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The players all still had a great time and left with a smile on their face, but it didn’t feel like my best work to myself. I wasn’t prepared for how abruptly I was going to run out of time.

I ran Siege of Starhaven at Origins this year, and admittedly I didn’t find the right place to make the end of the adventure feel like a satisfying payoff. I haven’t HAD to shorten things so I’ve let that part of my GM brain atrophy.

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I used to be pretty good at estimating how much adventure fits into four hours of play, but I’ve been spoiled running an ongoing series for the last few years. It’s all very exciting and I intended for it to be the first two or three sessions of a brand new Starhaven campaign. It has an “in media res” intro scene, an investigation that can go basically three directions, a first encounter with the villain that ends in defeat for the heroes, an escape, a rallying of resources, and then a triumphant final combat with the forces of the Stellar Imperium. Finding the right places to trim is a GM skill that doesn’t usually get enough practice, as, if you’re anything like me, the big worry at the table is “do I have enough content for the next four hours?” Siege of Starhaven has a set number of beats in its original outline that give the story pace and momentum. The trouble with using any published adventure is that they’re usually written with an idea of what the beginning, middle, and end are going to be, and trying to find smaller story arcs within the plot can lead to a hollow story. Not to worry though I embarrassed myself running out of time so you don’t have to. I have a habit of overwriting, which can be useful for GMs at home, but not so much for a convention experience. This probably isn’t shocking as it was written by the person who is often accused of running 1.5 shots so often that we’ve started calling my 1 shots “special limited series” over at the Untold Stories Project. It was great getting to run Siege of Starhaven from the new Guide to Starhaven sourcebook for players, but one thing I learned quickly in my con prep was that this adventure is definitely not a four-hour experience. Thank you to all of the players who participated in my events and to everyone who stopped by the Green Ronin booth. There just isn’t anything quite like a con to help reignite the passion for gaming.

I had such a great time being amongst so many gamers and just seeing everyone truly happy to be immersed in this grand hobby of ours. It was my first time attending and I am happy to confirm that the legends of its grandness were not overstated.

Hello heroes! It’s great to be chatting with you all again after the spectacular extravaganza that was Gen Con. Well, except for one thing: If you’re locking in any kind of pledge, thank you!Įditor’s Note: This Ronin Roundtable is intended as advice for GM’s of Mutants & Masterminds, and it contains a few spoilers for would-be heroes in the Siege of Starhaven adventure. This is your second chance, like the kind you don’t get unless you’re a Yithian agent consulting future records of yourself to avoid mistakes…but I’ve said too much. If you want to tweak your pledge, maybe adding on some last-minute books, do it there.Īnd if this is new to you? Well, go anyway. If you pledged a token amount to get reminded of this, now’s the time to up your pledge. Well, the Kickstarter is done…and the BackerKit is live! That’s where we manage pledges to order the game and its related, uh, game stuff. Cthulhu Awakens can be about lurking fear or dramatic action-it’s up to you. I think what makes it special is really the broad range of periods and tones, and an interpretation of the Mythos that puts game-centered storytelling before literary homage. Cthulhu Awakens was developed to cover an epic span of time according to an inclusive ethic, but that isn’t its point of distinction. Cthulhu Awakens evolves the iteration of AGE first seen in Modern AGE, drawing upon innovations from newer and upcoming AGE system books, as well as special rules unique to it. In what seems like years ago due to pandemic and post-pandemic time dilation effects, but was actually through this past March, we ran our Kickstarter for Cthulhu Awakens, an AGE system game covering Cthulhu Mythos horror from the early years of the last century to the present: a period we call the Weird Century.