HJRP2603 Rainbow Railroading Kickoff, Court Games and a Comic Book Store Story

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Your Hosts: Stu and Kimi

In this Episode: We kick off our fundraiser, Rainbow Railroading 2020, for Rainbow Railroad. This organization helps get LGBTQIA+ people in hostile countries to safety. If you’d like to donate, go to happyjacks.org/rainbow. We’re streaming six games, starting now, until 8pm on Saturday, January 25. Watch them at happyjacks.org/live. Andrew writes in about running a court game in L5R. And Eric from New Jersey writes in with a heart-warming comic book store story.

IDOLON06 Happy Jacks RPG Actual Play, Idolon Academy, Masks

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Campaign: Idolon Academy |

System: Masks: A New Generation |

GM: Kimi |

Players: Tappy, Aabria, Emily, Jason |

Info: Idolon Academy is a top-secret school for training young superheroes. Students dedicate their lives to mastering their powers and learning to save the world, but Idolon requires they survive their hardest challenge yet… regular old high school! | 

 

Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/idolonacademy for a full list of this game’s videos and podcasts. |

 

Tags: podcast, podcasts, rpg, actual play, rpg ap, pbta, powered by the apocalypse, masks, Idolon Academy, twitch, youtube, stream,

FLOODWATER05 Happy Jacks RPG Actual Play, Floodwater, Things from the Flood

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Campaign: Insert Coin: Floodwater |

System: Things from the Flood |

GM: CADave |

Players: Jason, Mac, Nick, Samantha, J. |

Info: 1995.  The OJ trial, Oklahoma City Bombing, Forest Gump, oh, and the destruction of the Hoover Dam and subsequent flooding of Boulder City, NV.  Five young adults dealing with loss and facing the fact that much of the promise of their youth didn’t pan out how they expected. | 

 

Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/floodwater for a full list of this game’s videos and podcasts. |

 

Tags: podcast, podcasts, rpg, actual play, rpg ap, insert coin, floodwater, tales from the loop, things from the flood, 1990s

MURMURS13 Happy Jacks RPG Actual Play, Murmurs at the Abyss, Call of Cthulhu 7th

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Campaign: Murmurs at the Abyss | 

System: Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition | 

GM: Stu | 

Players: Kimi, CADave, Jim, Pooja | 

Info: Ravenhearse University is a bastion of learning and enlightened inquiry. A team of investigators from RU uncovers a dark secret whilst studying unexplained natural phenomena. Will they survive their trials? Or will they ruin their careers, families and minds attempting to uncover things best left hidden? | 

 

Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/murmursattheabyss for a full list of this game’s videos and podcasts. | 

 

Tags: podcast, podcasts, rpg, actual play, rpg ap, Call of Cthulhu, murmurs at the abyss, horror.

 

HJRP2602 Orcs and Trope Assumptions, Epic Journey, Existing IP

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Your Hosts: Kimi, Jason, Stork.

In this Episode: MRCJ writes in about Orcs Tropes.  Jeff from NYC writes in about simulating an epic journey into the unknown. JoeCrak asks about playing in existing IP.

IDOLON05 Happy Jacks RPG Actual Play, Idolon Academy, Masks

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Campaign: Idolon Academy |

System: Masks: A New Generation |

GM: Kimi |

Players: Tappy, Aabria, Emily, Jason |

Info: Idolon Academy is a top-secret school for training young superheroes. Students dedicate their lives to mastering their powers and learning to save the world, but Idolon requires they survive their hardest challenge yet… regular old high school! | 

 

Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/idolonacademy for a full list of this game’s videos and podcasts. |

Tags: podcast, podcasts, rpg, actual play, rpg ap, pbta, powered by the apocalypse, masks, Idolon Academy, twitch, youtube, stream,

GREENWOOD10 Happy Jacks RPG Actual Play, Greenwood Collective, Shadowrun

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Campaign: The Greenwood Collective |

System: Shadowrun 5th Ed |

GM: Jason |

Players: Adam, Samantha, J., Mac |

Info: Greenwood Collective is a group of people who’ve rejected the mega corporate narrative. Instead they love on their own terms, in a fortified building in the Redmond Barrens. But the corps have even encroached here now, with Rise Corp “Bringing new life to the Barrens!” Will the Collective survive their intrusion? | 

 

Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/greenwoodcollective for a full list of this game’s videos and podcasts. |

 

Tags: podcast, podcasts, rpg, actual play, rpg ap, greenwood collective, shadowrun, shadowrun 5th edition

GITTERING01 Happy Jacks RPG Actual Play, Glittering Night, Vampire 5

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Campaign: The Glittering Night |

System: Vampire 5 |

GM: Stu |

Players: Joey, Pooja, Stork, Samantha, Jim|

Info: It has been three years since the Mote of Sin Incident. Prince Miroslav has brought his old-world sensibilities to this modern domain, Los Angeles. But for an Anarch incursion in the San Fernando Valley, the Kindred of the Glittering Night have lived in relative peace, playing their dangerous game of court intrigue, feeding upon the Kine and living night-by-night.

Five Ancillae, in their domain of Atwater Village, wake to discover that the Second Inquisition has come to town.

Will the Anarchs and Camarilla join forces against this new dangerous foe? Or, as has happened in many other cities, will the Kindred continue their dangerous game until they meet their fiery Final Death at the hands of this new Inquisition?  | 

 

Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/glitteringnight for a full list of this game’s videos and podcasts. |

 

Tags: podcast, podcasts, rpg, actual play, rpg ap, Vampire 5, V5, Vampire the Masquerade, Mote of Sin, Glittering Night

 

FLOODWATER04 Happy Jacks RPG Actual Play, Insert Coin Floodwater, Tales from the Flood

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Campaign: Insert Coin: Floodwater |

System: Things from the Flood |

GM: CADave |

Players: Jason, Mac, Nick, Samantha, J. |

Info: 1995.  The OJ trial, Oklahoma City Bombing, Forest Gump, oh, and the destruction of the Hoover Dam and subsequent flooding of Boulder City, NV.  Five young adults dealing with loss and facing the fact that much of the promise of their youth didn’t pan out how they expected. | 

 

Visit http://www.happyjacks.org/floodwater for a full list of this game’s videos and podcasts. |

 

Tags: podcast, podcasts, rpg, actual play, rpg ap, insert coin, floodwater, tales from the loop, things from the flood, 1990s

HJRP2601 FFG/FFI Closures? Leveling and Abilities, Horror

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Your Hosts: Stu, Tappy, Jason

In this Episode: Len from Miami writes in about Fantasy Flight Games. Joshua from Canada writes in about leveling and acquiring new abilities. Leatherneck writes in with a horror story. 

Links:

Gamasutra article on FFI/FFG.

Wikipedia on FFG.

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