June join my Cairn game you can learn another OSR for your upcoming master class on "How to win an OSR"

"The OSR is when you're someone who writes about TTRPGs and also you live in or lived in New Jersey" - Juniper

Being trapped under a glacier while the fascists close in is an inherently horrifying experience, yeah

One day I spent too much time looking thru Ice Planet sets on Bricklink and that night my nightmare was a full-on horror film that crossed Half-Life 1 with fleeing Hoth Station and Ice Planet 2002.
Anyway whenever you see a MoSh module from me set on a snowy planet know that it is 99% this theme

The little bjarty's shouting We're on a Break ate incredible

It's a Cataphract game that just started yesterday! Originally it was Tempest Cataphracts, which was a spin off of an in-game O/U joke about wargamers in the Officer Corps. You can join here! discord.gg/XfPPGDrNxN

I'm so hyped for this to come out

@sean.tuesdayknightgames.com made good graphs, actually

As a player I have no grudges! This was a PvP game and conflict was inevitable! As a character Asha will never forgive Adjudicator Jess Levine, and will try to kill her at some point in the future.

Jumping up from Denizen to Boss wasn't that much different. I had already been a part of "Strategic Command" since Choke Night. Biggest adjustment was the extreme rubber banding on getting Wargame moves processed. Sam is just one person, and oftentimes Bosses would have 24hrs of pending moves

Jumped on the chance to go to the Bratva Ball and that's where I really got a feel for the shadow war. Lots of shoulder rubbing, met a ton of other bosses and subbosses. From then on I had a solid footing on how to get an in with various bosses based on RP

By like Day 4 I had figured out how little I could do in the wargame without diving head first into RP. Sorted out pulling other players aside in private threads, making myself present in public scenes, building connections. It didn't go very far

I signed up on Day 1 with no plans. Ported in a character from an old Mothership one-shot. Signed on with Tempest because their starting pay was higher than Teamsters by a long shot. Good timing meant I was assigned as a Squad Lead day 1.

And the Predator handshake to boot!!

The true power of that saffron water

I loved seeing a new table and going "oh so I wasn't the only one listening in"

Fun Fact @basheerghouse.bsky.social was just running combat sims on paper before Weathervane was coded. The fact that it was so slow was the reason it got built in the first place.