Author: Thrythlind aka Luke Green

I actually think I might start trying to set up one-shots or a campaign of some sort on the off-nights my brother has work…if I can get word of when he’s working or unavailable far enough in advance to tell people.

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Went through the list of RPG books I have on hand either electronically or physically today. (Due to lack of physical space all but about 6 of these are electronic format) There’s actually a good 30-50 more that I didn’t include including almost all the Fate Worlds of Adventure up to now and Dresden Files, which somehow escaped me putting it up….huh.

This is mostly because I’m going to be getting asked “Do you have ___?” and “How many ______ do you have?” questions tomorrow in the 1st year JHS classes and I was asked to provide pictures.  And this is one of the categories I suggested for stuff I have.

Regarding this game, Yoshi Creelman has RSVPed.  I’m thinking of running it as if the game the player characters are stuck in is an XCOM style sci-fi game. Badass marines, cyborgs, genetech, alien hybrids, etc, whatever other character types you’d expect from a game inspired by XCOM, Aliens and the like are cool. (yes the art is still mainly fantasy…I used what I had)

http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/events/231509737/

http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/events/231509737

I’ve decided to run this sequence of scenarios via Monster of the Week. As noted, knowledge of the setting is not required. I’d eventually like to run some one-shots of my fate game here, but I’ll start with Monster of the Week to intro the setting with a familiar system.

http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/events/231508306/

http://www.meetup.com/Gauntlet-Hangouts/events/231508306

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Sixth Session of the current Divine Blood campaign with the playtest group. New character joined today though Aria’s player had to sit out. (Aria needed hospitalization anyway, so that’s fine)

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2016/06/divine-blood-wasps-among-butterflies_2.html

Well, my Masks game for August filled it’s last slot everybody else goes to wait list.

I haven’t seen any movement on the other three games yet…I’m considering adapting the two Divine Blood settings to Monster of the Week to serve as an intro to the setting before bringing my own Fate-based system in.

I was reminded that I also have some videos of games I’ve run as one-shots in case anyone wants to see how I GM.  There’s a small mix here, a one-shot of Kuro, the cyberpunk/Japanese horror game by Cubicle 7 (split into smaller episodes), some Fate Core and Fate Accelerated Game play, Some Monster of the Week, a Night’s Black Agents game and a couple of playtests of Just a Game Fate Core and Powered by the Apocalypse.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_1EpyP6ogbDu9bCstCvgwkAawlOxTIE8

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_1EpyP6ogbDu9bCstCvgwkAawlOxTIE8

Well, since I’m part of this community now, I figure I’d share some play-reports:

Monster of the Week (3 Sessions)

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2016/03/m-com-monster-of-week-campaign.html

Divine Blood: Wasps Among Butterflies (5 sessions)

http://thrythlind.blogspot.jp/2016/05/divine-blood-wasps-among-butterflies_6.html

That moment when you think that you’ve found a Masks game you can attend……and then you realize the meetup is discussing a physical face-to-face game in Houston….

And you still live in Japan.

Oh well, back to tweeting adverts for my August games.

Referring to my coming games in August, I have plans for the occult investigations Divine Blood game, the Masks game and the Just a Game playtest short-series.

As I said in this link: https://plus.google.com/106241934410359097878/posts/JqnxZV8SzPz I was going to get some opinion on the theme for the more comedic/action Divine Blood game here are some options that I’d like to see what people are interested in:

Run my Day at the Fair one-shot and build two follow up scenarios to that. The focus here is a high school fund-raising hair where the students are trying to deal with someone going through some supernatural puberty issues, keep a smarmy reporter from discovering/blowing the existence of the supernatural to the public and also have the best damn booth in the fair. This has a a list of 24 characters that can be used as NPCs or pre-gens. I’ve also run the initial scenario several times.  Only about 7 of the NPCs are actual psychics/supernaturals, only five them actually realize it and only three of them are actual non-humans. If someone wanted to run another of the various non-humans available, I can work that up. One benefit of this, other than that it is an established scenario, is that it allows overlapping circles of supernatural communities and mundane communities that normally don’t interact. A down side is it is low-power and combat would be limited to high-school rough-housing mostly. (I can also stretch out the scenario to have the first session being the fair being announced and the last session being the fair itself…the scenario is designed to be adapted that way.)

Bunyip Report – what started at a bit of tongue-in-cheek segment of the Darwin Sentinel, a small Australian newspaper, the general owners were unaware that a number of non-humans were staffed in what they considered to be a silly segment that was somehow popular. When the paper went to the internet, the Bunyip Report became something of a world-wide bit of tongue-in-cheek news for much of the supernaturals in the world. The players would be a small group of amateur civilian reporters (little to no combat ability even if non-human), probably all supernaturals, looking to submit stories to the website. One benefit of this is it’s easier to have a wider range of supernaturals, including those that can’t pass for human.  One downside is that Gods and Demons would be excluded as characters that can be played.

Sorcerer Academy –  The characters would be teenaged humans and non-humans attending the secret academy of one of the Familiies that is generally on the side of the angels (metaphorically speaking). This would mean they are being trained as warriors or investigators, but they are still teenagers.  One upside is that these are supernaturals trained for battle so we’ll have fight scenes. One down side is that Gods and Demons wouldn’t be involved here as with the Bunyip Report. In the game, the sorcerer families are very human-dominated, but having non-human students just adds another level of drama so almost all of the mortal non-humans would be fair game.

So setting up some games to run here in August, Jason Cordova  is going to be running me through dealing with Meetups sometime next week. Anyway, I’m looking at four three-session mini-campaigns due to my three-week vacation in summer (other people travel to historical sites, I set up online one-shots because this gives me that convention fix of meeting new players and also lets me expose some of my game stuff to new people.)

I’m looking at a Masks series, a series of my PbtA hack for “Trapped in the Game” stories a la Sword Art Online and two for Divine Blood…which is where I am focusing here.

Divine Blood uses Fate as its base, but it’s character generation comes from Strands of Fate which is a bit different from Fate Core.

One of these is for occult investigations for people that are not part of any of the established societies and thus have less info on what’s going on in the world. It’ll be more along the lines of horror and mystery than usual for Divine Blood.

The other will be more action/comedy and I’m still wondering which aspect of the world to put the focus on. (I’ll put a Poll on that in a little bit)

This poll is taking opinions on how to handle char gen.

Char gen in this system btw (using the power level for the occult investigators game)

28 points spread between 15 Abilities (4 Physical, 4 Mental, 4 Social – all average human at 2….3 Psychic all average human at 0)

5 Character Aspects – Defining, Ambition, Background, Conviction, Disadvantage

5 Specialty Aspects – Extraordinary Skill, Foe, Gear, Help, Inferior Skill

3 Free Expert Advantages (minor Stunts for those that know Fate)

6 Advantage points (to be spent on more Experts, Heroics and possibly Power Advantages – though I hope they’re in the minority since the scenario mostly focuses on people out of the poll)

Also in the comments, should I give info on how the psychic stuff really works or leave that dark so people have to figure out for themselves?