Category: Actual Play
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Savage Malifaux: Meet the Characters: Anna Mae Hawkins
Player: LillieName: Anna Mae HawkinsProfession: 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…
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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…
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Savage Malifaux Session 0 – What is Malifaux?
Happy Monster Press and our local RPG group, the Salem Savages, welcome you to a new Savage Worlds adventure, a non-canonical adaptation of Malifaux. We’ll be playing fast and loose with settings and characters of Malifaux, the better to give the Salem Savages maximum flexibility in their choices and roleplaying, so if veering from canon annoys some…
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Savage Temeraire at Arisia 2019
It is 1798 and the French tyrant Napoleon Bonaparte is sailing an invasion fleet to the Eastern Mediterranean, hoping to wrest India (and its riches) from Britain. In pursuit of the French fleet, Admiral Nelson of Britain has a smaller fleet, with an eight-dragon support attachment. Varinia is one of the eight dragons, a middle-weight Yellow…
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Legion of Liberty at Arisia 2019
It is 1777, a turning point in the American Revolution. Despite help from the superhuman soldiers of the Legion of Liberty, George Washington’s surprise crossing of the Delaware and subsequent has failed and the general has been ignominiously captured. General Charles Lee, unpopular with the rank-and-file troops of the Continental Army, has taken over command…
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ETU Actual Play with the Roll20 Gang – Walpurgis Night
It is April 30th, Walpurgis Night. With graduation only days away, and with it, the Convergence, the ETU seniors, our heroes are on high alert, keeping weapons handy and a close eye on social media. They’ve been hearing about the Convergence all over the place – from ghosts, from scary cultists, and from the loner…
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Children of the Apocalypse at Arisia 2019
At the Greatschool of Peterborough, three heroes-in-training study combat, magic, and psionics – the fierce but compassionate Tannain warrior Argelia “Flu” Fluharty, the wealthy and arrogant psionics practitioner Miss Virginia Hill, and the ethereally-floaty-yet-heavily-armored Champion of Iset Fran Stern. When fellow Greatschool student Brianna Kling approaches them, one of her (four) arms is in a…
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Legion of Liberty Session 23
As Cornwallis continues the advance into North Carolina, Brigadier General Daniel Morgan has been raiding British supply lines with a large detachment of Washington’s Continental Army. To disrupt Morgan’s raids and protect the vulnerable supply of food and ammunition, Cornwallis dispatches headstrong Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his elite force of dragoons. Informed of Tarleton’s movements by loyalist defectors, Morgan invents a…
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Legion of Liberty Session 22
In 1780, the war for independence in the northern colonies is all but won; however, Lord Cornwallis‘ armies have won several victories in the south, with the help of Loyalist colonial militias. General Washington orders the Legionnaires, along with a detachment of Virginia calvary, to rendezvous with North Carolina militia in the backcountry and try to…
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ETU Actual Play with the Roll20 Gang – 12/12/18
Graduation is approaching for the ETU seniors, but their nearer-term concern is Walpurgis night, which this year falls near a full moon. As they prepare for possible chaos that evening, each receives a mysterious text asking them to meet on the nature trail west of campus… and then a follow-on text asking them to bring…