But What About The Jawas

So with a (probable) title set for the Gamma World adventure, what to do with the Jawas.

Well, a little recap is in order.

In Revenge of the Jawas, the members of clan Bunto (the PCs) are ambushed on the way to claim their new sand crawler. After the battle they find that three other clans have joined forces (Klatoo, Barado, and Nicktoo) to eliminate clan Bunto. They captured the Clan Leader and Shaman of clan Bunto and were planning to dump them into the sarlacc pit. The PCs killed the leaders of the other clans, but were able to save only their clan shaman. There clan shaman was lost to the sarlacc. In the wrecjakge of the other clans speeders, they found a small light saber

In The Phantom Utinni, their clan shaman tasks the PCs with finding Ishi the only known jawa Jedi. In the course of their investigation, they find that a rogue group of B'omarr monks (normally peaceful) has been plotting against them, were behind the other clans attacking them, and continue to try to destroy them. This time by luring them into a battle against the jawa Jedi. In the final battle they find that a Hutt has taken control of the B'omarr monks, but only after having his brain transplanted into a spider droid. The PCs also confront the jawa Jedi, and discover that he is really a small fury creature whose last words are "yub yub..." Lastly, in the back of the chamber, they discover an escape pod.

So, the last adventure in the Jawa Trilogy will be "Attack of the Yub Yub". It will also be known as Jawas vs Ewoks, or Jawas in space..... I'll need to work all of those things into the description.

From here the first thing to do is map out the big events of the adventure. What is the overall goal of the PCs. What are the likely steps the PCs could take. Where could things go "off the Tracks".

I like to do this before leveling up the PCs. It lets me tailor the extra feat or talent that they get based on the possible challenges. No reason to punish the players by having irrelevant abilities.

Search for a Name

I like to start with a name when I create an adventure. Somewhere in my subconscious is the idea and the outline, but what comes out first is a name.

I've already got the name of the Star Wars adventure - it came to me as I was completing the previous adventure. So, that leaves the the Gamma World adventure.

I know I want to set it in the Mall of America. I think that it might be a coming of age/rite of passage.

So the things that are coming to mind:
Nite of the Food Court Furies
Shop till You Drop
Black Friday Blues

It's Gamma World, it's supposed to be funny (I hope).

For now I think I'm going with Shop till You Drop. It's vague enough that I can go a couple different directions, and hopefully catchy enough to get people to sign up.

Next up is the outline of events. And no, you don't get to know all the details.

There and Back Again

The Adventures of a Wookiee Daddiee have not been very interesting of late - to say the least.

So why am I back here. Well..GenCon

Specifically GenCon 2012.

Some of my friends had some fairly bad lick with GMs showing up at games. Pretty awful considering the planning, time and effort it takes just to get to GenCon. Then you find out that your four days of the best gaming, just got shortened by 4 hours - not fun.

And fun is why I go to GenCon.

So I thought to myself - what to do. Well, I filled out the post GenCon survey and made sure to put my concerns in the comments, but that didn't seem like enough.

I figure the best thing I can do is GM as many games as I can. While that may not directly help my friends - they don't normally play my games at GenCon, they get enough of me during the rest of year - it will help increase the pool of reliable GMs.

For the past two years I have run two sessions of the same game at GenCon. I figure that this is my way of volunteering. Next year (2012) I'm going to increase to at least 4 sessions (two sessions of two different games).

I know how much work prepping one game is, and I'm betting it's more like four times the work for two games. So, that's why I'm re-starting this blog. It will be a journal of game creation, prep and testing - and serve as a motivation for me get started.

Here's what I have so far:

Game One
Attack of the Yub Yubs.
Jawas vs Ewoks - in Spaaaaccceee
System - Star Wars Saga Edition
This is a continuation of the previous two years sessions, Revenge of the Jawas, and The Phantom Utinni.

Game Two
No Title Yet
System - Gamma World
A delve through the largest landmark in the Twin Cities - the Mall of America

So check back next week to see how far I make it.