Recent content by Golden Bee

Ashes to Dust / Eye Witness (based on The Search for Nurhachi by Adam Gratun, Evan Jamieson, and Richard Meyer and The Colour of His Eyes by Cody Goodfellow) “Martha Washington crosses, lighting cue 17, 18, 19, cue violins…” Location: Shanghai, city of gangsters and revolutionaries. Operatives...

I love my online games, and I love new players who were non-players. One summer I must have taught 20+ people how to play Fiasco. Just like anything you want to do with others, imagine: what do they want out of the game? What you want to give them? When I was teaching Fiasco, they didn't...

RPGs are different than that because they require specific people to show up repeatedly. Nobody's going to be mad if Isaac and Sarah miss a museum trip or don't make it to the club. But if they miss a gaming session ya might be down your main fighter and cleric.

Quality is Job One Two lost cities. One dead body. In Brazil in 1935, the best way to win a fight is fear. Captain Ivanova leads an expedition through the sweltering Amazon, and when she sees a 30-foot anaconda, she considers having her cousin Clara Tate shoot it... But there are better...

Higher and Hire There comes a time in every thrillseeker’s life when they must avail themselves of middle management. After Aloria Midas’s downfall, back in When I say “jump,” you say “I'll die!”, her assets were put on the shopping block. Ava Astor, eager to assert her autonomy, bought the...

Night at El Morro “If you don’t cooperate, Miss Midas, your government is prepared to revoke sunlight privileges.” May 10, 1936. After the disaster of the last mission, Devika assembled a massive team. Extra chairs had to be brought into the New York office; besides her normal employees and...

63% is an extremely high completion rate, considering most campaigns start "we're going to hang out in this configuration for 4 hours a week in perpetuity".

One of our rotating GMs ran a highly involved session and wrote up an incident report. Reformatting it would be a waste of time so I'm simply going to link to the PDF. I hope if you're reading this in a decade the link still works! Enjoy!

The betrayals come so quickly.

Only a Scheme in Rio Tá de sacanagem? Que isso? New readers ask: Who are you people?! A dreary February in New Orleans. The place to be is the Astor Home for Sun-Kissed Girls, where all day, the party prepares a party. JP Diamond puts in long hours running background checks on every last...

I originally took this thread to mean attribute as in trait, and #1 is shyness. In any game where you can't see the other players, it's identical to AFK. Physical discomfort is something that's difficult unless you're in person and can nudge the other players, mumble but still be understood...

Gold of the Treasure State/Boston Confidential A smackarel of death. Who are you people?! Colonel Dashington was in a pickle. He’d gone to Montana to hunt wild game, but a grizzly bear he killed had turned into a dead man. He dispatched his valet to town, to send a message. Soon, Devika...

Saviors of the Lunatic Line Black fever and grisly death were the cost of the Kenyan rail. Who would pay it? A cool June evening in Manhattan. East of the park, Rafael Lancaster is trying to enjoy a night at the movies with his girlfriend Lillian. He’s supposed to be supervising new ZSS member...

You ever been sick, but you have the adrenaline to run a four hour game... And afterwards saying a few sentences becomes an issue? Just me? It's the least nerdy reference but it reminds me of Jordan's flu game.

Anyone else read writeups often?