We finished the current storyline in our Mortal Coil campaign yesterday. Two sessions ago our heroes had found Lucy Blackthorn (agent of the Infernal) half-dead learned that Lucifer had left hell closed and unattended, leaving the recently dead to haunt the living. Lucy wanted them to find the Morningstar and get him to take up his duties again ( Read more... )

After playtesting the Ashen Stars adventure Terra Nova we returned to our regularly scheduled Mortal Coil campaign on Friday ( Read more... )

On Friday the current story arc in our Mortal Coil campaign culminated in a great session ( Read more... )

So what happened in yesterday's Mortal Coil session? The PCs (Ben Steinfeld, Theodor Winternitz and Robert Greene) followed the trail of Interpol Agent John Preston and his two captives Aurora Summer and Maeve Winter through Europe, finally locating his alpine hideout near the Grauspitz mountains in Liechtenstein ( Read more... )

After discussing our fudgified Mortal Coil rules, let me tell you where our story has wandered lately (any similarities to certain aspects of the Harry Dresden files are not coincidental at all ( Read more... )

We've been using our fudgified version of the Mortal Coil rules for two game sessions now and so far it's been good. I've been using the following rules:

1. Action tokens and conflict resolutionAction tokens are completely replaced by Fudge dice (4dF ( Read more... )

We've played two more game sessions of Mortal since my last post and had some interesting developments, both in-game and out-game ( Read more... )

Yesterday our group met for our sixth session of Mortal Coil and I while I was looking forward to it, I was unsure where we were going with the rules. At least some of us where still struggling with the mechanics and I was seriously considering switching to a different system. Feelings about this in the group were mixed; one player is very happy ( Read more... )

It's been a while since we had our third Mortail Coil session (October 1st), and the next game is scheduled for tonight, ( so let me just summarize quickly what happened so far: )

Apart from pencils and paper, this is all the physical tools we need for the game.
I got myself a nice set of poker chips. They have a nice heaviness to them, and such a set isn't too expensive - about €25 at online poker stores.

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