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I am developing a one shot adventure for MACE East 2016 for The Last Parsec. It does not have to be Savage Worlds or The Last Parsec but that’s what is pulling in players. This adventure was first inspired by recent terrain work I have done. I wanted something where I can use the following…
Harbinger Down (2015) I am a sucker for a movie inspired by Alien or The Thing. Show a sci-fi monster movie and I am there. I ran across this movie while browsing Netflix, not know anything about it. The blurb interested me so I started it. I found out later that this film was Kickstarted by a team…
Type: Splinterland Discontinuity: 2 Assimilation Effect Value: 40 Mercurial is a minor splinterland of desolate beauty. Upon first glance, it is an endless world of metallic mountains, hills, pools and oceans. The beauty is mesmerizing to some. However, it is as beautiful as it is deadly. Some believe that this world was once a full…
Ran Legendary Planet: The Assimilation Strain as a playtest for MACE 2015. A lot more deadlier than I thought, initially. Had my 2nd level characters (3 of them) pretty beat up by half way through. Second Session with really well. I added a few things, including some Ghouls that the clerics at one time were…
Hardcore science fiction is very hard to pull off from a role playing game perspective because realism tends to bore the average player. Yea, I know, there are those that prefer it and I can respect that. However, in my experience, the average player does not want to go through the mind numbing realization that…
Sci-fi is my thing, I make no bones about it. I love a good story of group of people exploring the unknown, finding alien monsters, and learning that the universe is much bigger than they thought. Browsing Netflix, I found yet another unexpected gem of a movie – Dark Space. It is a low budget…
Every once in a while, I come across a movie that came in under the radar; that might not get over 60% on Rotten Tomatoes, that I found well written and the story is well told and that I really like. I am not sure what that says about me but there have been some key movies that have done that for me. Pandorum is one of those movies. It was not well received but I really loved thsi8 movie. So much so, that I bought the movie. The Outpost is another. Sunshine is another, however that one has better reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Setting: Modern. System: Savage Worlds Step aboard the ghost ship and experience a new horror from Hogshead. On September 18,1942 the German auxiliary cruiser Loki vanished. Around the world, there have been mysterious sightings ever since. Now a desperate man says he knows where it is. You are part of the salvage team that investigates…
Future Idea: Dragonstar has always been a great setting but was tied to a flowed 3rd edition D&D. I want to take it to the next level and convert it to D&D 5e. There seems to be at least an grassroots movement to do this. It would totally work. Would have to start with what…
Future idea: With the new sci-fi setting, The Last Parsec, I am really considering moving my SDF setting to that. Much of it can be converted as much of it is inspired by Star Frontiers. I just to convert a few races. The Weren might be a challenge but maybe somebody did that. May post my notes…