Post Mandelorian

I really, really am jonesing to do a Star Wars-ish game based in the setting of the Mandelorian. I am developing the idea, and will probably move to that when we are done with Weirder Stuff. I am setting up 3 different concepts. The players will choose which they would prefer to play.

In one, the PCs play effectuators of a local rebellion leader - not, or at least not yet, a part of the ineffectual New Republic - who is trying to stabilize the local area of space. In the second, the PCs play former effectuators of a local ex-Moff, who is attempting to stabilize and take over the local space area, who have turned against their former master, and are doing what good they can where they can. In the third, the PCs will play ex-Imperial prisoners who have found Mandelorian armor and are attempting to pass themselves off as a Mandelorian mercenary clan.

In all cases, the PCs are Force sensitives who were rounded up by the Empire and used as test subjects, and the local area will be the same. They will have an ancient ship, modified - or perhaps worn down would be more accurate - from stock to fit the needs of the Association, and constituting the bulk of their assets.

Elder Sibs, Continued

The breaking of the glass woke the security guard, who immediately started with his flashlight. One of the kids, forgetting that THEY were the ones breaking and entering, shouted "Hey! What're you doing!", which drew the attention of his flashlight. One of the other kids used a LUCK, and his light went out. As he was fumbling more batteries in, the boy who studied karate struck him. It was just a momentary stun, but enough for them to bind and gag him. They unloaded his shotgun and explored the lower level more, finding a giant laser with immense power cables, which was focused at a giant crystal protruding from the rock wall. There were two cameras mounted to record what happened, so they decided to look for videos.

They went upstairs, where there was another guard walking the beat in the dark. They rushed him and bound and gagged him as well. With the keys they had taken from the two watchmen, they were able to open the Director's office door, where they found a VCR player and monitor set up, but no tapes. They figured they were in the padlocked 4 drawer file cabinet, so one of the kids broke the glass and grabbed the fire axe, which set off the fire alarm. They were just off Uranium Road, a thoroughfare, and close to the new fire station, so they knew they had only minutes! The broke the padlock with the axes and ran off with the four drawers, escaping over the wall just as the fire trucks rolled up.

Elder Sibs Redux

The elder siblings decided that something was wrong, and that this whole thing needed looking into. They are high school kids, so they are almost adult. They slipped into the High Energy Physics research building through the hole in the wall, and by a guard, and found people in locked cells. The got the attention of one of them, and he broke the safety glass window on his door with a gesture.

Elder Siblings

It's been almost two months since my last post. I am continuing running a Weirder Stuff game. We have branched out with teenage characters as well as the original preteens, most being older sibs of the originals. Turns out, the night before the Psigirl showed up in Max's tree-house, his sister and her teen friends had an encounter of their own, with a pickup truck ending up in a tree. The next day they got it down, and found a pillowcase with awful cafeteria food in it near their encounter. On the pillowcase was stenciled the name of a local physics lab. They drove by the lab and saw police tape and a hole blasted in the side of the lab. Lighting was the explanation. They let slip they had seen something strange, and where, to a security guard, thus guaranteeing unwanted attention for their poor unwitting younger sibs!

Weirder Stuff

Weirder Stuff, Klax and my hack of StarCluster 4 for Stranger Thingsish play, has been great fun! Kids between fifth and sixth gradee -summer vacation - find a girl their age sporting a shaved head and a smock, and a one-eyed teddy bear, in their tree house. many-jawed carnivores and a crew from some government funded research company are looking for her. The players so far have loved getting into the kid mindset and have been doing remarkably. Tonight they took down two armed security men from the research company looking for "the Director's ward" with sling shots and their own drug syringes. They dragged them on sleds into an old cowboy-days mine and interrogated them, using a Darth Vader voice modulator - neither guy had seen Star Wars and were spooked! It was great fun!

Elizabethan Supers

Prepping to run the first game of an Elizabethan Supers game this Sunday! Our Roos and Ruins (StarCluster 4 - Out of the Ruins) game that just ended was consistently fun, absorbing, exciting, though provoking, and all around amazing from start to finish! Perhaps the finest roleplaying campaign I have ever run, and I can only hope this one is half as good!

The setting for this game is England in 1560, 2 years after the accession of Elizabeth I to the throne. We have established some changes in history, though! An alien ship crashed on earth in 1000 AD, with the survivors making their way to earth in escape pods. The plagues were alien diseases that humans had no resistance to. Supers began popping up after that. Was it alien DNA? Reactions to the plagues? Radiation from the crashed ship causing mutations? All of the above? We are mapping that out now!

Central access to my Music on Youtube

All five of my albums are now available on Youtube. link: Clash Bowley - Topic

or search for '"clash bowley" topic'

My first album was Greatest Hits 2018-2018 and it's a bit of a mess, but I chalk it up to a learning experience!
Then came Rockets and Dreams, where I started to apply what I had learned and began developing a musical style
Kaiju Love which came after that was, I think, my first good album, and the first totally in my new style
Then came the two latest albums, released the same day:
Plush Universe is more traditional, more rock, somewhere between Strange Attractor and Kaiju Love
In Strange Attractor I am more modern in approach, and more stripped down

Enjoy!