Reports are emerging from Los Angeles of advance planning for a series of ops at the end of May, code name: Operation Angel Basin. Initial reports were sparse: Operation Angel Basin is a series of linked missions set in a neon and chrome cyberpunk Sprawl. In this setup session we will collaboratively create the Sprawl …
Category: Games
Apr 05
CyberKittens: Project Bakeneko
INCOMING INTEL // Project Bakeneko // Run report.. Their first mistake was to think they could tame the soul of a cat. Their second mistake was to imagine they could improve it. Their third mistake was to believe what they were experimenting on were still cats. Their last mistake was not quite closing the cage …
Mar 04
Operations.. Wave Front // Fire Breath
INCOMING INTEL // OPERATION WAVE FRONT // Run report.. The main white-on-black PDF was released in the last week of February In progress right now are more PDF versions: a full colour version of the game rules with black text on a white background (still intended to be read on a screen, but for those who …
Aug 06
Operation Indianapolis: The Sprawl at Gen Con
I offered The Sprawl and Dungeon World in the Games on Demand room at Gen Con. Players chose The Sprawl in seven of those sessions and I ran a private game for a backer. That added up to 31 seats (30 unique players—uncluding some of you!) over eight runs of my 2-hour con scenario, The …
Jul 09
Three Tight Jams
As I noted in a (backer only) Kickstarter update, I was at Origins last month. I ran three games of The Sprawl in Games on Demand for players including external playtesters, backers, and interested people who missed the kickstarter. I ran the same mission three times, The Bogatyrev Jam, a hostile extraction of a mobile …
Dec 20
Move Cull: Obligations
There are a lot of moves in The Sprawl. I’m in the process of revising and streamlining them. Currently in my sights is Obligations/Hit The Street. This is tricky because there are a lot of flow on effects, especially for the Hunter and Fixer. Obligations basically has two effects: (1) signposting the potential for Contacts …
Oct 01
Character Creation // Step 8
If you’ve read the Kickstarter Preview [Link accessible for backers only] of The Sprawl, you may have noticed a big highlighted heading, “Extended Chargen Example”, at the end of Chapter 3: Making a Character. Over the next week or two, I will post sections from this extended example. If there’s some aspect of the process …
Sep 30
Character Creation // Steps 6 & 7
If you’ve read the Kickstarter Preview [Link accessible for backers only] of The Sprawl, you may have noticed a big highlighted heading, “Extended Chargen Example”, at the end of Chapter 3: Making a Character. Over the next week or two, I will post sections from this extended example. If there’s some aspect of the process …
Sep 22
Character Creation // Steps 3 & 4
If you’ve read the Kickstarter Preview [Link accessible for backers only] of The Sprawl, you may have noticed a big highlighted heading, “Extended Chargen Example”, at the end of Chapter 3: Making a Character. Over the next week or two, I will post sections from this extended example. If there’s some aspect of the process …
Sep 11
Character Creation // Steps 1 & 2
If you’ve read the Kickstarter Preview [Link accessible for backers only] of The Sprawl, you may have noticed a big highlighted heading, “Extended Chargen Example”, at the end of Chapter 3: Making a Character. Over the next week or two, I will post sections from this extended example. If there’s some aspect of the process …