ShadowCon #19 - Scum & Villainy - Happy Jacks RPG Forum

ShadowCon #19 - Scum & Villainy

gina

Unwise deals. Blaster fights. High adventure among the stars.
Welcome to the world of Scum and Villainy.

Scum & Villainy Saturday, 3/30, 7pm PT

This Saturday, we're starting a mini-campaign of Scum & Villainy, looking to run about 4 episodes. As most of you prolly know, Scum & Scum and Villainy is a Forged in the Dark game about a spaceship crew trying to make ends meet under the iron-fisted rule of the Galactic Hegemony. We'll be doing character creation in session one, along with some game world creation, though we've already determined that we're going with the Cerberus ship/crew type.

S&V was created via the creative partnership of Stras Acimovic and John LeBouf-Little, based on the mechanics of Blades in the Dark (Twitter follows are @strasa & @worldnamer respectively), and it's published by Evil Hat. I have a particular weakness for the games created by these folx, so expect to hopefully see a couple more in the future.

GM: Colin J.
Players: Gina, J, James, Morgan

Scum & Villainy

MasterVidar

Yay! I was hoping for S&V. Good News!

EricfromNJ

That’s awesome. Will there ever be a Blades in the Dark AP from Happyjacks?

gina

We debated on whether to do BitD or S&V. Colin & I LOVE BitD! But we wondered if folks had seen those APs already since the book/content has been out longer vs. S&V.

For what it's worth, I wouldn't mind revisiting with Blades, because despite have the "forged in the dark" system, it is definitely it's own game with cool af factions and lore. I also have Band of Brothers on the major key interested list. OMG folx, wait'll you see that game. Yowza!

gina

We had a complete blast with our first session. Character/ship creation and the kicker were a helluva lotta fun, so can't wait for the 2nd session on April 13th!

chronovore

Where the AP podcast for S&V? I’m having trouble finding it in the regular and one-shot HJRPG feeds.

MasterVidar

It is up on the Podcast Page, it's called Shadow19.

chronovore

MasterVidar Thanks. I've just gone through the HJRPG page, as you recommend. I'd hoped to listen to it through my phone's podcast player, but whatever works!

Kairaku

In the Shadowcon actual plays feed on spotify

chronovore

chronovore http://www.happyjacks.org/shadow19-happy-jacks-rpg-one-shots-shadowcon-scum-and-villainy/

Linky-dink for the terminally lazy!

Kimi

If it is up on the website it should be on all the podcast players too. It isn't on the normal Actual Play feed but on the newer One Shots feed. There should be a link on the main happy Jacks website, on the right side of the page.

Vyrrk

I'm so happy you guys are playing this! I've been looking for a good Forged in the Dark AP and this should do nicely!

Looking forward to more!

EricfromNJ

Still listening but I both love and hate how everything is "Space ____________." It amuses me greatly while at the same time has me thinking of how I would kill my players if they did that.

gina

EricfromNJ Truth! We toned that waaaay down in our second session, I think we only did a callback or two. That character creation excitement will do it every time. 😃

EricfromNJ

Also, some further explanation of the rules for the listening audience might be useful. I had to look up in Blades in the Dark what the difference was when you rolled something that was Desperate, Risky, or Controlled, for example.

gina

EricfromNJ Thanks for the feedback, I'll pass it along to the crew!

chronovore

Yeah, in theory I'm listening to APs because I want hints and insight on a game system. It's just that, with HappyJacks, I am going to tune in if help's offered or not.

Kimi

chronovore 💖😊