Actual Play

We’ve been playing Nobilis for some time now. It is a campaign, led by me, about the diplomacy between Heaven and Hell. The players have two sets of characters: one working for Heaven and one working for Hell. This being a somewhat typical game of Nobilis the characters are Powers, being bossed around by angels, one of which happens to be fallen. Typically a session has consisted of either the Powers of Heaven or the Powers of Hell running errands for their demanding angel-bosses, in a recurring cycle of trying to gain the upper hand for the negotiations. I designed the first four sessions as a prelude to the actual negotiations, and last week we played the negotiations. ...

Remember that game of Shadowrun I mentioned before? It died after some three playing sessions. However, it had too much potential & time spent on creating the ideas behind it to go to waste, so we decided to have another go at it, with a different GM. The basic idea is that each character has a single theme related to activism, with social activism and environmentalism being the main topics. As the antagonist we have the all-powerful & ever-present corporations which symbolise all that is wrong with the world of 2070: pollution, inequality, social instability, racism etc. What brings the characters together is the common goal of breaking away from the flawed society and creating an utopia somewhere where the evil companies can’t touch them. What is still left to be seen is how they intend to do this in practice - it is quite possible that it won’t happen at all. Regardless, it will be (and to some extent has been) an interesting chance of looking at society and how it is changed, through the medium of role-play. ...

We’ve played Mike Pohjola’s new game Tähti (Star) for a few times. ...

We’ve started a new role-playing game, with an interesting subject. It’s a game of Shadowrun, ...