My Summer was Full of Games

 I realize I haven't posted on here in a hell of a long time! My Summer was a glorious mix of in-real-life and in-game adventures.

Brier Island North lighhouse,
taken from the deck of the Mega Nova

IRL I took a family roadtrip that put nearly 3,000km on the Mazda, and along the way I attended art festivals, live concerts, joyous family functions, long days on the beach, and a whale watching tour where I got to see nine individual humpback whales and a few minke whales.

I also produced a pile of episodes of my solo RPG podcast Swords Against Madness, following my heroes getting themselves in pretty deep in their gonzo sword-and-planet weirdness, played in Swords & Wizardry.

It wasn't my only solo-gaming time spent. I took a couple of days of lazy relaxing to play through a massive chunk of Jason Sholtis' Operation Unfathomable and Odious Uplands, and had an absolute blast! 

These modules are the best example of making 1st level awesome that I have ever had the pleasure to experience. I have both a review upcoming and possible a few bonus episodes of Swords Against Madness summarizing my playthrough... with all of the running and screaming involved.

The Death in Space campaign I am running set on the world Amissa is now around a dozen sessions in; my PCs have fought corrupt water priests, salvaged parts from an ancient starfighter hangar, explored a part of the Block that had been burned by a micro-nuke, and faced a cult converting people into mutated attack monsters in the quest to rebuild their ancient starship.

I also ran a 5-session micro-campaign over the Summer sex in my Xen campaign setting exploring a new region of the collapsing Xen Empire for my players. I want hardcore in that one, attacking PCs with a Juvenile talking Green Dragon in session one and having far worse show up as we went.  

Lamh-Fhada campaign setting map 
made with Worldographer

I created two worlds for different game settings: Lamh-Fhada, a dark fantasy setting for Low Fantasy Gaming setting inspired by Celtic mythology mixed with modern urban fantasy, and Dommar Valley, a whimsical cozy fantasy for Knave 2e (with notes of Apothecaria) setting for my wife and kids built around Alchemy and Witchcraft as medical procedural- drama... think House meets Stardew Valley with a liberal dose of Legend of Mana.

The Lamh-Fhada campaign, "Against the Usurper" is already underway at about three sessions in the intrigue is thick, the murder bloody, and the betrayal worthy of divine wrath.

 I hope your Summer games have been just as fun!