There was an official event at work today where I ran a tabletop RPG session for some colleagues online. It was an opportunity to show them how could RPGs work in the field of education. I thought for some time about the campaign and setting to play, then decided on the setting I keep running for my students, Doom Agents. […]
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I never leave home without Galaxy Guide 9: Fragments From the Rim
All the tabletop RPG actual play report write-ups on my blog over the years, from Star Wars RPG to Call of Cthulhu to Eclipse Phase to Night’s Black Agents to BareBones Fantasy to Doctor Who to The Laundry RPG. More to come in the future!
Note: All posts herein are arrayed latest first and earliest last.
Doom Agents: The Endau Rompin Rescue (Instance B)
It’s the final week of the semester and I was able to run a game session each for two different classes. This was the second of the two. Click here for the first class. Freeform Universal: Doom Agents (PPIPT5) It is two years after the Brazilian mission. 10th June 2019: Another Doom Agent team is sent to the Endau-Rompin National […]
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Doom Agents: The Endau Rompin Rescue (Instance A)
It’s the final week of the semester and I was able to run a game session each for two different classes. This was the first of the two. Click here for the second class. Freeform Universal: Doom Agents (IKOM3) What happened to the last Doom Agents team that left on the Brazilian mission. What happened to them, we might never […]
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Year Zero Engine: Guardians of Magic
I was not able to do it last year, but I thought I would run a tabletop RPG for my Theatre Arts students this year. Last Saturday, I invited them all to Discord and I gave them a briefing on how to play the game. For this online session I chose Free League’s Year Zero Engine as my system of […]
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The Expanse RPG: Escape From Ganymede
Scheherezade Tales continues with Kazuo Khan played by Irfan incarcerated overnight in a Star Helix jail in the twin-domed colony of Uruk Junction on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede after acquiring information on his missing sister Jirou Khan and tangling with an assailant in a full-body, black combat gear. Meanwhile, the crew of the Keris Gangsa, Captain Furaha Ding, pilot Batbayar Gray […]
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STA: Plato’s Cave, Part 1
Star Trek: Thine Own Self S1 E06 Plato’s Cave, Part 1 *** Stardate: 57080.1 – Tue Sep 02 2380 01:43:36 GMT+0800 (Malaysia Time) Starfleet Dramatis Personae Lt. Kodar Tamat, Cardassian engineering officer and mission commander Lt. J.G. Simon Cañete, Human security officer Lt. Cmdr. Jora Mungar, Trill conn officer Ensign Sparik, Vulcan conn officer (NPC) Last time on Star Trek […]
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Delta Green: Chicago Hopeless
We began a new campaign on Discord and Foundry VTT. This time it’s Delta Green, gamemastered by Ivan. Delta Green is a game of conspiracy of Lovecraftian proportions set in the modern age, and published by Arc Dream Publishing. It uses a variation of Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying System for Call of Cthulhu. This was the second time I played it. […]
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STA: Echoes of the Past
Star Trek: Thine Own Self S01 E05 Echoes of the Past *** Stardate 57079.9 – Mon Sep 01 2380 23:49:02 GMT+0800 (Malaysia Time) Starfleet Dramatis Personae Lt. Kodar Tamat, Cardassian engineering officer and mission commander Lt. J.G. Simon Cañete, Human security officer Lt. Cmdr. Jora Mungar, Trill conn officer Ensign Sparik, Vulcan conn officer (NPC) Last time on Star Trek […]
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The Expanse RPG: Sister Moon
The Expanse 05 Sister Moon Last time on Scheherezade Tales… Kazuo Khan, Detective of Scheherezade Safety and Security Concern (S3C) of asteroid colony 643 Scheherezade a.k.a. Zadi was authorised to be transferred from the settlement to Keris Gangsa, the asteroid’s only armed patrol boat for a trip to Ganymede. His old friend Captain Furaha Ding was the commander of the […]
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STA: The Shadow Passage
Star Trek: Thine Own Self S01 E04 The Shadow Passage *** Stardate 57079.8 – Mon Sep 01 2380 22:51:45 GMT+0800 (Malaysia Time) Starfleet Dramatis Personae Lt. Cmdr. Jora Mungar, Trill conn officer Lt. Ekwueme Marwan, human engineering officer (NPC) Commander Kavitha Rajakumar, human command officer (NPC) NIGHT FLIGHT STARDATE 57072.3. Elsewhere: as Lt. Kodar Tamat, Lt. JG Simon Cañete and Ensign […]
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STA: A Stitch in Time
Star Trek: Thine Own Self S01 E03 A Stitch in Time *** STARDATE 57079.7 – Mon Sep 01 2380 21:54:29 GMT+0800 (Malaysia Time) CAPTAIN’S LOG, STARDATE: 57079.7. AFTER FENDING OFF THE SS RAFFLESIA FROM A PIRATE SHIP, WE HAVE RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM CAPTAIN SEIDOV THAT THEY SPOTTED THE MISSING USS NAIROBI AT DELTA MELPOMENE 5 TWO DAYS AGO, ABOUT TO […]
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STA: Search and Rescue
Star Trek: Thine Own Self S1 E02 Search and Rescue *** Stardate 57079.1 – Mon Sep 01 2380 16:10:48 GMT+0800 (Malaysia Time) Captain’s Log, USS Sienkiewicz. Stardate: 57079.1. We have been sent to the Melpomene Sector to search for the missing USS Nairobi, a New Orleans class Federation starship. We have a number of clues to our advantage. The cargo […]
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STA: Encounter at Volor III
Star Trek: Thine Own Self S01 E01 Encounter at Volor III *** Stardate 57048.16 – Wed Aug 20 2380 08:52:00 GMT+0800 (Malaysia Time) Captain’s Log USS Sienkiewicz. Stardate 57048.16. Captain Vosgal Toor reporting. Starfleet has assigned the Sienkiewicz to help with a science station on the craggy mountains on the planet Volor III. The Volor system is located at the […]
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Coriolis RPG: A Peaceful Drive In The Countryside
Coriolis RPG 05 A Peaceful Drive in the Countryside Last week, the crew of the Prosperous Cheetah tracked a missing archaeologist and retrieved a stolen artefact. They found the First Idol of the Dancer hidden on a bridge in the Coriolis Promenade. Suddenly, the person who hired them appeared… Dramatis Personae Omar Kayyam – captain and leader of the crew […]
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The Expanse RPG: Voyage into the Dark
The Expanse 04 Voyage Into The Dark Last time on Scheherezade Tales… Caught in a stand-off between two criminal gangs in an abandoned Archean Biotechnology palmyra palm orchard, Detective Kazuo Khan of S3C discovered that an external and invisible hand was working silently in the background. It had allowed infiltrators to sneak onto Zadi for secret operations that Kazuo had […]
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Coriolis RPG: An Abridged Firefight
Coriolis RPG 04 An Abridged Firefight Last week, the crew of the Prosperous Cheetah tracked a missing archaeologist and retrieved a stolen artefact. They found the First Idol of the Dancer hidden on a bridge in the Coriolis Promenade. Suddenly, the person who hired them appeared… Dramatis Personae Omar Kayyam – captain and leader of the crew (Chang) Ramsis – […]
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