Haven't done a Simian Saturday in ages, so to make up for that, I thought I would post some A.I. generated images I worked up recently for your enjoyment!
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Need Lego to actually do these for real, I'm a sucker for Lego Minifigs! Have a great Simian Saturday!!
Unfortunately, the Apes were just on the cover and had nothing to do with the content. I think this was a missed opportunity. Apparently Marvel has the Planet of the Apes license again and are doing variant Ape related covers on their main comic lines to promote it. Personally, I think it would be really cool to have Carnage "zapped" through a portal and end up in The Forbidden Zone! Imagine the Cat (er I mean Carnage) and Mouse games of him hunting down Soldier Apes in the ruins! Would make for a fun and entertaining one shot story-line. Maybe could adapt this to an Apes Victorious or Mutant Future game. Personally I love pulling in stuff from all kinds of sources for my games, that's one of the things I especially love about the OSR, you can really mix and match, tweak and adapt all kinds of things to make the sort of campaign you and your group really want.
Haven't posted much lately, to be honest other than some occasional Instagram gaming posts, I've pretty much quit Social Media, News Media, I never had a Twitter account, and I deleted Facebook years ago etc... anyway, hope everyone is doing well. We have a game tonite. Should be fun, maybe I'll used my special D20 gifted to me by my wife...
"Dismembered by Yeti!" now that's a solid roll!!!
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It's been awhile, but long time followers of my blog will know that I am an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego). In particular I love the minifigs. Pictured above is the results of a rather long term project of picking up any of the Lego Chima Gorilla minifigures that I could find, while outfitting them with appropriate weapons and gear. Combat knives, Assault Rifles and Tactical Vests. Not sure about the leader with the Katana and Owl, but we shall see. Anyways, I present to you The Monkey Militia. I should have waited till Saturday to post this, for a Simian Saturday post, but here it is early. I'm hoping to work these into some Skirmish gaming soon. Maybe as a rival gang for Five Parsecs from Home, Space Weirdos, or something else? Do any of you use lego Minifigs for your tabletop games?
Love that art!
I don't remember the 70's Movie King Kong fight versus the giant snake looking this cool!
So this image got me to thinking about Hyperborea (AS&SH). I went to my newly arrived Hyperborea Referee's Manual PDF for the latest edition of AS&SH and while the Bestiary does have a variety of apes, there aren't specific stats for a Giant Ape. I remembered an old module from back in the day, Isle of the Ape. But in looking at it that's an 18th level adventure. Yikes! I've been gaming since '79 and have never DM'd or played in a game of that high of a level. I don't want to recreate King Kong for my Hyperborea Campaign (just yet...), Kaiju is neat, but not what I'm looking for here... I'm thinking an ape of something more in line with the size of Classic Mighty Joe Young. Big, but not kaiju sized...
Hyperborean Great Ape
These rare, massive apes, resemble large gorillas, however, they are much larger and generally more intelligent than normal apes. Standing around 10' tall and weighing up to 1000 lbs. They tend to be solitary, legend says in ages past Hyperboreans hunted the great beasts for sport, leading to their near extinction. Some can still be found in lonely isolated lands and islands. They avoid civilized lands and humans, having a dim racial memory associating the smaller humans with danger and death. Hyperborean Great Apes are generally not savage and chaotic creatures, there have been reports of them coming to the aid of injured or weaker creatures (although this tends to not be believed). They are said to have shown an interest in human females, although the veracity of these tales is uncertain.
Hyperborean Great Ape
#E 1 | AL N (a few NG) | SZ L | MV 40 DX 11 | AC 6 | HD 7 | #A 2/1 (pummel or hurled attack) D 1d10+3 (pummel) | SV 15 ML 10 | XP 200 | TC C| Special: Hurl Stone: Hurl a large stone or massive tree branch to a range of 60' for 1d10+3 hp damage. Acute senses: Chance to be surprised reduced by 1-in-6.
Happy Simian Saturday!
Oh and the Hyperborea Referee's manual has perfect stats for the Giant Pythons! So the work there has already been done.
Happy Simian Saturday!
Today my buddy Patrick and I were able to meet up at the local hobby shop, first time we have been able to get together for gaming since the pandemic started. Masks were worn and proper social distancing occurred.
Prior to the Pandemic we had been regularly playing Zona Alfa.
We randomly rolled up the mission from the tables in the book and then inserted our own spin on things.
Two teams were sent in to Retrieve/Rescue a rare Cryptozoological Speciman- Bigfoot! From the Zone.
Bigfoot had been located apparently trapped in the upper stories of a ruined building in the heart of a Yellow Zone, to make matters worse a Rad Storm was going to hit the place hard in 5 turns. So we only had 4 turns to get in, grab Bigfoot and get out!
My team was my squad of Sovietski Simians, led by the veteran chimp Nikolai! Their training runs into the outer zones had prepared them for this mission. Patrick had a group of Mercenaries, with some rookie rednecks tagged on for extra cannon fodder...er I mean support.
The Mercenaries move out into the Zone, a hot spot is nearby.
The target, Bigfoot, is deep in the heart of the Zone, who knows what dangers lurk within the ruins and rubble.
The Simians move out, they are determined to get to Bigfoot before the humans, Apes are superior to humans after all.
The Mercenaries quickly run into trouble as a pack of vicious ghouls rush out of a deep crevasse.
Melee combat is brutal, the ghouls nasty claws and bite attacks wound several of the humans who valiantly attempt to fight off the ghouls with their mag pistols!
The simians move into the ruins heading carefully towards their objective, on the way the encounter a pack of feral dogs and obliterate the mangy hounds easily with their assault rifles.
While the Mercenaries fight hand to hand with the ghouls, the simians reach the base of the ruined building, their objective is three stories above them. Another pack of feral dogs lurking in the ground floor of the structure is dispatched with the simians taking no injuries. The mercenaries, however, are getting badly bloodied by the ghouls.
The simians reach the objective, while the mercs, though badly hurt defeat the ghouls. Sergei one of the Hardened Chimps makes his way to Bigfoot, only to trigger an ANOMALY! The weird alien energies are apparently what was keeping Bigfoot trapped in the building. Sergei attempts to make a will save and FAILS!! His mind is melted by the alien energies and he dies!! At the same time the mercs searching the ruins near where the now dead ghouls emerged also trigger an ANOMALY! The Veteran Leader of the crew, fails his will save and dies from the alien energies erupting from the anomaly. A rookie braves the energies, makes his save and scores 5,500 worth of loot and gains a permanent +1 bonus to his wisdom!! The next turn (turn 4) remember the Rad Storm hits soon! The Hardened Chimp Brekov braves the anomaly, makes his save and pulls Bigfoot from the ruin, also finding 5000 in loot and gains a bonus to his armor. Brekov, moves his max with Bigfoot, and hands off the creature to Nikolai the veteran leader of the team, who uses his enhanced move ability to race off the board with Bigfoot before the Rad Storm hits!!!
All in all a great game! Please keep in mind we played fast and loose with the rules. Zona Alfa actually doesn't have bigfoot or simians! But why let that stop you!
Hope everyone is safe and well.
Good Gaming! -B.B.
