Barking Alien Challenge day26: Drama!

What dramatic events have happened from the Campaign?

I was famous for sandbox games and giving players enough rope to hang themselves. I ran a Arkham county cthulhu game for years and will do it again while a recent rulebook said dont do it. There are 4+ sourcebooks detailing areas and characters and over a hundred scenatios and some well researched amazing fill ins and minor details that can be used in scenarios. A newspaper is a good thing to present in games like this or my superhero games.

Our 80s games we had two long D&D games, one started as BX and other sets never came out so we went the ad&d hybrid thing. And the basic stuff must be for beginners or babies - we were suckered by older gamers and marketing and Gygax. The first over 3 years *country kids have fewer choices of anything to do so weekly sleepovers are a thing. I used the BX known world from the map in x1 for a while.

This was the first version of Exile Island. Possibly it was late in my Dawn age and lots of high-level guys ended up gods in later games. The second big campaign was a bunch of non-standard humanoids who shared a huge base and were into conquest and messing with nations. At some point, players opened Cthulhu's Tomb, ushering an age of black magic and apocalypse.

So then I used RQ2 until about 2012 when i started this blog. The first version had characters trying to thward gods of evil by hopping to different nations and driving away some monster species serving each evil god. Went very well. The next major campaign was kind of where the Holy Land is and probably was early 2nd Empire. One great adventure characters stole dragon eggs wizards wanted to give them superpowers. While crossing the river Dragons came so party ate the eggs and got away. Anytime they went to that river dragons attacked them. In a later campaign in the same land they played their descendants who were also cursed by the same river. 

Multi-generation games are great. Pendragon and RQ3 probably had me running games with yearly turns, including hiding all winter and getting married while in the north.  RQ requires trainingng taking time so 3 months or a year off is worth it. I like time jumps that show player domains grow.

When I started this blog 2012 as friends in a bookshop wanted to play RPGs and I wrote my first homebrew bs elfmaids & octopi retroclone. I started Exile Island, and It was used for several years at the Game club I lived above a few years in Sydney. I made Exile Island, a revised version of my first island continent game. I thought I knew game club drama nut turns out I was wrong. I can still learn more about presenting games in public vs home games with ppl youve played with 30 years.

Particular antics in that world included a halfling bard, an angel changeling, a unicorn changeling, some octopi, some giants and many others. Players would spend 1in4 sessions in Shadelport and used to by murderhouses and haunted houses cheap and cleanse them then sell them. One player built a zombie rowing galley. Several had pubs. One had a bard school and shagged a lady dragon, daughter of a sea god. There was a time an angry mob came after a blood druid murder of a tavern keeper (a secret policeman he discovered after the murder). He had to bribe them away with pornographic dark elf furniture from Svartheim. Was an adventurer who got blackmailed into the secret police. Another tried to fight the mysterious drug cartels of the west and he ended up helping the Baron get a cut and helped legalise the drug trade. Now wizards could huff elder brain warping drugs without shame. There was party who started a monster orphanage and a boardinghouse and workhouse for widows of monsters the party killed. One player married an orc and she sadly died. He wanted to marry the orc side kick of another player who sold the she orc and was extremely mean about the deal. He went on to get married and be turned into an orc. Then he found out his lifespan statisticly wan now lower. At one point he considered resurrecting his old wife. He also married a number of inbred kobold princesses who were idiots since hatching. 

I started running more weird one-offs and Planet Psychon.

I was running short campagns when i came over a few weeks to adelaide and when I got back to Adelaide I started running Marvel a while (since 84 campagn). Then We ended up playing Call of Cthulhu and then back to my Homebrew campagn. Also my Broken Hill post apoc which might just be a big region of Planet Psychon. 

We played my Stone age era and my Bronze age parts of my setting for years before Chagrinspire. This campagn let me have fantasy and ruined dieselpunk mixed which came up a few times on Planet Psychon and players didnt want to leave the weird hexes and ruined skyscraper citadels. Players fighting the slavers and killing the empire and ending the continental civil war resolved stuff in my game back to 2012. Multiple other campagns didnt get around to killing the Emperor. 

Season 4 of Chagrinspire will have more espionage, domain power, lunar travel and golem mech battles.

Then I'm running Auldwood.

I'm running weekly D&D and still hoping to get a regular weekly group a while for D&D5/24. Possibly, I might shove this on my Islands in between the continent and Exile Island or make a Ravenloft mini campaign. Or maybe a Ravenloft domain based on Anglerlund from my zine series (keeping them separate and related).

All of my major island campaigns are based on Sicily maps.

Met more interesting players Ive met and used the D&D adventure I posted earlier this month again and this time they killed a fish folk, traded with goblins and started to kill a fish cult in a cursed fishing village.

Local oldschool con scene emerged here, but my style is a bit older, and Ive seen OSR dramas these people are unaware of. Mostly it's been nice, but did meet a dnd gone woke and rape is natural in RPG settings, jerk. Mostly, it's considering the same games by ppl who were driven away years ago as viable and unaware of scene drama. Meanwhile, several trans friends died, and I'm definitely in the "they dont deserve extra unwanted BS camp. Lost a few friends and family to right-wing racist popularism the last year. Its fine. Had a few friends my age who have cognitive decline, which also seems to also encourage racism in ppl who never did before. I am lucky to have lots of friends in gaming, arts, band scenes and more to keep my brain ticking. Thankyou to everybody who has been along for the ride and kept reading this far.