After submitting the proposal for the Bengkel Permainan Lipur Lara untuk Pengajaran & Pembelajaran (TTRPGs in Teaching and Learning Workshop) programme, I organised the event and ran it for six participants today. I have organised a number of programmes for my colleagues before, but this was somewhat new as the […]
Continue readingTTRPGs At A Secondary School Next Month
The last time I contacted the secondary school SMS Tuanku Syed Putra was when we had the SCALLOP event a couple of years ago. Since then, I had been very busy with being course coordinator and my free time went out the window. That was among the reasons why the […]
Continue readingDelta Green: Sentinels of Twilight
SPOILERS for the scenario SENTINELS OF TWILIGHT now collected in the book Operation FULMINATE These notes were recovered on August 13, 2024, in a 5 year old thumb drive. Cooper – Dan Palmer – Doug Luna – Hisham Note: Originally, the scenario Sentinels of Twilight is part of the Operation […]
Continue readingDelta Green: Viscid
SPOILERS for the scenario VISCID now collected in the book A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. These notes were recovered on August 12, 2024. The medium on which the notes were transcribed has been classified TOP SECRET. Cooper – Dan Palmer – Doug Sale – Hisham From Caleb Sale’s journal: After […]
Continue readingWangsa Maju Nuptials
Last year, they came to visit us here. This weekend, we visited them in KL for a wedding celebration. We stayed overnight at Taman Melawati, not too far from the Tenth Floor — remember the Tenth Floor? We inspected all the new features of the area, a pronounced difference from […]
Continue readingCoordinating Courses and Such
Five semesters ago I was appointed as course coordinator for my English for General Communication course. I don’t think I ever announced it on the blog. I had to coordinate the every semester course which entails ensuring course slides are copacetic, the instructors in my team have optimal scheduling, manual […]
Continue readingIt’s Still Humans That Will Get You
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” – Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam Dune (1965), Frank Herbert
Continue readingTTRPG News Malaysia, May 2024
More TTRPG news! Besides the Star Wars Day Learn-to-Play and GM Star Wars RPG Workshop at Here Be Dragons My on May the Fourth, there are a couple of notable events that are happening in the world of Tabletop games in Kuala Lumpur in coming weeks. International Tabletop Day First […]
Continue readingForce and Destiny: Yet Another Senator’s Daughter Is Kidnapped?
Session Two actual play report from the Star Wars Day event at Here Be Dragons My. A team from Massassi Base on Yavin 4 consisting of Captain Pash (Smuggler), Lowhrrick (Wookiee Hired Gun), Imelda (Jedi Guardian), Dao (Jedi Mystic) & 41-VEX (Droid Colonist) is sent to Cloud City, on the […]
Continue readingAOR: It Could Have Easily Been A Hundred Anzellans Instead
Session One actual play report from the Star Wars Day event at Here Be Dragons My. The Pigeon Flaps In Zal Artha (Ace), Oskara (Bounty Hunter), Vendri (Spy but Wildlife Holographer), Tendaar (Engineer) and Narawan (Grey Jedi Guardian) travel to Mos Espa, Tatooine aboard their YT-1300 light freighter Decade Pigeon. […]
Continue readingStar Wars RPG on Star Wars Day 2024
“May the Fourth Be With You.” The wish can seen thrown around all over the place on the 4th of May every year among Star Wars fans. Likewise this year, friends on various social media platforms are wishing to and fro across the internet. Sometimes, I forget how much of […]
Continue readingDune RPG: To The Deep Desert
Last night, I ran Modiphius’ Dune RPG for the first time, as a one-shot, using the Wormsign quickstart scenario as an adventure template. To The Deep Desert Location: City of Arrakeen, Planet Arrakis.Time: 2 weeks before the official Atreides arrival, year 10,191 AG. “Given the right lever, you can move […]
Continue readingAidilfitri 2024
Eid Mubarak, everyone! It is now Hari Raya Aidlifitri once again, and we had another road trip to visit family. This year it was Sitiawan’s turn, so we went to KL first to visit Anya’s family and to check on Tok Ma’s ailing health. Two days before Raya, we headed […]
Continue readingSTA: Rescue at Anansi Aleph III
Star Trek Adventures One-shot: “Rescue at Anansi Aleph III” Yesterday, young Anya plays Commander Jewel Mochizuki, XO of the Walker-class USS Bangkok. Several more days of Ramadhan to go, and she just saw the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode “I Have No Bones, Yet I Must Scream”. So, she asked […]
Continue readingAn Unlikely Crossover in the Fire Caves
Once in a while, something really stupid and makes no sense bubbles up in your mind and you need to get it out into meatspace. Here it is: a crossover between Call of Cthulhu RPG and Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Just don’t ask me for Pah-wraith stats for […]
Continue readingSTA: The Neutral Zone Crossover
Star Trek: Emergency Deep S01E19 “The Neutral Zone Crossover” Dramatis Personae Capt Greg Ellison, Human-Deltan Commanding Officer (Dan) Dr Patrick Troughton, Human Chief Medical Officer (Doug) Cmdr Morpheus Drake, Human Executive Officer / Flight Officer (NPC) Lt Cmdr Galinha, Tamarian Chief Operations Officer (Ivan) Lt JG John Hippocampus, Beluga whale […]
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