It’s one of the oddities of my roleplaying history that I didn’t actually do much with Dungeons & Dragons until I hit college, mostly because my parents were down on D&D. …Just D&D, though. Rolemaster, Call of Cthulhu, Paranoia, GURPS, Hero System? No problem. But no D&D. So, anyway, I never got to play Ravenloft. So I’m kind of looking forward to perusing Curse of Strahd. Hopefully, it won’t suck…
Category: RPGS
Item Seed: Ghost Canoes.
Ghost Canoes
These incredibly handy artifacts can only be made from wood from a tree that died, and was then left strictly alone for a full century. This makes them available only from Elves, a similarly long-lived species, or a community of incredibly patient mortals. Fortunately, once constructed Ghost Canoes can be repaired with regular wood.
Day to go on the ‘Cold Warning’ Call of Cthulhu mini-Kickstarter.
Apparently you can do one-week ones, and Cold Warning is one of those. It’s a blast from the past that had been on ice for decades. But they thawed it out, which is pretty cool and I think that it’s interesting to see how stuff that’s been frozen in time for that long can still be well-preserved. Plus, if they get enough ice by tomorrow then a stretch goal will open up, which would be chill.
…I’ll stop now.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/golden-goblin-press/cold-warning-a-call-of-cthulhu-7th-edition-adventu?ref=user_menu
Santo [The Day After Ragnarok]
Santo
The masked folk hero Santo (b. 1917; real name Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, but nobody knows this) had just begun what would have been a long and illustrious career as a luchador when the Serpentfall hit. Santo rapidly fell afoul of the Almazan regime, once it overthrew the Mexican government: he has spent the last few years throwing the Sinarquistas out of southern Mexico, one fascist at a time. He is loved by the common folk. He is feared by every corrupt official from Tijuana to Tapachula. The Sinarquistas are torn between hating him for his defiance, and desiring to convert him to their cause.
He is Santo.
Welp. Got the Fall of Delta Green playtest feedback report out.
In case you were wondering what I was doing today. End of month is always fun, isn’t it? Particularly when you’re facing those subtly oh-that’s-easy deadlines that suddenly sprout teeth and start staring at your trachea. Whee!
Still, this is how the industry advances. We all must do our part, yes? Yes.
Moe Lane
PS: Thanks again to everybody who played.
The 7th Sea’s Explorer’s Society site is live.
Finally. Basically, it’s a format for making your own 7th Sea material and, hey, selling it (you get 50% of any profits, John Wick gets 25%, DriveThruRPG gets 25%). This is acceptable, given that John Wick’s also made a bunch of free stock stuff available for people who want to do this, including maps, pictures, coats of arms, that sort of thing. I gotta sit down with my gaming group (we’re in the middle of a 7th Sea campaign) next session and really TALK about this. This may change how we run games for a while.
Creature Seed: Testudops.
Blame this. Particularly if you are a researcher from the 23rd Century AD wondering which fool gave those bioengineers the original horrible idea. Sorry, Future Dudes, I just write roleplaying game material.
Testudops
There have been many bioengeered, transgenetic Monstrosities of Science banned by the Seventh Geneva Convention of 2095: but Testudops are perhaps unique in the fact that the driving impetus to get them banned so quickly was because the concept was in such bad taste. Oh, they would have been banned anyway. But this particular Monstrosity gof fast-tracked. Continue reading Creature Seed: Testudops.
Beetle-Americans. [GURPS 4e]
…I dunno why either, man. I just don’t.
Beetle-Americans [25] – Google Docs
Beetle-Americans [25]
Attribute Modifiers: HT +1 [10]
Advantages: Damage Resistance 1 [5], Extra Arms 2 [No Physical Attack, -50%] [10], Flight [Winged, -10%] [30]
Perks: Cultural Familiarity [Human] [1], Honest Face [1]
Disadvantages: Vulnerable (Impaling, x2) [-30]
Quirks Attentive [-1], Broad-minded [-1], Congenial [-1] Distinctive Features [sentient ladybug] [-1]
Racial Skills: Flight [HT/A] [2]
Creature Seed: Origami Rhinos.
Origami Rhinos
Origami Rhinos are not called that because they’re made of paper: it’s because they can fold space around themselves to the point where one can fit into a standard school locker. The visible effect is that the Origami Rhino becomes distortedly compressed in width. The species also does something funky (to use the technical term) with their mass and weight while in this state; they seem to have some control over both. Needless to say, these traits are all decidedly psionic in nature. Origami Rhinos are a blaze of white ‘light’ to anybody with any psionic detection ability at all, including the untrained and those with merely latent powers. This species is not subtle, even for one that is after all a variant of mundane rhinoceroses.
So, why was this particular species touched by the Power of the Atom? The earliest reports suggested “To get away from poachers.” Then the reports became “To hunt down poachers.” Now it’s apparently “To establish mostly no-go areas for humans in Central and Southern Africa.” They’re not taking over entire countries or even provinces, but there’s more than one town that’s been fairly ruthlessly encouraged to move out and let the Origami Rhinos have the territory.
Item Seed: The Vita-Inversion Assembly Chamber.
Vita-Inversion Assembly Chamber – Google Docs
The Vita-Inversion Assembly Chamber
This device exists in the worlds where the Mad Scientists of the Victorian Era thrived, crowded out all the non-Mad scientists (non-Mad engineers, too), and went on to be the backbone of scientific and technological progress in the Interstellar Era. And, hoo, boy, was there progress. It’s amazing what you can accomplish if there’s no little voice inside anybody’s head that says “Is this wise?” It certainly makes peer review a more… dynamic experience. And quite exciting, at least from outside of the blast radius.
Continue reading Item Seed: The Vita-Inversion Assembly Chamber.