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Rifts: Terror on the Dark Frontier: Sessions 19 through 22

<< Previously    PCs Anthony "Loco" Diaz (SAMAS pilot) - A street rat captured and raised by the Coalition, now in his late 20s, and a fugitive SAMAS pilot from CS El Dorado, wanted for stealing his SAMAS suit, Stella, along with some other things.  He fled north towards Castle Refuge, and joined with Shan, Layla, Faith, and Midnight. Layla Lacoi (DB Mystic) - A tall dimensional mystic being with a bit of a catfish face.  Her gentle demeanor belies how powerful she is. Midnight (Psi-stalker variant) - A dark and mysterious stranger, riding a strange horse.  He seems to have influence over lightning, and is a man who lives off the land.   Faith Macavoy (covert Psi-ghost) - A non-descript vagabond woman, who seems to be quite capable and full of supplies.   Shan Medsans (Cyber-doc, I think) - A hardcore cyberdoc apparently from a long line of traveling healers, renowned enough to know Erin Tarn personally.  Her clinic...

Scum & Villainy Referee Aid - Names & Job Skeleton

 Scum & Villainy Referee Aid - Names & Job Skeleton I created a Google Sheets table aid. It generates random names for almost any specific thing, all based on d66 tables: Ships: Hegemonic destroyers, capital ships, and oligarchic freighters, mystic couriers and cruisers, Resistance gunboats, squadrons, and cruisers, and free traders. "Space Way" and Mandarin style names.  Aliases or code names for intelligence officers, Hegemony military and Resistance assets, and mystic agents. Names for gangs, lounges, clubs, dives and asteroids. It also generates the skeleton of a job based on the roll tables in the book.   To use the sheet yourself, you'll need to make a copy of it.  Click on the tick box/check box to generate new results.  Feedback or requests are best done (requests or bugs) by creating a comment at the relevant point/cell in the sheet. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10B2c67YWFyUljl_2Q1hqL2truxoN-WwRrK1L5VoWhto/edit?usp=sharing Yo...

Underlog - A Pocket Setting

  I wrote this was an experiment with the following goals:  To try to put together a setting that was useful for a game master using an old school game such as B/X or Old School Essentials , or a game  inspired by them, such as Knave or Shadowdark . To create a setting for the invertebrate ancestries I made. Put together something that can be used physically, as a trifold pamphlet. To provide something for this month's Blog Carnival, hosted by Errant Thinking , on the topic of " Tiny Epics ".   I've copied the text from the trifold pamphlet document, for your reading pleasure.  You can find the actual trifold document here: https://empedocles.itch.io/underlog . Sheila Brown, “Moss On Fallen Tree” released under CC0. Source: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=314623   Underlog - A Pocket Setting Somewhat like our world, the creatures are about fifty times larger. The people player characters interact with are intelligent...