Shigure’s Goals

   For today, it’s some quick notes on Shigure’s current political plans – or at least his goals. He’s still keeping his own counsel on how he expects to accomplish most of them. . Shigure’s Current Projects Include: Trying to convince the Crane to send a thousand or so soldiers to reinforce the Crab at [...]

Cancellation

   Unfortunately, I have to pick up a relative at the airport this evening at 9:00. The regular champions session this evening will thus have to be cancelled. Most of the regular players should have been notified already, but this will hopefully reach any remainder.

More Rokugan Court Events

   For today, here’s the second section of the Rokugan Court Events listing. This isn’t complete of course, but it should prove sufficient for when you need to come up with something quickly.    (5) Mental Competitions tend to be less serious than physical ones – at least to start with. In Rokugan, care must [...]

Rokugan Court Events

   The Cities and Courts of Rokugan tend to have quite a lot of events going on. While most of them serve more as excuses to meet people without appearing to be looking for them in particular and backdrops for deal-making, you never know when something is going to be useful, informative, or somehow wind [...]

Ilarion Drake, Young Celestial Dragon

   For today it’s the character sheet for Ilarion Drake, a young Celestial Dragon in the current Champions Campaign.  Ilarion is currently helping out with the Bane Mummies – and incidently helping to establish a precedent for further social events among the other members of the Dragon Circle. None of them have ever actually spent much [...]

Archetypes IV

   For today we have a few more Archetypes for Eclipse: The Codex Persona.    The Fortunate Scion enjoys numerous unearned benefits – powerful connections, good fortune, and the sympathies of many, yet feels that his life is dark and tragic. Unfamiliar with the realities of life, the Fortunate Scion assumes that any setback is [...]

Musings on the Clans

   First up for today, we have Ninsei’s musings on the current situation with the clans in the Legend of the Five Rings campaign.    The Crab: Diverting troops from the wall is a potential disaster. Even if the Scorpion clan push is readily contained, the diversion could let the forces of the Shadowlands swarm across [...]

FA Session 22: Road to Londinium

   With the city more or less secure, an assortment of information as detrimental to the mages guild as possible handed out, and the locals getting organized (despite a regrettable tendency to look to the visiting adventurers for recommendations and leadership… Kevin groaned… that’s right, everybody keep looking at the 14-year-old fey-demon mischief-maker for leadership… [...]

L5R Situation Summary Part II: The Clans

   Here are some basic notes on the current clan lineups. Remember: this is based on currently-available information and doesn’t address the (numerous) subfactions, trade needs, and secondary motives. The Crab: Are firmly against the Shadowlands – although, oddly enough, they’ve gotten quite used to having them near and trying to use their forces against [...]

L5R Situation Summary Part I: Player Characters

   For today, here’s the first part of the situation summariesfor the Legend of the Five Rings game – character resources. This is the first pass-through on the notes. Given the number of sessions, I’ve likely forgotten some major items. The various players should feel free to point them out and post goals or possible manipulations. [...]

Advanced Spellbinding

   Today it’s a little something for World Tree: some information from my notes on Advanced Spellbinding.    World Tree Spellbinding is – as befits a branch of Pattern Magic – fairly straightforward: It still has a quirk or two even in its base form (most notably, you can bind spells that you cannot cast otherwise), [...]

Archetypes, Continued

   Today, per some player requests, here are a few more Archetypes for Eclipse: The Codex Persona d20 point-buy characters – but not too many, because today has been somewhat busy.    The Centurion is a miltary veteran. He is tough, professional, and disciplined. He acts without hesitation, carries a weapon, and speaks commandingly. He [...]

FA Session Log 21: The Crypts of the Guild

   Given that there was a delay in the action, the GM decided that the side-trip to Hogwarts would fit into the sequence normally – or at least with a bit of time-dilation – instead of being delayed. Similarly, the group dropped off the Praetorians along the way.    Heading on down into the crypts [...]

Archetypes III: putting them to use

   Now that we have some archetypes, what can we do with them?    Well, first off, we can simply use them as a basis for characters: Since a first level Eclipse d20 point-buy character has at least 48 Character Points to spend, and the Archetype Packages only cost 24, you can simply drop one [...]

Archetypes II

   For today it’s a few more Archetypes. While I intend to extend the list a bit more, next time I’ll try and put in some more detailed explanations about how to use them.    The Broken Spirit has walked too often with death and awaits its final visit as one awaits a friend who [...]

Archetypes and Roles

   Archetypes turn up in a lot of ways. They serve as the foundations for characters, provide the basis for disguises and roles, underlie the “Identities” found in the Federation-Apocalypse setting, and provide a quick way to drop a simple set of powers suited to a particular role into a character design.  In second edition AD&D [...]

Factions of the Manifold

   Here’s another chunk of material for the Federation-Apocalypse Campaign – some of the major characters from the original Chronicles of the Opening and a list of the current factions. . The crew of the Soravin (First Manifold Campaign: The Chronicles of the Opening)    Virtually the entire crew of the Soravin were primary or [...]

Jamathial, Celestial Dragon Rocker

   Jamathial is one of the more publicly-known Dragons – although she’s known as Jamathial Weaver-of-Dreams, a rock star who’s addicted to spectacular light shows, high living, and giving concerts longer than any normal human being could handle – and exalting in it. Her attention-seeking has caused her occasional problems in the past, but – [...]

Sparky, a resident of the World Tree

   “Sparky” was a character belonging to Clint Thomas Walker (1980-2008). In a world where “dragons” were tiny, delicate, ageless creatures who wielded complex and precise spells, collected lore, and stretched their memories across the centuries, “Sparky” insisted that dragons should be huge, that magic should be pure and spontaneous, and that he couldn’t remember [...]

Adventures in Arborology

   The last World Tree campaign ran for about two years. Most of the group had never heard of the game, but everyone was up for a few sessions of almost anything I recommended. World Tree is a very good game, hence that brief experiment ran for longer than most of them expected. It only [...]