RPG Update (17)

In contrast to my plans, the last session of Cyberpunk - Bielitz 2020 story arc was played in the first week of 2021. Only two players could make it, but there were those who play in most of the games, so they knew the whole story. The overall story arc about a new criminal group trying to take over the low city end with spree of violence and revelation that behind all of this mayhem was rouge A.I. It was a reference to one of our all-time favorite adventures. We wrote it together with my wife and run it both for two groups of two players for the first half of the game, and then join the forces of all the players. To this very day, everyone involved in this game remembers it as the best cyberpunk experience ever. 19 sessions with one story arc. More than 22 hours of gameplay. It was a good run. I'm a little tired of CP for now, but in the next couple of months, there will be the premiere of Cyberpunk Red in Poland. I will definitely buy it. Then I will decide when and how we return to this little part of our world. But for now, I say so long choomba!

RPG Update (16)

Well, well, well... For the first time ever, my session counter is showing me 100 sessions since the start of this year. This is the first time in my gaming history, that I achieve such a big number. I've got big plans for this year. First I wanted to play in Cyberpunk 2020 for the whole year, but the first lockdown created a vacuum I filled with the session so after the first 4 months of this year I've got enough. For the next two months, I run a couple of Delta Green adventures and played in some, then I've got three beautiful months with Call of Cthulhu in a 1920s setting before I and my group went back to Cyberpunk 2020 again to celebrate this very special for this game year. I've also started playing in some solo RPG that I counted also for this matter, some Viewscream and some Dungeon and Dragons. I've also started the elephant in the room - Horror on the Orient Express. So the year isn't over yet, I've got 100 sessions under my belt and I know it will take another world-spanning disaster to recreate that number. Or maybe not? Don't get me wrong, I hate what happened, not happy about it. But it changes so many things in Our lives. Maybe it changes our hobby also? Maybe online RPGs are the future from now on? It is a more convenient way of playing for some people. I miss the meatspace games, the face to face roleplaying. But for now, we cannot do this. So we play online. For the foreseen future. 100! Wow! One friggin hundred sessions! Maybe for some of You, this is nothing unusual, but for me, this is an achievement, that I never thought I achieve. That's it for now. I'm now prepping the Venezia chapter of Horror on The Orient Express. The in the coming weeks of 2020 I will end my story arc of Cyberpunk - Bielitz City 2020 and then... We will see! Stay strong! Stay safe!

RPG Update (15)

So, I looked at my RPG notebook, where I archive all my sessions, and what I see since my last blog post? We continued our Horror on the Orient Express campaign. This time in Milan. So the PCs had a hard time navigating the labirynthesuqe La Scala building. It all ends in a big fight on Centro di Milano. It was a very stisfaing game. For me, it was some sort of crossing the rubicon. Mainly because my first experience with Horror on the Orient Express as a player comes to an abrupt end just on the stage of La Scala more than twenty years ago. The second was after a year and I was a Keeper of that campaign. Sadly after a steady start, my group dissolve during the summer holidays. We never finish it. And this time we also ended up in Milan. So now. For the third time, we go there, but for the first time, my players went further and now are on the train to Venice. So excited for this new chapter!

During that time I also run one adventure in two sessions of my own corner of Cyberpunk 2020 world. It is time, that everyone is waiting for a computer game, but for us, that game is on for 20 years now! We build this city - Bielitz 2020 from scratch and it is so big now, so rich with stories! For this generation of Player Characters, our older PCs are almost like mystical gods or heroes. It is nice to build something like that together with a group of dedicated players. 

Today I prep for next week's HotOE Venice session. In the afternoon I will check my notes about Cyberpunk, and waiting for the time, that we will once again play face to face. Stay safe out there!

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 (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 (1)

So... This week was most entertaining since this all started. We played in two sessions of Cyberpunk 2020, one session of Viescream RPG, and one session of classic Call of Cthulhu. I might say, that first time in a long, long time I'm pleased with such wealth and tempo of games. but for the sake of quality and fun in them, I will limit them to just two, max three in one week. Another way is that someone will take a Keeper/Referee mantle for one session from me. But for the next couple of days, I will rest and plot other adventures in our imaginary worlds.

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!

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.