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The Whiteboard
Most game masters feel more motivated and creative when people want to play their games, encourage them to work on some specific idea, or look forward to a specific game that they’ve considered running. However, it can be hard to know what potential games somebody might have in their mind; we don’t exactly have a whiteboard on which people keep ( Read more... ) -
[SCION] Session Five?
Keeping an eye on other games that people in my household’s circle are busy scheduling, Saturday the 17th of November appears to be free. How would people feel about playing Scion that evening?
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Scion - Experience Points and Epic Points
I mentioned earlier in the week that I am considering an increase in the experience awards I give in the Scion campaign. The primary reason for this is that we don’t play as often as people in a standard campaign - once per month or less so far - and so to give people a feeling of improvement or “getting somewhere” I’d like to make each session ( Read more... ) -
Scion - The Story So Far
I may have omitted some details from the game, whether due to vagueness since we played the session, or because they concerned events in flashback that weren’t directly involved in the actual story. I apologise for that! However, this should help to remind you of the basic events so far:
Session One - Tricky Mr. Trick
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The Mummer's Play - character list
Sarah Atkinson-Hayes
An English clubber and tourist who seems to live for parties throughout Europe and the Mediterranean.
Gabriel Blanchait
An enthusiastic amateur actor who has landed the role of King Ascalon in the mummer's play.
Aurélie Blanchait
Gabriel's wife and the most notorious gossip in Saint-Raphaël.
Philippe Blanchait
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For Sydcon 2007 (expanded blurb)
The Mummer’s Play
“And pleasant is the fairy land,
But, an eerie tale to tell,
Aye at the end of seven years,
We pay a tithe to hell:
I am so fair and full o’ flesh,
I fear ‘twill be myself.”
Welcome to Saint-Raphaël, a resort town on the French Riviera. In summer, Saint-Raphaël throngs with tourists and the wealthy. Winter is ( Read more... ) -
What would this interstellar empire look like?
I have just read Ken McLeod's novel The Cassini Division, in which there is human civilisation in two star systems - the Solar System and New Mars, located on the far end of a wormhole.
The wormhole was originally created in orbit around Jupiter, and then one "side" of it was carried out of the Solar System by a spacecraft travelling at sublight ( Read more... ) -
StarORE Rules Tweak
For those looking for a fast, easy-to-learn system for playing Star Wars, StarORE, which is essentially an adaptation of West End Games' d6 system to Greg Stolze's One Roll Engine, is an excellent starting point. However, the rules for the Dark/Light Side balance seem a little bland to me. This is an attempt to fix them.
Those of you who have ( Read more... )
