While visiting the isle of Crete to investigate a rare plant discovered among ancient ruins there, Cassandra Hayes accidentally discovered the tomb of her ancient ancestor – Circe, an enchantress of Greek legend. A vision of Circe spoke to her, saying the stories that painted her as a creature of evil were untrue. Enchantments of […]
Piloting a chopper into combat zones and dangerous wilderness areas to provide emergency medical assistance is a fun way to pay the bills, but there’s a lot of down time between runs, and rescue ops don’t provide many chances to use her mutant sonic abilities. So under the alias Aria, Boudica Jones fights crime in
With the basics in hand, it was time to plan our first gaming session. Characters were created, NPCs were rolled up, and some henchmen were hired (or, in this case, brainwashed) to participate in the first adventure of a series that I’d decided to organize in chapter form. Now we needed a way to represent
Some gamers will go all-out and buy the deluxe leather-bound collector’s edition rulebooks of all their favorite games; they’ll build custom gaming tables and top them with “dungeon tiles” and landscaping, and amass large collections of figurines to represent characters’ positions on the map. I’m going to try to do this… not that way. My
MP defines three general power level groupings for a campaign; the choice of power level impacts the initial number of points the characters can apply to their traits and abilities and imposes limitations on how those points can be allocated. For our first campaign we decided to go with a “low” power level, which the
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Vinny has seen some stuff, y’know, man? Sooner or later the bad guys are gonna come for him, so he’ll be damned if he’s not gonna help the good guys keep them away. He knows a guy, owes him a favor; that guy knows a guy with a favor; enough favors owed and traded, and
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Edna Merple was thrilled when her small business, Busybody Cleaning Services, was awarded the contract to handle housekeeping at a local research lab, though she worried she’d need to take on an employee or two in order to keep up with the new work and still handle her existing clients. But after a freak accident
Roger Stephenson was just a scrawny kid from Cleveland when he volunteered for a Vietnam War era mega-soldier program that endowed him with near-superhuman physical characteristics. Armed with a nigh-indestructible shield, for many years he served as a soldier and superhero with a patriotic-themed uniform. Unfortunately a media conglomerate deemed his overall image and his
As the About page suggests, this blog is about my journey back into the world of table-top role-playing games, and this is its inaugural post. For an assortment of reasons I’ve decided to revisit RPGs after decades away and to write about it here, so it seems like a good place to start is to
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