Category: RPGS

Location Seed: Abattoir Place, New York City.

Abattoir Place, New York City – Google Docs

Abattoir Place, New York City

 

Technically, this street is supposed to be West 12th Street after that street intersects with 11th Avenue: Abattoir Place extends west until it hits the Hudson River.  And if you’re walking, that is indeed how you get there.  If you’re driving, however, you’ll never see the street, because it doesn’t exist for anybody who isn’t moving under his own power.  Even a bicyclist won’t be able to find it.

 

If you’re trying to figure out how that works, do yourself a favor and stop.  Accept that it’s magic or something, and that it could be a lot less benign than it is.  People have puzzled over this mystery right to the point of getting major strokes; it’s just not worth it.

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Item Seed: Beruang H-40 Laptop.

Beruang H-40 Laptop – Google Docs

 

Beruang H-40 Laptop

 

This item was found in Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park, and the first interesting thing about the Beruang Laptop is that it is in excellent condition. The item was apparently designed to be humidity-resistant, effectively waterproof, rustproof, corrosion free, acclimated for jungle use, and just generally rugged.  There is one section of the laptop case that seems to have been regularly gnawed, or at least bitten — but that section has been heavily rubberized. It’s almost as if the laptop was supposed to be carried around in one’s mouth.  Oh, and the laptop is powered by a solar panel system that has the folks in the lab taking notes.

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In the Mail: Champions Mini Series #1-6. [MAJOR RPG GEEK BRAG WARNING]

This was absurdly cheap ($9) on Amazon. Sufficiently so that I didn’t actually completely believe that I’d get them, as-advertised.  But they arrived, and they really are what they said they were: a complete run of a six-part Champions RPG series from Eclipse Comics.  Each issue has stats in the back for a featured character and everything.

Maybe I’m just a niche market, but this price was nowhere near my have-to-think-about-it threshold. On the other hand, according to one guide I could have picked up the whole thing individually for three bucks an issue, plus shipping. On the gripping hand, it’s still an absolute steal.

In the Mail: “Curse of Strahd.”

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…

Item Seed: Ghost Canoes.

Ghost Canoes – Google Docs

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.

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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 – Google Docs

Santo

[The Day After Ragnarok]

 

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.

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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 – Google Docs

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.