The ‘unlucky’ driver seemed to suck this up every time! Every time they made a manoeuvre without a raise, they had to roll over 2 on highest the dice, otherwise it was removed.Īt the point when the dice decreased, the oil released a cloud of vapour, if inhaled it gave them the ’snake bite’ and made them more vulnerable to the Serpent’s thrall. They had a d10, d8, d6 and a d4 to begin with. Depending on their relevant talents they improved the suspension, loaded the canisters in sand and reinforced the canvas sides with steel-plate (which would prove very useful). Prior to the journey, each character had a chance to make an adaptation to add a dice to the pool. This was mechanically represented with usage dice. They faced a tight turning circle over a rotten platform, a giant boulder, and sharp, tyre-shredding rocks on the road. Most of the fun from this session came from the ‘Wages of Fear’ set up they gingerly overcame obstacles in their truck, most of them taken from the original film or from Sorcerer (the William Friedkin remake).
In this game, a stash of gas masks were found, some cards were played to ensure that they had initiative advantage at the best time and one was used to roll away from an exploded wreckage. These operate in a similar way to MOS in Nights Black Agents – a game-changing advantage that can be used to great effect if used at the right time. Every player gets an adventure card and they can play it once during the session. The Adventure Card deck on the other hand is a really good addition to the game.
Most of the extra things that came out from the Adventurer Edition kickstart don’t really add much other than more palaver to manage. I think I’ve said before that there are a lot of ‘bits’ to Savage Worlds if you get carried away (like I do). Special ’snake skin’ playing cards as the action deck – Check!Īn extra action deck of playing cards for the ‘chase’ sequence – Check!Īdventure cards – Check! Wild dice – Check!Ī play mat downloaded for each player so they can layout all of their dice and stuff – Check! Here is a play report in the usual format, 5 highlights and 1 fumble. They’re acting on a rumour from ‘Douglas’, who was played by Michael Douglas, that a separatist movement are building up a power-base using resources that have washed up on the coast of Wales, including planes (in kit form) which were heading for RAF Burtonwood.Ī forward party which would include a negotiator will accompany the 2 1/2 truck filled with canisters of orphaline with the intention of negotiating with the group, exchanging their technology with oil from the serpent. This adventure begins at the Hereford Cut, the location of the serpent mine, where a group of mercenaries volunteer for a suicide mission, transporting 20 canisters of volatile, un-refined orphaline across the Brecon Beacons to coastal town. For the sake of Crown and Country, the grit of the Brits are keen to keep calm, carry on and rebuild from the wreckage. The Royal Society (and the Royal Engineers) have begun to drill into the serpent to extract precious resources from its gut. The Empire stays intact as Australia was untouched by the events, so Prince Henry serving as the Governor-General set up Sydney as the new Imperial capital. The serpent body (350 miles across) lies as a curtain across Europe, wiping out most of Britain. And things engendered, mutated horrors born of dragon’s blood and broken strontium atoms …” Where it struck the seas boiled and the Earth drank poison.
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Truman’s Trinity Device is despatched and it destroys the serpent’s brain “in torrent of of atomic fire … Dark crimson rain fell from Dublin to Denver. The world in 1948 reeling from the intervention of the Nazis who summon the Midguard Serpent to the sound of Wagner (the players joined in with the Ride of the Valkyries) from the depths of the seas Odin’s son reaps havoc upon the world. Bolton, destroyed by the belly of The Serpent This time I used Savage Worlds in The Day After Ragnarok setting created by Kenneth Hite in 2009.
The mission to play a different post-apocalyptic games each month in 2020 continues. A local separatist politician, Solo Man, is rumoured to have a stock-pile of precious resources to trade, in exchange for the valuable fuel. The Wages Ophir – GoPlay Manchester 8th February 2020Ī Pulp adventure in the Savage World of ‘The Day After Ragnarok’.Across the world, lies the trillion-ton corpse of the Midgard Serpent, raised from the sea by the nazis and destroyed by Truman’s atomic fire: poisoning the Earth with every night that passes.A small band of mercenaries under the command of the Royal Navy have been deployed to escort a volatile tanker of Ophiline from the Hereford Cut to a small coastal town in Wales.
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