Category: The Gauntlet: Our Games

Some pics from the first Story Game Sunday. We played the Manna Hotel playset for Fiasco.

Some pics from the first Story Game Sunday. We played the Manna Hotel playset for Fiasco.

Some pics from the first Story Game Sunday. We played the Manna Hotel playset for Fiasco. 

Kerry Harrison played a retired Army sergeant who now makes a living running a series of meth labs in the tiny town of Manna, Kansas.

Alexander Hay was the owner of the rundown Manna Hotel and a partner in the meth lab scheme. 

I played the hotel owner’s seemingly naive young lover.

Daniel Lewis played the Colonel Kurtz-esque leader of a group of religious fanatics.

In the end, there was treachery and explosions (and a Filipino drug lord called Comandante Lopez). The town’s crooked sheriff and his sadistic deputy played a big role. There was also a stuffed deer head filled with cash. And a badger. A nasty, nasty badger (who just didn’t give a shit). 

From the Skills and Tasks section of the Mongoose Traveller Core Rulebook:

From the Skills and Tasks section of the Mongoose Traveller Core Rulebook:

From the Skills and Tasks section of the Mongoose Traveller Core Rulebook:

Most of the actions undertaken by characters do not require a skill check. A player does not have to roll Athletics to run through a forest, or roll Computers to access information from his ship’s library. Some actions will require the character to have a particular skill, but will still not require a roll. A character with Flyer 0 can fly an air/raft under normal conditions without having to make a roll.

The Referee should only call for checks:

• When the characters are in danger.

• When the task is especially difficult or hazardous.

• When the characters are under the pressure of time.

• When success or failure is especially important or interesting.

I played Fiasco with my mom and sisters tonight.

I played Fiasco with my mom and sisters tonight.

I played Fiasco with my mom and sisters tonight. We gathered around an air mattress, busted out the Hollywood Wives playset, and made chocolate covered strawberries to go with the theme (we’re just that kind of family, don’t judge).

My mom played Margot, a rich divorcee who deals drugs to the Beverly Hills set. My sister played Pammy, Margot’s scheming, cokehead sibling. My other sister played Nindja, a crazy person who wants to be famous like Charles Manson. I played Rico, Margot’s ambitious, backstabbing boy toy.

Nindja took bath salts and then ate a guy’s foot off. :/

This was sent to me by mistake (it was supposed to be Final Girl).

This was sent to me by mistake (it was supposed to be Final Girl).

This was sent to me by mistake (it was supposed to be Final Girl). It’s a short 2-player RPG and it seems pretty interesting. You play an undead abomination trying to resist the commands of your dark master. I guess it will get added to the pile of 2-player games I need to play at some point.

What Jon wants to do in mazetown in order of priority

What Jon wants to do in mazetown in order of priority

What Jon wants to do in mazetown in order of priority

Get some shit – my equipment list is two broken pieces of a staff, one slightly used used holy symbols, one rock from the place where Rath pushed a little boy to his doom to be a pegboy for a githyanki pirate, and Ajax’s essence of strength (which smells a bit like axe body spray)

Stuff I want – a staff, a pipe and some halfling leaf, some rations to go with that stuff, some really expensive incense to offer to my god, some good wine in a dusty bottle to offer my god, maybe a torch and some rope

Find a seamstress to make another stole

A hireling – either a guide or some one to carry my light

A garden with some radical plants to get some cuttings or seeds for my garden shrine

Spend the rest of it carousing and maybe go home with one (or even better) two locals with enlightened ideas of free love

Sure beats getting bent over a drow altar or dealing with crazy old bitches some if which have wicked houses and a fingernail grooming issue.

Hence Jon’s need to be at the green githyanki public house.

Peace

This came in the mail today. I’ll be curious to see how it compares to AW and Monsterhearts.

This came in the mail today. I’ll be curious to see how it compares to AW and Monsterhearts.

This came in the mail today. I’ll be curious to see how it compares to AW and Monsterhearts.