I am currently running 1 (one) Star Trek Adventures campaign with 4 players. We use Discord for meeting/camera use.
The group includes a Changling security officer (“Greg”), a Betazoid/Denobulan scientist (“Velesa”), a Ferengi engineer (“Moshi”), and a Vulcan medical officer that was raised by Bajorans (“T’Norrun”).
Highlights of the campaign thus far: The Ferengi playing trombone to try and calm a group of feral humanoids and then reciting a famous nursery rhyme “Baby’s First Profit.”
Running: Werewolf the Apocalypse (but using nWoD system not oWoD system). With @RogerBW and @MichaelCule and Dave.
Playing: WH40K: Dark Heresy. I’m the medic and unsanctioned psyker.
In theory I’m also playing in a weekly Tales from the Loop game, but we haven’t had a session since November.
Planning to run: a one-off Aliens scenario for @RogerBW and @MichaelCule and others.
Playing Curse of Strahd weekly when I am not tied up with theatre.
Running the last bits of 5e Dolmenwood when I can find a gap from theatre.
Hoping to play one-offs of Trail of Cthulhu, Mausritter.
Currently GMing two Warhammer campaigns for separate groups.
The first is going through the Enemy in Shadows campaign and the 2nd is about halfway through the Starter Set. With the latter, they kind of want to do the Enemy In Shadows campaign too and Im trying to convince them to do some other adventures!!
Yay, I’ll join in!
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Tonight — in ten hours — I will conduct the party-and-character generation session for a new Flat Black campaign that I am going to run by way of Discord, with and old gaming chum and two new recruits from the AUS RPG discord server. The pitch was as follows:
Campaign : It Belongs In A Museum
System : ForeSight
Setting : Flat Black
Genres : low-concept SF; planetary adventure; thrillers, hard-boiled mysteries, capers
Inspiration : Mission Impossible , Burn Notice , SF works of Jack VancePlatform : Discord voice and chat
Schedule : Saturday nights 20:00–23:30 AET
Commencement : late January 2022
Players : 3–4Premise
The PCs comprise a small team of versatile and highly competent “effectives” who perform secret operations for an interstellar NGO on the “planet of the month”.
Human Heritage is an interstellar non-government organisation that is dedicated to recording and conserving cultural treasures, and protecting artists and their freedom of expression. Human Heritage has supporters and members on most planets. But these are seldom skilled enough to do anything difficult, resolute enough to do anything strenuous or dangerous, or bold enough to confront opposition. HH therefore employs skilled and daring “effectives” as undercover and clandestine operators. Rarely of a military character, their missions usually involve finding missing artists, rescuing captives, finding and recovering stolen art, interdicting the trade in stolen art, and preventing major acts of vandalism—by whatever means necessary. But if you get caught, the Conservator will deny any knowledge of your mission.
Flat Black is a setting for adventures in which more-or-less cosmopolitan PCs come with an objective to an exotic planet with a bizarre culture and society. The peculiarities of the planet are an obstacle while they are not understood, but PCs can figure out how to adapt to, circumvent, and even take advantage of them.
I’m using first edition ForeSight with only the essential minimum of simplifications to character generation, for the sake of having something definite that the players can rely upon.
Played D&D last Friday night with another 4 and had a blast! I am not very convinced with D&D rules for combat, but I was not very focused on that. We had a good time on the Sword Coast travelling with a convoy from Neverwinter to Phandalin, and looks like we will have another session on Friday smashing goblins.
I did not remember how much I missed RPGs, it had been way over a decade since I played last, Vampire the Masquerade 2nd Ed likely.
Are you doing the starter set?
I believe so, with pre-made characters.
For a Starter Set is actually quite a good little adventure
We’ve had 2 more sessions, and it has been a delight. I must admit I am enjoying it quite a lot, especially love the balance between acting the investigation and the battles in the dungeons.
With all respect and credit to @lordof1; I got three friends together over drinks last night on zoom and we went through the Mongoose Strontium Dogs character Generation.
The Grizzled Veteran of the Group with three terms of service is Sinistar Fistulon. Severely deformed with a stretched chest, a missing left elbow, and boneless left knuckles. His devastating “hot dog morningstar” attack is feared the galaxy over.
