Says Who

Dracula Dossier Session 10

Dramatis Personae:

  • S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running. Currently working at a cleaning contractor (player unable to attend)
  • N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. Currently working at a cleaning contractor (player unable to attend)
  • An, playing Cooper ‘Coop’ - All-American patriot. Former Marine, pulled into the CIA as a wetworker.
  • Al, playing Petros - ‘Ambiguously Balkan’, openly works for the dog/horse racing rings that the various Balkan mafias are involved with. The Dogfather.

Recap

03 May 2011

Troubleshooters - London Calling

I recently ran a one-shot of The Troubleshooters - an alternative 1960s with campy evil shadow organisations and artwork inspired by the Franco-Belgian bédé. I have run a few one-shots of this in the past, and have generally had fun with them. This time, I picked the officially released Fabulous! quick-play scenario, available here, along with some others. I am not going to split out the experience of refereeing this as much as I do in the Dracula Dossier session reports. This will also act as something of a review of the quickplay scenario, which I feel has some issues to be aware of. Spoilers ahead, should you be interested in playing this for yourself.

Dracula Dossier Session 9

Dramatis Personae:

  • S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to informants and similar shady characters
  • N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. Saving his shoes from the sewer wandering.
  • An, playing Cooper ‘Coop’ - All-American patriot. Former Marine, pulled into the CIA as a wetworker.
  • Al, playing Petros - ‘Ambiguously Balkan’, openly works for the dog/horse racing rings that the various Balkan mafias are involved with. The Dogfather.

Recap

02 May 2011

Dracula Dossier Session 8

Dramatis Personae:

  • S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to informants and similar shady characters
  • N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. Saving his shoes from the sewer wandering.
  • An, playing Cooper ‘Coop’ - All-American patriot. Former Marine, pulled into the CIA as a wetworker.
  • Al, playing Petros - ‘Ambiguously Balkan’, openly works for the dog/horse racing rings that the various Balkan mafias are involved with. The Dogfather.

Recap

25-28 April 2011

Pern as an RPG Setting - 1 - Background and Society

I have recently been rereading the Pern series by Anne McAffrey, and thinking about it as a RPG setting. Spoilers are going to crop up in this, so if that bothers you, you might want to avoid this particular tag. This first post will give a high level overview of the setting and how people are organised within it. Follow-up posts will think about possible adventures and provide more details about dragons in particular.

Dracula Dossier Session 7

Dramatis Personae:

  • S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to informants and similar shady characters
  • N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. Saving his shoes from the sewer wandering. (Player not at session.)
  • An, playing Cooper ‘Coop’ - All-American patriot. Former Marine, pulled into the CIA as a wetworker.
  • Al, playing Petros - ‘Ambiguously Balkan’, openly works for the dog/horse racing rings that the various Balkan mafias are involved with. The Dogfather.

Recap

24-25 April 2011

Dracula Dossier Session 6

The Dramatis Personae:

  • S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to informants and similar shady characters
  • N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. Mostly a desk jockey who acts as the ‘guy in the chair’.
  • An, playing Cooper ‘Coop’ - All-American patriot. Former Marine, pulled into the CIA as a wetworker.
  • Al, playing Petros - ‘Ambiguously Balkan’, openly works for the dog/horse racing rings that the various Balkan mafias are involved with. The Dogfather.

Recap

23 - 24 April 2011

Dracula Dossier Session 5

The Dramatis Personae:

  • S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to informants and similar shady characters
  • N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. Mostly a desk jockey who acts as the ‘guy in the chair’.
  • An, playing Cooper ‘Coop’ - All-American patriot. Former Marine, pulled into the CIA as a wetworker. Babysitting their GCHQ desk jockey. (Player not present this session.)
  • Al, playing Petros - ‘Ambiguously Balkan’, openly works for the dog/horse racing rings that the various Balkan mafias are involved with. Currently setting up a safehouse in the London area while the others investigate.

Recap

20 - 22 April 2011

Classic Traveller - Combat Example

Classic Traveller has a moderately arcane combat system to modern eyes. For the most part though, it is not too bad. This is an example of how it can be interpreted. If you want to do things differently, there is no reason to assume that this is the only way it should (or can be interpreted to) work. In general though, I think that the following example is mostly sensible and will not cause too many feathers to be ruffled. (This is another thing that is being posted to here as a more permanent home than various discord messages and a file on my PC, but which was written a while back.)

Dracula Dossier Session 4

The Dramatis Personae:

  • S, playing Padraig - Irish actor, formerly linked to drug running, and then pressured by EUROPOL to act as a courier to provide gear and funds to informants and similar shady characters
  • N, playing Yannis - Belgian hacker who got recruited by the ADIV/SGRS a while back. Mostly a desk jockey who acts as the ‘guy in the chair’.
  • An, playing Cooper ‘Coop’ - All-American patriot. Former Marine, pulled into the CIA as a wetworker. Easily the most trigger-happy of the group, mostly because he is the only one in the group who can really shoot.
  • Al, playing Petros - ‘Ambiguously Balkan’, openly works for the dog/horse racing rings that the various Balkan mafias are involved with. Currently setting up a safehouse in the London area while the others investigate (player unable to make it this session).

Recap

17 - 19 April 2011