Category: RPGS

Item Seed: Haw River Vampires.

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Haw River Vampires

Haw River, for those wondering, is located in North Carolina, and is one of the tributaries that feed into the Cape Fear River; it is also the site of the one of the most vicious and relentless clandestine cryptozoological eradication campaigns in American history.  To give you an idea of how long the fight’s taken place… it started under the aegis of the Confederate Secret Service, got transferred to the Pinkertons when that group quietly brought in the remnants of the CSS in 1871, and was only taken over by the FBI in 1938.  The Feds officially closed the books on the fight in 1970, but the entire operation is still deeply classified and the documentation for it has been thoroughly and deliberately lost in the archives. Preferably until everybody involved is safely dead of old age.

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Item Seed: The Book of Incipient Words.

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The Book of Incipient Words

 

This artifact superficially manifests as a standard child’s black-and-white composition book.  It appears to be about twenty years old, bound with aged rubber bands, and about to fall apart — but it never quite does.  In fact, the Book is functionally invulnerable. To give one example: it  has stopped a fifty caliber machine gun round on at least one occasion (the force of the bullet still killed the person trying to use it as a shield, though).  Needless to say, The Book of Incipient Words will register as magical in standard identification spells.  With that particular tint of esoteric color that denotes “Here Be Dragons.”

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OK, formal call, then: Call of Cthulhu scenario playtesters wanted (via Google Hangout).

I dunno the date yet, because I don’t know what the deadlines are: but if you’re interested in getting in on a quick playtest of a Call of Cthulhu scenario then let me know. I already have two folks interested, so there are at least two slots left – and probably a few more.  The game session will be rules-light, because I’m mostly going to be checking for awesome.  You’ll get character sheets and some kind of quick rules; there’s at least one one-shoot Cthulhu horror ruleset out there.

Tweet of the Day, I May Need To Run Another Google Hangout RPG Session edition.

Because the Unspeakable Oath is taking submissions, that’s why.

They want two things out of said submissions: originality, and playtesting.  My regular game doesn’t really ‘do’ horror, but I suspect that I can get a couple of people together for some rules-light playtesting.  Let me know in comments if you’re interested.

Item Seed: The Twelve Inscrutable Masks of the Dark Zodiac.

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The Twelve Inscrutable Masks of the Dark Zodiac

 

By definition, we know very little about what happened prior to the invention of writing and the keeping of records.  Ever wonder that this may be deliberate?  That writing itself might have been a desperate weapon, wielded by people who needed to learn a new way of thinking before they were eaten by the all too seen, and the dangerously definable?

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My @DeltaGreen Shotgun Scenario “Operation HAMSTER DIAMOND.”

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Alas, it did not win the Delta Green 2016 Shotgun Scenario contest.  Heck, it didn’t even get a vote (I was competing, so I didn’t think that it was appropriate that I vote for mine).  There was a missing sentence at the end and I needed to tighten it up a bit here and there before putting it up now, so that’s fair.

Still, I think that it’s a workable Delta Green scenario, so here you go. Also, check out the entries in that link! Sure, they didn’t recognize my greatness: but there are certainly enough adventures there to fill a campaign…

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Also: First edition Pendragon RPG now free on DriveThruRPG.

This one lasts until 01/31/2017: the Pendragon RPG is one of the legends and classics in the field, so check it out.  Lord knows when I’ll have a chance to thumb through it, though…

Mega New Year’s Day Sale: @EclipsePhase RPG.

99 cents per PDF for the entire Eclipse Phase future horror-cyberpunk RPG digital line (ONE DAY ONLY).  Feel free to go here to pick it up, but be careful.  That 99 cent thing can run up the score pretty quickly.