Category: Actual Play

  • Savage Malifaux Session 4: The Grimoire Heist Part 1

    After the zombie fight and their first successful performance at the Star Theatre, the heroes have settled into a period of relative routine; they prep in the morning, have a few hours of leisure in the afternoons, and work a performance shift in the evenings. However, on their afternoon explorations, they have each noticed that…

  • Savage Malifaux Session 3: Zombie Chase

    Savage Malifaux Session 3: Zombie Chase

    At the Star Theatre, during Collette DuBois’s illusionist act, what appeared to be zombies broke into the theater and attacked the audience. Most of the shambling creatures chased the escaping audience out the theater’s back doors, but a few zombies stopped short to fight our heroes: Anna Mae, the intrepid anthropologist; Balthazar, the shell-shocked war…

  • School’s Out – Now What?

    School’s Out – Now What?

    Last night was the final session of the Roll20 ETU campaign we’ve been running since October 2017 (final blog post coming soon!). What’s next for the Roll20 Gang? Here’s a clue: That’s right, not content with exploring portals to alternate dimensions in ETU, the Roll20 Gang is headed for RIFTS Earth! But wait, there’s more… starting with…

  • Savage Malifaux Session 2: The Star Theatre

    Savage Malifaux Session 2: The Star Theatre

    Having made it to Malifaux at last, Anna Mae, Bal, Bernard, Providence, Zai, and the escaped convict Cesar (who is posing as the dead puppeteer, Vito Sessa) have been detained by the Guild for questioning about what happened to the other passengers on their train from Earth. As they wait, hot and irritated, Malifaux City…

  • Savage Malifaux Session 1: Into the Breach

      Roasting in the noonday sun, passengers gather at the train station in the fortified Guild outpost of Breachtown. First, they had to finagle permission to board the Iron Ram, the locomotive that carries people and supplies through the Breach from Earth to Malifaux; now, they shuffle slowly through the security line. When the red-and-grey-clad…

  • Savage Malifaux: Meet the Characters: One-Glove Bernard

    Savage Malifaux: Meet the Characters: One-Glove Bernard

    Character Name: “One-Glove” BernardPlayer: SteveProfession: Gremlin pugilist and aspiring rocketeer   Very few Gremlins have ever seen the blue skies of Earth, Gremlin-kind being in general banned from Earth (and most polite company), but Bernard has made the crossing many times. When Walt Mannic, dressed in his purple sequined tailcoat and top hat, encountered “One…

  • Savage Malifaux: Meet the Characters: Zai

    Savage Malifaux: Meet the Characters: Zai

    Character Name: ZaiPlayer Name: LaraProfession: Illusionist   She is the Incomprehensible Butterfly, Master of Prestidigitation, Virtuoso of Dreams, Sovereign of Your Reverie. When she struts into the spotlight, Zai’s mussed pageboy hair might be pink, purple, or indigo; her sinuous arms draped with fur stoles, or silk kimonos, or glittering chain mail, or bridal veils…

  • ETU Actual Play with the Roll20 Gang: Graduation Day

    ETU Actual Play with the Roll20 Gang: Graduation Day

    After their shared nightmare on Walpurgis Night, the students want nothing more than to bunker down and prepare for the Convergence (and ensuing demonic apocalypse). Unfortunately, instead of cleaning swords, firearms, and Zippo Lighters from Hell, they must smile and nod at their excited families, who are bubbling over with enthusiasm about graduation. After lunch,…

  • Savage Malifaux: Meet the Characters: Anna Mae Hawkins

    Savage Malifaux: Meet the Characters: Anna Mae Hawkins

    Player: LillieName: Anna Mae Hawkins​Profession: Anthropologist   Although short of stature, Anna Mae is a striking presence, with an elegant Gibson Girl hairstyle and a large pair of spectacles necessary for a life of squinting at footnotes in academic texts. The first woman in her family to attend college, Anna Mae studied anthropology at Bennett…

  • Savage Malifaux Meet the Characters: Providence McCoy

    Savage Malifaux Meet the Characters: Providence McCoy

    Player: BenName: Providence McCoyProfession: Mage, survivalist   Providence grew up in Australia, and her insatiable curiosity sent her running all around the continent, trekking from the urban areas of the Gold Coast, into the surrounding bush, and all the way out to the remotest stretches of the Outback, where, inspired by Aboriginal culture, she committed to…