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Author: Kurt

Savage Archer

Posted on January 5, 2025July 13, 2025 by Kurt

Play as the best spies in the world, just not during this game. As the underpaid, overestimated and untrained operatives of ISIS you will save the world on your lunch hour. Or destroy it.

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Trouble in the Everglades

Posted on January 5, 2025July 13, 2025 by Kurt

Homeland Security had detected an unusual radioactive signature in the Everglades. Your team has been hastily assembled and sent to quietly investigate and take appropriate action. Should be an easy walk in the swamp, right?

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Rendezvous with ‘Oumuamua

Posted on January 5, 2025July 13, 2025 by Kurt

The enigmatic object ʻOumuamua, a mysterious interstellar asteroid, is passing through the solar system. You are a diverse team of scientists, engineers, and explorers on a daring mission dispatched to investigate the strange phenomenon and the signal emanating from it. Can you unlock the secrets of ʻOumuamua and solve the mystery of the signal before…

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Exploring ‘Oumuamua

Posted on January 5, 2025July 13, 2025 by Kurt

Previously on The ‘Oumuamua Chronicles: Having been dispatched to investigate ʻOumuamua, the mysterious interstellar object traversing the solar system, you became trapped in ʻOumuamua with no way to return home. Can you unlock the secrets of ʻOumuamua and find a way to survive? This is the sequel to Rendezvous with ‘Oumuamua. You do not need…

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Journey of ‘Oumuamua

Posted on January 5, 2025July 13, 2025 by Kurt

Previously on The ‘Oumuamua Chronicles:  Having been stranded on ʻOumuamua, while investigating the mysterious interstellar object that traversed the solar system, you are beginning to unlock its secrets. As it accelerates out of the solar system, can you find a way to survive? What other secrets, and dangers, are aboard? This is the sequel to Rendezvous with ‘Oumuamua and Exploring ‘Oumuamua….

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Psi-Kids – Field Trip

Posted on January 5, 2025July 13, 2025 by Kurt

It’s field trip day, one of those rare days that break the monotony of school life. You’re excited enough not to be bothered with the younger kids in the class coming along, even that six-year-old brat, Stevie. Although some classmates disdain visiting The Below to learn about maintaining clean air, you’ve always found the machines…

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Ad Astra

Posted on January 5, 2025July 13, 2025 by Kurt

Centuries ago, humanity left Earth aboard a fleet of generation ships. As a ruling council member, you lead the last remnants of humanity in search of a new home. Walking to this afternoon’s council meeting, you receive word of a horrific massacre aboard Humanity’s Hope. The little you know about the killings swirls through your…

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What’s Happening with WOLF-1061C?

Posted on March 7, 2021July 13, 2025 by Kurt
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Making a Better World Through Synths Tour

Posted on March 3, 2021August 29, 2021 by Kurt
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Con of Champions

Posted on April 5, 2020April 5, 2020 by Kurt

The dramatic measures we are needing to take to minimize the impact of COVID-19 have disrupted every corner of our lives. Many people and businesses are in dire straits due to social distancing. Gaming conventions are certainly impacted, with most canceling or delaying for months or into 2021. One consequence of this is that TableTop…

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The Sunken Tower

Posted on August 17, 2019July 13, 2025 by Kurt

The Mage Entrc has protected the village of Dramathis for the last several centuries. The elders fear this ended Thursday past after the thunderous calamity of that afternoon. It is not known exactly what occurred though a few points are certain. The Mage Entrc failed to appear for his regular roundtable with the elders on…

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Gaming Hoopla April 2019

Posted on April 21, 2019April 21, 2019 by Kurt

I’m running three games at this year’s Hoopla. Moon Outpost Down, Guardians of the Temple of Light, and a session of the Rebooted Paranoia. The last is not for the faint of heart. You can see my complete schedule at the Gaming Hoopla page. The Hoopla dates are April 26 to 28 in Mundelein, IL….

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AlienCraft Down

Posted on April 20, 2019July 13, 2025 by Kurt

An asteroid has landed on Earth. Not crashed, not impacted. Landed gently. Asteroids are not supposed to do that. Your team has been dispatched to investigate, determine if there is an immediate threat, and take any appropriate action. Certainly, it is just a harmless rock, right? Not the prelude to an invasion.

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The Great Pumpkin Reunion

Posted on April 20, 2019July 13, 2025 by Kurt

Twenty years have passed since high school graduation. During the intervening years, the gang moved away, raised families, and drifting apart. Gathering together on Halloween, the first time since Linus’s passing, they must confront the memories of his brutal death, and the childhood obsession that leads to it.

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Guardians of the Temple of Light

Posted on April 20, 2019July 13, 2025 by Kurt

After millennia of searching, the mythical Temple of Light has been located on the remote wartorn planet of Genep. The Elders of the Order of Erudition have dispatched your team of scholars with all due haste to learn the secrets of this relic of ancient times. Traveling across lightyears, with no support aside your wits and what support you can cajole on Genep, can you unravel the Temples secrets before the conflict on Genep consumes the Temple and relegates the knowledge within to history? Will you survive the mysteries?

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The Glomar Explorer

Posted on April 20, 2019July 13, 2025 by Kurt

Research craft Kay-12-Niner has issued a distress call and gone silent around Cygnus X-1. They were dispatched to the anomaly on a Top Secret mission, Project Azorian. Their research must not be lost. The personnel must be rescued. Advance scout craft, Glomar Explorer, being the closest craft, is tasked with the locating Kay-12-Niner, rescuing the crew and ensuring their research is not lost.

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Moon Outpost Down

Posted on April 20, 2019July 13, 2025 by Kurt

The Wymer Corporation has lost contact with its research facility on the moon and requested Witzfigur Corp, with the closest lunar facility, to send a team to investigate. You and your mates are happy for a break from your normal routine. Your bosses back on Earth are excited to learn what research goes on at the mysterious facility. What horrible disaster has occurred at the Wymer Corporation facility? What dark secrets will you uncover? Will they turn you and your mates against each other?

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It's a Trap

On Trappings

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Kurt

One of the core concepts of Savage Worlds is Trappings. Like most things, Trappings are easy to understand, once you understand them. Until then, they can cause quite a few huhs? They are really quite simple though. A Trapping is simply the color text that goes with a mechanic. The mechanics most often found to…

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One Ring

One system to rule them All.

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Kurt

Role playing broadly consists at the intersection of player interaction with the environment and the mechanic. The environment consists of the players character, the characters of the other players and the world that the referee is painting. That last bit, the world painted by the referee, is rather large. I include in that any non…

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All things have a beginning

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Kurt

This may not be the beginning of this adventure, but it is getting the credit.   I have been kicking around this idea for about a year now… but, wait. Let me explain what this is first. I rather dislike it when people droll on assuming the reader knows what they are talking about.  …

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