Hello,
Every sunday I get 5 hours of time away from the house, the only time off I get from work which is looking after my wife and kids. With this in mind the time must be spent well and recharge my mental batteries enough to stop me from breaking down and killing myself if I am forced to watch "Justin's House" for another time (If you have kids in the UK, you will understand!).
So with a local RPG club discovered I've been getting back into Roleplaying and its been great to return to tabletop gaming after too many years away. We've played a few games now and I even found myself running a Rogue Trader game. One of my fellow gamers at the club runs a fantastic youtube blog that I can recommend as well called "The Gentleman Gamer", so I thought to myself why not start a thread/plog/rant to jabber about roleplaying in the warhammer universe and get some ideas on how to really upset my players while at the same time drawing your attention to some beauties that I had never heard of.
Tonight is one of those beauties, I did not run Rogue Trader, only one player managed to escape the dreaded "family commitment" and so we joined the other table, being run by a guy who is The best GM I have ever encountered in my years of gaming who was running something called "Gamma World", a post apoc RPG using 2nd Ed D&D rules. I was expecting the usual madmax wastes and so on, but not only was it set locally (Wiltshire England) but you could play as mutant animals and sentient plants. After my roll came up animal, I settled on being a wasp....
A few rolls later on the great mutation charts and I am a 6ft tall, giant wasp, with a huge stinger and no human features at all. I can fly and I have super mutant omni vision so I can see everything from light, heat, cold, xray, energy, psychic powers as they happen, invisible monsters the lot. Oh and it also can be used telescopically upto 10KM with zoom in or microscopically for some CSI funk. I have telekinetics, can discharge electricity from my wasp limbs and have a field of hostility that makes everyone within 30ft become more hostile and angry with each other. The downside is despite being the best scout ever I cannot speak or communicate with the party unless I write something or let somone read my mind.....
The rest of the team are a tech savvy dwarf, a two headed man with 5ft legs, a sentient pumpkin that travels on a huge bed of thorned, poisonous, electrical vines and an otter who can fly and is telepathic. My wasp does not like the otter or the humans. In fact I made sure I wrote down my objectives and let the GM see them before we started
1: Kill all Humans
2: Kill the Otter
We were hired to locate a group of four missing children, two boys, two girls and thier spiderdog Timmy who had gone to play adventures but had vanished. The plant (a trusted ally against the human menace) acted as Cornelius Everzan to my Ponda Baba and used my very hostile buzzing to say what he wanted. (we had a deal, I ate his sweet, health restoring fruits and in return, killed people for him to eat via his roots.). The otter leapt off acting heroic with our two mutant human companions while I hung back and watched. We encountered some deadly flying fish, myself and the pumpkin took care of one, the otter was hanging off another, looking to take a certain beating unless I helped. I considered the option and then let the fish batter him against a tree. We found the childrens trail and signs that giant killer rabbits (called Hoops) were on the trail as well. These creatures hate humans....maybe we can ally against the foe......
Later in the marshes I saw a huge frog monster comming to ambush us. I ignored it and instead approached the giant ruin we were comming to investigate, finding it full of human hating robots. I took a robot passkey from a dead body, just in case, then laughed as the battered otter and humans caught up. They began to argue and attaracted the attention of a 50 ton robot dog with buzzsaws for teeth. Seeing it coming through the walls, I lifted my pumpkin friend away and we flew clear, heading for the location of the trapped children. Meanwhile, the dwarf and giantman were legging it, followed by the otter who, while not human and therefor not a target for the beast, enraged it by attacking it with a bit of the dead frog monster. Fleeing into the ruined city they saw the band of scavanging giant rabbits (deadly fighters who we wanted to avoid). The otter telepathically told them "If your not hostile then ****** Off"....which meant they noticed him and began to attack, just as the robot dog came the other way. This fight led to the otter and giant man fleeing back to the village, abandoning us.
I say abandoning, we had already rescued the children and the dwarf had found some rare and valued tech. Flying back to the village with everyone either hanging on or held in my telekinetic grip, we saw the giant dog robot moving very slowly through the marsh in the same direction, after the otter. I made sure we were back long before he was, not to warn the villagers but to be paid. The Robot Dog wiped out the village and I was able to achieve my first objective! Now to hunt down that otter.....
All I can say is it was a blast and as I type this I am also tracking down a copy of the game.
Next week is Temeraire, a game of napoleonic warfare with dragons, using the Free Fantasy D6 system (download from RPGnow) and based on the novel "His Majesty's Dragon" although if they run Gamma world again I will be sorely tempted. It might even poach my RT players (this often happens and we just stop our games and play in the one someone else is running before resuming ours again). I'll put another update I have also foolishly agreed to run the Red Dwarf RPG at somepoint.
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I'm tempted to try find and join a roleplaying club, but the roleplayers I have already met around here are... very... special individuals, and I'm not sure I could handle being exposed to more of them. Sounds like you struck gold with that club though 