Another reason I don’t go back into Star Wars Legion?
Required play area is 6 feet x 3 feet. I don’t have that kind of room anymore, as an apartment dweller.
Tag Archives: Role-Playing Games
Miniatures for War Stories
Single Player Mode
Star Trek: ODT
About 4+ years ago I had an idea for a Star Trek RPG campaign with an espionage twist.
With STA Captain’s Log I think I can run this one as a solo campaign, which a few changes.
It’s still called Outpost Delta Tioga, in reference to my old house located in San Francisco.
It’s still based out of Science Station D-5 on the Romulan Border.
It’s still an unofficial Starfleet listening post, officially listed as a science station.
Originally I was going to run this during the Lower Decks-era With the California-class U.S.S. Colma. I may switch to late the TOS-era with a modified Archer-class scout ship, since I already created a Captain’s Log crew for a ‘spy themed’ campaign.
AND a 3D printed ship as well.
We’ll see if I can flesh this one out a bit more over time.
Don’t touch that dial!
Combat in Dragonbane
If there’s one thing I’ve learned while getting ready to play the solo campaign in Dragonbane it’s that combat is fast and deadly.
I just had Splats run another encounter with a pair of orcs, and I learned how to ‘push a roll’ in order to avoid him getting killed by one orc who was armed with a spear.
He eventually managed to kill the two orcs, with 4 of his 15 hit points left.
MEDIC!
Computer Technician Saguisag
Crossover
One reason I’m excited about this Space: 1999 RPG is that it’s produced by Modiphius Entertainment, the same company who produces the Star Trek Adventures RPG.
And they both use the 2D20 game engine.
Which means I’m gonna try to run both solo, with a Star Trek: Excalibur adventure as a pilot for whatever I end up doing for Space: 1999.
I also found a channel on YouTube of opening titles for RPGs, and they made one specifically for the Space: 1999 game.
Don’t touch that dial!
Space Cowboys
Friday night I came across an RPG website, selling mainstream and independent role playing games.
I found one called Orbital Blues, a space western that I remember from Kickstarter that for some reason I didn’t pledge back in the day.
I discovered that a solo play system was added so I took the plunge and ordered the game, which included digital copies in addition to the physical books.
I skimmed though about 50 pages and found it a pretty straight forward game system, one that could be used in a Firefly or Cowboy Bebop like setting.
Which is when I remembered that I already had a Cowboy Bebop Role Playing Game, which I did get from Kickstarter, delivered about a month before I moved from the house to the apartment.
I rummaged through some of the storage tubs that I had brought from the house last year, and found the main book and other accessories (dice, GM screen, woolong poker chips).
After flipping though the Cowboy Bebop book, I reckon I can eventually play/not play (heh) both, along side every other system that I have sitting around here, awaiting my attention.
Had I not stored it away and out of sight, I probably would have had another solo campaign all set to not play.
To be fair, I’m sure I still have the Serenity Role Playing Game somewhere in my offsite storage.
The Story So Far – D&D
I decided to think of a quick prompt to kick off my solo Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
The Adventures of Roy Kent (fighter) and Raised by Minotaurs (barbarian)
As with all great adventures, this one starts in a tavern.
The Grumpy Tortoise
Roy and Rai (he hates that name, BTW) are having a meal.
Yeah, that’s all I got.
Don’t touch that dial!
Catching Up
Ha. Never will.
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Basically I come up with great ideas but fail to execute. Just ask my gaming group(s) who are still waiting on me to start up a D&D campaign here or a sci-fi campaign there, or all of the various unplayed/unread RPG systems or solo boardgames that are sitting around in various boxes and shelves.
And don’t even mention the multitude of sports game projects/replays that I’ve had lined up for the last decade or so.
But I digress.
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My latest idea was for the War Stories RPG from Firelock games. It’s based on post-D-Day World War II, European Theatre, and I was thinking about playing a soldier from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the Japanese-American army unit based in Europe. Through research I found that they mostly operated on the Italian/French border, so perhaps one soldier got separated from the main unit and ended up in the small group that I was planning to create.
I went back and forth with this idea, because the main archetypes for the game primarily come from British, US or Canadian nationalities but using the lifepath method for character creation has ‘Commonwealth (Anzac, African, Indian, etc)’ as an option, so maybe my Japanese-American could start from there.
I thought about how this character would interact with the rest of the squad, and whether his race would be an issue (of course it would) or would I just ignore that aspect, which wouldn’t feel right either. Or I can create a small group all from the 442nd but once again I would end up addressing/not addressing their place in the game, and finally realized that I would just be doing it as a gimmick or novelty and it would take away too much from just playing the game.
In the end I’ve decided to shelve this concept and move on to trying to figure out how to play yet another soccer game that I haven’t tried to play yet.