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5 Parsecs From Home - Campaign Turn 1 Jan 22, 2024 Five Parsecs From Home & Mythic GME & Stars Without Number

5 Parsecs From Home is a “solo adventure wargame” by Ivan Sorensen published by Modiphius. It’s a science fiction game where you “assemble a ragtag

The Doomed - Session 4 Jan 19, 2024 The Doomed

This is the story of how my warband came to an ignominious end. Just as last time, one of the warband members has sunk into a bad mental state:

The Doomed - Session 3 Jan 18, 2024 The Doomed

Continuing the wargame campaign, the severity of the doom has started to get to the warband: Bleak Outlook: There really doesn’t seem to be any

The Doomed - Session 2 Jan 14, 2024 The Doomed

As I pick up the second session, I want to focus a bit more on the narrative of the game. I also had DALL-E 3 generate images of the warband and the

The Doomed - Scenario 1 Jan 13, 2024 The Doomed

I got a copy of The Doomed, Chris McDowall’s skirmish wargame of “Apocalyptic Horror Hunting”. Much like he did with Into the Odd and Electric

San Rafael - Session 2 Dec 19, 2023 Call of Cthulhu & Mythic GME & Down Darker Trails

Last time, Memo Rodríguez, a New Mexican cowboy, arrived in the Texas border town of San Rafael to follow up on the relatives of Los Díaz, a

San Rafael - Session 1 Nov 12, 2023 Call of Cthulhu & Mythic GME & Down Darker Trails

I’m still playing Pulp Cthulhu in the Down Darker Trails (DDT) setting with the Mythic Game Master Emulator (GME). I decided to keep using the same

The Children of Aguas Blancas - Session 2 Oct 30, 2023 Call of Cthulhu & Mythic GME & Down Darker Trails

This is the continuation of the previous session, and as before there are some spoilers for the scenario “The Secret of Castronegro” from the

The Children of Aguas Blancas - Session 1 Oct 29, 2023 Call of Cthulhu & Mythic GME & Down Darker Trails

For this solo game, I have decided to give Mythic GM Emulator (2nd Edition) a try, together with Call of Cthulhu. For the latter, I’m also using the

Yourself - Trophy Edition Oct 22, 2023 Yourself & Trophy & Hollow Vale

For Sara. “Yourself” uses cards from a tarot deck to inspire and guide responses. Instead of a traditional tarot deck, I’m using the Hollow Valley

Ultraviolet Grasslands - Exploration Test Oct 21, 2023 Ultraviolet Grasslands

Her Odyssey - Trophy Edition Oct 16, 2023 Her Odyssey & Trophy & Tome of Adventure Design

Today’s game is Her Odyssey: Her Odyssey is a solo journaling RPG about a wanderer trying to return home - or find a new home. As with my recent

Thousand Year Old Vampire - Session 2 Oct 13, 2023 Thousand Year Old Vampire & Trophy

In the previous session of Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings, I used the default setting for Trophy by Jesse Ross. I am a vampire who once

Thousand Year Old Vampire - Session 1 Oct 11, 2023 Thousand Year Old Vampire & Trophy

NB: Thousand Year Old Vampire (affiliate link) is a journaling game that directs the player to start “in the distant past”. For the purpose of this

The Stygian Library - Part 3 May 3, 2023 Stygian Library & OD&D

After two incursions into The Stygian Library, the party is ready to head back and finish the job! They have most, but not quite all, of the

The Stygian Library - Part 2 May 1, 2023 Stygian Library & OD&D

Last time, I rolled up three OD&D characters and sent them into a non-Euclidean quantum library on an errand for a powerful wizard in search of an

The Stygian Library - Part 1 Apr 28, 2023 Stygian Library & OD&D

I’ve recently come back to Original D&D in the form of White Box FMAG. Currently I’m running a short (?) campaign for some friends, but I want to

Starforged - Exploration Part 10 Apr 5, 2023 Starforged

Lux is still in this nebula, trying to understand what’s going on with it. This game continues to shy away from intrigue and overtly political

Starforged - Exploration Part 9 Apr 2, 2023 Starforged

That’s right, I’ve returned to my Starforged campaign for a bit. As I haven’t played in a bit, I took some time to update my local records: a custom

Adventures in Acid Death Fantasy - Part 4 Apr 1, 2023 Troika & Acid Death Fantasy & One Page Solo Engine & Scarlet Heroes & Vaults of Vaarn & Lexicon Urthus

Zamug has journeyed through the wastes outside of the great city of Shurupak and reached Zulmek, a Dunehold of the Alqai, searching for an artisan