OSR blogging & speculative cartography
Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Swashbuckler (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh) Summary After raiding the Xanthic Vault, the adventurers spent some downtime (from mid-July to Mid August A.D.M. 26) in the remote Üvian village of Vul Anoryith. Grappadora alternated guard duty and banditry, and Buster made progress on a memoir of his…
Players Tulip Driblette, sponsored by Krongu Inc (EvilTables) Dana Zargle, sponsored by Coca-cola (Epistellar) Amelia Birkenstock, sponsored by Myishi Corp (Oldhawkeyes) Tressika Snath, sponsored by Big Rollem Cigarettes (Mistuh) Kim Carbide, sponsored by Dr. Bronner's Soap (Jay_zer0) Dame Mercedes Bacon, sponsored by her private fortune (Kwall) Summary The hour of the long-promised zero-g cage…
As I solidify the formatting of the Antarctic Adventure Anthology and work on editing submissions, I've been developing a style guide. In the interest of clarity and collaboration, I have compiled it here. The main goal is to bring a sense of harmony to the diverse AAJ entries without imposing uniformity. Some guidelines are also aimed at keeping page count reasonable, and others are tied to the…
Problem Statement: Classic Traveller players are always breaking the goddamn law. '77 Traveller is pretty vague about how to handle planetary justice systems. 1 I know that later versions do flesh it out, but I like tinkering, so I have written my own quick & dirty rules. These are meant to (mostly) elide the process of arrest and trial while affording some opportuntiy for players to affect the…
Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Hero (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh); Xaldun of Portage Town, Swordsman (roguewithwhimsy) Summary At the end of last session , the party of adventurers was somewhere deep in the Wilderlands of Ü, having followed streams knorth and ouest from Ux Quorath in search of a dungeon marked on their map. To…
Players Capt. Minnow Blux (Oldhawkeyes) Castrucci Frankfurters (Jay_zer0) Dr. Aarav Papadopoulos (Epistellar) Laszlo "Lazer" Llewellyn (Mistuh) Lt. Hiroto Nakamura (Kwall) Summary Still in their fifth week abroad, and still on the industrial world of El Zocalo, the crew set out to continue their plot to frame Rudiger Kreft, the itinerant fugitive who lately appeared to have been working for the…
Players Pliny Tannhauser, ex-Merchant (Croaker) Evie Moth, ex-Navy (Shy Owl) Dr. Aarav Papadopoulos (Epistellar) Capt. Minnow Blux, ex-Army (Oldhawkeyes) Summary After the altercation that concluded last session , Dr. Aarav was allowed to return to the ship after giving a brief statement, and Castrucci went underground, spooked by the heat. Minnow was held in a detention cell for several nights.…
The spaceport bar on the industrial world of El Zocalo adjoins a zero-gravity arena that hosts regular fights. The players in my Odradek's Drift Traveller game have decided to sponsor a zero-g cage fighter, so I needed rules to resolve the match. 1 I did a tiny bit of testing but probably not enough... there will be a proper review in a future session report. The Arena The arena has the shape of a…
Below are a few additional experiments using my Classic Traveller character generation script. More Optimized Service Selection In the discussion following the previous post, it was pointed out that survival and promotion rates would look different if characters were attempting to enlist in services they were well suited for. I updated the character generator to weight the random enlistment…
Players Capt. Minnow Blux (Oldhawkeyes) Castrucci Frankfurters (Jay_zer0) Dr. Aarav Papadopoulos (Epistellar) Summary ( Thank you to Epistellar for keeping session notes. ) It has been three weeks since the Krongu crew departed for the industrial world of El Zocalo. Two more Krongu employees from the El Zocalo branch office were activated: a dissolute and prematurely-aged doctor, and an…