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Advanced Dungeons and Dragons – The Scar Session Three

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Still prisoners of the orcs after their failed escape attempt, another new prisoner is brought in as slaves. Can they escape or trick their captors?

On Sunday, September 11, 2016, I continued the AD&D campaign for friends in the Boone, N.C., area started in June 2016. We continued with “The Scar” by Ray Winninger from Dungeon Adventures #80. My players were Katelyn, Collin, Ashton, and James.

Audio for the game session can be found here:

https://archive.org/details/RPPRCPADDGreyhawk04

The role-playing journals for the game session can be found here:

http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1973-Advanced-Dungeons-amp-Dragons-2nd-Edition-The-Scar-Session-Three

The 11 videos and the highlight video of the session can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDpfoHcgBlE0eIIdNp46DI1g

Call of Cthulhu Providence Campaign 31 – The Strange Case of the Brown Mountain Lights Session One

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When William Avery Rockefeller goes to Morganton, North Carolina, with some friends and associates in order to finish a deal to purchase a hosiery mill, he doesn’t suspect he’ll get caught up in another missing children’s case. This time an idiot-savant child has gone missing during vacation at Brown Mountain Beach and the investigators quickly help with the search effort for the boy. Instead, they find something strange under the mountain.

I started running a Call of Cthulhu campaign for students at Appalachian State University in March 2014. The game was set in Providence, R.I., starting in the summer of 1925. The 31st session of the game took place on August 15, 2016, with the scenario “The Strange Case of the Brown Mountain Lights” from the monograph The Phantom of Wilson Creek by myself. My players were Katelyn, Collin, Ashton, Kyle, Hannah, and Katie.

Audio of the game session can be found here:

https://archive.org/details/RPPRCPCoCProvidenceGame31

The role playing journals for the session can be found here:
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3077-the-strange-case-of-the-brown-mountain-lights-session-one-part-1-business-trip/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3076-the-strange-case-of-the-brown-mountain-lights-session-one-part-2-missing-child/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3075-the-strange-case-of-the-brown-mountain-lights-session-one-part-3-strange-tunnels/

A playlist of nine videos of the game session and a highlight video can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDr4Q0WbJQTeAHtDu2-NoSiX

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons – The Scar Session Two

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Still prisoners of the orcs after their failed escape attempt, a couple of new prisoners are brought in as slaves. Can they escape or trick their captors?

On Sunday, July 24, 2016, I continued the AD&D campaign for friends in the Boone, N.C., area started in June 2016. We continued with “The Scar” by Ray Winninger from Dungeon Adventures #80. My players were Kyle, Collin, Aaron, Ashton, James, and Helen.

Audio of the game session can be found here:

https://archive.org/details/RPPRCPADDGreyhawk02

The role-playing journals for the game session can be found here:

http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1972-Advanced-Dungeons-amp-Dragons-2nd-Edition-The-Scar-Session-Two

The five videos and the highlight video of the session can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDrxHPHrjVdLzKu14jw_If9e

Call of Cthulhu – Forbidden Cargo

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Port Royal, Jamaica, in April of 1667 was rife with the rumor of a Spanish treasure ship setting sail from Panama with a load of gold, bound for Spain. The crew of the Sweet Vengeance decided it was time to set sail again – this time to pirate themselves some Spanish gold. Unfortunately, others had the same idea and the terrible adventure would lead them to an uncharted island past the Bahamas, a lost city, and the horror that lay beneath it.

Over the summer, I usually run scenarios for Call of Cthulhu in different time periods and this summer proved no exception. This summer, I ran the original scenario Forbidden Cargo. We played the single session on Sunday, July 10, 2016. My players were Ashton and Collin.

Audio of the game session is here:

https://archive.org/details/RPPRCPCoCForbiddenCargo

The role-playing journals for the session are here:

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3057-forbidden-cargo-part-1-treasure-ship/
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/blog/172/entry-3056-forbidden-cargo-part-2-island-of-terror/

The playlist of nine videos of the game session can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDqnZBJZb08b0ZlmtaUtt-63

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons – The Scar Session One

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Several adventurers in the Flinty Hills near the Kingdom of Nyrond have been captured by orcs and put to work as slaves to find … something. Can they escape the orcs or somehow thwart their plans? Or at least get their stuff back?

On Sunday, June 26, 2016, I began a new AD&D campaign for friends in the Boone, N.C., area. We started with “The Scar” by Ray Winninger from Dungeon Adventures #80, which sees the player characters captured and put to work as slaves. My players were Kyle, Nathaniel, Logan, Collin, Aaron, Hannah, and Ashton.

Audio of the game session can be found here: https://archive.org/details/RPPRCPADDGreyhawk01

The role-playing journals for the session can be found here:

http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/entry.php/1968-Advanced-Dungeons-amp-Dragon-2nd-Edition-The-Scar-Session-One

The playlist of eight videos and a highlight video of the game can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLonZ7fuFAFDpIEmrHAA8g2DoFQVc9npcx