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Favorite Authors Challenge I had a co-worker throw this idea at me and it made me think; Without pretense, look at your books and think about what author you would really be excited about reading...remove all of the tropes and BS...just which ones do you REALLY like. Enough that if no one knew you would still pre-order their books (if they had any), So far, for me; Gordon Rhea REHoward Shelby Foote HP Lovecraft Lincoln and Child (Pendergast series) Raymond Chandler Dashiel Hammett

Cast: Clifton Bower (English aviator) Vladomir (Russian expat thug) Giovanni (Italian hitman) Victoria (English academic and idealist) Mr. Pillips (Dutch engineer and anti-facist) Dr. Patrick O'Sullivan (madical doctor and informant on the IRA) A mixed group of deniable and semi-deniable assets were assembled by MI6 Section D to parachute into German occupied Czechoslovakia and investigate rumors of German atrocities (for propaganda) and make contact with the emerging resistance movement.  The party started out reviewing the mission objectives (contact Czech resistance, find Father Andrej (codename ANGEL), and investigate whatever is happening at Castle Karlsten. The players picked a drop zone and made their parachute fall. Everyone was successful - except Victoria who hurt her back in the jump. Patrick (the Irish doctor) cared for her while the rest figured out where they were. Sufficiently fixed, Victoria went into the Krupna church looking for Father And...

I started my twist in the existing DCC campaign, by putting the campaign in the world of Kenzer's Kalamar, and converting on the fly to DCC...what could go wrong? The Party: Tammi the Tattoo'd Thief ​Davne the Dwarf Warrior Woman  ​ ​Magnus the Dejy Tribal Warrior ​Bentley the very corrupted Wizard ​Thievin Steven the Resurrected Thief ​Nerelon the Fae-touched satyr warrior ​Jaelle the Cleric of the Unseen One ​ ​ ​ The group continued on the task that Baron Westlake had sent you on several adventures ago...namely to travel to the next closest port city (now revealed as Prompeldia) to establish trade relations (after the destruction of Portsmouth). After a tip off from a pair of Dejy (think native American) about people and animals being abducted, the party continued to the small village of Narmaren. The village was pretty primitive; tents and a few wooden shacks, with a single 2 story stone tavern (a former barracks from the Faded Empire). The Faded Empire (actuall...