[The following creature is from a nightmare I had. Enjoy.] The tatou is a vicious apex predator typically found in swamplands or jungles. Resembling a horrid combination of snapping turtle, salamander, and armadillo the tatou has heavily armored plate-like skin that is resistant to small arms fire and all but immune to most melee weapons. […]
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The Night-Dimmed Day – Part II – Game Session 1
July 3rd 2000, Monday 10:00 am Undisclosed Island in Michigan Lake After a good night’s rest the PC’s reassemble in the mess hall. Jonathan, unable to deal with the ‘fifth-rate food’ disappears into the back of the mess and begins to systematically take over the kitchen. The smell of the newly prepared cuisine draws in […]
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Shan’tacs are huge, elephantine horse-headed beasts with long sinuous necks and vague bat-like wings. They tend to lair in cold places with lots of caves or darkness (thus accounting for their rime encrusted wings). Shan’tacs and Nightgaunts are natural enemies and always fight if the two find themselves in the same area as the other. […]
Continue readingTriple Threat: Guggie
Guggies are huge, hairy giants with a vertically split mouth and long spindly arms like that of an orangutan ending with four hands (two on each arm) instead of the regular two. The gods have banished the Guggies to the Netherworld for the performance of horrific rituals. Guggies will happily eat any strangers they encounter, […]
Continue readingThe Night-Dimmed Day – Part I – Game Session 4
July 2nd 2000, Sunday Gelar Ohanzee & Hachiko Koga (Part I) 9:00 pm Undisclosed Island in Michigan Lake Gelar and Hachiko are both briefed by Commander Islington. [Neither of the players for these characters showed up and were thus moved into the ‘background’ for this game session] Sergei Romanova (Part I) 9:00 pm Undisclosed Island […]
Continue readingTriple Threat: Wamps
Obscene scavengers haunting dead cities and other abandoned places, wamps have pale, vaguely egg-shaped bodies and nine swaying, web-footed leg/arms. The ‘head’ is eyeless and mouthless, with sharp-edged ears and multiple ‘nose’ organs. It has four eyes, one on each of four different limbs, with four mouths, also on four different limbs. It has a […]
Continue readingTriple Threat: Yar! There Be Monsters
I’ve been considering adding some extra resources to my blog for GURPS Gamemasters for some time. Since most of the things I create in my campaign end up as a part of a GURPS book or article somewhere I don’t usually post a lot of my game ‘stuff’ online (why give the milk away for […]
Continue readingThe Night-Dimmed Day – Part I – Game Session 3
July 2nd 2000, Sunday Angelique Ashur, Alex Hamilton, Gelar Ohanzee, Hachiko Koga, & Sergei Romanova (Part I) 12:00 pm Skokie Highway Mile-marker 30 Still patching people up Angelique, assuming the role of de facto leader, gives everyone twenty minutes before they move out of their current camp at the abandoned rest stop. Having nearly drained […]
Continue readingThe Night-Dimmed Day – Part I – Game Session 2
July 2nd 2000, Sunday Angelique Ashur, Alex Hamilton, Gelar Ohanzee, Hachiko Koga, & Sergei Romanova (Part I) 8:45 am Skokie Highway Mile-marker 17 The Old Man tries getting the Ford F-350 working but somehow manages to catch the engine block on fire. Putting it out quickly he along with Hachiko get the vehicle working again […]
Continue readingThe Night-Dimmed Day – Part I – Game Session 1
Then July 2nd 2000, Sunday Sergei Romanova (Part I) 7:25 am 3120 22nd Place, North Chicago, Illinois, USA Sergei finds himself suddenly in the hallway of suburban home with the sounds of a young girl screaming echoing off the walls. Sergei (knowing somehow that he had to protect her) runs down the hallway to find […]
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