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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...

Tonight was Team Teen's second Call of Cthulhu adventure...although down one (Maria Fischer) Cast: The Strauss Inquiry Agency Catherine Strauss, wealthy dilettante/supra-genius - Teagan Peaches the Occultist - Cheyenne Leroya Jenkins, Katherine Strauss's chauffeur/bodyguard - Liz Marie Fischer, Engineer - Peepers The Rolls: I had prepared three different adventures...I'd originally planned run Mike Ferguson's Abominations of the Amazon (from Goodman Games  Long Reach of Evil ) as a follow-on the the Crack'd and Crook'd Manse, but got an early cool signal from the girls about heading to South America...so somewhere in Massachusetts, if not Arkham, it is. As I looked around through my CoC scenarios, I realized I had never run all of the Islands of Ignorance (by Golden Goblin Press) scenarios. As I am something of a fanboy to GGP and Oscar Rios in general, I was decided.  So, I briefly described three potential cases (scenarios) as; a haunted lighth...

Cast: Frank - conspiracy theorist Annie - sensationalist reporter for the Hurst papers Luther - Jamaican trawler captain and adventurer Frank, Annie and Luther were recovering in Kingstown after the last horrific adventure in the highlands (or in Frank's case, the adventure of an open bar tab) and the disappearance of Dr Cleburne). While gathering for a late breakfast a telgram arrives requesting they come to Pueto Rico to meet an Interested Benefactor in San Juan. With $400 each, and no immediate prospects, they hopped aboard the Emerald Empress (Luther's boat) and set sail. Arriving in San Juan, they found a city in an economic boom as the American occupation had ended (kind of) and investment was strong. They looked into their benefactor and found that he was none other than the famous Mexican industrialist Diego Safra, a man on par with Ford, Edison and Rockefeller.  They met some of his executives by staying at the best hotel in San Juan (after 7 days on the Empres...

The Party: Bentley a heavily corrupted Wizard (Chaotic) Tammi a hairless and tattooed human Thief (Chaotic) Jaelle a Cultist of the Unseen One and new meat (Chaotic) Stanwise a halfling vagabond in the wrong place (Neutral?) Thievin' Steven a Thief, and possible future Baron of Westlake, recently returned from the dead (was eaten by Dagon, yes, that Dagon) and marked with a Pentagram on his forehead (Lawful) Nerelon - once female human warrior who recently escaped a Faerie term, now has hairy goat legs and horns - a female saytr (Nuetral) Gobo - a goblin warrior who escaped Faerie with Nerelon (Chaotic) Eata - a goblin witch, also part of the Great Faerie Escape (Chaotic) Part 1 -  The party started "split" - most of the party including the Cultist Jaelle, is sent by Baron Westlake to investigate strange occurrences in the Northern Moors. They travel hence to find themselves in foul weather on a hill looking down into a swampland with a menacing Black Man...

Last night I ran Team Teen through their first Call of Cthulhu adventure...a scene I could never guessed would happen - me running Call of Cthulhu for four (+ one observer non-player) teenage girls... Now I had run Dungeon Crawl Classics for this group before, but DCC is generally more fast and furious action that holds the attention; this was a classic CoC scenario - something I sum up as; investigation, preparation/creeping horror and final confrontation. So I was a little uneasy. I worried the girls would get bored/distracted/wander away. I was pleasantly wrong on all accounts. The scenario was a mash-up of the Crack'd and Crook'd Manse (from Mansions of Madness ) and Mike Ferguson's Abominations of the Amazon (from Goodman Games Long Reach of Evil ). In Crack'd the initiating victim was a South American explorer returned with a unwanted "friend"so it was pretty easy to tie in and add some clues for a follow-up game. The girls randomly generated the...