Compromise and Conceit

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An Australian statistician and role-player living in Japan, interested in the theory and practice of role-playing…

Category: game reports

  • My Year in Gaming: A Review of 2017

    Another year has passed, and a chance to review the games I played and the great things I did in them, as well as to preview what I hope to play (and GM) in the year to come. This year was a relatively quiet one in gaming, actually, possibly because business travel for me interrupted…

  • Shadowrun New Horizon 8: Bug Hunt

    Is this gonna be a stand up fight, or another bug hunt?   Months passed after our heroes captured their ship, and nothing happened. Lean times in New Horizon, first as they hunkered down to avoid attention after their last job, then as they waited out the repairs and reconfiguration of the HS Fortuna. Jayden…

  • Shadowrun New Horizon 7: The Smugglers Who Fell From Grace With the Sea

    Come sail your ships around me And burn your bridges down We make a little history, baby Every time you come around Your face has fallen sad now For you know the time is nigh When I must remove your wings And you, you must try to fly Sly moves in the shadows, done quick…

  • Mutant Session 5: Cruelty and Neglect

    The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in Meltdown expected, the wheat is growin’ thin Engines stop running, but I have no fear ‘Cause London is drowning, and I, I live by the river London calling to the imitation zone Forget it, brother, you can go it alone London calling to the zombies…

  • Shadowrun New Horizon 6: Trainwreck

    I got a heavy little number I got 42 wheels of pleasure and pain I got a heavy little number I’m gonna head it on down upon the Alice again Widda a paraliddic weapon I can ‘ardly miss Gonna gidda bricks anudder everlasting kiss Widda a paraliddic weapon I can ‘ardly miss Gonna gidda bricks…

  • Mutant Session 4: A Diamond in the Rough

    I screamed aloud to the old man I said don’t lie don’t say you don’t know I say you’ll pay for your mischief In this world or the next Oh and then he fixed me with a freezing glance And the hell fires raged in his eyes He said do you want to know the…

  • Mutant Session 3: A Bridge Too Far

    I wonder if my rope’s still hanging from the tree By the standing pool where you drank me And filled me full of thirsty love And the memory of water? I wonder if a king still fishes there His back towards the burned-out air His laughing catches singing loud The memory of water   Our…

  • Shadowrun New Horizon 5: The School of Hard Knocks

    And another thing I’ve been wondering lately Am I crazy To believe in ideals? I’m a betting man But it’s getting damn lonely. Oh, honey, if only I could be sure what I feel. What’s my scene? (I’m dying to know) I’ll never know. Well, I concede I’ve been caught in someone else’s scene (but…

  • Mutant Session 2: Radio Ga Ga

    And when I see a shooting star go flashing in the night, I often wonder if some other beings also see the light, And are they picking up our signals, As they spin off into space, Until the final act is over, Until every man has spoken, Until every summer’s gone, Until every battle’s done,…

  • Shadowrun New Horizon 4: Identity Politics

    On the fat of the land I been living Now it’s only a matter of time Sooner or later, you open your eyes And return to the scene of the crime Dig deep at the top of the heap Now you’ve bitten off the hand that feeds you You got nothin’ but your soul to…