Paranoia & Sentries - Hostile Rpg Campaign Updates Involving - White Dwarf (Issue 30 - Apr 1982) & Zozer Games Kosmos 68

 Call me a time traveller but tonight we were looking into White Dwarf issue #30 and two articles popped out. First can we talk about that distinctive cover artwork on White Dwarf 30 Cover by Nicholas Bibby? Biggy's  interesting & old school Brit Science Fiction artwork crosses the lines from Fantasy into Science Fiction. And before I forget happiest of birthdays to Marc Miller! 

"Androids in Traveller" - A bio-engineered career for Traveller By  Roger Moore brings a different sorta of career to classic Traveller. Roger Moore is of course the guru who would go on to stoke the fires of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the orange spine days into second edition. His game prowess is not respected today. For Hostile rpg this career is a bit more windy and not the straight forward path that we get in today's Cepheus Engine powered 2d6 games. 'Androids in Traveller' is where the ideas were spawned so to speak.
Technically speaking we could substitute this article for the PC generarion rules within Hostile. But why?! There are already a Hostile Synethics book?! Because you may want an alternative NPC path for your Andies or artifical persons. 

The real appeal for issue #30 is the 'Starbase '- "Ideas for Traveller" sources for Traveller adventures  by Bob McWilliams. And these ideas could be used for other android production facilities. And this relates back to our on going Soviets of the September group. And this involves the fact that perhaps the Soviets have super secret bases & production facilities where they are producing human like androids that not even the adverage citizen is aware of. Perhaps these androids are in point of fact even a bit more advanced then thier Hostile corporate counterparts.And these units might actually be inserted into the ranks of the SePo. The better developed careers of "Androids in Traveller" reflects the more 'human like' android units. 
And this might lead to the fact that these SePo are teamed with a larger calibered robotic unit for a 'one to combo punch' of security. And one of paranoia where rumors of psionic SePo and special units are the norm rather then the exception. 
What does this mean for the September group?! The fact that there may be operatives among thier ranks that they may or maynot be aware of! 

Bussard Ram Jets & The Architects - Hostile Rpg Campaign Updates Involving - White Dwarf issue #32 August 1982 & Zozer Games Kosmos 68

 So tonight I was looking into White Dwarf issue #32 from August 1982 which contains the article "STL: Slower-Than-Light Ships in Traveller" by Marcus Rowland.

And this article contains an overview for both Bussard ramships and lightjammers as well as patrons and more information on these wonderful starships. According to the Bussard Ramjet wiki entry; "The Bussard ramjet was proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard"  Why do I say wonderful starships. Because these ships are the type of space craft that we'd see highly advanced alien races using in the Orbital 2100 supplement from Zozer games. Again according to the wiki entry; "A 2021 study found that, while feasible in principle, the practical construction of a useful Bussard ramjet would be beyond even a civilization of Kardashev type II" A Kardashev type II civilization  can directly consume the energy of a star, most likely through the use of a Dyson sphere.

We can see the Bussard Ramjet concept being popularized in Science Fiction going all of the way back to 1967 when it first appeared in Poul Anderson's Tau Zero.  Once again the concept has appeared across Science Fiction and bled into popular culture; "The concept was popularized by Poul Anderson in his novel Tau Zero, Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, Vernor Vinge in his Zones of Thought series, and Carl Sagan, as referenced in the television series and book Cosmos" 
Now if we are using Kosmos 68 & Hostile together which I have in the past. And we will be again. Then it stands to reason that the truly alien ‘Architects’ would be a Kardashev type II civilization. And with our player's PC's they recently got a copy of the files of Academy of Sciences Researcher Orya Statnik. Among these is the location of an ever accelerating Bussard ram jet startship in the Reticulan system. 

This relates back to the fact that 'The September Group's' presence on Abyss & several other planetary systems under the guise of advisors. The ‘Architects’ presence has stirred interest in both the player's PC's and several artifacts remain in possession of Tharis and several other corporations.  The Soviets and other multinationals are highly interested in any evidence of alien presences in the universe. More to come 

Shut Down Cha'alt - Cha'lting Escalation Campaign Update!

