SGA 2007 Archive

The following SGA games are planned in 2007:

Faery's Tale

Game System

Faery's Tale

Pitch

Game Master

Cain Young

Players

Characters

Date

February 19(?), 2007

Technical Notes

Recaps

Player Thoughts

Additional GM Thoughts

Roanoke

Game System

Wushu: Roanoke

Pitch

1587: A small group of English colonists establish a settlement on Roanoke Island

1590: The colony is found completely abandoned with no trace of the colonists.

What happened? Find out!

Game Master

Edmund Metheny

Players

Characters

Date

February 5 & 12, 2007

Technical Notes

Recaps

Player Thoughts

Additional GM Thoughts

Savage Lorax

Game System

Savage Worlds

Pitch

In the land of the Lorax
Where the Truffula grows
Sits the greedy old Once-ler
And his band of fellows

His business is the Thneed
A right ridiculous thing
It makes him so wealthy
He's nigh near a king!

But the Thneeds are a problem
For the Truffula woods
Because they waste all the Truffula tufts
For the sake of consumer goods!

But that's not all
The old Once-ler perpetrates
No, he's a right robber baron
Who's put us in dire straits!

He catches the Swomee-Swans
And bakes them with honey
He skins the brown Bar-ba-loots
And tans their hides for money

He fries up the Humming-fish
And serves them will dill
There is no creature, that for a few coins
He will not cheerfully kill

He chops down the trees
The woods he will exhaust
Until the landscape becomes
A de-Truffula'd holocaust

Will you do something about it?
Will you fight for our cause?
Will you help the Lorax
Undo Once-ler's faux pas?

Will you help stop his factories?
Will you help stop his axes?
Will you gum up his operations
Tap his whisper-ma-phone? Read his faxes?

Make no delay!
Now you've heard the pitch!
Turn right at Weehawken!
Sharp left at North Nitch!

Together we can stop him!
We must act today!
For if we don't, my friends
The Lorax will be lifted away!

And then it will be too late.

...

I've been playing around with the Savage Worlds book (Thanks Ed & Sophie), and I'd like make a Savage Worlds Lorax game, for two nights in January, if anyone's up to it.

The setting:

Truffula Woods near the headquarters of Once-ler, Inc. Old Once-ler is busy chopping down Truffula Trees for their tufts to make the latest consumer product fad: The Thneed. "You need a Thneed"

The problem:

Between the industrial smog, the toxic sludge and cutting down the trees, he's killing off the critters that live there: Brown Bar-ba-loots, Swommee Swans, and Humming Fish. And to make matters worse, he's catching the critters, skinning and cooking them, and selling them for profit!

The solution:

The Lorax, who speaks for the trees (for the trees have no tongues), is taking matters into his own hands. He's recruiting a band of brave heroes to go toe-to-stocking with Once-ler and his cronies, and put an end to his nefarious practices once and for all!

Game Master

Mark Walters

Players

7

Characters

Cara Pace - Yertle (Laura)

Marvin MacMalapert - Star-bellied-sneech (Ed)

Frolicia Fay O'Friskle - Brown Bar-ba-loot (Sophie)

Sam I Am - Who (Cain)

Pequod Picaroon the Pirate - Humming Fish (Kevin)

Fokker McScud - Swomee Swan (Taylor)

Cindy Lou Who - Who (Meg)

Date

January 22 & 29, 2007

Technical Notes

Players will be able to choose a race to play, either Bar-ba-loot, Humming Fish, Swommee Swan, Star-Bellied-Sneech, Who, or Yertle.

Recaps

Player Thoughts

Additional GM Thoughts

The Terror of the Polywumpus

Game System

Homebrew

Pitch

Gather round young'uns and listen to me tale, the tale of mutants and science gone wrong. Up the river from here is the Hanford Nuclear Plant, where they made the atomic bomb and other devices of nuclear devastation!

In the early days of Hanford, they were nay concerned with the toxic waste they created and much of it was dumped into a leach pond. Into this pond some ducks settled, but most died horribly from the radiation.

But two of these ducks survived and mated. They laid a clutch of eggs, eggs that glowed at night. All but one of these eggs failed, but the last one, it hatched an abomination. It hatched the monster known as the…

Polywampus!

This foul beast was nay a duck, but a throwback to great beasts that once roamed the Earth's prehistory! It was born hungry and it et it's parents, then anything else it could corner: Jack rabbits, coyotes, and other critters. It grew and grew to an enormous size, bigger than a Clydesdale! It's bill is lined with sharp pointed teeth, and it's body is covered with green and brown feathers.

It can chase you into the Columbia river and hunt you down, it can climb the sides of the valley snap your legs off! It can run faster than you can, and it will eat you whole! The only warning you'll get is it's cry:

Wauuugh! Wauuugh!

You hear that lads, it's too late…

Wauuugh!

What's that? Did you make that noise?

Wauuugh! **Thoom** **Thoom**

It canna be!

WAUUGH!

It's the Polywampus! Run! Run! Aieeee!

**CRUNCH**

You're a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout, and a giant, mutant Duck Monster just ate your Scout Leader. Can you defeat the Polywampus?

Game Master

John Reiher

Players

6

Characters

Date

January 20, 2007

Technical Notes

This is also a playtest of my new RPG rules, so it's double the fun and double the pleasure. There's room for 6 players of all ages, and you'll be creating your characters at the game, just remember, they are kids, between 10 and 15 years old, out in the great outdoors!

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Player Thoughts

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Dungeon & Savages

Game System

Savage Worlds

Pitch

I'm thinking of setting up the Savage Village of Hommlet for the New Year. That float anyone's boat?

Game Master

Johnzo

Players

6

Characters

Longrin, the human paladin (Mark Walters)

Mykk the half-Orc fighter (Edmund Metheny)

Half-Elf ranger (Laura)

Elf bard (Sophie)

Sianica, human thief

Gnome thief/magic user

Dwarf Cleric

Half-Orc wizard

Halfling druid

Human monk

Date

January 8 & 15, 2007

Technical Notes

Recaps

Player Thoughts

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