Wood engraving in "Andersen's Fairy Tales", by Hans Tegner This continues a long-form campaign, Zen and the Art of Caravan Maintenance. Joshua and Emmett are now cattle ranchers, both seeking a quiet change in career for various reasons. They’re driving buggalo from Emerald City to the Porcelain Citadel. Now on the Lime Steppes, the Matriarch of the Pine clan is asking for a favour… Do ya like dogs? ...
This continues a long-form campaign, Zen and the Art of Caravan Maintenance. Joshua and Emmett are now cattle ranchers, both seeking a quiet change in career for various reasons. They’re driving buggalo from Emerald City to the Porcelain Citadel. Currently they’re in Violet City, hanging out with some Lime Nomad pilgrims, after irritating some lovable street-life. More drugs, some commeuppance. ...
This continues a (hopefully) long-form campaign, Zen and the Art of Caravan Maintenance. Joshua and Emmett are now cattle ranchers, both seeking a quiet change in career for various reasons. They’re driving buggalo from Emerald City to the Porcelain Citadel Last session they were approaching Violet City, and had resolved to kick back and explore for a week. ...
Time for a new game. I want to run Luka’s Ultra Violet Grasslands again, but I just don’t quite understand his SEACAT engine, so I’m going to use Black Hack for that1. We’re going to make a travelogue in the Vastlands! Joshua and Emmett are now cattle ranchers, both seeking a quiet change in career for various reasons. They’re driving buggalo from Emerald City to the Porcelain Citadel We had a Session Zero and talked about the kind of game the three of us wanted to take part in, and we all wanted something pretty chill. Violence should be largely avoidable (minimal surprise ambushes!) Not too grim (some of Luka’s flavour-text is being elided) Enjoy the ride, we’re thinking of the Westerns we like and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintence ...
The blog has been pretty empty in 2022, as I’ve changed timezone and country, and not played many RPGs. But I’m getting slowly back into the swing of it again, and as I’m doing that I realised it’s the same time of year I’ve been writing what I want to play next. After two years of lockdown-triggered online experiments, the real world beckons. So, compared to last year, I have finally run a session of TROIKA!...
So, about a year ago, I looked at what games I wanted to run next. I was pleased I wrote it at the time as it reminded me what I wanted to play, and I’m even more pleased now to go back and look at it again. I have played from the list: UVG. Admittedly, I didn’t play as much as I wanted, but I got a flavour of it, and of the SEACAT engine. I still want to run this, but it can only be as a campaign; I just don’t see the interest in a one-shot. To me that’s a SEACAT one-shot, not a UVG one. In fact, I’m very interested in using Into the Grasslands to use ItO instead of SEACAT. Hypertellurians! A few times. I really like the setting but, like a lot of OSR, I find it very difficult to balance. I keep an eye on settings for it, but even the official Mottokrosh ones seem to have terribly difficult enemies to fight. Mind you, I always end up making games too easy… Beak, Feather, and Bone. It’s a bit like The Quiet Year, but with more birds. ...