Seeking wealth & escape from their peasant lives, the characters investigate a supernatural portal that appears only once every half century when the stars are right.
Description:
Each player takes on the role of several budding adventurers, all hoping to uncover the secrets revealed by the passing of the Empty Star.
For the survivors, fortunes untold and glories unimagined. For the rest, not that.
Will any of your unprepared serfs and expendable townsfolk reveal a capacity for heroism?
A plundering, self-centered heroism perhaps, but heroism nonetheless.
Only a succession of deadly traps and wicked monsters stand between you and the answer.
Gather your makeshift weapons, and ready your semi-relevant skills, for the portal awaits!
Seeking wealth & escape from their peasant lives, the characters investigate a supernatural portal that appears only once every half century when the stars are right.
Description:
Each player takes on the role of several budding adventurers, all hoping to uncover the secrets revealed by the passing of the Empty Star.
For the survivors, fortunes untold and glories unimagined. For the rest, not that.
Will any of your unprepared serfs and expendable townsfolk reveal a capacity for heroism?
A plundering, self-centered heroism perhaps, but heroism nonetheless.
Only a succession of deadly traps and wicked monsters stand between you and the answer.
Gather your makeshift weapons, and ready your semi-relevant skills, for the portal awaits!
"A dame with long legs & a fully charged laser pistol, all a man needs in this city." - Al 'The Scar' Scagnetti. Solve a film-noir inspired mystery in the Fallout setting.
Description:
It takes more than the end of the world to stop people from taking advantage of each other. The New California Republic is the most civilized nation in the radioactive remnants of the United States of America. In the heart of the NCR corruption reigns; Deathclaws may sound scary, but Big Tony sending some boys to break your knees is a real threat in the Core. Authority belongs to whoever has the most caps.
Every player will take on the roll of a pre-made character and solve a mystery in a city where good and bad are all just shades of gray. This is not a game where players can expect a lot of combat. Instead this game will have more of a focus on roll playing and using your brain to find solutions, as too many bullets flying means everybody will catch some lead.
I will provide pre-made characters to choose from, but you can email me if you have a character in mind.
Potosí: Using Games to Engage Students with Colonialism
Summary:
We introduce Potosí: The Struggle for Silver, a drafting game about the 16th century Silver Mines in Bolivia. We'll show how this game can be used to discuss colonialism with students.