Heroes of Rura-Tonga (5)

After last week's big maps insanity, this time using so much free time (for making old paper), little MSPaint foo I created the little maps. Those of interior places from adventures. With these maps, I only changed names from English to Polish for ease of reference. I must say before I show You anything (I didn't do this last time - sorry) - these maps may contain spoilers, so if You know, that You will play in one of the scenarios from the Rura-Tonga line, do not look at them, because they can tell some adventure hints.


For all the others interesting in my little handicraft:

Here is all the content I create for this campaign (for now)

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Heroes of Rura-Tonga (4)

With all this social distancing around us, some of my plans go to hell. One of them was printing big maps for upcoming Heroes of Rura-Tonga pulp campaign. But being lockdown in my home gives me too much time and too much opportunities to delve into some handcrafting handouts. First of all, I've created the cover for Heroes box:

Nothing fancy, but it will separate it from other boxes. Then I started to think about maps. In Sourcebook and additional adventures got them nice and clean. But for my game, I want something different. More maps style with grid and worn down look. So I use my MSPaintFoo to create these maps. Of course, I created an old paper with tea and coffee, then printed on it. So with no furder ado:

The box is getting somewhat crowded.

Map of Rura-Tonga.

Another map

and another map

and another...

So I think that James "Sparky" Jones will have cartography skills. Or maybe somebody else from the crew or from town? Maybe You can tell me? And maybe someone will know how to make it even more realistic? Till next time!

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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.

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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!

Heroes of Rura-Tonga (1)

I will not do the "What's in the box?" joke. So let me explain. After buying three scenarios from Drive Thru, as I already write in the last post, I decided to buy the main book - Heroes of Rura-Tonga Pulp Adventures in the South Pacific. As soon I've downloaded it I printed it and start to devour its intestines like hungry zombie shark (for those who know - wink). I've implemented those three scenarios into this book, so now I've got eight adventures in and around this Pacific island with a good background for making it into a campaign. I do not know when I will run this campaign, but if all goes well maybe this fall. So. I've got time to prepare myself for it. In the next couple of months, I will show You what I put in that box before we start playing it. I hope it will be fun prepping for me and something interesting for You.

So... What's in the box? Book and nothing more. For now... Stay tuned!

Pulp Egypt (4)

So after all this preparation, I've run a string of very enjoyable adventures which create a loose campaign. My wife's PC meet some interesting NPC, fought with nazis and other scums, find tombs, meet ancient mummies and other strange beings. All in all, it was a very well spent time. I cannot highly recommend Pulp Egypt setting!

Here You have a mashup of all materials used in the Pulp Egypt campaign (except Radio News of course!). But it was time for Mike to leave Cairo and Egypt, but he didn't go to NYC straight away. Another soldier from under the sphinx situation during Masks of Nyarlathotep was needing help in Kirkuk, Iraq, but this will be a story for another day...

Astounding Adventures! (1)

After finishing Our one on one campaign - Horror's Heart, I decided to use old BRP supplement - Astounding Adventures (as You can already tell after the topic of this entry). For many years it was the substitute of real Pulp Cthulhu, but even now, after the later landed in tentacles of fans all over the world, Astounding... is a very solid thing. 
The artwork is very good, the three adventures are fun and the adventure generator can be useful not only for straight Pulp adventures. After I choose the first adventure to run - Peril of Sumatra - and make a couple of handouts for my only player, I was ready to play.  Then something truly magnificent happened! One of the players from my first ever RPG group reach out to me and ask if he and his lady, can play with us. The now live in a different country, so for the first time ever I run game over the net. It was something different, exciting and fun. We use Skype. During play, I send them handouts in files. Overall it was a very good new experience. A lot of things to improve, but in the end, those players from abroad ask for another session. So I want to run then two other scenarios from Astounding Adventures and then we will see. Maybe something with Two Heads? But with real life™, different time zones, work, and other stuff is it even possible? No... It will be madness. Don't You think?

Below my couple of handouts from Peril of Sumatra!

And here it is the book itself...