"Jungle Gods 1st playtest for my H-Con Game" Topic

I am running a pulp game set in circa 1900 East German Africa using Valor & Steel & Flesh called Jungle Gods. We did a playtest of the scenario last night and it has many tropes from just about any jungle story, hostile natives, big game hunters, lost ruins, oh and a T-Rex and a giant great Ape!

Here a few shots from last night

Theo Rose and his rugged American Rifleman encounter angry crocodiles and hostile Ngoni early in the game.

Watutu Warriors attempting to cross the river encounter a very hungry hippo:

By complete random chance both the T-Rex and Mutonga the giant ape encounter each other while hunting interloper humans, grand battle ensues that lasts three turns. In the end Mutonga is the victor. Humans are glad of the distraction.

The Baron and his Safari find the lost temple and encounter hungry lions

The German Kriegsmarine and the Americans make a valant last stand against an Ngoni onslaught. Both sides are mauled.

Enjoy,

Kim

I will look for it on the pre registration packet. Which should be out soon, I think.

My game may not be in the main PEL but it should be in the pre-registration. I am running twice, once on Thursday and again on Friday. If it proves popular I will find an open gaming slot to run it again either later on Friday or on Saturday.

The game ran well last night and my gaming group provided some well thought out tweaks to the scenario to make things run even better.

I was most pleased with how V&S&F handled "critters" something that as much as I love TSATF I have not found works well with that game. The wild life is just too abstracted for my tastes. The encounters with all the wild life proved a challenge but not impossible. Well the Watutu player might disagree as the hippo mauled that one unit of natives. The Watutu just could not hit the broad side of…well a hippo. We had to quit before Mutonga the great giant ape had a chance to express his displeasure with the puny human primates but he is formidable but not impossible to take down. Other encounters during the game were of course a lion that was taken out not by the Baron (who being the big game hunter proved to be a lousy shot) instead the Baron's Rugga Rugga were forced to save their employer from being eaten with a volley of rifle fire. A giant spider ambushed the Germans and killed one of their number before being bayoneted to death. The crocodiles proved the most fun in chewing up canoes and proving tough to shoot when in the water. Having your canoe munched on by an aggressive crocodile seems to be a distraction to accurate rifle fire.

That looks really nice. What did you make the river out of?

Matthew

Matthew,

The river is made out of plasma TV screen covers and one side is spray painted brown and green. The covers have a high gloss sheen on one side while the other has a slight texture that keeps it from sliding on the felt. A mutual friend of Nazrat and mine works on and repairs TVs and he had a bunch of these sheets which are about 21 inches by 31 inches and he was throwing them out. I saw the potential and grab them up. You can get a lot of river out of just one section. The thing just rolls up nice and is light as a feather to carry.