RPG Update (29)

I'm now after 3/4 of Cyberpunk Red rulebook reading. In a couple of days, I will finish this monster. But I've got a mix feelings about that book. Don't get me wrong it is a great step up since 2020 (I will not say anything about V3, I never read it), but in my situation, it is somewhat difficult to say something more optimistic. Maybe it is because I never run adventures in Night City. Never. Since my first day of playing/running Cyberpunk more than 23 years ago, We always play in our own corner of the Cyberpunk world, my home town Bielitz City. What happened to Night City is not so important to us as what is happening in our own streets. Yes, I can take the new mechanics and implement them on the streets of Bielitz, but the mechanics are so strong tie into the world as it is in 2045. So I need to make changes and adjustments to the story of Bielitz and push it from 2020 into the future. For now, it looks like a great deal of work for me. My players will have to say goodbye to their old favorites characters. Don't know if they like this idea. Maybe? I need to talk with them prior to our next campaign. 

On a more optimistic note, I've just created a Trauma Team for my next solo adventure (I've got little hiatus with solo playing). Tonight they will hunt for other spare parts I mean punks witch need help. Cannot wait for the evening!

P.S. Another great book is waiting on my shelf for my attention. Another atmosphere, another game system. Why do we have so little time for these pleasures? Why?

RPG Update (28)

The time has come and parcel land on my front porch. I've received Cyberpunk Red in Polish translation. Just now I'm reading the rules and so far they look quite good. 

I'm the meantime I'm playing on solo RPG using Sprawl Goons Upgraded with both expansions and using Augmented Reality sourcebook also using one page RPG. Cannot wait for another installment in this game. As You can see my focus is very cyberpunk or tube it is the cyber focus?

Since I've started to wrote this post I've already concluded first story of what I call The Bielitz City Stories arc of a couple of adventures. The first is for two punks one Mnemonic Courier the other is Hacker. Both survived in this little adventure. I will come back to these characters soon, but for now, I'm going to create a crew of the Trauma Team. I will start this solo adventure at the moment when the old one ended. Looking forward to the evening! Sprawl Goons Upgraded with their rules-light system is ideal for solo gaming.

RPG Update (27)

Since my son's birth, we postponed playing RPG with our friends for some time. It is of course normal situation, till we figure out the logistics of our new baby. But there is nothing that can take me away from that style of gaming. For a couple of years now I collected solo RPGs, just for this particular moment in my life. So now I open up Pandora's box of solo RPGs...

My first foray into this world was paragraphs games, but this time I wanted something more. My choice was easy. From Ganesha Games:

So from the 18th of July until the 27th of August this year I've run this game with titular four Player Characters fighting against forces of the Great Old Ones (until the very end, You don't know with one it is!). It was a great game, I played it every single evening for 15 to 30 minutes. Wrote 70 pages of this game with interactions and events as they come up till the very exciting and blood finale.

My character sheet and also calendar.

The map I used for the game (there is also a color version with the pdf).

Marginalia (1)

Well... I knew for many years now that H.P.Lovecraft likes his Waterman pens. I only use pens in primary school almost thirty years ago. But a gift from three years ago from one of my friends rejuvenated my interest in that form of writing. So... My wife takes a note and when she does that the results are surprising. Lately, I've received a parcel with a Waterman pen... Try it and was surprised how good and pleasant writing is with that pen. Now I know why Lovecraft wrote these words...

“You’ll recall that I obtained a pen a piece for SH (Sonia) & myself last October at a price of $1.28 … we found the sale still on [&] the salesman still willing to make exchanges. …to obtain real satisfaction one must invest in a real Waterman … I did not escape from the emporium till a $6.25 Waterman reposed in my pocket — a modern self-filler corresponding to the ancient $6.00 type which I bought in 1906 & lost seventeen years later amidst the sands of Marblehead Neck in the summer of 1923 … the feed is certainly a relief after sundry makeshifts — tho’ I think I’ll change this especial model tomorrow for one with a slightly coarser point — one less likely to scratch on rough paper. It is certainly good to be back among the Watermans again …” — Lovecraft to Lillian Clark on 30th January 1926.

[The “sundry makeshifts” apparently included a self-filling Conklin, loaned from Moe after Lovecraft’s pen was lost “amid the sands of Marblehead”]. 

Library Update (11)

Last time I show You my newest possessions of Stefan Grabiński's books. They are now on my "List of Shame". A couple of days later I've received another package. This time parcel comes from the Polish publisher of The Call of Cthulhu - Black Monk. Not an RPG book itself, but second in line of Paragraph Games - Beyond the Mountains of Madness! I will play it when the winter comes...

Library Update (10)

This time something from my corner of the planet. At the same time that H.P.Lovecraft wrote some of his best stories, in Poland wrote another great horror writer - Stefan Grabiński. He wrote super cool stories and novellas. This is the second publication of his works, the first since his death in 1936. Those books I've bought are from 1980, so they are a little older than me! I think these are completely weird works of this writer. They are older than me! I've got other versions of this book, but they are classics for me. If You never read something from S. Grabiński I highly recommend changing it. He is so... Weird and special. Especially for Polish readers. Another three positions to my "List of Shame".

P.S. It's a shame that nobody used his creations for some roleplaying adventures.

 

Book Nook

I was fascinated for some time now with the idea of a book nook. At last idea of one cleared in my head. I took Rolls Royce Armoured Car I use as a prop in the Armoured Angels (best adventure in that collection) scenario from Fearful Passages and ask my wife to create an entrance to an ancient temple. So after a couple of hours, we've got the box, the stone wall with the entrance to the temple. Also, I find a nice miniature of some Archeologist and paint it. Also got some form of moss to enrich the overall scenery and little led tea lights for ambient light. 

Building the wall.

Lights and moss.

Armored car, only one wall completed and another miniature for tests.

Gluing everything together.

Top-down view.

Above You can see different kinds of color palettes I can create with LED tealights.