Mongoose Publishing have made their free to download ezine available. You can get Signs and Portents 77 at their site or below. It kicks off by saying hello to the guys from Cubicle 7 or are certainly on a roll in the last few months; Doctor Who RPG followed by hands on the wheel for the Lord of the Rings: One Ring RPG.
Here’s a teaser of the Signs and Portent 77 content. First up a snippet of a review of Avatar by Simon Beal.
The latest epic from director James Cameron is said to set a new precedent in movies but does it live up to expectations? As I queued for an hour at my local IMAX, I certainly hoped that it would. Eventually I sat down in the theatre and donned the large and slightly ridiculous looking 3D glasses; within seconds I was drawn into the story and immersed in an alien world…
Setting the Scene
The year is 2154 and the RDA Corporation has established a mining facility on the planet of Pandora to extract a valuable mineral called unobtanium. Pandora is a verdant world populated by dangerous creatures and an indigenous race called the Na’vi, a blue skinned species with feline features. By human standards the Na’vi are a primitive society but they are a spiritual people who live in harmony with nature, sharing a deep understanding of their world.Humans require oxygen masks when they venture out into the lands of Pandora but this is a minor problem in comparison to the Na’vi who will not allow humans onto their sacred lands. This has led to a military presence and a number of skirmishes between the two peoples. In order to better facilitate an understanding with the Na’vi, scientists have created human-Na’vi hybrids called avatars. These are essentially artifi cially grown Na’vi that incorporate genetic information from a human who will ultimately take control of the avatar.
Next up; The Bloodling from the Conan RPG
Lady Octavia suffered acute and abnormal pains during her delivery. As soon as she
passed out, the baby emerged; strangely silent and completely covered in blood. Unnerving as it may be, blood is rather common during such hard labours and so we were not prepared for the horrors that followed.My apprentice repeatedly tried to wipe the blood off the newborn child but his attempts seemed only to make the child bloodier instead of cleaner. It is then that we discovered the dreadful truth – the baby was not covered in blood; the baby was blood. Within seconds the thing turned into a crimson liquid and sipped through my apprentice’s fi ngers and through the cracks in the floor. I ran to check on the young Lady but it was too late – the poor girl was dead, drained of all her precious life fl uids by this accursed abomination.
Within seconds, the screaming began. From room-to-room it crawled, leaving pale death
in its wake. Ten more people died that night and it was only through shameful cowardice
that I survived the Adrianus Mansion Massacre.— From the testimony of Nestor Trosus of Aquilonia
This article presents the reader with an exotic monster from the distant and terrifying East, for use in Conan campaigns. In addition, the article contains suggestions on how to run standalone bloodling adventures or an entire bloodling-based campaign.
