This video looks at how to make some barbed wire to use as terrain for Neal Litherland’s Army Men, using cardboard, cocktail sticks, paint and wire.
Monthly Archives: April 2024
D4: The Strange Rumours – Recursions: Cataclyst
The Strange is a game published by Monte Cook Games. It is, at least in part, set in the normal world, but there are other worlds out there, in the Strange. This list has four rumours for that setting, similar to the various different adventure hooks in the books, and these can be used as adventure hooks or simple misinformation.
- Cataclyst is a recursion that is a nuclear wasteland following the attempts by fledgling AIs to consolidate their minds and protect themselves. It’s rumoured that there are some from outside the recursion, with Ruk and Earth being the most likely, who are seeking to find some of the AIs and take them back to their own realm.
- Edgerina the Sunspot is a salvager in Newk on Cataclyst who has gained many powerful enemies over the years due to her eradicating those who might waken sleeping threats in the ruins. It’s said that those enemies are combining their resources to put a truly enormous price on the Sunspot’s head, one that would draw bounty hunters from far and wide, seeking to claim it.
- Newk is a town in Cataclyst where survivors scavenge the ruin beyond known as Doomstreets. There are various dangers in Doomstreets, including killer robots, and it’s rumoured that some of these robots, should anyone be foolish enough to disturb them, will pursue whoever does so until they are dead or the robot is destroyed, no matter where the person might go.
- Various groups are said to have set up outposts on Cataclyst to study the strange technology of the recursion in comparative safety. The presumed aim of such is probably to discover technology that can be viably used outside of the recursion.
100 Things to Find in a Ruin, 100 Encounters for Fantasy Oceans (Black Spear) and 100 Knick-knacks for Hollowfaust Now Available
100 Things to Find in a Ruin, 100 Encounters for Fantasy Oceans (Black Spear) and 100 Knick-knacks for Hollowfaust are now available to buy on DriveThruRPG.
Ruins can be encountered and just because they are ruined doesn’t mean they are empty. 100 Things to Find in a Ruin has 100 things to encounter in a ruin, from signs of other creatures to magical effects.
Seas and oceans can be dangerous places and 100 Encounters for Fantasy Oceans (Black Spear) has 100 encounters for characters to have on them. This is a conversion of the original supplement. You do not need both versions.
100 Knick-knacks for Hollowfaust has 100 minor items that could be found instead of trinkets or in an NPCs possession, all connected to Hollowfaust in some way.
Tabletop Mercenary Episode 9: Ideas Are Worthless
In this video, Neal Litherland talks about how ideas, just as ideas and without development, are worthless.
JunkDrive #1: Expanded Cover-Jacket Tables for CY_BORG Now Aavilable
JunkDrive #1: Expanded Cover-Jacket Tables for CY_BORG is now available to buy from DriveThruRPG.
Published by Sad Fishe Game, this is a supplement to which we have contributed and it contains expanded tables for CY_BORG.
The Polarity of Magnets Can Matter When Crafting
A Short explaining that when using regular magnets when crafting, you need to account for polarity, but not when using magnetic sheets.
D10: Night City Rumours – Charter Hill
10 Hooks and Rumours for Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0.’s Night City
This list has ten hooks and rumours that can be heard in or about the Charter Hill district of Night City. Whether or not they are true is up to the GameMaster. They can be used as background colour or as potential adventure hooks.
- Andrew Scythe, the head of security for the Hacienda, is said to be looking to hire some people on a temporary basis. There’s a rumour that he’s become concerned that some of his staff have been compromised in some way, and that he’s hiring outside contractors to investigate the matter.
- Hydrosubsidium in Charter Hill is known to be conducting operations in the Del Coronado Trench to the east of Night City. There are rumours that the company has suffered incidents in these operations, with some claiming that these are the result of sabotage, others that they are due to the dangerous nature of whatever the company is up to.
- It’s said that there was a strange break-in at the Darkwood Apartments in Charter Hill. Rumour has it that unknown individuals broke into the building, but didn’t break into any of the apartments, even though, given the nature of the tenants, there would be a decent amount of valuables to hand. It’s not known just where the intruders went when they got inside.
- Shaito Imports in Charter Hill imports and sells many goods from the Far East, and it’s rumoured that not all of what they import is entirely legal. No-one seems to know what else they might be importing, or where they might be selling such, though.
- Some of the businesses in the Wyman Building in Charter Hill are said to be merely front companies whose sole purpose is to launder cash for criminals. It’s also rumoured that the entire building is such a front, and this is why the owners are not exactly bothered about money laundering going on within it, because they get a piece of the action.
- Synop-Tel in Charter Hill is a small company that researches telecommunications advances, and stays in business by licensing what it invents and develops to larger companies. It’s rumoured that one of their customers is trying to pressure the company into being bought up by threatening to take their custom elsewhere.
- The Hacienda in Charter Hill is Night City’s famous hotel-casino, and the only one of its type in the city. It used to have a gang problem, but the professional security force set up has ended that. It’s rumoured that the Hacienda’s security is very pro-active too; think about going after the place and they will end you before you try.
- The Night City Hilton in Charter Hill is rumoured to be the hideout of several well-known solos. There are also rumours that these solos pay the local management well to ensure that they are not bothered and for certain unfortunate side-effects of people coming after them to be discretely disposed of.
- The Richard Night Memorial Aquarium in Charter Hill is funded by various corporations, in return for tax write-offs, and it’s rumoured that the companies have found other ways of making the place pay as well, through sea life that is kept there from which useful compounds can be extracted.
- There’s a rumour that the Hacienda in Charter Hill has been hit recently by some people successfully managing to scam the games. It’s thought that, if this is true, that whoever is responsible must have broken through the Hacienda’s security to gain access to the casino’s systems.
Want some general cyberpunk rumours? Check out 100 Cyber City Rumours.
D10: Night City Rumours – Charter Hill is unofficial content provided under the Homebrew Content Policy of R. Talsorian Games and is not approved or endorsed by RTG. This content references materials that are the property of R. Talsorian Games and its licensees.
World’s Oldest Profession: 100 Courtesans and Concubines, 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Blight: BookTown (Lost Lands) and 100 Ashenforged for Esper Genesis Now Available
World’s Oldest Profession: 100 Courtesans and Concubines, 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Blight: BookTown (Lost Lands) and 100 Ashenforged for Esper Genesis are now available to buy on DriveThruRPG.
Characters may encounter courtesans and concubines in a fantasy setting and World’s Oldest Profession: 100 Courtesans and Concubines has 100 such to meet. They can be used as chance encounters and often as potential adventure hooks.
When asking around for information, characters may hear rumours, and 100 Hooks and Rumours for the Blight: BookTown (Lost Lands) has 100 such related to BookTown in Castorhage. They can be used as background colour, misinformation and adventure hooks.
100 Ashenforged for Esper Genesis has 100 ashenforged for characters to encounter. Each is named and briefly has its main interest described. They can be used as friends, foes or simply passers-by.
Discussions of Darkness Episode 24: Decide on The Scale of Your Chronicle
In this video, Neal Litherland talks about setting a scale of a Chronicle in the World of Darkness.
d66 Dockside Encounters – PFRPG Now Available
d66 Dockside Encounters – PFRPG is now available to buy from DriveThruRPG.
Published by Sad Fishe Game, this is a supplement to which we have contributed and it contains 36 Pathfinder compatible dockside encounters.