RPG Update (14)

 Since my last post on this blog, we played some amazing games. So let me tell You what we were doing since the 16th of November.

Our Cyberpunk campaign is going in an insane direction. We played in three sessions and the level of madness is going up every time we virtually meet to play. The whole saga of Bielitz City is going strong. In real life, we started creating Bielitz City as a game world some time in 2004 or 2005. Since then we got a couple of story arcs building on the predecessor, which create a cohesive storyline. Some of our oldest Player Characters are now powerful NPCs, some events are part of the history of this city told with hush voices in pubs and bars around the town. The in-game timeline we started in November 2019 (of course we started with that date! everyone knows why! Vangelis music rolling in) and now we are almost a year later with many events that take place at the same time, but with different PCs. So we started playing in Cyberpunk 2020 years earlier when the year 2020 was an abstract for us and now we are playing in here and now. I decided to stay with it retro-future look but it filtered by our cityscapes and some people we knew from way back when. The story continues and cannot wait to obtain Cyberpunk Red, the Polish edition will be published in the second half of 2021. Then maybe we move to a new system or maybe not.  Without deep dive into the rulebook, can't say anything. Hope they upgrade the netrunning mechanics. 

(This is how I felt when I got one netrunner in my group and had to use netrunnig rules)

(This is how it should netrunnig looks like)

Another system we have enjoyed last week was a throwback to the early 2000s. One of my players finds during some clean up an old starter boxed set of D&D 3 ed. So after I little persuasion, he DM for us first micro-adventure. It was fun, fast, and generic as hell! We've got so much fun. Especially we do not play in fantasy systems very often. So it was a nice change of pace for us. Maybe next week we will see another installment of adventures in fantasyland!

(Anybody remembers this little guy?)

At last, we meet up for another session of Horror on the Orient Express. This time the action was set in the train between Lozanna and Milan. Big reveals from two of the PCs about their true identity were the highpoint of this session. Other players were shocked - their characters don't know anything yet. But they don't know what I prepared for them! Ah yes! The lovely secrets! 

(The train is on schedule)

So as You can see we are making good progress on all fronts. Cannot wait to see what the future brings. Stay safe out there!

RPG Update (13)

 The crazy year 2020 is coming to an end. But we not stopping with RPGs! Last two weeks I've run 4 Cyberpunk adventures in an arc that somehow created itself from loosely notes.  Bielitz City is a neverending place of dark bargains and murders. So my players are sailing in this sea of madness, creating their own fate in a way undreamed of their GM - me. When some of us waiting for Cyberpunk 2077 to arrive our group spends 42 hours in our own Cyberpunk world and counting! Only since 2020 starts. With publishing the new Cyberpunk Red rulebook, some new flames will ignite for Our tabletop gaming. Have a great week and stay safe!

RPG Update (12)

Since my last post, We played many games. But unfortunately, I've got new work hours and they are killing my desire to write something here. Today is the first day with relatively more free time.  So I've jumped back to this space.

First of all, we played in 5 sessions of Our Cyberpunk corner of the Earth - Bielitz City 2020. This is Our most successful campaign. We've got always a minimum of 3 players. But mostly 4 or even 5. The story is my own and its pacing is slow but steady.  Cannot wait for the
next session!

Since the last post, we played in 2 sessions of Horror on the Orient Express. Players in this pulp campaign just exit dreaming Lozanne and now are going to board the train. Next stop Mediolan! Cannot wait to play the next session also. Almost 20 years ago this was the last stop for the earlier group. 

For Hell-o-ween, as we called it, we played in Viewscream RPG. This time with 6 players, but one of them was a ghost. The scenario was for five players but we modified it a little bit. It was spooky to the end, but all the players were happy after the session.

Depending on when the lockdown occurs in my country we will see what happens next. Stay safe, stay strong everybody!

RPG Update (11)

 As I said last time we started to play in Cyberpunk 2020 in Our own Bielitz City setting. We played in Our first session a couple of days ago. It was great fun. I've run this little adventure for one of my very first players. So it was double fun for me. We will play in the second part of this adventure in the coming week. Can't wait for that game!

There is another game on the horizon, but for now, I cannot say when we will play.

100!

If the blogger site is right, this is Our 100 post! Wow! 100 already! Hurray! It is a special occasion, very special to be honest because I never thought that I will be so determined. Also, I never thought that I will have so many things to write about for every one of these 100 posts! Thank You to everyone who visits this blog!

In other news, I recently (just last week) ended my three months set of Call of Cthulhu roleplaying. I ended my Three Kings mini-campaign with one group. It was a bloody massacre in castle Karlstein. Yep, they survive but barely.

Another closing moment was when I run the second part of  Picture in a Silver Frame from John Hook. This great scenario is a good closing adventure for many reasons, but for me is also good goodbye (for a time being), with developments form this game, in the future one and only Player Character will be something new in my Call of Cthulhu games. I will not spoil it here. You have to trust me on this. 

(I know that my scenario should be named Picture in a Golden Frame)

Now I'm planning another three months of playing. This time it will be Cyberpunk 2020. The year is appropriate, so how can I not to prey on it? So for the next three months, it will be all neon, cybernetics, retro-future (We are playing using old rules), and of course synthwave music. Yeah, Choombas!

In Our boardgame front, we just recently buy Cthulhu - Death May Die, and it is a monster of a game in any meaning of this word. It is big, it is deadly, and hard to win. Just like a game with Cthulhu in the title should be. Here are pictures from unboxing.

The second and the final purchase is DOOM The  Board Game. First time in a long, long time we bought game where there is PvP mechanics. So this will be the only place and I say the only where will be a doomestic violence in Our home.  

One thing that is making me shiver is the number of minis to paint...

So that's it for now. 100 posts from now. Wonder in what We will be playing. But for now. Stay safe!

RPG Update (10)

 It is almost a month and a half since I wrote something here. During that time I spend three weeks renovating my new flat, then I stared new work and my child started her first class. It was a tumultuous time. With not so much free time for me. But I've managed to squeeze some time for RPGs.

Achtung! Cthulhu continued with one session, during that game they move from the resistance base to the forest where they look for Father Andrzej. Cannot wait for the next time we will play, maybe next week. There is a chance for a big finale. 

My Horror on the Orient Express campaign started nicely. I'm shocked by the pace of this game. Players are so good and foresight that the manage to move in extra pace from London to Paris and now they are leaving Paris. They manage to not delve in any additional stuff but they run straight to the most important events. It is pleasure to run this game. On the blog front, I will start Our page in the second half of this month.

I've got a chance to run two additional adventures for two different players. Two scenarios from John Hooks extras from the last Age of Cthulhu Kickstarter. They are superb scenarios.

After I wrote this up I thinking that it wasn't so bad after all. But back to normalcy is even better.

RPG Update (9)

Last week's second session was the first part of Act 2 from Three Kings.  Do not know why, but it turns out more in the vein of Inglorious Bastards then anything else. Even if I wanted to make it more gritty and down two earth, actions of my players created this kind of over the top, pulp, bloody episode. It was much fun, but for our next session, I need to take them somewhere much darker. So maybe it was necessary to give them something lighter in tone? Cannot wait to unleash on them the true horror of Castle Karlstein!