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by shadowdad
Fri Oct 06, 2023 2:33 pm
Forum: Savage Rifts House Rule Proposals
Topic: DQE Commitment Levels
Replies: 5
Views: 1316

Re: DQE Commitment Levels

I really like this! My GM for a Savage Rifts game used it to resolve what could have been an hours long slog through major enemies and multiple drawn out combats. Instead, he broke it down into a series of four DQEs. It was quick, cinematic, got our blood pumping and put us on the edge of our seats ...
by shadowdad
Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:38 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

Re: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! Session 9

Session 9 We open the session with Kodey finding the camp of another hermit. He remains in the shadows observing the hermit for about an hour before approaching him. The hermit recognizes him as someone from the Traveller’s Cave. The hermit continues to explain that Nef’ron is known as the caretaker...
by shadowdad
Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:35 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

Re: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! Session 8

Session 8 The next morning the group examines the cybernetic remains of the cyber t-rex and its rider. The cyberware is extremely advanced (possibly more advanced than pre-cataclysm tech) and seems to radiate a low level of magic. They decide to follow the tracks of the T-Rex back a few hundred yard...
by shadowdad
Wed Jan 26, 2022 2:43 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

Re: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! Session 7

Session 7 The session opens in the evening, two days after leaving town. Dusk is approaching and camp is getting set up. Kodey goes to scout around the immediate area as Marco sets his robo-beetle scanners up for the overnight watch. Brem continues studying the materials they purchased last session....
by shadowdad
Mon Nov 22, 2021 6:25 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

Re: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! Session 6

Session 6 We pick up right where we left off. Brem, Kithroz and Leori (in dog form) head over to the book shop, JM-47 wanders over to the adventurer’s tavern, while Marco and Kodey remain in the mountaineer. Marco cleans his weapons while Kodey naps. At the bookshop, Brem, and Kithroz talk to the ow...
by shadowdad
Thu Sep 02, 2021 6:58 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

Re: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! Session 5

After a bit of a delay, I give you: Session 5 The session opens with Kithroz having a dream. She sees a tall man, dressed in an old Victorian stage outfit. He has messy long black hair and a stringy beard. He says, “You have been chosen by C-Flat! Not good, not good at all!! The bauble is your best ...
by shadowdad
Tue Jul 27, 2021 2:37 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

Re: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! Session 4

Session 4 The session opens with the group reporting the vampire activity to the TL through a radio call to a friendly town about a hundred miles to the west. They get a relay response advising that a specialized vampire hunting squad should be in the area in 112 days. Leori and Brem work on transla...
by shadowdad
Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:09 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

Re: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!

Again, sorry for those who liked to hear more behind the scenes info from my last game recap series. But I have players who know of, and follow this post. I can't give away any of the juicy secrets!! As things get revealed, I will provide more history and my original thoughts. Until next time, CHEER...
by shadowdad
Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:06 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! Session Three

Session Three: With Kodey (mostly) patched up, the group decides it would be best to explore the church to make sure there are no other vampires in the area. JM-47 goes up a few steps to the front door of the church. He opens one of the doors, setting off an old security trap that detonates, destroy...
by shadowdad
Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:31 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Voice of Hope
Replies: 69
Views: 38240

Re: The Voice of Hope

Bump!!

When might we see the next new episode?!?

Signed: Superfan!
by shadowdad
Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:11 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

Re: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! GM's Interlude

Side Note: I will wait a bit longer between some updates and will hold back some information that I would have shared like in my last home game recaps. The reason is some of my players are reading this one and the last thing I want to do is ruin the story with spoilers that they will likely read. I ...
by shadowdad
Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:59 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

Re: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! Session Two

Session Two: The session opens the morning after the visit to the tavern. Marco is nursing a rather bad hangover. <GM: -1 to all rolls for the first two hours of the day> Mr Gleary is getting his many crates of gear loaded onto a small hauler to take it all out to the dig site. Kithroz takes a rifle...
by shadowdad
Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:16 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts! Session One

Session One Just before this session started, we spent a good thirty minutes finalizing characters. Just an FYI: We did have a session 0 that started the character creation and get everyone on the same page for the mood and feel of the game. <Edited as one of my players pointed out a missed detail!>...
by shadowdad
Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:01 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles

Hello old friends,

While I still have not managed to get this group up and going again (and it is looking dimmer by the month), I have gotten a new campaign with mostly new players.

Check it out here:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6035

Cheers!
by shadowdad
Tue Jun 22, 2021 1:59 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!
Replies: 13
Views: 6588

ShadowDad's Sunday Savage Rifts!

