Showing posts with label Forever War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forever War. Show all posts

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Welcome to The Party Pal - Session Report- Forever War By Paul Elliot For The Hostile Rpg

 Picking up right here from this past week's Forever War game adventure. We got a secure resource of water and set up power generation. Our sniper teams sent a few spies off too the great beyond and everything seems to be going well. 



Our team is near the unclaimed mountain territory and we're expanded out our patrols all ready. We've encountered swamp, mud, and Jellies. These things are horrid little alien parasites that seem to get into everything including gear, equipment, etc. We've got our scientists working on it back home. 
We had no major incursions.. yet but we're starting to send out drones & sniper teams into the field. The planet of course hates us & as per usual conditions are Hell. The weather really plays up on Leviticus & has happered efforts to find and identify other mercenary positions. 
With a storm raging for two days we've told our guys to stay put. There's an uneasy feeling about Leviticus as a whole among the players and that's a good thing. My DM really played up the weirdness & paranoia of the planet. Random stuff like coms cutting out, all of the electronics and batteries going down, and electronics totally screwing up when they've been checked with successful rolls. 




Sunday, November 10, 2024

Entering The Fray - Session Report- Forever War By Paul Elliot For The Hostile Rpg

 We see opportunity in crisis and the September Group has it's mercs heading into Leviticus's conflicts  an irresistible lure. This game session report picks right up from the Forever War review here.   Most of our players were running a scouting party that was to establish a forward base for our merc unit. 

Serveral years ago we sent scouts to access the horrid conditions on the conflicts with the colonies of Leviticus. These were followed up with our main  party's ships heading toward's Leviticus. While there's plenty of opportunity for bodyguards, security, work, etc. the whole place is crawling with competition. Our scouts have found serveral fire fights and came into conflict with two unknown merc units with a few days of boots on the ground. 
Our scout's team cleared the way for our merc unit's Harbinger to land on Levitcus & complete preparation for a forward fire bases. But we experianced heavy fire from  rival mercenary company. The conflict was a pain in the ass but to about twenty minutes with good dice rolls. 

We got our base set up and after three months in  hyperspace arrived on Leviticis. Our party landed and used our Harbringer as the main base feature. This allows us to set up command very quickly. We've got  a parameter set up & we're ready to access the planet. 


We're ready to send out sniper teams around the base tonight. And set up parameter guards. The whole base is on alert and we've got an  internal source of water for the moment. 







Sunday, October 27, 2024

Review & Commentary On Forever War By Paul Elliot For The Hostile Rpg

 Leviticus. Eden. Paradise. Earth’s first interstellar colony, where many nations established hopeful new settlements. It was no paradise… the planet proved to be hostile and unforgiving: plant life interfering with electronics, intelligent carnivorous vines, jungle rot and leechlike ’jellies’.


But the incredible mineral wealth made Leviticus an irresistible lure. The colonized continent was an ancient asteroid impact crater, packed with valuable ores. The corporations rushed to the planet and began turning paradise into hell. Chaos erupted. Colonials fought their governments as well as the corporations. And the wars continue today.
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Ignored by the media back on Earth, Levitcus is a now a mercenary’s paradise. Opportunities abound for security work, corporate contracts, training rebels or defending the colonial cities. And there are chancers everywhere: diplomats, mercenary brokers, would-be presidents, warlords, smugglers and thousands of mercenaries seeking work. And there is plenty of war to go around ...

"Is it really just a coincidence that this perfect world, this unspoiled paradise is right there, 33 light years from home? Or is it part of a much larger plan? This isn't just a dream for me. It's a calling. - Megan Tanner, one of the first colonists on Leviticus" 

Forever War By Paul Elliot For The Hostile Rpg just dropped. Forever War is a whole craft campaign setting from the ground up with an over arching mercenary slant to it. Levitcus is a world of war and exploitation fought over for it's vast mineral wealth and a continant sized war torn problem just waiting for a group of PC's mercenary PC's. Forvever War is particularly well written with lots of hotspots, points of violence, and opportunities for PC's to be killed. This is a perfect campaign for both beginning or experienced PC's. This is not a campaign to be trifled with. As a world Leviticus is a world on the edge and totally ingnored by the Hostile rpg. This is a world where the horrors of war are visited upon the populations of the colonies. The situation is spiralling out of control because these are failed colonies who are hanging on the edge of the war. 
The situation on Leviticus is a microcosm of what can go completely off the rails within the Hostile universe. Corporate powers at each other's throats through warfare with colonists caught in the middle. This is a situation where the rope of diplomacy has been cut long ago. Everything about Leviticus is dangerous but there is plenty of opportunity for those bold enough to take it.  This is a solid campaign setting and weird interstellar warfare location just waiting for PC's to stumble into the 'low end' of the warfare here.  All artwork within Forever War is done by human artists. 


The world of Leviticus is a place where the plants & animals want to eat and destroy the PC's without mercy from the super leech 'Jellies' to the vines that thread thier way through electronics. Leviticus is a world of contrasts from it's deserts to it's jungle infested plains. This is world that rebels against it's occupants and colonists. This is not an easy place to wage war.
You will be waging war against the colonists, the corporate forces, thier handlers, and encountering every slimeball who comes to this world. All of this in a hundred and thirteen pages of nasty warfare infested Hell.