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Midvinter is a short cult-centric holiday adventure that is compatible with OSR games. It features wilderness survival and a lot of NPC interaction to explore and resolve cult kidnappings. The party will have to unravel what is going on and find out how to stop and escape the cult while avoiding their outwardly friendly but sinister machinations. Midvinter has the potential to be immersive, but can also be difficult to manage. Here are some suggestions from my experience running Midvinter, for your winter cult murdering pleasure. 1. Take notes: The adventure is focused in its scope, but not tightly written or easily referenced. Reading through it gives a strong sense of the tone and atmosphere, but to streamline exploration in what is supposed to be a small town and interactions with literal dozens of NPCs you should take some really condensed notes. The adventure is laid out by location and lists the inhabitants of each house in the entry. It’s more beneficial to have a list of the N...

I do not accept this quest. This quest is bad . There are many reasons. Prepare yourself. Do Not Accept This Quest by JE Evans II is a short location-based adventure. It’s supposed to be a skin-crawling horrorfest, but shows itself to be anything but. Do Not Accept This Quest, because there’s nothing of interest or value within, whether for silver pieces or dollars. “If anyone attempts to search the ____, they are instantly attacked by a rat swarm. There is a cooper [sic] ring worth 2 sp inside.” If you are the type of person who doesn’t like things like this, Do Not Accept This Quest. Simply by reading it as the Referee, despite its miniscule length, you are wasting your time. The food is so bad, and in such small portions! Early warning signs:   A table of contents that lists “Room 1, Room 2,” etc. No evocative names for a “house of horror”? Encouraging the Ref to scare players by asking for mysterious d20 rolls and pretending to write them down ominously Using 2.5 foot squares ...

Heist Job Date: 04.08.20X3 Location: The Cy. Slums on the Ports/Bigmosse border, near the waterfront. Cast: Switch the Discharged Corp Killer, Yung Ruffian the Burned Hacker, Jinbu (“Bu”) the Shunned Nanomancer, Bushmaster the Renegade Cyberslasher Content Warning: This session includes prostitution and “off-screen” sex. Portrayal of sex workers is as accepted but exploited class. A player (“Bu”) chose to be a bi-gender (femme presenting) “ladyboy”, and faced a degree of misogyny within the story.   Enter the crew of desperate lowlifes: a small gang of indebted street thugs in search of a way, any way, to stave off shattered kneecaps or worse from their debtors. Only one job has come knocking, and it’s not exactly going to pay the bills, but they’ve been promised a decommissioned and scrubbed police vehicle. Maybe it’ll come in handy for shaking down other unfortunates or they can trade it for drugs. You take what you can get. The patron is Charlie Sand, an exhausted and tapped...

A rotting world. Torn apart by nano-disasters and corporate gluttony, environmental collapse, and toxic holocaust. No one knows the year. Wars, depressions and kleptocracies have destroyed, rebuilt and crystallized the world into a Cyberpunk hiveworld. Mork Borg with a Cyberpunk skinjob. To be honest, I soured on Mork Borg. The tone didn’t work with my group. Its excessive grimdarkness didn’t facilitate a genuine atmosphere, it broke immersion. The quirks and the goddamn pet monkeys turned it into the Three Stooges. Cy_Borg, I will say off the top, is much better. The reason is obvious, if you think about it: Mork Borg is cartoon Dark Souls. Mork Borg is fast-paced and chaotic. Dark Souls is quiet, lonely, and calculated, except for when combat demands precision and talent. Mork Borg is… not that. No shade to those who love Mork Borg, but I think it’s clear why, tonally, it’s not effective, at least for me. Cy_Borg, on the other hand, is- because Cyberpunk is hyperstylized, ADHD neon c...