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By Shawn Hantke (Shantke) on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 08:24 am: Edit

GROGNARD: Ruminations On 40 Years In Gaming
We're collecting the editorials (and insights: great reading) of famous game designer and editor Loren Wiseman in book and ebook form. By Marc "Traveller" Miller- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/traveller5/grognard-ruminations-on-40-years-in-gaming

By Terry O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 01:57 am: Edit

Chaosium has announced that it will be doing a new edition of the classic campaign Masks of Nyarlathotep for Call of Cthulhu. Announcement

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 04:16 am: Edit

I like the Cthulhu RPG, Masks of Nyarlathotep is a good module.
In a different module and campaign were I was the GM, the first gaming session left one character alive out of a group of six.

The second time the group (I think about eight players that time) played in my Cthulhu campaign, it looked like two players were going to survive.

However it was necessary to dynamite the entrance to an underground cave complex, and seal it in with a massive stone block, trapping the other player together with a horde of deep ones.
The one who survived was the player who survived the first module. Fun times indeed.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 04:41 am: Edit

The Cthulhu players in the campaign were used to playing combat type RPG sessions, but were not quite prepared for the different experience that you get with Call of Cthulhu (investigating, researching, sanity or lack of it, and the horrors).

By Mike Strain (Evilmike) on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 08:40 am: Edit

Ahhh, CoC. Where the character with the lowest IQ has the best chance of survival.

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By Jon Murdock (Xenocide) on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 10:31 am: Edit

In Call of Cthulhu there are ways to always survive.

- Do not touch anything.
- Do not look at anything.
- Definitely do not read anything.
- If you encounter anything at all run away.

If you want to have fun do the opposite and embrace insanity.

By Terry O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - 04:05 pm: Edit

Masks certainly has a reputation as being a bit of a meat grinder. One solution is to have the players be investigators from some kind of organization that investigates such things, so there's always a good reason for a new character to join the investigation when another dies.

By KC Wood (Kirok) on Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - 08:31 pm: Edit

Shadow Fleet was established in January of 2007 to bring Star Trek fans together in community discussion as well as canon based, high quality role-playing. Come join us at: https://www.shadowfleet.org/forum/index.php.

By Mike Bennett (Mike) on Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 08:57 pm: Edit

Canon based? Which canon? Which universe? Which time period? For that matter, which timeline?

By Steve Zamboni (Szamboni) on Friday, February 16, 2018 - 12:34 pm: Edit

Discovery Mirror Universe. None of that Roddenberry fanfic stuff.

By Jon Murdock (Xenocide) on Friday, February 16, 2018 - 02:53 pm: Edit

I base my idea of canon entirely on how well it matches the Animated Series.

By Jack Bohn (Jackbohn) on Friday, February 16, 2018 - 10:18 pm: Edit

The Alan Dean Foster adaptations of the Animated Series.

By Marc Michalik (Kavik_Kang) on Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 02:59 am: Edit

I thought SFB was canon, and that Roddenberry stuff had just been the first dry run at it...

By Mike Bennett (Mike) on Monday, February 19, 2018 - 10:15 am: Edit

The way I look at it, the Air Force tapes have the real info. Included in them were scripts (or even images) of historical events that were made into promotional/propaganda releases for the consumption of the Federation citizenry.

Some of the info got out (whether on purpose or by accident) and Roddenberry saw it, got the idea for a 1960's TV series, and TOS came about.

More info made its way into the Franz Josef materials.

More data was included in TAS.

Enter ADB and whether via even more info or by deductive reasoning, SFB and all its cousin games came into being.

The other series since TOS/TAS either came from divergent timelines or Hollywood types who thought they should modify the actual history for 21st century American consumption. They aren't necessarily bad or "evil," but they are a product of their times, not the actual info in the tapes.

Was there a real Kirk? Perhaps not. His character, as well as the characters of all of the TOS crew, may be amalgams of several actual members of Star Fleet. They may have been altered to promote Star Fleet to the populations of Earth and other Federation planets.

Oh, well. It's all fun!

By John Williams (Johndw) on Friday, March 08, 2019 - 08:51 am: Edit

So, I know this is another companies Trek game, but that should be okay to discuss? Has anyone else played the Modiphius Star Trek Adventures? I find merit in the 2d20 and challenge dice systems they use, and do think it could be a fun way to run a Trek game set in any of your preferred settings.

Also, anyone looked at Star Crawl? Kind of a DCC RPG dice-chain based game. I really like the simple ways they have for resolving ship combat (simple for an rpg that might normally focus on player based combats or interactions), it definitely seems like something I could port into other systems that have too-complex of ship combat for an rpg.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Friday, September 24, 2021 - 08:34 am: Edit

The Dune RPG.

https://boingboing.net/2021/09/23/this-delightful-fan-made-dune-role-playing-game-is-only-one-page.html

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Monday, May 22, 2023 - 05:30 pm: Edit

We started playing a Hell on Earth campaign. I've got a Blessed character from the Deadlands Weird West setting. Liza actually does have a pretty floral bonnet!

And she got to tell one character, "If you don't stop right there, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end you." He really should have believed her. He didn't, and she did with her bitsy derringer (shot once in the knee and once in the head). He had to spend a bunch of his chips to not be dead.

What's sad is that Liza thought she HAD killed him and was trying her best to bring him back somehow. She was madder than a wet cat when it turned out he was playacting being dead.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Monday, May 22, 2023 - 08:36 pm: Edit

So she shot him again?

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 09:41 am: Edit

^^^^ This board needs a *Like* button.


Garth L. Getgen

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 11:52 am: Edit

No shooting again. She was really lucky to be able to hit him the first time! Shootin' isn't really her strong point.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 05:36 pm: Edit

Well with a bad knee she could have marched right up and given him a splendid slap across the face for not dying proper the first time.

Sounds like you all are havin' fun at any rate.

By Jean Sexton Beddow (Jsexton) on Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 11:28 am: Edit

We are having fun! I belt out any battle hymn that she decides the group needs in the moment. And her benediction saved some of the members of the group in the last fight (negates the first wound level). And I love that I can take some words literally until someone explains them to her.

Examples:

"Those women are hippies."
"Well, at least they won't have problems giving birth."

"We need hogs to ride."
"Let me tell you, hogs have a backbone that will split you up the middle! And they are MEAN! You'd be better off riding a horse and eating the hog."

By Mike Curtis (Nashvillen) on Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 12:26 pm: Edit

Just wait until she whips out her purple pen...