March | 2024 | Halfway Station 3.0
4 posts published by andyslack during March 2024| Halfway Station 3.0
4 posts published by andyslack during March 2024| Halfway Station 3.0
“‘I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed!’ he snorted. ‘Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a […]| Halfway Station 3.0
“Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.” – Bram Stoker, Dracula Here’s my retrospective on The Dracula Dossier campaign, based on my thoughts while running it and feedback from the players during the campaign and in discussion after it closed. I suppose in a sense it’s a review, based on some […]| Halfway Station 3.0
“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula Vauxhall Cross, London, April 2014: Cartwright “Ah, Mr Cartwright. Do come in. Thank you for meeting us so late in the evening. I believe you know my assistant, […]| Halfway Station 3.0
“No one holds command over me. No man, no god, no Prince. Call your damnable Hunt. We shall see who I drag screaming down to Hell with me.” – Vampire: The Masquerade Ruta Nacional 40, March 2014, Ten Minutes Ago Ritter checks his weapons for the tenth time and says: “Why us? Why is it […]| Halfway Station 3.0
“The hairs on your arm will stand upAt the terror in each sip and in each supWill you partake of that last offered cupOr disappear into the potter’s ground?When the man comes around”– Johnny Cash, The Man Comes Around London, Two Days Ago… “Go secure.” “Secure.” “Hound – D here. Prince says our favourite freelancers […]| Halfway Station 3.0
Previously, on The Dracula Dossier: The team break contact with Dracula’s submarine and make their way to Tel Aviv to heal and regroup. Dracula is on his way to Argentina, and if they catch a plane, they can be there 1-2 weeks ahead of him; but where exactly is he going, and how can they […]| Halfway Station 3.0
There is no time, there is only rounds. There is no feet, there is only Close/Near/Far. All else is the deceit of Shune the Vile.A round is a round, be it combat or crawling. The Floating Disk careth not for it dwells in rounds. All else is the deceit of Shune the Vile.Except for torches, […]| Halfway Station 3.0
Previously, on The Dracula Dossier: Smyth and Emilia incapacitate Christina and the team tie her up aboard a commandeered motorboat, which they use to pursue Anton, Natalya and Varkony across the harbour to Dracula’s nuclear submarine. Emilia and Smyth make a quick raid onto the sub under covering fire from the rest , realise Dracula […]| Halfway Station 3.0
Season 6 was unusually short (9 episodes), just as season 5 was unusually long (53 episodes), but it gets a retrospective all the same. What have we learned? Lessons Learned I often start a new season of the Arioniad by showing how Arion meets (or reunites with) the other main characters, usually because I’m rebooting […]| Halfway Station 3.0
Previously, on the Dracula Dossier: The team ambush Varkony and her Renfields as they cautiously enter the boatyard. One Renfield falls to a claymore mine, Vincent manages to gas himself, Cartwrigh…| Halfway Station 3.0
The third act of Andy Slack's gaming blog| Halfway Station 3.0
“I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and…| Halfway Station 3.0
