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A threat… the Hive Armada wants to… steal/capture the… void crystals which will… start a war/invasion! This game is set in a campy Star Trekkish universe and played using John Harper’s Lasers & Feelings. I also used the Mythic GM Emulator to help with some decision-making. This combination enabled me to run a quick, fun … Read more
And that concludes the Resh Hour trilogy. With this, Renci is in position to do her intervention with Elaiza to get JT out of the dark spiral she went down. That intervention was played in the final session of our original Desert Rose Solutions campaign. Also, Renn is resolved to spend his time taking care … Read more
Fellowship of the Palantíri ends with a tough situation, just like Fellowship of the Ring did. While I didn’t necessarily set out to do that, this marked the end of my six-week stint of GMing, so I embraced the cliffhanger. Tolkien provides plenty of precedent for Eagles swooping in and rescuing protagonists from dead ends, … Read more
When we were wrapping up our original campaign, we did a series of flash-forwards, a sort of where-are-they-now? kind of thing, in the final episode. From those, we knew that JT, one of the original PCs, was going to be going down a dark path for a while but that eventually her girlfriend Renci would … Read more
“The Fraud, Retaliation, Abuse, and Waste Division (FRAWD) needs hardworking terrans like you to inspect facilities and gather evidence. Satisfy your service obligation and earn steady pay with FRAWD today!” — Dominion recruiting pamphlet, 2503 Jump to Arcs | Season 1 | Season 2 Setup This game is set in Blizzard’s StarCraft universe at the beginning of … Read more
Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. — from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien The Palantírion: The Fellowship of the Palantíri was played using Decipher’s Lord of the … Read more
She’s an independent Rebel operative looking to get ahead in her organization. He’s a former Imperial officer trying to establish a new self-identity. Together they scout Outer Rim planets. Jump to Serialized Narratives Jump to Actual Play Star Wars: Resh Hour is a FFG Star Wars Edge of the Empire/Age of Rebellion/Force and Destiny + … Read more