Proposed Games

The following games are proposed but not yet scheduled:

PDQ: Against the Lord of Blood: Part 2

Game System

Questers of the Middle Realms

Pitch

Here is the sequel to last January's AGAINST THE LORD OF BLOOD. We'll be using Questors of the Middle Realm for this. I think you'll be fighting owlbears.

Game Master

Johnzo

Players

Sophie, Mark, Edmund, Laura

Characters

Date

TBD

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Calico Jack and the crew of the Rapacious

Game System

Savage Worlds

Pitch

Join Captain Calico Jack, the infamous pirate of the early 18th century on a mission of danger, murder, excitement, and BOOTY! Play Calico Jack, his girlfriend and fierce pirate Anne Bonny, their companion Mary Read, or any other able-bodied free-booting member of Jack's crew on his dread pirate ship Rapacious.

Game Master

Mark Walters

Players

Characters

Date

TBD

Technical Notes

Game World:

Savage Worlds with appropriate skills and weapons for early 1700s pirates. Characters pregenned.

This would be a highly fictionalized (and therefore fun) version of John Rackham aka Calico Jack and his crew. So fictionalized, in fact, that only some of the crew names and Calico Jack's crossed swords Jolly Roger flag are retained. The rest will be wonderful Hollywood movie pirate bunk, in the vein of Pirates of the Caribbean with a little Errol Flynn tossed in for good measure.

Magic:

The characters will certainly be larger than life, but not magical. However, who knows what you'll find? Maybe a voodoo princess, cursed Mayan gold, mermaids… or something completely different.

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Space Race 1907

Game System

Either Savage Worlds or The Project Chupa CORE System

Pitch

The major powers of the world are engaged in a race to claim the Moon and its rich mineral resources. Recent experiments by high altitude balloon, long range giant artillery shells, dirigibles, magnetic rays, and other means have shown that spaceflight can be viable and practical. Observations of the moon by high altitude and ground based telescopes show the possibility of vast mineral wealth waiting to be exploited by industrious nations. The first to arrive on the scene will reap huge rewards.

President Roosevelt has announced his Lunar Initiative, granting vast mining rights to whomever conquers the moon first. In response, Nikola Tesla, backed financially by Westinghouse, the Astors, and the Rockefellers has created The American Lunar Expedition Company, and aims to send the very first humans to the Moon from his laboratory and launch facility near Colorado Springs.

The competition is hot on his heels, however. Tsar Nicholas II of the Russian Empire, eager to stir up Russian patriotic nationalism to distract his citizens from their recent troubles, has put into play his country's considerable wealth and is offering vast riches for success. So, too has Franz-Joseph I of Austria-Hungary, President Armand Fallières of France, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and King Edward VII of Great Britain.

Can you, as one of the first selected "astro-nauts" survive international intrigue, untested experimental launch vehicles, and the dangers of space to make it to the moon and claim glory for self, company and country? And make it all the way back home to tell the tale?

If you succeed, you'll be wealthy, famous, and receive a medal from Teddy Roosevelt himself!

"If there is wealth to and resources to be had up there in outer-space, then by Jingo, it will be brought back to Terra Firma by American hands. I have every confidence that our American astro-nauts piloting Mister Tesla's space machine will make it to the Moon first. We will be first because we must be first. Our pride, our national character, and our future prosperity is at stake. This Lunar Initiative, recently passed by Congress and signed into law by me, will assure our place in the constellation of civilized nations as a bright star of industrial vigor and democratic virtue."

-President Theodore Roosevelt, June, 1905 (Reprinted with permission from The New York Morning Journal, A William Randolph Hearst Company)

Game Master

Mark Walters

Players

Characters

Date

TBD

Technical Notes

Genre: Steampunk, Post-Victorian, Industrial era. (Kerosenepunk?) I'm interested in any comments anyone would have about this, particularly the viability of the CORE system.

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Vs. Outlaws

Game System

Vs. Outlaws

Pitch

This is an itty-bitty little game that is easy to learn at the table. I've been going through bunches of covers from western adventure magazines and I picked half a dozen I found inspiring, either because of the adventure title or because of the art. Help me pick one that will be the cover of our story!

The link to the covers is here; the titles are:

• Trigger Trouble
• Gold Loot
• Five Against the Law
• Too Late for a Peaceful Grave
• Pacify Eagle Mesa!
• Royal Gun Flush

Game Master

Sophie

Players

Characters

Date

TBD

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