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T2000: A Christmas One-Shot

I've been asked to run a Christmas one-shot by my Friday night gaming group. I was thinking about one of the Dune intro adventures but as I'm just starting a…
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DUNE: The Landsraad

The Great Houses or Houses Major are the most powerful and important houses with voting right in the Landsraad. Their number was not fixed; they varied in history with political…
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DUNE

After watching the movie, the thirst for playing the Dune RPG (by Modiphius) is high. The movie is filled with outstanding visuals and the background is sufficiently rich the only…
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DUNE: The VICINIS of the Spacing Guild

The question of the lack of alien life in the Dune universe has been asked many times. The coverage of the Known Universe is still small enough, in the massive scale of the universe that the Fermi paradox does not hold. But that’s not the reason there are no aliens in Dune.

The Vicinis are a military arm of the Spacing Guild. They’re forbidden to act officially on the planets of the Landsraad. The Vicinis Agents are tasked with “clearing the way” and “keeping the borders”.

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The Start of an Alien Campaign

The Alien can't be the main thrust of the story because, well, with the exception of Ripley and Jones, no-one survives an encounter. So you need a story of intrigue…
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Dune – The Sobaki

Hasimir Fenring has to be one of the most interesting minor characters in the book. A "might have been", deadly, BG-trained, and seemingly with fingers in every pie. But it…
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Dune – preparation game notes

It must be noted that I have no direct plans to run a Dune game. But I am a little forced by my mind to examine the game and the…
T2000: W+36
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T2000: W+36

You ever get the feeling that things are about to get worse? As luck and dumb fate would have it, we weren't able to escape the area as quickly as…
T2000: W+35
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T2000: W+35

I still have my shopping list. We didn't make it to Prague. The forests here are a little threadbare. I think they might have taken some shelling but everything just…
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T2000: W+27

According to the Colonel, strong sergeants make strong soldiers. I can believe that. Our CSM was a soldiers soldier. You cut him open and he bled red, white and blue.…
T2000: W+26
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T2000: W+26

Monk is a strange fish. He doesn't talk much, isn't prone to fits of emotion but it's plain to me that he's suffering, you can see it in his eyes.…
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T2000: W+24

Progress has been slow. Monk warned us that running two vehicles was guzzling our gas so with great reluctance we siphoned off everything from the tank in "Dale" and filled…
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T2000: W+22

The little things in life make a big difference. We'd just crossed into Germany and pulled into a town called Görlitz. It's beautiful, even now with the smoke blackened towers…
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T2000: W+12

I remember just after I finished Basic, I was late for Guard duty and the SM thought I should work it off in the kitchens. I spent days peeling potatoes,…