Solo playtest of a couple of investigators into a Lovecraftian locked-room mystery…

Hey everyone, episode 5 of my Fallout game is now up! Now powered by GURPS. It turns out episode 5 isn’t the finale, but episode 6 /will/ be. Hope you all enjoy! 😀

We last left off with the party regrouping and checking in on each other. They are unable to get a word in before they begin to hear screaming and flames rising out of a few of the houses. Then a shot rings out from Town Hall. The party is left silent with anxiety and panic…

Sometimes I think I have too many games going on at once. I can’t believe how much time has passed since I last posted anything from this campaign.

This is just a quick catch-up between the last adventure and the next. The next adventure does build on the last two, but it is self-contained enough that you won’t need to go back and re-read all 50+ posts to know what’s going on.

Hey everyone, I hope everyone has been doing well lately. I am just swinging by with an actual play of GURPS! This is based on some suggestions from the GURPS Discord channel that I asked for yesterday. I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to play, but within 5 minutes put together something I could work with haha.

This is the second solo battle I’ve done in GURPS, and I thoroughly enjoyed and ever minute of it.

The last Fallout episode is going to come in GURPS! I have everything and everyone converted. I just am going to start writing it later today.

CN: bodyhorror, snakes, obscure English folklore

I’ve been running some solo playtests of a new (endlessly derivative) system with some Cthulhu modules I’ve written, and here is a quick write-up of my latest!

Don Japer II was winding through country roads on his horse, Concorde, headed towards the nearby town of Blythburgh. His journey was horribly stopped when his horse’s foreleg broke, throwing Don from the saddle. The horse’s bone was jutting through its leg, pierced straight into the animal’s lung.

While distracted by the horror, Don didn’t realise the road was filling with a carpet of snakes. He spotted through a gap in the hedgerows a pub perhaps a mile or two across the fields, but couldn’t move fast enough to escape the road unscathed. Though he managed to avoid any direct wounds, his nerves were shot when he finally cut a swathe through the serpents with his axe.

The walk over fields was comfortable enough but utterly devoid of animal life. The next thing Don saw was an impeccably beautiful woman sat on a stile in the direction he wanted to head. She implored him not to go on, saying that the pub ahead was dangerous and that he should turn back, but he muscled on regardless.

The next field had been recently furrowed, and Don stopped to notice the strange fairy rings — though what he thought were mushrooms turned out to be a ring of carefully planted molars. The next shock came when he discovered some severed heads grafted onto knots of weeds in the field ahead of him — but this was too much to bear.

Don loses control of himself here and comes to further into the field clutching one of the heads as if it were a weapon. From behind him, he sees a reptilian humanoid sprinting his way, but manages to flee in time, though when he runs into a vast coiling tongue made of long grass and lacerated skin, again he blacks out.

Don comes to again in the arms of the serpent-person, conscious as it sinks its fangs into his shoulder and he passes out from the pain.

Athassanya has Don’s heart for dinner (and to power her forthcoming ritual).

Keep on the Shadowfell solo – Session 14 and The Grand Finale

I finished Keep on the Shadowfell in a satisfying and intense final session with a great boss fight. Fate was on my side with two natural 20s on my Death Saves. Start reading at Session 14.