It's all Dungeons and Dragons at the end of the ..

I’ve been playing DND with my friends and having a lot of fun! Here’s some illustrations of my character Ralph [she/he] who is an… “antiques merchant” and definitely not a gentleman thief selling her bounty in markets the next town over.

Artist: Sean McCoy

Book: "Player's Survival Guide" (2018)

Gameline: "Mothership RPG"

Grenadier Models produced three adventure modules in the ’80s to support their associated miniature lines: Cloudland for fantasy RPGs (read: D&D), The Horrible Secret of Monhegan Island for Call of Cthulhu and this, Raid on Rajallapor (1984), for Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes (a game I am completely unfamiliar with). I picked this up because I am a completionist, because I like the production values of the other Grenadier modules and because, judging from Martin Kealey’s cover alone, I was sure there was more to this scenario than just merc shit.

For starters, it’s actually two scenarios. The back has a solo scenario that seems very James Bond, in which you need to find a microfilm in a casino. Flint Henry’s illustrations seem preoccupied with people holding both guns and champagne, but I kind of love them. That guy with the sword hand is fantastic.

The first scenario though is the good stuff. It’s practically a Delta Green scenario. The frame is pretty simple: attack the estate of Roger Dalton (gee, I wonder where they got that name) in (fictional) Rajallapor, India, and steal his golden statue of Shiva, then spirit it over the border to Pakistan into the hands of the buyer. The wrinkle: once stolen, spectral manifestations of Ganesha and the bull Nandi pursue and attack the thieves. It isn’t much of a supernatural twist, really, but I love it. I was so excited when I got to that part when reading, because I knew it in my bones going in. Big “Leonardo Di Caprio pointing dot gif” energy.