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Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion — Episode 02

July 12, 2015 /

As the Empire ramps up its Thorilide mining operations on Vor Deo and its moon, Thrin, the Rebels grow concerned.

Meanwhile, the crew of the O.R.C Tyrannus, all sworn to the Rebel Alliance for their own reasons, detours their cargo run for a top-secret Rebel mission: to pick up Agent Lu’Nimah.

But instead of finding Lu’Nimah, the Tyrannus finds only the Star Destroyer, Ultimatum, under the command of the despicable cyborg, Count Vidian. The quick-thinking teamwork of A9-LX and Vin Sai, however, narrowly averts disaster.

Once on Vor Deo, the Tyrannus crew delivers their payload of Baradium for Moonglow Polychemical, and then follows a lead to the grub restaurant of Bennbus Polag in Tanga City. The grubs are good and the information better—the crew gets the last-known coordinates for Lu’Nimah.

They find and rescue her at the bottom of a crumbling mineshaft, only to discover that they have been betrayed by a spy. The 20 Storm Troopers sent to kill them, however prove no match for the ragtag rebels and Dr. Tark Malin’s Rapid Happy Orb.

Now the rebels receive instructions for a secret rendezvous on Thrin despite the threat of Count Vidian and his retinue of Stormtroopers …

Boot Hill: Texas Rangers

July 5, 2015 /
Palo Duro Canyon area

Palo Duro Canyon area

Location: Our campaign takes place near Promise City in Texas, near the Indian territory, just south of the Red River near the Panhandle. Fort Griffin lies to the east of Promise City. Palo Duro Canyon lies to the Northwest to give you a sense of the geography.

Red River Area (1 Hex=2 Miles)

Red River Area (1 Hex=2 Miles)

Rules: Use the standard Savage Worlds rules without special powers, but if someone has some Deadlands rules you want to import or other ideas on setting rules let me know.

Inspiration from TSR's Boot Hill

Inspiration from TSR’s Boot Hill

House Rules: Gritty Damage.

Area Map Scale: One hex = 2 miles.

Time Period: 1881. Read more about the history of the Texas Rangers.

Character Background: I’ll want you to write down 4 things for me, each on a 3×5 card with your character name on it. You all have some connections to Promise City. Here’s the four character elements I want to see (we can do it pre-game on Thursday, or you can write it up in advance):

  • Friend: An NPC Friend of yours.
  • Family: Relative(s), or someone you’re close to if you’r an orphan.
  • Foe: Someone — or something- that is your enemy.
  • Flame: Could be someone you’re in love with. Could be a possession you really want — a set of pearl-handled six-shooters. Could be a passion like getting revenge against you parents killer.

XP: Your character begins play as a Seasoned character. This means you have 20 experience points to spend on upgrades (4 Advances). You get 2 XP if you write up a character backstory. You get 1 XP for each of the Character Background elements above (1 XP each for Friend, Family, Floe, Flame) but only if I can read your handwriting 🙂 Total XP possible at the start of the game is 26 XP.

Promise City

Promise City

Appointing a Sound Engineer for Tabletop RPG Games

July 4, 2015 /
I’m thinking about appointing a ‘Sound Engineer’ for my games — a person who takes time to learn one or more sound apps or playlists to provide background noises and sound effects for my games. While I’m GM’ing, the Sound Engineer can spool up whatever music or sound effects they like to enhance the game.

Syrinscape.com

Syrinscape.com

Here are some of the RPG oriented sound sites I’ve found:
Right now I’m running a Star Wars game and so this would also be a great resource:
There’s a great discussion of using sounds in tabletop RPG games on StackExchange which also includes these resources:
  • MyNoise.net has highly customizable noise generators (including some directly designed for RPGs, such as this “Dungeon RPG soundscape“)
  • Ambient-Mixer.com has even more free ambient atmosphere compositions (also customizable.) Check out the “Cool Summer Night“, a “Spring Rain“, enter a “Cyberpunk Noir” soundscape, or just go visit “Ravenloft” (not forgetting that you can always mute or even replace certain channels.)
  • Youtube also has many sounds, for exaple the official channel of Cryo Chamber, “a 24 BIT Dark Ambient Music label run by Simon Heath (Atrium Carceri) focusing on high quality dark ambient with a cinematic edge”
Lastly, here are some other resources with RPG sound effects:

Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion — Episode 01

June 27, 2015 /

It is the dawn of civil war. The Rebel Alliance is gathering strength, looking for ways to strike a blow against the evil Galactic Empire.

In the Arkanis Sector, the Twi’lek Rebel agent Lu’Nimah was sent to scout for sources of explosives needed to support the rebellion.

Agent Lu’Nimah requested pickup in deep space, not far from the planet she was exploring. Her message sounded hopeful, reporting that she had found something that would aid the Rebellion in their quest to restore freedom to the galaxy…..

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