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Returning to The Bloody Hands REBIRTH: "The Stone Crack'd"

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Image is © Dean Spencer. Used with Permission. All Rights Reserved.   Five Pretty Big Changes to The Stone Crack'd I think we are reaching a point where we can build up to the end game for The Bloody Hands . I finally feel like I have an idea of something suitably epic to finish up the whole campaign. Let's see how "The Stone Crack'd" ends, first. Now that we are returning to The Stone Crack'd and playing out "the last great missions of Arden Ulet," I want to try out a few changes to help ramp up some things. The Bloody Hands has long been my "just try it out and see what happens" campaign and so I think a fitting tribute will be to try and push a few assumptions of mine around pretty hard. Greatly Reduced Death Armor It is pretty common in my games that some characters have "Death Armor" where they can't die — at least not until some phase is reached — and instead just lose the ability to control or really ...

Special Preview: Eustace & Hitomi and the Case of the Empty Promises

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MAIDENSTEAD'S OWN EUSTACE DELMONT IS ON THE CASE OF THE EMPTY 'PROMISES' from Maidenstead Monitor . October 22, 2000. " How will he juggle the possibly strangest case of his career with his upcoming wedding?"   Maidenstead, AL. Sunday, October 21, 2000. 2pm. Maidenstead Art Center, 2nd Floor. Alphy Clark's Clothing Shop. 10 days before the wedding of Hitomi Meyer and Eustace Delmont. "Hey, Alphy, give me a cigarette. I promise not to strangle you." "Nah uh, girl. You know better. By the way, have you told him, yet?" Hitomi sighs deeply. From the waist down, she is in the bottom half of a very beautiful wedding dress designed by Alphy himself. Above the waist, Hitomi is nude and exposed to the world at large. Well, not so much the world at large but a small curtained off section of the Maidenstead Textile Mill — repurposed into the Maidenstead Art Center, a hipster mall full of more artists and craftsfolk than you wo...

Eustace & Hitomi and the Case of the Rambler's Inn: Final Thoughts, Recap, and Debrief

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← Back to Final Eustace & Hitomi Chapter || Back to First Eustace — Chapter →   Dated July 24, 2024: These were page 2 and 3 of my original concepts that lead to the campaign/arc.   A Few Rambling Words The Future of Eustace & Hitomi Some Fun Notes from BEFORE "...and the Case of the Rambler's Inn" Things I Liked Things I Did Not Like So Much Lessons Learned Things That Might Be Fun to Do Different A Few Final Pieces of Trivia Up Next for the Doug Alone is... A Few Rambling Words First, a life update of sorts: the fever that warped and delayed finishing Chapter 11 — on my end, I had time to get it finished and scheduled on time for the blog's end — turned out to be Covid. Still is Covid, as of writing this on January 14. Not sure which flavor or collector's edition I have but I am calling it COVID-'25. Year's off to a great start. This was the first campaign arc t...

Eustace & Hitomi and the Case of the Rambler's Inn, Chapter 11. The Kids Are Alright

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← Previous Eustace Delmont Session || Next Eustace Delmont Session → {{ Click to HIDE Gamemaster Elements }}     "Previously on..." and Campaign Summary This Chapter Will Run Differently CHAPTER 11 The Three Headed Cerberus Further Down the Rambler Hole The Rats Flee the Sinking Ship Smashes and Crashes Eustace and Hitomi Burn It Down (some of it, anyway) Somewhat Coda Doug's Commentary Mechanical and Story Notes Credits Previously, on Eustace & Hitomi and the Case of the Rambler's Inn Eustace and Elly help FBI Agent Jani Blum save the life of Amy Patel. Now: Eustace, Elly, Amy, and Milly are on the way to the Rambler to bring the schemes to an end. Back at Ralph's, Hitomi has picked up on Eustace's clue and her and Daphne (with others) are heading towards the Rambler to help. With Chief Raylon being caught by the FBI, the ...