Billy Goes to Mordor

 Our group started playing a Star Frontiers game over zoom. Enoch Whitestar is my character.   Star Frontiers is a TSR Science Fiction RPG from the 80's. This was my first time playing it, ...

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   INVESTIGATORS: Dr. Gretta Von Flue- Parapsychologist and occult enthusiast Allen Challenger- Antiquarian and dealer in forged artifacts Helen Alexander- Archaeologist and author Bob- Deput...

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   INVESTIGATORS: Dr. Gretta Von Flue- Parapsychologist and occult enthusiast Allen Challenger- Antiquarian and dealer in forged artifacts Michael Hunt- 45 year old dilettante in search of di...

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INVESTIGATORS: Dr. Gretta Von Flue- Parapsychologist and occult enthusiast Allen Challenger- Antiquarian and dealer in forged artifacts Michael Hunt- 45 year old dilettante in search of diversi...

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 Investigators: Faraz Najir Dr. Gretta Von Flue- Parapsychologist and occult enthusiast Allen Challenger- Antiquarian and dealer in forged artifacts Xanathos- Drifter with a mysterious pa...

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  Investigators: Dr. Gretta Von Flue- Parapsychologist and occult enthusiast Allen Challenger- Antiquarian and dealer in forged artifacts Bob- Texas Ranger Tuesday, February 12th, 1925 The p...

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Following up from last session , the party finally arrived in Cairo! Investigators: Dr. Gretta Von Flue- Parapsychologist and occult enthusiast Allen Challenger- Antiquarian and dealer in forg...

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Sunday, February 3rd, 1925. Looking to leave London quickly, the investigators decided to travel to Cairo and follow-up their leads there. They managed to obtain berths aboard the Ethiopian Queen...

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Friday, February 1st, 1925. With a couple days to kill until their stakeout, the party decided to stay out of trouble and hang out at the office of The Scoop. How well do you think that went? ...

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Israel is in Corona Virus lockdown, so this session was run via video chat on the Zoom app. The video-chat has it's challenges, but I think we all needed an escape from current events... Thurs...

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Following on the heels of last session , the investigators are back in London, doing what investigators do. This time they followed up on the lead about otherworldly art... Investigators: ...

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The Clue January 27th, following up on clues from Session 8 , the investigators traveled North to the village of Lesser Edale in Derbyshire to investigate the reported deaths there. Invest...

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Following Session 7 , the party travelled by Steam Boat to Southampton and then train on to London, arriving January 25th and checking into the Savoy hotel near Waterloo Bridge. Mike bought a ...

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  So here's a little Hannuka themed game, born while sitting around a table at a Hannuka-themed Bat-Mitzva party with members of my gaming group. It's inspired from Steve Jackson's Zombie D...

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January 18th, following up on last session , the party decided to give a second look at the artifacts they got from the cultists. Party Members: Dr. Gretta Von Flue- Parapsychologist and occ...

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We pick up on a Wintry morning, January 17th on the old docks in New York City. Gretta is shipping Denato's remains back to Brazil. In one hand, she holds the telegram from the Federal Police,...

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Picking up we left off last time , the party met up in the lobby of the Waldorf the morning of January 16, 1925 to plan their next step. Investigators: Detective Donato dos Reis- hardboiled Br...

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A quick note about the first three sessions  of our Call of Cthulhu campaign: This last adventure was based on Don Coatar's adventure The God of Mitnal. It's a high-quality adventure for a...

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The investigators took a long rest after wrapping up their 1923 adventure in the Yucatan in Session 3 . We return to them in late 1924, when they receive a telegram from Elias: The Inves...

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After Session 2 , Dr. Milka and Mike Hunt woke up in the morning in their jungle camp to the sound of a passing train. Rising to investigate, they found their friend Daniel Sephenson had arrived,...

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For Session 2, two of our investigators had other business, leaving Milka on her own. Fortunately, she met another American who is staying in Campeche, a bored Dilettante looking for amusem...

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Saturday night, we kicked-off our first session of Call of Cthulhu. I've never played call of Cthulhu before, but fortunately one of our players has, so he was able to provide some quick rules G...

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So recently I created my first Call of Cthulhu character, disgraced baseballer Buck Pickman . Now, in the interest of learning the game system, let's put him through an encounter: > It's lat...

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I missed session 4, so this summary follows Session 3 . In previous sessions, the party met a group of Thri-Kreen from the planet Athas. They were in search of a particular botanically-skilled...

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Due to the Passover holiday, we had 13 gamers turn up for game night, including 8 kids(my daughter included). We decided to "split the party" and run an adults game and a kids game. Avi ran the a...

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