Dirigible of Pain

Now if any of you have made it over to The Game Master Show, you have heard the names Jerry (Delicious) Grayson and Mike Fiegel.  You’ve heard their games in action and even heard them on the show.  Hellas, their current project, has been out long enough for people to start asking/demanding more.  The ever popular, “When is the next book coming out?”  Well I got an email from Jerry (aka Delicious) Grayson with some exciting news.

“I have the latest book in the HELLAS line done and I’ve decided to try and do a Kickstart model to fund it. Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested in a sci-fi game about naked Greek dudes stabbing people, eating goat meat, and drinking malt liquor.”

HELLAS RPG

Kickstart Hellas

That’s right more Hellas goodness and it’s being ransomed.  In fact if you check the link above or below you can find out all the details.  We are big fans of Hellas and of Jerry and Mike.  They have been very supportive of us.  So if you have liked what you heard about Hellas or even the designers themselves give the above or below link a click, check it out, and pledge if you can.  Hell if you see the break downs there are some great deals to be had by pledging her support, starting with as little as $1.

So now go out and give what support you can, your Sky Marshal commands it.

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So Lady Vandermore and I have been playing Champions Online for just about six months now, and both of us enjoy it for much the same reasons.

• We don’t always get to play for long stretches of time.
• We don’t always get to play every day.
• We like being able to finish things when we do play.

I must note, that neither of us have played many MMOs since the days of EQ and Guild Wars. I enjoyed EQ for a while until the grind got to me, and Guild Wars was fun for the two of us until we had explored all that we could and then also lost our copious free time we used to enjoy. We are not MMO’ers in the normal sense.

We got interested in Champions Online for two reasons:

1. We have both played the Champions RPG and Hero System, and we enjoy them both. Though taking days to create a character is long behind us, we have fond memories of it.
2. When we played the Halloween events, it was free!

Since we are waiting for Star Wars: Old Republic to come out, Lady Vandermore thought it would be fun to have Champions Online as a filler game until is came out. It served that purpose well, until we started running out of content. Then we started to get a little tired of it as we had less and less to explore and more and more repetition. We nearly quit except for one reason: our role playing guild.

While the game was still mostly fun, it wasn’t pay every month fun for us. Then Lady Vandermore found our guild. It’s a roleplaying guild as I have mentioned earlier, and since we had already made up characters in our own heads for the characters that we were playing online, joining a roleplaying guild just made sense.

It’s not quite what I miss from tabletop roleplaying, but in some cases it is superior to them. It allows for an evening of roleplaying with the visuals that we always had in our heads (though it’s a little limited on the special effects) and also ends when we need it to, ready to pick up again when we have the time to jump online again.

They’ve recently added some more content, and I’ve explored that as well. It’s been fun to do, but since I have maxed out my level I don’t feel the need to do the quests in the game. In fact, I feel that I should save them in the hopes that they will open up the level cap. So I have a bunch of content waiting for me if I ever get bored with the roleplaying, and hunting down my nemesis in game (the one part of Champions Online that I am still actively pursuing).

It’s been a fun game, and I see us playing it for a while yet. When Star Wars: Old Republic comes out though, I don’t know that it will stay on our list of games to play. Unless of course, the roleplaying is just that darn good. Plus, how can you go wrong with a master villain like Dr. Destroyer who obviously takes after myself. He has such good taste in helms.

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Ah, finally, some silence. It’s so good that you’ve settled down. Now we can talk like civilized people. Tea? Coffee? No? Very well. I need to let you know that I’ve hooked up the radio and the trans etherial wireless systems so that others can listen to our chat.

The Pain is about ready for her maiden voyage, only a few things need buttoning up I am told. Once that happens, I will be able to get my experiments underway again, so in the future I may entertain you with members of the ship’s crew and other guests, some like yourself. At least until you give me the information that I require from you, then I will let you go. They will talk and ramble on about any number of things. I view my chats with you as a free forum. Mostly I and the others will talk about gaming, things we don’t put out on The Game Master Show. Things like board games, perhaps some actual play that we didn’t play there, but we aren’t going to restrict ourselves to that. We also enjoy books, and talk of current events. I’ll just leave you in anticipation for each session.

Casting off now, listen in, to the broadcasts of the Dirigible of Pain.

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Radio Isopod
The Secret Lair

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