If there’s one thing you should know by now from playing Star Wars video games and watching Star Wars movies, it’s that everything revolves around the Death Star and its plans. When Lucas said the movie was about the droids, he was counting the Death Star as one big droid. Now the post-Lucas drones are making…
Real life isn’t all about destroying the lich king’s phylactery or blowing up the Matrix. If you’re looking for an evening of pure roleplaying with your gaming group, try giving them nothing to do with one of these pointless adventure hooks. Fantasy UNICORN DEAL: Reports of a unicorn in a nearby forest excite local townspeople,…
It’s 1993. Yo! MTV Raps is still on the air, Kurt Cobain is battling his own and sundry other demons in Texas, and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes is up to her eye black in Tonies. Halfway across the world, in the desolate Burrekh Mountains of Turkmenistan, Compton-based rapper Eazy-E and his faithful companion Station have…
The year is 1993. Kurt Cobain is off in the desert looking in his heart-shaped box and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes is doing some Tone-policing back in the USA. Meanwhile, Eazy-E and Station have traveled to Egypt to investigate a crashed Arcturian meteor, only to find the meteor has gone missing. Clues seem to suggest…
The year is 1993. Kurt Cobain is drinking ayahuasca in the desert and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes is getting Toned up. Compton-based troubadour Eazy-E is joined by the flute-playing horror Station on an expedition to investigate a meteor that has crashed in Egypt. When the meteor goes missing and a strange assassin strikes, E and his…
Listen up, chummers! Hot on the heels of our look at the art and style of the original Shadowrun, Steve has put together some of his favorite Seattle plot hooks from years of running the shadows. Use these to drop into any Shadowrun campaign for a quick adventure or expand on them and build an…
The year is 2050. William Gibson is rolling over in his grave. It is the dark cyberpunk future. Dragons, elves, orcs, and other fantasy creatures have appeared on the earth and changed it forever. Corporations rule the cities and there are deckers using the Matrix to hack some credsticks, chummer. Also, for some reason, Native Americans have…
The year is 1993. Eazy-E is somewhere in Egypt with Station investigating a meteor and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes is blasting a flamethrower at Tony Toni Tone. Kurt Cobain drank ayahuasca, met his dead fetus spirit animal, experienced a dire prophecy, and was stabbed and left for dead in the desert. Fueled by revenge, Kurt…
The year is still 1993. Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes is about to discover the Tone Out of Space, Eazy-E and Station are in Egypt investigating a meteor, and Kurt Cobain has gone missing. But has he really gone missing or is he finding himself? Struggling with the double nightmares of fame and mythos knowledge, Cobain…
Rifts: Chaos Earth is a 2003 offshoot of Palladium’s Rifts Megaverse setting. It takes place right after the rifts appeared all over the earth and players become involved in the ensuing chaos of monsters and magic overrunning the planet. The point of the release seemed to be to make Rifts more palatable for those lame…