 So over the weekend we took a quick look at the Cha'alt first edition hard back to see where the entries are for our current campaign.Why?! Because the Cha'alt trilogy is very expansive & there's a lot of questions that the players have come up with. 

The players at this point don't simply want to explore & clear the dungeons. They want a piece of the sleazy underworld action of Cha'alt for the Fall & Winter campaigns. So their looking to go back into the dungeons gather riches & grind then move on to the big boys of Cha'alt itself. 

We're playing with interstellar scum here within our White Star laden universe so it's not a huge leap to see these space dogs taking over key sections of Cha'alt as play goes on. The key here is 

Cha'alt: Chartreuse Shadows changes up a lot of the events in the Cha'alt setting itself. 

Lost Angeles Veterans of The Supernatural Wars Rpg Play Session Report - Night of The Myrkridder -- The Demonic Dead

 This play session report picks right up on the heels of this blog entry here. 

The player's PC's have had it with the black eyed children & so decided to confront one of the little bastards. The little bastard in question was following the PC's in a resturant parking lot and things went from bad to really bad. The black eyed child was  Metaton or 'he who holds the book' and he proceeded to summon 4 demonic dead or the Myridder. And things got worse. 

The four of these undead proceeded to take a beating from the party & then ended up getting one in return. Shot were fired, two smoke grenades were released and the party ran away. Not before having one of their human handlers infected with a  Myrkridder spirit. Then the party bolted! 
The party had to tie up and subdue the undead horror in their midst with supernatural strength, rope, and prayers. They took the bastard to the occult secret society's Star Chamber chapter house where a dedicated holy cell is for demonically  possessed indivduals. And that's where this game session ended. 
  And here's what's really going on here. One of the players Scout came to me with a request to play something really different and since he's a big fan of Ash & the Evil Dead films. I had the perfect supernatural to bring to the table. James Mishler Games The Myrkridder -- The Demonic Dead has been sitting on my hard drive for years. Now their after a red herr erm artifact to undo the possesssion.. 

Now I realize that certain character classes in the Night Compaign A Sourcebook for    Veterans of The Supernatural Wars Rpg could at higher levels cause problems for the Myrkridder. The players didn't think realized this and I wasn't going to tell em. 

For now they've got the demonic dead possessed agent contained or so they think. Now next week its gonna be a bit of a role playing highlight as the party question's the horror. 

Lost Angeles Campaign Update - Adapting the Labyrinth Lord: Marilith-Kin Racial Class For Our Veterans of the Supernatural Rpg campaign

 So I've got an isolated Abyssial serpent cult in our Veterans of the Supernatural Wars campaign that's been harrassing the PC's for years. There are eight  Labyrinth Lord: Marilith-Kin Racial Class sisters who have been killing well liked NPC's for the past few years. 

The Veterans of the Supernatural Wars rpg companion goes into quite a bit of detail 

on the  Marilith for players. But I'm looking for half demon serpent women who can operating society almost but not quite invisible. These things are the hammers that motivate Abyssial cults on our Earth. These cold witches bargain the souls of victims to hags through the supernatural underground operating out of Los Angeles. The  Marilith operate as a valve of chaos bringing vice & horror into the city with human trafficking being front & center. There is a substantal war between the Marilith cults & the local vampire lords. 

In the supernatural wars and the velvet glove ambassitorial macanations of Lost Angeles has been tying up the investigations of the PC's for some months. But the Marilith cults have been kicking it into high gear. We've had several incidents with the PC's running into some very med level threats thrown their way including Black Eyed Children, shadow people assassins, and other less savory entities coming their way. 

The summoning of these entities is to murder the PC's & two to get them off the Abyssial tracks. So far they've come to hate the children & the other entities they've encountered. The players believe it could be a radical splinter of the Fairy courts. But they've got no proof at present. Meanwhile they have stumbled unto several Abyssial cult murders. Things are just starting to heat up!