Hello! ShadowDad here. If you know me, it is because of my previous campaign, The Red Dawn Chronicles. https://savagerifts.com/sr/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2267 One of my players wrote up amazing session recaps that I then added my own GM thoughts and behind the screen insights to. This time around, t...
by shadowdad
Wed Jan 27, 2021 2:17 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles

Sorry for the VERY late reply Ndreare. I have had really mixed results as well. My group now has about five or six games officially on hold, some having been on hold for four years now. We just never seem to return to them. I am hoping that my friend will resurrect his M&M 3E game, that was a bl...
by shadowdad
Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:19 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles

A small update to this game. The game originally ended as one of our players was moving and wanted to run a short campaign of his own. Since then, the group has changed a little more. At this point, if and when I can get this up and running again, it will be a new group, but I plan on using the same...
by shadowdad
Thu May 30, 2019 6:42 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Voice of Hope
Replies: 69
Views: 38240

Re: The Voice of Hope

As usual, great episode! I've mentioned it before on MEWE, I just thought it was worth mentioning here too!

BTW: When do you think the next episode will drop?
by shadowdad
Thu Dec 06, 2018 6:14 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles

Thanks RFT! We are not taking a break from gaming. A player in my group recently found that he would be moving to Seattle from Chicago in April and was wanting to run a game before he leaves. So we are transitioning into his game. After that, someone else may want to take over the GM seat before I c...
by shadowdad
Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:23 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (Session 14)

In this, our final chapter (for now), we complete the battle that started last session! (Bikram and Mor'd-kai faced two fiends in the back of the house, Asia and Mr. Pan faced off against one in the hallway. Miranda and Lexi remained outside, where a growing menace seemed to be emerging from the ho...
by shadowdad
Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:28 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (The delays! Oh, the delays!)

Just a heads up, some of my group has real life/work commitments preventing us from getting together on November 6th. We are shooting for a November 20th game date. Until then, I present to you story time! Our session record keeper wrote this small fiction piece after the events of session 11 (The ...
by shadowdad
Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:08 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles

Update 2 We are still getting together on November 6th, no change there. This will be our last session for the foreseeable future. One of my home group members (Ron, aka Miranda) will be moving from the Chicago suburbs to the Seattle suburbs in the spring. He was hoping to GM a game he's been workin...
by shadowdad
Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:17 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles Delay in next post

Hi all,
Due to some scheduling snafu's, my group will next meet on November 6th, so the next update will likely be around November 10th or so.

Just thought I'd put that out there. :D
by shadowdad
Fri Oct 12, 2018 11:21 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 13)

Sorry for the long delay. My player got me the recap this past Tuesday. It's been a busy week! We started with Bikrum navigating the narrow streets of (New) Pinebox. We parked outside a row of shops, and Asia and Miranda went to gather some information. Inquiring about Mr. Pan, they learned that he...
by shadowdad
Tue Sep 25, 2018 9:22 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 12)

In this session, they make it back to Castle Refuge, report in, and learn of some more news about the Splugorth and Vampires. The session opened with Mor'd-kai suggesting that we should have a plan on what to move onto once we reach the Castle. He asked the group what they preferred to do, commenti...
by shadowdad
Fri Sep 07, 2018 10:46 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 11)

This was a seed from one of the great people over on the Savage Rifts G+ group. The original idea kinda went from a nice side trek/getaway for my players. Then, as the scene unfolded, the player's apprehension kinda infected my original idea and a more horror themed session unfolded. Here's the lin...
by shadowdad
Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:43 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 10)

Missing this session were Evereth the Dragon's Player and Bikram the Cyber Knight's Player. Also, my daughter will more than likely have to step away for the school year as she is good enough a student to be placed in several honors classes for high school which means a lot more homework for her an...
by shadowdad
Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:02 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles

Thanks! I have enough ideas and material to keep it going quite some time. But my group does suffer from RPG ADD. So it is possible this game may go on hold for an indefinite period as my group starts to want to try a new setting. We already have one person getting a FFG Star Wars game ready to run....
by shadowdad
Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:45 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 9)

NOTE: This session I tried using a modified dramatic task for the information gathering montage of the session. This was also my first ever attempt at actually running a dramatic task. As a result, it was not nearly as successful as I was hoping it would be. I think it bothered me more than my play...
by shadowdad
Mon Jul 30, 2018 5:33 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 8)

