I was so wrong!

Last year I said that it was maybe a peak of gaming in this little post. How I was wrong! Last week I run 4 sessions (3 of Cyberpunk 2020 - year oblige to run some scenarios in that world/system, 1 of Call of Cthulhu splendid free scenario Lightless Beacon). Some players joined me for the first time in years, others got a chance to first time encounter truly Lovecraftian Horror on Beacon Island. If there is a good side to this difficult situation, You may say, that online gaming is going strong these days. For better or worse it will change how we roll eventually.

P.S. Works on Heroes of Rura-Tonga are going well!

Heroes of Rura-Tonga (3)

In the last post about Heroes of Rura-Tonga, I give You a glimpse into something new. Today is the day, that I will raise the curtain for this little side project. Last time I show You my model for the Armored Angels scenario.  This was the perfect connection between my old passion and new (realistically not so new - almost 25 years(!)). I've decided to do this once more. In the sourcebook captain, Collin Sharp is the owner of Grumman G-21 which he christened the Flying Fish. This is a great and beautiful plane. But the plastic model kit for this plane (or for the PBY Catalina also) is out of my reach at the moment. So I need to improvise. I found an old model for Polish bomber PZL 37 Moose. It was so cheap that I have to take such an opportunity.

Of course, it wasn't a plane design for landing on water. There was a project for that, but the start of WWII end this endeavor.  So I've created something new. Only for this campaign. Using an old model kit, two toothbrushes and a lot of imagination and glue. Then I primed it...

...and give it to my wife for painting. I show her a couple of DC3 pictures from that time period. She starts her own little experiments. One of them:

Another:

But after much consideration, she decided to make it all in one color. I've created transfers and here is our final version. We called it Flying Moose! 

It is so big that it was hard to put this plane into our lightbox. But if You look closely we even got a little moose on the sides of the hull.
PZL 37 had 3 machineguns so there will be an opportunity for PC and NPCs to shoot some Zero! This will be a nice memoir for our adventures in and around Rura-Tonga. This is all I can show You for now. But new ideas are in motion...

So much gaming!

Times are interesting. This week I've run three games. First I've run my Cyberpunk 2020 game, with very old characters - some have almost 15 years. We played in our own little corner of Cyberpunk World - Bielitz 2020. It was a fun ride with my old players. Then I've run Astounding Adventures scenario God of the airwaves for my friend and his fiance. Good pulp action with one of my first players. Sad that there were only three of these in that book. Then yesterday I close the Kali Ghati scenario. My wife plays in all of these games. But most important was that every game was online. Of course, my wife sits beside me, but all the other players were in their houses safe and sound. I've cannot remember when I've run three times a week. Maybe it was during Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign some 3 years ago. Good times!

P.S. Next week some big news about my upcoming Rura-Tonga campaign.

Heroes of Rura-Tonga (2)

I'm slowly reading scenarios. Very slowly because I want to make first notes from them, sometimes go some rabbit hole, with the subject of the scenario. So it is a long but very enjoyable process. I've also extracted maps from the main pdf and from adventures. So in a week or so I will start working on them too. Here is the current status of my Rura Tonga Box:

Everything I'm currently working on is on this pen drive, with some inspirational music. Especially this little bit: Abyss - Adventure Music. For me, it is going to be the main theme of this campaign. Anyone got other inspirational music I can use? I will gladly listen to it! And the second two additions to my little box are:

Two Citadel Paints and two toothbrushes? Wait, what? No, sadly I'm not going with my one player to Rura-Tonga. This is for something I've got in mind after reading the first chapters of the main book. So... Stay tuned for more!

Delta Green - Kali Ghati

For the third time in my game history and for the third time in my online game I'm running the Kali Ghati scenario. Maybe because it is so straight forward? Maybe (spoilers!) the big event in the second part of the scenario? Don't know why, but it is must-have in all DG campaigns I've run thru the years. The other interesting choice is, of course, The Iconoclast and for the campaign, ender is always Observer Effect. But for now, I will be running the second part of Kali Ghati - my favorite meatgrinder in Delta Green.

For those who want to look at this book here, it is Bud's RPG review - Kali Ghati for Delta Green: the roleplaying game by Arc Dream Publishing, an actual play from Red Moon Roleplaying with author Shane Ivy and RPPR actual play of this scenario.

GM Day!

So Ladies and Gentlemen! Happy International GM's Appreciation Day!

Waiting for Angel

Last year we play in the Pulp Egypt campaign, but after that, I've got one more scenario to run, but it didn't happen. This is one of my favorite scenarios from the past. It was in Fearful Passages by Chaosium, but for me, it was first truly Pulp Experience some 25 years ago. I'm talking about Armored Angels adventure. I've run it a couple of times back in the day, but for a long time, I forget about it. After a splendid review from Seth Skorkowsky, I've decided to tie in this scenario as part of the history of my wife's Pulp Hero - Mike. In Mike's timeline this will be after the end of Pulp Egypt campaign, but before Waiting for The Hurricane (form Pulp Cthulhu book). But what is a game without a good handout? I find on the net the paper model of an armored car that Mike will be using in this adventure and creat it. Lately, We get a lightbox for macro pictures, so here it is in all his armored glory:

P.S. Exciting news about Heroes of Rura-Tonga in the near future.