The brains of the operation with two terms of service is a radically mutated customer whose entire head is conjoined into his right shoulder. Headly LeWarr specializes in hostage situations and sighting down the barrel of a blaster while preparing to take the recoil on his nose.
The young turk of the group with one term of service is the shambolically mutated Randow TF. His sideways toes, his crystaline knees, his pustulent stomach, his scaled neck, and his withered left nostril all mark him as hideous and disturbing, however perhaps nothing is more creepy than the distorted voice that issues from his throat… the throat of a seahorse!
Sinistar began his career stalking down, capturing, and making a lifelong enemy of the serial arsonist Toastmaster General on a distant world in the Gutbucket cluster. While Bruce Shambles (the stront with the triple size chin and double size stomach, ever since a professional rival) was distracted following up on Toastmaster’s crafty crumbs; Sinistar played possum by stopping his heart and then caught Toastmaster upside the head with a overhead sausage finger slam.
Hedy (Headly! What are you worried about, it’s 2182 she’s in the public domain!) began his career rescuing a starship full of hostages headed to the danger zone in the clutches of dapper gang The Kenny Logginses.
Sinistar’s second warrant involved a critical accident with a number 4 cartridge and he no longer trusts variable cartridge blasters. Sadly the resulting explosion took out most of the station and Sinistar had to escape the wreck in zero g.
Headly next skragged some mob guys. Just some mob guys. Seriously, it was boring. We couldn’t even make a Dinsdale joke stick. He probably just threw a T bomb into a barbershop and then had lunch.
Randow roared into the thick in one term though, not only capturing devastating hypno performer Billy Idle alive but also saving King Clarkie’s distant niece from becoming another blank slate bride during one of Idle’s wipe weddings.
Lastly Sinistar tracked down and engaged the foulmouthed Qubist in an avant garde battle of wits for survival. It took all of his cunning and skill to stop the orange headed weirdo from reducing the board of directors of Mondrain the designer plumbing manufacturer to cubes of inert matter with a dastardly innovation in dimensional weapons.
When next they meet, they will be on the trail of a mutant industrial terrorist with a bizarre agenda who has vanished into colonial space. I call it tough times for tracking down the three-eyed chicken headed mutant Roaster Cogburn.
This is amazing and I am in awe. I would have loved these stories in 2000ad.
That just comes from Character creation or is it your own dramatic additions?
All of the villain names and natures and all of the PC names came up from the folks around the table.
The mutations and events (the enemy and rival, the hostage situation, the weapon malfunction, and rescuing the noble) came from the tables. But deciding who a fugitive with a history of violence in a remote location was and what they were up to isn’t in the tables and was improved.
I think the Whartson Hall playthrough included serial arsonist as a quip and that stuck with me.
We had our 4th session last night.
Gosh, D&D can be a bit too ruled by dice luck. We had planned the perfect strategy to assault this tavern full of ruffians, sending our halfling rogue first with a crate of cider to get them all drunk and entice one of the gang to come out so we could kidnap him to interrogate him and guess who gets the most intoxicated of them all? She did. And gambled with them and lost 3 silver pieces…
So there we are, three of us waiting outside and the time ticks, until at midnight, expecting the worse, we had to start pelting the tavern windows with stones, and lure them outside. Were we very convincing? No, they just stayed behind cover.
Until our halfling riled them up, they were staying put, no matter what obscenities we shouted at them. And then they all came out at once. Which nearly cost us dearly. Luckily I got knocked over, got recovered by our cleric and rolled a natural 20 on my next turn, resulting with the fact that I minced one of them with my greatsword plus our mage blasted them with a cone of fire so they legged it, but that was close to utter failure.
Sounds about right for a halfling…
There’s a lesson there, true that.
My Drinax campaign (my second, the first was probably 2012) started with a very satisfying Alien homage that began mid catastrophe but with the newly minted characters waking up in low berths with amnesia. They then worked out the problem and their own plans to solve it that they had implemented before they set the controls for a very close slingshot round the star.
It ended perfectly in genre (blow the hold doors) and they abandoned the infected ship as they set the controls for the heart of the sun.