But we don’t just ask without giving something in return, and we’ve put together a bundle of all of our products on RPGNow that is sure to make you feel better about helping us out!

The ArmoryCon2010 Bundle Pack is now available for sale for ONLY $5.00! This small donation to our cause of getting to cons, running games, and selling other great stuff from our booths will make you a legend in our eyes. And you’ll have tons of cool stuff to boot!

Thank you all for your continued support, and I hope to see you at a con.

Dave Martin

Now is the perfect time to get those $1 Adventures you’ve missed out on or stock up on Character Packs for The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Also, our first full length adventure, The Monkey’s Key, is on sale for the low price of $2.50!

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Dave

Understanding Geek is a web comic written by myself (Dave Martin) and illustrated by Matthew Dolan. To put it in as few words as possible, it’s about being a geek. The characters, situations, and stories are mostly taken from real life and given that twist that turns them into a comic.

Issue 3 was just published this morning, and I encourage everyone to go check it out.

Understanding Geek is here for the geeks!

Dave Martin

The past three weeks of games have been as widely varied as any I’ve ever played or GM’d.

Week 4 kicked off with the disappearance of Lt. Wrench, Team Alpha’s leader. The rest of the team immediately launched into an investigation to find their missing friend. Through a convoluted series of encounters, including a few plans resembling some episodes of Leverage, the team ended up smak in the middle of the situation presented in the Minion Mash Quick Adventure. Unlike in the adventure as written, however, the point of view was switched around! Team Alpha crashed the Minion Expo and recovered their mind-controlled leader. When he asked what happened during the fight, the only answer Lt. Wrench could get out of the team was, “We had a team-up. You were great.”

Week 5 began in a colossal down home brawl with tank-equipped gangsters led by a Jabba the Hutt style boss. After that, Lt. Wrench was called away for a top secret mission, leaving the other three members of Team Alpha to chase down another lead the was loose from the previous session, the limousine-stealing street thug, Rodney. What followed was a fast-paced misadventure in which Shining Fist, the martial arts expert, stumbled into an android puppy pet store and did battle with his new arch nemesis, the android Viroella. After a bloody encounter at the mall (and a kind getting caught on the escalator), Viroella took over Team Alpha’s base. During a final fight against their own base’s defenses while protecting two teenage techno-paths from the academy where Safeguard, the shield/bubble protector, teaches, Team Alpha was finally able to trap Viroella back in her own electronic head. One of the players has started doing session debriefs on his blog, here. A Quick Adventure featuring some part of Week 5′s adventures should be on the site soon.

Week 6 was the culmination point of a number of running plots, including the team’s nemesis, Psychotrane. Riots broke out all over the city, and Team Alpha had to monitor the reports and decide where to intervene in order to best effect the outcome of the riots, which were clearly organized by The Propegator or someone even more powerful and influential. I liked this because I really did have five different ideas in mind to make their choices unique. It wasn’t just a “no matter where you go, the same thing will happen” kind of thing. In the end, they decided to prevent the assault on the supers detention facility just off the coastline of the city and ended up with a final showdown between Psychotrane and the other two recently liberated members of the Punishment Trio. I gave them all advances to match Team Alphas progression since their last encounter, and the battle was a tough one. The deciding factor was when Psychotrane’s mental hold on a mind-controlled Legendary Rank super faltered, spelling ultimate doom for the Punishment Trio’s plans of revenge. A Quick Adventure to go along with Week 6 will be on the site soon after Week 5 is posted.

So that’s where we are at the end of six sessions. At the current rate, the campaign should go another twenty sessions or so, and there are many more opportunities to get your group involved with the Supers Event. Just post on the blog and let us know what you are up to.

Until next time, happy gaming!

Dave

Let me also take a moment to reach out to groups that may be following the event who aren’t playing using the Savage Worlds system. Maybe you are playing ICONS. Maybe you are enjoying the new shiny Hero System 6th Edition. No matter what game system you are playing, if you are following this series and using any of the Quick Adventures for inspiration, you, too, can participate! I will turn away no roleplayer.

So, I will talk to you all later this week, and don’t forget to follow @ArmoryDave on Twitter to get all the latest updates on Tabletop Armory and my shenanigans and adventures in general.

Dave Martin

Get The Monkey’s Key today!

Dave Martin

Releasing Wednesday, August 11 in PDF format, this exciting adventure takes a group on a dangerous jungle trek following an old map recently discovered to be the last great quest of a famous explorer.

Written by Jonathan McAnulty and featuring hand-drawn maps from the author which reflect the rough and realistic nature of the maps and guides the characters find in the adventure, The Monkey’s Key is written to be balanced for a group of 5th level characters.

The Monkey’s Key goes on sale Wednesday, August 11 on DriveThruRPG for the price of only $4.00!

Don’t forget to stop by the Tabletop Armory Store on DriveThru for The Monkey’s Key and our other exciting products.

Dave Martin

My group had a lot of fun in the session where I used this Quick Adventure as the basis for most of the fun. We actually never made it into The Propagator’s Tower, though, as it was in the campaign’s best interest to leave that location and that villain for another time. Instead they had a huge encounter with a man in a bowler hat that turned into a solid lead for their next step in solving their current case.

I think think this adventure served as a good course in getting a fairly new to Savage Worlds group comfortable with combat and how their powers work and interact. I look forward to hearing about any other adventures using this module, especially if the heroes actually get into the tower!

Dave Martin

Office Blockout is designed, like all Quick Adventures, to be really flexible with the details of what is currently going on in your own campaign. I hope you all enjoy this Supers Event Week 2 adventure.

And remember to post the tails of your deeds on the blog in order to enter for the Supers Event contest!

Dave Martin

This past week I have had to deal with problems with the site including a Media Temple hack that affected this site a few others that I take care of.

The Supers Group has had two sessions since my initial Supers Event post, and I will give you all a big update later this week.

Talk to you soon,

Dave