make it rich, while not getting caught by the multitude of people who would like to kill them.

That is all for now, I hope to have a review of the first couple sessions of my Star Wars game up soon. I also hope to create some setting/system agnostic news articles and billboard messages that relate to that game. Finally I do hope to get back to development on my post-apocalypse setting soon, and hopefully actually start creating some rules content for playtesting.

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