Gamefest on Yahoo Groups In the NewsIntroduction Hollow Earth Expedition (HEX) is a game based around one of the truly classic pulp settings, a hollow Earth inhabited by dinosaurs and lost civilizations. Exile Games has a short teaser/ introduction to the game in an example of play on their website. As such examples go, it does a very nice job of [...]
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Like many games, Savage Worlds tries to provide some choice during combat by having a number of combat maneuvers that work slightly differently than a regular attack. Some of these are relatively straight forward. For example, Double Tap increases the to-hit and damage of a gun attack at the cost of using up more ammo. [...]
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New Blood Issue 6 Violence Solves Everything With Don and the Bronze Umbrella in costume, the locals mostly clear out of the bar when the heroes walk in. The Huntress is outside watching for gang members. Down the street, Whale-Watcher is enjoying her entrée. The Huntress sees the entire gang coming down the street. Some [...]
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New Blood Issue 5 More New Blood Veronica and Caroline sit on a bench talking. Veronica tells Caroline that the police will be coming soon. Caroline says that the police are jerks and will probably blame her for all of this. Outside the Huntress has Morko let her out of the SUV. Morko actually has [...]
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New Blood Issue 4 Berserk Button Whale-Watcher and the Trouser Weasel approach the mall but are stopped by the police. While Whale-Watcher tries to convince them that they are heroes and should be let in, the Weasel recalls a clothing display inside from his job as a secret shopper and teleports into some leather pants. [...]
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New Blood Issue 2 Aquatic Activities Even though she is on furlough Whale-Watcher goes to the harbor, just to keep her hand in, and discovers that several boats were sunk by giant waves at around 3 am. She theorizes that this was the boy playing with water. Veronica, having been informed by the researchers of [...]
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New Blood Issue 1 Welcome to Harbor City “Anyone subject to sanity rules wouldn’t last two days in Harbor City.” Rolfe The Dung Beatle is in town with his wife attending a gardening show. The Trouser Weasel is busy living his secret identity as a mystery shopper. Whale-Watcher is at home on furlough from the [...]
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Savage Worlds has become one of the mainstays of the Emerald City Gamefeast. It is reasonably crunchy but flexible enough to work with many different games without too much tinkering. However, the game does have a number of quirks and some very odd dice probabilities and so it seems worth taking an in-depth look at [...]
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(Cross-posted to RPG.net.) The Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game is based on the on-going comic book series Mouse Guard and a streamlined, simplified version of the Burning Wheel system, in which you play the protectors and warriors of a medieval society of sentient mice.
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Thanks to everyone who attended this year’s Emerald City Gamefest! On behalf of all the members of the Flying Committee, we hope you enjoyed yourselves, and look forward to seeing you next year!
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