New Year, New Blog Post

 I'm back after a long blogging hiatus. The totally weird thing about this is that my last post on this blog was precisely a year and a day ago. Not the sort of posting schedule I anticipated, but alas, here we are.

I am actually going to be posting on this blog again (promises, promises. I know) because I am actually running a campaign. And this time? It's serious.

Well, the game isn't serious but I am serious about running the game. 

Yes, the rumors are true -- I have finished my hack of two hacks (and more than a dash of SWN) of the inestimable WEG Star Wars d6. The story of how this came to be stretches all the way back to the start of the pandemic, when we were all bored to tears and locked in our homes. I put out feelers for a Quarantine RPG to be run via Discord, with a poll for what kind of game/system to play. The winner was Star Wars and so I got to work.

I put a bunch of work into it before realizing it needed even more work, but the game was supposed to start, so we started playing with rules that were half my homebrew and half published Hyperspace d6 (see link above). It was wholly half-baked.

Eventually, it became too much for me to try to work on my rules while trying to prep the game on top of my workload as a law student. The game lasted but three sessions and after some more work that summer, was laid to rest. 

A month or so ago I started up again and managed to finish my ruleset to the extent RPG heartbreakers can be finished. Then I created a cluster of planets to use as a setting using the Minos Cluster from the OG WEG Star Wars "Tramp Freighters" supplement as a template. With character sheets updated to match the finished rules, I was ready to fulfill what I had set out to do oh so many moons before:

Run a fuckin' Star Wars campaign.

And so that's what I have done! We started last week with character creation and had our first session just this past Wednesday. A play report will be up shortly, as will the posting of my rules and thought process on coming up with the Kord Pria Cluster.

Baby's First Blog Post

First off, anyone reading this has Rise Up Comus to thank for encouraging me to start this blog. Complaints may be directed in the same general direction.

A Little About Me

I am VPofTucson on the OSR Discord channel. Surprise, surprise.

My first real, in-the-flesh exposure to tabletop RPGs was playing in a buddy's Only War campaign back in 2013. It lasted one whole session. The first hit is free, as they say, and after that I was hooked. I started up my own Only War campaign with half my high school's varsity football team and have been playing with the same group, more or less, since then.

We tried the other WH40k games, didn't really like them, and then branched out into Dungeon World. It was that point, circa 2016, where I ran headfirst into the OSR. I've stayed ever since.

So why get into screaming into the void now, after all this time? Mostly the reasons many others do:

• staying active in the hobby
• organizing my incoherent RPG thoughts
• hot takes
• following and discussing other hobbyists' work
• stroking my creative ego
• workshopping game design elements

What You Can Expect

Beyond whatever dumbass things pops into my head, I'm hoping to use this space to post updates on the creatively-bankrupt Lord of the Rings Knave hack I am working on. It will (eventually) be posted here. I would one day like to return to some of my half-baked and half-finished projects -- namely, a cut-down Star Wars d6, WH40k Dark Heresy noir sandbox, cyberpunk Tucson, and my dream game: a Pendragon-style game set in a mythic Pre-Columbian Arizona.

What You Cannot Expect

Consistency. More than one draft of anything I write or post. Coherent thoughts.