SGA 2003 Archive

The following SGA games took place in 2003:

It Came From The Desert

Game System

Savage Worlds

Pitch

The 4-H club has taken it upon itself to ensure that America's children experience the blessed rugged heart of America: the Rockies. For a week, you've tromped around the mountains with a posse of kids, seeing the spring waterfalls and the mountain goats and the bright, bright mountain stars. Now, you're exhausted, and it's time to get home.

Home is Sweet Creek, Colorado, population 1043, which is, as the sign says, "the Pumpkin Capital of the Foothills." Sweet Creek is an All-American town. It's the home of test pilot Buck Drinkwalter and the boxer Harold "Wide Mouth" Mason, and the A-league Sweet Creek Sweets.

But alas, trouble struck on the road. The five of you -- the cheerleader, the nerd, the reporter, the social studies teacher, and the delinquent*--were riding in the teacher's Jeep when it blew out a tire. The spare was flat, and Mr. James in the school bus didn't seem to notice that you weren't behind him anymore. You had to walk fifteen miles to the next town to get a tow and a new tire, and that was this morning. What should have been a four-hour ride home has taken all day.

Now, it's after suppertime, getting close to dark, when you round the last hill before Sweet Creek and see....

Game Master

Johnzo

Players

Wilhelm, Alan B., and others.

Characters

Alan B. had the teacher. I believe Wil had a reporter.

Date

Monday, Sept. 15, 2003 in Cardhaus' sweaty back room.

Technical Notes

This was all miniatures on whiteboards. The bugs were purchased at Archie McPhee's. I had ants and spiders and honeybees and locusts.

Recaps

The bugs attacked while the flat was half-changed. There was a bridge involved. Weapons were improvised from a high-school chem lab. At one point, the bugs tore a rag top off a car and feasted on the soft, chewy innards.

Player Thoughts

Additional GM Thoughts

TORG

Game System

Pitch

Anybody up for Monday TORG?

There'll be jungle mist, monster trucks, one of those big firefighting seaplanes, dinosaurs, a mountain lake hideaway, an Egyptian megalomaniac, ticking bombs, shootouts, swordfights, and, provisionally, syphillis.

Characters will be provided. All you need bring is a d20.

Syphilis? I have no goddamn idea what I was thinking when I sent this out.

Game Master

Johnzo

Players

Laura, Matt Wilson, and others.

Characters

A bunch of templated guys. I remember there was a lizardman and a mountie. Maybe a wizard too.

Date

Monday, May 19, 2003

Technical Notes

Recaps

There wasn't much to this scenario. It was just a tryout of the rules with several combat scenes, seeing how the oddball cards worked, etc. The rules seemed to work fine.

The only concrete thing I remember was that the lizardman came with a minigun that did completely ridiculous damage--it sawed a tyranosaur in half with one shot. Plus there was a helicopter shootdown too.

Player Thoughts

Additional GM Thoughts

Torg had long been a bridesmaid game of mine so it was fun to try it out. Maybe TORG in 2006?

Riddle of Steel

Game System

Riddle of Steel

Pitch

Game Master

Alan Barclay

Players

Characters

Date

January 20, 2003

Technical Notes

Recaps

10 folks made it out for the evening... Alan ran "Riddle of Steel". Kevin ran "All Flesh Must Be Eaten" (zombie game).

Player Thoughts

Additional GM Thoughts

FREEDOM, WVa

Game System

All Flesh Must Be Eaten

Pitch

Game Master

Kevin Perrine

Players/Characters (aka. "our cast")

Dimitri: russian college friend / scientist.

Virgil: Tim's long lost brother and notorious Biker.

Forest: college buddy, now Tree Hugger type.

Calvin: 15 yr old Goth kid, taking pictures of the dying Tim.

Edgar: Youth Pastor and guitar playing friend to Tim.

Sara: childhood friend, now police officer.

Date

January 20, 2003

Technical Notes

Recaps

10 folks made it out for the evening... Alan ran "Riddle of Steel". Kevin ran "All Flesh Must Be Eaten" (zombie game).

Player Thoughts

Additional GM Thoughts

6 folks had planned to play "All Flesh" for the evening. I handed out templates to choose from and we got the game rolling...

The mandatory piece for the evening was to come up with your connection to one: Timmy Coffin... our dying friend, who we were all coming into town for one last HURRAH to celebrate. The Town... a little place we like to call - "Freedom, WVa".

Some key things I wanted to mention:

• I planned just too much, and missed some stuff but I don't think it effected the game so much. I tried using "bullet counters" for the players and I kept all the life points for the characters to add some dramatics to injuries taken...
• the players get a standing ovation from me... you guys did EXCELLENT! And Will - your girlfriend (forgot her name again damnit!) was incredible for not playing RPGs.
• My Favorite Quote: "I'm kicking Zombie Ass in the name of the LORD!"
• My favorite character Moment: tie between - Dimitri shot off the top of the police car into the store window and all that followed or Calvin using one of those pointy things you put checks on in restaurants to impale the Zombie Mr. Whipple's brain!!
• My favorite NPC Moment: that poor little Zombie boy with teddy bear in his footy pajamas...
• I was thinking of sharing my "preperation notes" if anyone is interested in talking about GMing and how you prepare for games, and show mine as an example. Anyone interested?

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