Continuing an eleven-year tradition, I’m returning to Gamehole Con 12. As always, I look forward to connecting with friends, old and new, to good role-playing, and to good stories.
Musings
Taskmaster Redemption
Awaking from your death, you find yourself in an elegant, brightly lit room. The walls are adorned with red and gold finery. In the darkness to your right, you hear rustling and murmuring. Four other individuals from across time and space are to either side of you. In front of you are two other individuals,…
Humanitarian Mission
The war in Zahar has been raging for decades. Few remember why the Hebrahits and the Marists fight over this forsaken region. Fewer still care about the inhabitants of Zahar. With nowhere else to go, they yearn for any lull in the conflict, surviving on foraging and the charity of the few who remember and…
Castaways
Your three-and-a-half-hour flight from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Bangkok, Thailand, was uneventful until the captain’s voice calmly announced, “This is the captain, brace for impact.” The flight attendants began their chant, “Brace, brace, brace! Heads down, stay down! Brace, brace, brace!” The chant ended as screams filled the cabin, mingling with the roar of metal…
Arrival
Alien craft have been detected heading towards the Earth! The President has assembled thier Cabinet, expecting answers and sage advice. They will want to know what to tell the American people and the world. Most of all, the President is wondering if they were lied to. Both the CIA and DOD have sworn that Area…
Savage Archer
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.
Trouble in the Everglades
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?
Rendezvous with ‘Oumuamua
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…
Exploring ‘Oumuamua
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…
Journey of ‘Oumuamua
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….
Psi-Kids – Field Trip
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…
Ad Astra
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…
What’s Happening with WOLF-1061C?
Making a Better World Through Synths Tour
Con of Champions
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…
The Sunken Tower
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…
GaryCon 2020
I will be attending my fourth GaryCon in late March, 2020. Hotel is booked, just waiting for badge registration and event submission to open. Games are now submitted and approved. Left a little more time to breath than I did for Gamehole Con. Now back to preparing for Gamehole Con. Will I see you there?…
GameholeCon 2019
I’m excited to be attending my 6th GameholeCon this fall in Madison, WI from October 31st to November 2rd, 2019. The convention goes through the 3rd, but as a general rule, I save convention Sundays for recovery wife time. This year I hope to run 37(!) hours of games over the three days I am…
Gaming Hoopla April 2019
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….
AlienCraft Down
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.
The Great Pumpkin Reunion
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.
Guardians of the Temple of Light
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?
The Glomar Explorer
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.
Moon Outpost Down
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?
On Trappings
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…
One system to rule them All.
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…
All things have a beginning
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. …