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It's a Bye Week!!!

The One Ring was a Bye Week. Our Fellowship is in Bree to track down Gorlanc the sorcerer dwarf?! The One Ring has final PDFs released and we're pouring through looking updating our characters!

My new Burning Wheel game Vena and the King of Nothing is two sessions in and on the Diceology podcast. Vena is pursued by elves,  made an owlbear friend, and learned about Elven grief via human conflict. My lady friend, Elle had a fantastic rules breakthrough and we learned some hard truths about Vena her character!

Pirates of Drinax had a bye week. I'm looking at Firefly and Hammerheads for vehicle mechanics inspirations! 

Prepping for some Delta Green 1v1play with  Brendan from the What people do podcast. 

I'm reading UVG and excited about running it soon.

I'm set to run Desert Moon of Karth via Mothership for the Gauntlet's Star Wars Sat/Sun: Special Edition mini-con. in Dec and the session is full.

I hung out with some gamers from the Gauntlet Sunday afternoon on Zoom. About 9 or 10 other folks scattered globally. We just chatted about recent games we're playing and running down the gaming tangents.

This week I learned about Whitehack experiences from Christopher Kubasik via the Indie Game Reading Club Slack and it's climbed up my must playlist!

What's on your game table or shortlist?

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We set off on our Burning Wheel series. Vena the Elf ranger is on the run with the young Elven prince she was tasked to kill for the Queen-Regent. We learn a bit about the ghost of the murdered King, Tengu in an ancient forest, and an Owlbear!

You can check out our session zero and see how we got here!

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We've started our second chapter of The One Ring. The fellowship is journeying from Rivendell to Bree in search of that bad, bad, sorcerer!!

Prepping a Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2ED by UFOPress for play with the Gauntlet folks

GauntletCon Open Gaming is coming up and I'm running sessions of Twilight 2K and UVG. 

My lady friend has burned up a 4LP Ranger elf for the Burning Wheel RPG. She's protecting the young elf prince she was supposed to kill for the queen. She has relationships with the murdered elf king's ghost, the queen-regent(cousin, hateful), and her uncle, now the king!!

Superman and the Authority #3 is confirming my fears. No spoilers, but damn!

Return to Marduk with Judd of the Daydreaming about Dragons podcast. More Dictionary of Mu and Sorcerer gaming on twitch.tv/actualplay

This week I learned about  http://fantasycities.watabou.ru/ for mapping cities!

And Inktober is coming!!!

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It's been a couple of weeks and I have lots to cover!

We played our first session of Pirates of Drinax using Cortex Prime -it was the BOMB!

Talked about playing Burning Wheel with my lady friend, she brought it up and pitched a premise inspired by...The Lion King. We also played the Harry Potter Hogwarts battle game, the co-op, and the PvP version. She LOVES Harry Potter.

Two sessions of The One Ring -now weekly on Twitch.tv/actualplay We visited a wight inhabited barrow-tomb! And experience some horse theft!

I'm working on some Foundry VTT code for my online games.

Played an X-Men/X-Force-inspired game of Champions Now testing out pregens for my Lifted zine.

Juggling basic moves and the first draft of 3 playbooks for Debtpunk.  And thinking about the futuristic setting that it exists in.

I've read Superman and the Authority #2 was less than #1, but it was a team assembling montage, so I get it. I still have lore questions!

The new Kill Team is out and I got in my Desert Moon of Karth Zine. 

And this week I learned: Lupin the 3rd will be an RPG by Magnetic Press Play! Love it! And old Palladium Fantasy is pretty hot in the right hands!

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Kickstarters...WTF!!

• Hottest KS - Avatar Legends. 
• The Upset - Tears of a Machine SC 
• Carbon Grey RPG 
• Chronicles of Drunagor 
• Dogmight’s GM screen. 
• Forbidden Lands RPG – Book of Beasts and The Bloodmarch 
• A|State 

Ran/Played:

• 2nd episode of The One Ring on Twitch.tv/ActualPlay
• R3D - Lifted with Champions Now.
• On my campaign turn with Five Parsecs from Home, a Sci-fi Solo Adventure wargaming game by Modiphius.
• Lancer RPG - The Long Rim.

Reading/Prepping:

• Debtpunk iterating through moves and playbooks.
• Foundry VTT and the Forbidden Lands

-Mad Jay

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Last week I ... 

 Ran/Played:

• The One Ring on Twitch.tv/ActualPlay
• Twilight: 2000 twice!
• Lifted with Champions Now two times! And thinking about an All-Star-Crisis session.
• Started Five Parsecs from Home, a Sci-fi Solo Adventure wargaming game by Modiphius.
• Lancer RPG.

Reading/Prepping:

• Session Zero from Nahual 
• Reading Ruin Masters and the White Hack.

And then there's Debtpunk.

and some stuff about Jorune.

What's on your play/read list?

-Mad Jay

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I nerd-out about designing Debtpunk and Pinx via Vincent Baker's Powered by the Apocalypse essays and my Vampire game (SPOILERS)

Played:

• Lancer RPG 
• Hutt Cartel - a Star Wars hack of Cartel
• Twilight: 2000
• Tears of a Machine Sc -Live on Kickstarter!! 

Prepping

• VtM:Rio by Night 
• The One Ring for Twitch/Actualplay
• Nahual A Tabletop RPG of Mexican Urban Fantasy Powered by the Apocalypse.

What are you playing or nerding-out about?

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Russell Collins is an instructional and game designer. As an instructional designer for Learning Ally, he has spent decades creating accessible content for blind and dyslexic students and training others to do the same. As a game designer, he created The Tears of a Machine, a game inspired by his love of science fiction stories and young adult melodrama. He hopes to further access and inclusion in gaming. You can catch up with him at RobotClaw
Tears of a Machine SC-  Live on Kickstarter!! 

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