Note: This session was my worst one yet in my opinion. I felt like I did not bring enough to the table. Like I could have prepped better or just skipped trying out some new rules variant (see below) I came up with. Luckily, my players did not seem to notice just how off I was this past session. I g...
by shadowdad
Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:13 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 7)

We began the session discussing what we would head off to do. (Insert Mor'd-kai speech here) Bladey-blah-blah. Honor, people, let's save Castle Refuge. So that is what we decide to do. With a short field trip to a ley line so Miranda can try to communicate with the Castle and make sure we are needed...
by shadowdad
Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:27 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: Sounds Like Crowes - Amazing actual play
Replies: 1
Views: 2910

Re: Sounds Like Crowes - Amazing actual play

I binge listened to this in two days at work. I love the series!!
by shadowdad
Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:06 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 6)

As the session began, Mor'd-kai cautiously suggested that everyone grab some weapons to bring with into our afternoon session for the circus. He really did not like the tent suppressing the magical abilities of the group, and wanted to be prepared in case something went amiss. Vibro knives were pass...
by shadowdad
Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:21 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 5)

This session involved no combat of any kind! This was a purely role playing session and a nice change of pace! Our session began as we regrouped following the major battle with the Coalition forces. Mor'd-kai healed Bikram as he was still wounded from being shot by the armored robot's massive gun. ...
by shadowdad
Thu May 31, 2018 8:23 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 4)

Note: This session adds a new player, my daughter Mary who is playing Evereth the Flamewind Dragon Hatchling. She is from a magic rich world known as Eberron.. ;) The session began with Mor'd-kai healing up the wounded in the logging camp with help from Bikram. Asia scavenged weapons (and GRENADES!...
by shadowdad
Mon May 28, 2018 9:47 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles

Sorry for the long silence. Our last session got cancelled due to not having enough players.
So for those who did show up, we played board games.

The next session it tomorrow night, May 29th.

A recap should get posted by Thursday. :)
by shadowdad
Mon May 14, 2018 6:40 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 3)

This is getting posted a few days late, but the good news is we are gaming tomorrow (we normally game every other week, which would be next Teusday). Enjoy! We began with a somewhat subdued reunion with all the ETU (mega-super-heroic) peeps. Subtle changes had left marks upon us all. Mor'd-kai was ...
by shadowdad
Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:46 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 2)

Session Two Recap Note: We were missing Bikram's player, so he was run as an allied npc this session. We were able to recover three grenades, a laser pistol, a lighter, some smokes and some weapon cartridges from the soldier Bikram and Mor'd-kai dragged off. Mor'd-kai was also able to figure out the...
by shadowdad
Thu Apr 12, 2018 5:18 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles (session 1)

Session One Recap Here is the recap of our session one as told by my group’s scribe and record keeper, Cindy(Mord’kai). I put in my 2 cents here and there in italics and orange . We started things off by going to our freshman initiation in a huge concrete basketball bunker. After a rousing (?) speec...
by shadowdad
Thu Apr 12, 2018 5:13 pm
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

Re: The Red Dawn Chronicles

Cast of Characters Here are the characters in this little adventure. All start out as college freshmen attending ETU. Mord’kai Ravenclaw (Player: Cindy) - His father is Native American and his mother is Jewish. He is shy, bookish and quiet. He loves rock climbing and cross country running. (Will tra...
by shadowdad
Mon Apr 09, 2018 6:38 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: Which social media platforms do you use?
Replies: 9
Views: 7397

Re: Which social media platforms do you use?

G+ primarily, Facebook a fairly close second. I agree with RFT above. Facebook tends to be more political in general. When I got on to G+, I made the decision to keep it game and hobby related. Facebook is more for family which usually means getting into political debates as my politics differ from ...
by shadowdad
Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:41 am
Forum: Out of Character Topics
Topic: The Red Dawn Chronicles
Replies: 27
Views: 26385

The Red Dawn Chronicles

Note: the following is an accounting of the home game of ShadowDad. Enjoy! Hey folks! It’s finally happening!! After 18 months of learning, planning, and crafting the setting I wanted to present to my group, we are starting Savage Rifts! Now I say planning in as much that I have several outlines an...
by shadowdad
Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:28 am
Forum: Archive
Topic: Naruni, Inc.
Replies: 28
Views: 14911

Re: Naruni, Inc.

Has there been any updates to the Naruni Inc weapons?
There was a post on the Savage Rifts G+ group of a PDF of the Naruni Weapons Catalog but a lot of it was incomplete at the time.
I was just wondering if there was a more recent listing of the weapons.

Thanks!

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