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Malaysia's Flood Relief Bundle 2021 "Malaysia has experienced severe rainstorms and flash flooding since 17 December 2021, leaving many people stranded and vulnerable. As such, this bundle aims to raise funds for flood relief efforts in Malaysia due to these recent floods. "Proceeds from this...

Ingat Ini by Bram Xu owes less to vampire hunting tales from the likes of that other Bram (Stoker) and more to the vampire-as-protagonist genre of Anne Rice and so forth. I'd previously known Bram Xu for food-centric games like the chickens-vs-kitchen farce of Masak Ayam, but here Bram dives...

Previous thread! The Southeast Asian RPG scene isn't widely known to many people, despite the explosion of creativity in places like Malaysia and the Philippines since 2019, when many fresh faces (and a few older gamers like myself) began publishing on places like itch.io. There are a few...

Troublemaker "Boss orders me to make trouble, I go make trouble," Park says, turning to face an approaching officer. "Hi, boss! Sir." Major Mahayhay has crept up silently. The small woman gets right up in Park's face, pressing two fingers against the marine's cheekbone. "Lieutenant. Why are...

Shaitan and Nemesis A familiar voice calls out. Zoltan Pesh, liability lawyer from the Fighting Shaitans. "Captain Caspian Var! You're the hero of the hour. I'm so pleased to see you." Zoltan Pesh appears at the far end of the corridor, wearing military fatigues with no rank badge. The slight...

Another vote for 13th Age! I converted my D&D4e campaign to it and it ran beautifully. It's very compatible with D&D settings, and as mentioned earlier, the bestiaries are to kill for.

Situation Normal... "Sir." Bernd's voice reaches from just across the corridor. The NHP's not-quite-human face appears as a hologram on a wall interface panel, and slides along the corridor to keep pace. "I'm glad to see you up and about. The Armory contingent is running late, so we have some...

In recent years, I've run Blades in the Dark, with a Blades of the Inquisition (Warhammer 40k fan hack) campaign lasting 10 sessions before the core group fell apart over one of the members arriving 2 hours late, drunk on vodka, and missing his character sheet. The other, a voice-only default...

Speaking of android surrogates, having remote-piloted bodies, sleeve swapping and forked digital copies of player characters was very common in the Eclipse Phase campaign I played in. The GM and all the players in Eclipse Phase have to learn to think outside the box of traditional fleshy human...

Adrift Caspian Var wakes up with a start. For a moment, he looks around dazedly trying to make sense of his foreign surroundings. Then it all comes flooding back - he isn't in his stateroom on the Wagner. That no longer exists. He's on board the Bukharin together with the survivors of his crew...

Bernd and Caspian Appreciation Society As Tabitha sleeps, the Deimosian demons of the Crisis Response Group converse in digital whispers. Vera is at the heart of it all. Perhaps due to her seniority, or her long-running eccentricity and strength of personality, Vera has become the...

Come on, that's actually 7 words! 😅

Out Like A Light "It will do, thank you Ike. Any word when Caspian will be on board?" Tabitha asks with an audible sigh. "He should already be aboard, Captain. Refreshing himself in his temporary quarters I'd imagine." Ike Gbeho responds. "The others will be arriving shortly from the Shamokin...

When @Hussar was talking about colonial imperialism and colonial thinking, I read that as referring to the products of the modern age of colonialism, when global empires drained the resources of entire subject nations to fuel their growth and enrich their upper classes.

Baronic Emblem: Three Houses A combined Lancer and Lancer: Battlegroup campaign following Karrakin player characters from their time in the military academy, into the flames of the Dawnline Shore war, and the intra-Baronic conflicts that follow when a conspiracy seeks to overturn the power...

The Quiet Year and Stewpot might be good for trying out that kind of experience. They're great for a home base-centred game.

True, I was speaking more to today's mainstream perceptions (since Warhammer 40k is monolithic and massive in the wargaming scene now). I've seen some fun group-vs-GM wargames at conventions, and I've been one of the rotating GMs in Eclipse Phase and Night Witches.

Thanks for all the comments! This engagement was always meant to be a 5-on-3 fight (same number of battlegroups as the Union fleet, plus 50%). The James I was supposed to come late, but my players had no way of knowing that. As you can see, player battlegroups are more powerful than NPCs, but...

The Straggler, Part 2 Vera sends an update back to the Vice Admiral, and relays news from the Björn Járnsiđa: They're busy making repairs several light-minutes off the beaten path, and will need some days to get their drives back up. Casualties were thankfully light, apart from the losses to...