It’s the 11th january and, having just finished my concrete RPG planning for 2025, I’m running an unplanned mini campaign. I expected flagrant deviation, but perhaps not 24 hours after finishing my plans.
An end, or extended pause to Tom’s excellent Mongoose Traveller ‘Darrian Academics in Space’ mini campaign, afforded us all to pitch something to take up the fortnightly Thursday morning play. Anticipating that the vibe from some of the small group was for more science fiction, I pitched either some more Traveller, or Coriolis. Further to another very attractive pitch, we seem to have cosied up to the idea of Coriolis.
I have a slightly chequered past, and one might say ‘unfinished business’ when GMing Coriolis. I made a start running the excellent Mercy of the Icons campaign, but the game seemed to flounder slightly with my sense that the sessions hadn’t captured the imagination of one or two of the group. With a slight sense of frustration, and silent apologies to the two who were really enjoying it, I folded the game part way through the first major Act. That’s a very rare occurence for me, and a few lessons have been learned since then.
A new mini campaign, ‘The Fate of Shamshir’ had landed on Drivethru, so I decided to pick it up as a speculative pitch to the group, but also with half an eye to LongCon in July. The pitch to the group also alows me to run a game with Sqyre, my new Foundry hosting. I’m looking forward to seeing how that works out.
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To speed readiness, I have made a further small investment by purchasing the Coriolis Core Rules module for Foundry. This provides me with a rich set of assets, without needing to enter them all by hand. We will also have the core rules to hand in the Foundry journal, which should prove useful.
The game setup will just need me to revisit the Coriolis game and setting, and transfer the mini campaign images and NPCs into Foundry. I’ve made a start with the latter.
It’s good to be back with Coriolis. I still have the first part of the Mercy of the Icons campaign as a Foundry module. Perhaps this shorter outing will encourage me to try that epic adventure again? I would reach out to my two former players if I did.
May the Icons be with you always.