Previously on Hard Ticket to Baghdad: Kurt Cobain, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and the unspeakably cursed Eazy-E, along with their flutist guy Friday Station, have traveled to Bongo Island, Kuwait, to lay their hands on a shipment of yellowcake uranium bound for Iraq. They need to track down the Iraqi buyer or the Russian seller,…
Zack: Heyyy, Steve! Long time no talk! Steve: I thought you might have died. Or joined ISIS. Zack: I don’t think I could stand wearing black in the desert like those guys. That’s a serious commitment to a whole aesthetic. Zack: You seem a more likely candidate anyway. Steve: What?! Why would you say that…
When last we left the intrepid Ghostbusters of the Fargo franchise, they had attempted to drum up some business with a publicity stunt on the outskirts Bemidji, Minnesota. Their efforts to rid the novelty Paul Bunyan gift shop of ghost miners has unleashed a malignant ghost entity that has possessed the statue of the giant…
West End Games’ movie tie-in Ghostbusters RPG was released in 1986. That’s three years before there was even a sequel to Ghostbusters, so this was very much prime Ghost Busters time. The game was a fair success and laid the groundwork for West End Games’ better-known Star Wars RPG, which used a very similar system…
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I make mistakes. Every mommy does. Even mistakes the jelly eyes see from among their glistening branches. In my experience, most of my mistakes come from being overwhelmed. It’s natural to want to do everything possible to raise our little ones right and please the…
Summer is here, mommies, and we all want to look and feel great, whether we’re in the mall or in the mangroves. We think of our little ones as boundlessly energetic, but I recently noticed my youngest, Astra, seemed very lethargic. These are the favored times, when our little ones should be outside all day, getting tan…
Real life isn’t all about destroying the lich king’s phylactery or blowing up the Matrix. If you’re looking for an evening of pure roleplaying with your gaming group, try giving them nothing to do with one of these pointless adventure hooks. Fantasy UNICORN DEAL: Reports of a unicorn in a nearby forest excite local townspeople,…
It’s 1993. Yo! MTV Raps is still on the air, Kurt Cobain is battling his own and sundry other demons in Texas, and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes is up to her eye black in Tonies. Halfway across the world, in the desolate Burrekh Mountains of Turkmenistan, Compton-based rapper Eazy-E and his faithful companion Station have…
The year is 1993. Kurt Cobain is off in the desert looking in his heart-shaped box and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes is doing some Tone-policing back in the USA. Meanwhile, Eazy-E and Station have traveled to Egypt to investigate a crashed Arcturian meteor, only to find the meteor has gone missing. Clues seem to suggest…
The year is 1993. Kurt Cobain is drinking ayahuasca in the desert and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes is getting Toned up. Compton-based troubadour Eazy-E is joined by the flute-playing horror Station on an expedition to investigate a meteor that has crashed in Egypt. When the meteor goes missing and a strange assassin strikes, E and his…